Filter Results
:
(2,132)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,132)
- People (7)
- News (456)
- Research (1,055)
- Events (15)
- Multimedia (9)
- Faculty Publications (502)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,132)
- People (7)
- News (456)
- Research (1,055)
- Events (15)
- Multimedia (9)
- Faculty Publications (502)
- Web
General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Value in Business and Government (HKS-HBS Joint Degree Seminar) Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard Fall2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty William Kirby Spring2025 Q3 1.5 Energy Dustin Tingley Fall2024 Q2 1.5 Field...
View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
Human Decision Processes Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice By: Blunden, Hayley, Jennifer M. Logg, Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie John, and Francesca Gino Abstract—Prior advice research has focused on understanding when...
View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
Frameworks for Dialogue and Research about Social Impact Investing
Social Impact Investment is a rapidly expanding field, but terminology in the field is poorly defined and imprecise. This note suggests frameworks that help to clarify important dimensions of SII projects, distinguishing and clarifying key differences in approaches... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
only of the Competition and Strategy faculty members' contributions to their field but also the way "each of them integrates his or her research and course development." Concludes Bradley, "We work on...
View Details
Keywords:
Susan Young
- Web
Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Param Singh, and Kannan Srinivasan. 2021 Eva Ascarza: Finalist for the 2021 Weitz-Winer-O'Dell Award for “The Perils of Proactive Churn Prevention Using Plan Recommendations: Evidence from a Field Experiment” (Journal of Marketing View Details
- Article
Why, When, and How Much to Entertain Consumers in Advertisements?: A Web-based Facial Tracking Field Study
By: Thales Teixeira, Rosalind Picard and Rana el Kaliouby
The presence of positive entertainment (e.g., visual imagery, upbeat music, humor) in TV advertisements can make them more attractive and persuasive. However, little is known about the downsides of using too much entertainment. This research focuses on why, when, and...
View Details
Keywords:
Face-tracking;
Entertainment;
Television;
Purchase Intent;
Commercials;
Facial Expressions;
Marketing Communication;
Advertising;
Television Entertainment;
Marketing;
Advertising Industry
Teixeira, Thales, Rosalind Picard, and Rana el Kaliouby. "Why, When, and How Much to Entertain Consumers in Advertisements? A Web-based Facial Tracking Field Study." Marketing Science 33, no. 6 (November–December 2014): 809–827.
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
term scale and scope. Though tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in the production of nearly all crops, they first developed with much more limited application. Early diffusion was accordingly rapid in...
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- Web
Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research
Historically, the TOM Unit focused on manufacturing and the development of physical products. Over the past several years, we have expanded our research, course development, and course offerings to encompass new issues in information technology, supply chains, and...
View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
we show that individuals who spend money on time-saving services report greater life satisfaction. A field experiment provides causal evidence that working adults report greater happiness after spending money on a time-saving purchase...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
2024 Article Loneliness and Emotion Regulation in Daily Life By: Lameese Eldesouky, Amit Goldenberg and Kate Ellis There is a growing understanding that emotion regulation (ER) abilities can be an important buffer for loneliness. However, most of this View Details
- August 2018
- Article
Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain
By: Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer and Teresa M. Amabile
How do teams working on complex projects get the help they need? Our qualitative investigation of the help provided to project teams at a prominent design firm revealed two distinct helping processes, both characterized by deep, sustained engagement that far exceeds...
View Details
Keywords:
Helping;
Rhythm;
Prosocial Behavior;
External Team Leadership;
Social Construction;
Time;
Qualitative Methods;
Field Research;
Groups and Teams;
Projects;
Behavior;
Leadership;
Social and Collaborative Networks
Fisher, Colin M., Julianna Pillemer, and Teresa M. Amabile. "Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain." Academy of Management Journal 61, no. 4 (August 2018): 1524–1553.
- 08 Nov 2021
- News
New Director Named for Mid-US Research Office
of the School’s research efforts,” said Victoria W. Winston, executive director of the HBS Global Initiative. “Alicia will work closely with HBS faculty and experts in the field, developing case studies, managing View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
Humans can be self-destructive. We overindulge in food and fail to make time to exercise, and we delay saving for retirement. Associate Professor John Beshears, whose research focuses on behavioral economics, has identified hope: The idea...
View Details
Keywords:
Jen McFarland Flint
- September 2014
- Article
OSHA Inspections Should Be Welcome: Results from a Natural Field Experiment in California
By: David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel
For companies with strong internal occupational safety and health auditing programs, OSHA inspections might seem a formality that risk uncovering, at most, nitpicky deviations from the thousands of pages of safety regulations. For those with poor safety practices, OSHA...
View Details
Keywords:
Business and Government Relations;
Operations;
Safety;
Governance Compliance;
United States;
California
Levine, David I., and Michael W. Toffel. "OSHA Inspections Should Be Welcome: Results from a Natural Field Experiment in California." The Compass (Newsletter of the American Society of Safety Engineers) 14, no. 1 (September 2014): 4.
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
is to suggest a (preliminary) taxonomy and research agenda for the topic of “firms, crowds, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd-related phenomena and...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?
Research by Whillans and three HBS doctoral students—Jaewon Yoon, Hayley Blunden, and Ariella Kristal—found that people who go seeking advice receive information that’s far more useful than those who request feedback. The View Details
Keywords:
Jen McFarland Flint
- Web
Technology & Operations Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Wattenberg, Fernanda Viégas Spring2025 Q4 1.5 Demystifying the Family Enterprise Christina Wing Fall2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Designing Technology Ventures Thomas Eisenmann, Robert Howe Fall2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course: Innovating in Health Care (also...
View Details
- Web
Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
domains of crowdsourcing, free digital goods, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. He worked in the cybersecurity field for nearly a decade before returning to academia. Research Nexleaf Analytics:...
View Details
- 2014
- Chapter
Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Reasoning in Entrepreneurial Theory and Research
By: G. Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani
This chapter draws on theories of entrepreneurship and history to explore the ways in which historical processes play an integral role in entrepreneurship. It builds off the plea by Joseph Schumpeter for an active exchange between historical approaches and theories of...
View Details
Jones, G., and R. Daniel Wadhwani. "Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Reasoning in Entrepreneurial Theory and Research." Chap. 8 in Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods, edited by Marcelo Bucheli and R. Daniel Wadhwani, 192–216. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.