You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.
Cognitive biases cloud our decision making like a San Francisco fog in the brain. Here is recent research on psychological factors that fool us into hiring bad employees, favor one gender or race over...
View ArticleHow Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
For companies with lots of innovation stuffed in their products, getting the price right is a crucial decision. Stefan Thomke discusses how watchmaker A. Lange & Söhne puts a price on its...
View ArticleBusiness, Governments, and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America...
Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale show how perceptions of political risk by business leaders in emerging markets have differed between regions.
View ArticleNew Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
Employees with a sense of purpose can boost firm performance ... Teenage girls who learn to negotiate do well in school ... How Ferrari is driving future growth.
View ArticleHow to Know if Your Neighborhood is Being Gentrified
Using modern digital tools, Michael Luca and colleagues hope to give urban planners a look into gentrification as it happens.
View ArticleDistance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
The internet makes distance less a problem for businesses, but geography still matters in the digital age, explains Shane Greenstein.
View ArticleTrust and Disintermediation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Marketplace
Intermediaries such as brokers, distributors, and agents all face a risk of disintermediation, when two sides circumvent the intermediary and thus avoid the intermediary’s fees. This study by Grace Gu...
View ArticleNew Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Banks with materialistic CEOs face risk problems ... Poor economic growth makes people miserable ... The business lessons learned from Disney’s comeback.
View ArticleShould Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?
For multichannel retailers, pricing strategy can be complicated and confuse shoppers. Research by Elie Ofek and colleagues offers alternative approaches.
View ArticleShould Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?
SUMMING UP To do business in China, American firms often lose some of their intellectual property as well. James Heskett's readers think that price is too high.
View ArticleAre There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider a CEO Fired...
Executives fired fairly or unfairly over worker violence and harassment charges are about to seek new jobs. James Heskett asks the difficult but unavoidable question: Are there conditions under which...
View ArticleThink of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
In the new Harvard Business School podcast series After Hours, professors Youngme Moon, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Mihir Desai discuss issues ranging from gun control to voice-activated digital assistants.
View ArticleNew Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
How immigrants affect the workforce ... The value of creativity ... Ready for a snack?
View ArticleComplex Disclosure
This study by Michael Luca and colleagues shows that companies looking to hide unfavorable information might strategically be making contract terms unnecessarily complex, harming consumers and...
View ArticleCut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
When times are tight, companies usually respond with employee layoffs. But what if they held on to workers and cut their salaries instead? New research by Christopher Stanton and colleagues has the...
View ArticleWhy South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas
New research by Lauren Cohen and Umit Gurun finds that when some companies are sued, they put their advertising dollars to work in unusual ways to influence local juries. Meet 'TiVo,' the championship...
View ArticleNew Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Are borrowers doomed to fall into debt traps? ... The selfish reason some people make mistakes ... How Target became a data science organization.
View ArticleIn a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?
Pharmaceutical companies are criticized for not producing more breakthrough drugs. But new research by Joshua Krieger and colleagues shows that, given a financial windfall, drug giants turn on the...
View ArticleLearning to Become a Taste Expert
How should we learn to discriminate a fine wine or chocolate? Tradition says use a flavor wheel and map the taste into vocabulary. Kathryn A. Latour and John A. Deighton find that works for novices,...
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