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Keep Emotion Out of Decision Making: We've all had the experience of letting our emotions get the better of our actions. But in a business setting, emotional decisions can be costly -- and a quick way to lose your job. But how do you keep cool, calm, and collected in the high pressure...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, decision-making, Sumner Redstone; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Placebo Pricing: Why We (Might) Pay More For Less: Under the intriguing title Are Your Prices High Enough? Harvard Business Review senior editor Bronwyn Fryer blogs on the idea that people's expectations about a product influence how they ultimately respond to it. Put two unmarked but identical bottles of wine before your friends. Tell them the...; Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, Sean Silverthorne, pricing strategy, Harvard Business School; Blog posts 2008-03-18
Innovation Nation by John Kao |Book Brief: In his book “Innovation Nation” author and fomer Harvard Business school professor, John Kao, explains how the United States, once the world’s leading innovator, is losing its standing in the world. Kao suggests steps the country should take to regain its innovative edge.; Tags: science, Book Brief, Innovation, Harvard Business School, Kao; Videos 2008-01-25
Business History: Revisiting The Hawthorne Studies: At the start of the 20th century, companies were increasingly using scientific approaches to improve worker productivity. What were the best techniques for work on an assembly line? Could better lighting improve worker efficiency? But that all began to change in 1924 with the start of...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Hawthorne Studies; Blog posts 2007-12-12
From Outsourcing To Global Collaboration: New Ways To Build Competitiveness: Many companies have successfully used outsourcing to lower costs. But, unless the company's efforts are unusually good, true competitive advantage is fleeting when competitors begin outsourcing and achieving similar results. To build sustainable competitive advantage, leading companies are now using an advanced form of outsourcing, dubbed global collaboration, to drive...; Tags: Strategy, Harvard Business School, outsourcing, collaboration, competitive advantage, adjustment; White papers 2007-05-21

Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment: We identify a new type of vertical Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) made up of multinational subsidiaries which are producing intermediate inputs of similar skill intensity to the final goods produced by their parents, and where this production is primarily located in high skill countries. These subsidiaries make up more than...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, Harvard Business School, foreign direct investment, outsource; White papers 2007-01-01
Entrepreneurship And Business History: Renewing The Research Agenda: This working paper explains that there are now exciting opportunities for renewing the research agenda on entrepreneurship, building on the strong roots already in place, and benefiting from engaging with advances made in the study of entrepreneurial behavior and cognition. There are opportunities for advancing understanding on the historical role...; Tags: Harvard Business School, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial; White papers 2006-08-02
Learning Tradeoffs In Organizations: Learning-curve research has found that rates of learning can vary across similar settings, such that cumulative experience is a necessary but insufficient predictor of learning-curve slope. One explanation for this finding is that how the learning process is managed affects rates of learning. At any point in time, organizations can...; Tags: Harvard Business School, performance; White papers 2006-05-02
Behavioral Operations: In the vast majority of operations, people are a critical component to the functioning of the system and influence both the way operating systems work and how they perform. Yet most formal analytical models in operations assume that the humans who participate in operating systems are fully rational or at...; Tags: Harvard Business School, theory, operating system, finance, marketing; White papers 2006-02-03
Supply Responses to Digital Distribution: Recorded Music and Live Performances: Technologies for reproducing and redistributing digital goods have made it more difficult to earn profits from their sale, leading to concerns that socially valuable digital products with non-convex production technologies may not be brought to market. However, digital goods are often jointly supplied with non-digital products, and changes in distribution...; Tags: Harvard Business School, pricing strategy, CD, sales; White papers 2005-10-04
The Tyranny of the Balanced Scorecard in the Innovation Economy: This article traces the rationale, features, development and application of the BSC in the past few years, and then provides a critical review of its key problematic effects on firms and their stakeholders in today's changing business environment. Five major problem areas are identified and discussed, with selected business examples....; Tags: Harvard Business School, Balanced Scorecard; White papers 2005-06-02
Unlock the Secret to Successful Change Leadership: The change to electronic health records (EHRs) is an amalgam of daunting challenges that will be facing hospital executives for the foreseeable future. As the major long-term obstacles to the EHR are removed one by one, the imminent reality of transforming an industry falls to each healthcare provider organization. This...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Harvard Business School, e-health, electronic health record, leadership, health care, industry; White papers 2005-06-01
The Corrosion Of IT Advantage: Strategy Makes A Comeback: When a valuable new technology emerges, it provides forward-looking companies with opportunities for gaining a strong and durable edge over the competition. Distinctive applications of the technology often take years for rivals to replicate. With information technology, this neutralizing effect promises to be particularly strong - and thus poses particularly...; Tags: Harvard Business School, information technology, business process, strategy; White papers 2004-10-28
Analyst Disagreement, Forecast Bias and Stock Returns: This paper presents evidence of inefficient information processing in equity markets by documenting that biases in analysts' earnings forecasts are reflected in stock prices. In particular, it shows that investors fail to fully account for optimistic bias associated with analyst disagreement. This bias arises for two reasons. First, analysts issue...; Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Harvard Business School, disagreement, bias, analyst, earnings forecast, stock price, stock, equity; White papers 2004-06-01
Judging Fund Managers by the Company They Keep: This paper develops a performance evaluation approach in which a fund manager's skill is judged by the extent to which the manager's investment decisions resemble the decisions of managers with distinguished performance records. The proposed performance measures use historical returns and holdings of many funds to evaluate the performance of...; Tags: Performance management, Harvard Business School, fund manager, performance evaluation, performance, equity; White papers 2004-05-21
Medical Devices: The New Hot Property for Private Equity Investors: For investors stepping off the big-pharma roller coaster, the medical device market is looking unusually attractive, according to Julie Jette, of HBS Working Knowledge. Venture capital firms are increasingly being drawn to the lower-risk profile of this industry, which was once considered a poor relation to the pharmaceuticals sector has...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Investment, Harvard Business School, medical device, private equity, venture capital, industry; White papers 2004-05-14
How Do Family Ownership, Management, and Control Affect Firm Value?: Using proxy data on all Fortune-500 firms during 1994-2000, this report finds that family ownership creates value only when the founder serves as the CEO of the family firm or as its chairman with a hired CEO. Dual share classes, pyramids, and voting agreements reduce the founder premium. When descendants...; Tags: Harvard Business School, founder, shareholder, CEO, agreement; White papers 2004-04-01
The Outsourcing Revolution: Ask any four people what they think about outsourcing and you'll likely get four different answers. At the Cyberposium 2004 panel "The Outsourcing Revolution," however, the views of three seasoned managers and one MIT professor fell into general alignment: They like it. They believe it is a powerful force for...; Tags: Harvard Business School, outsourcing, information system, benefit; White papers 2004-02-02
The Benevolence of the Baker: Fair Pricing Under the Threat of Customer Anger: This paper has shown that a model of fairness in pricing can match several salient microeconomic observations about price adjustment. This includes the observation that prices are variable across customers and across certain time intervals (namely when there are "Specials") while they are relatively stable in response to other shocks....; Tags: Pricing, Harvard Business School, fairness, pricing strategy, adjustment; White papers 2003-11-03
Speechwriting Under the Gun: The higher you rise in the corporate ranks, the more you're expected to speak on public occasions, and the shorter the preparation time often is. The temptation is to wing it or, if you do prepare something, not to rehearse but to rely on your native ability and good luck...; Tags: Performance management, Harvard Business School, performance; White papers 2003-09-01