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- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
that, relative to offering free shipping, offering contingent free shipping increases basket sizes by encouraging consumers to meet the minimum order threshold. Consumers incur search costs to meet this threshold exactly; sellers may...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
share to around $1 a share in two years. With the company’s survival in question, Houghton was called back as CEO in 2002. This time, leadership required lifting spirits, not dropping the hammer. He exhorted his employees (“We will succeed”) while View Details
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- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
culture change starts at the top. "As always, an expression of support from leadership is very important," says Quelch. "Leaders can set good examples by not sending emails at 3 a.m. or showing up in the office on Saturday mornings, and by implementing a good EAP and...
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- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
the place where shoppers' attention is probably going to be most focused on this element, the bag, which seems to encourage them to buy these things." For consumers, she recommends that they just think about the findings as they...
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- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
encouraged even relative strangers to hold each other accountable for progress. Thus the team scaffolds enabled the construction of group coordination processes among fluid groups. Quantitative analysis showed that performance improved...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
shared value: focus on relationships, not on transactions, by using pricing to communicate that you value customers as people; set prices proactively to discourage detrimental behavior and to encourage behavior that is beneficial to both...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
decade Nettwerk CEO Terry McBride let fans consume music on their own terms. He encouraged file-sharing, the remixing of his artists' songs and videos, and an environment in which "the audience is the record company." In the...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
encouraging the growth of good companies that can replace imperial excess with values-based capitalism; (4) restoring respect for government by ending decades of contempt for the public sector and ensuring competence in that vital sector;...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)
curriculum that could help close the gender gap by encouraging STEM education set a fire in my heart.” Looking Ahead Clearly, Takatsuka is making the most of the summer between RC and EC year, building startup experience and working to...
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- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
again should a move to Brazil be in his future. Dzodan encourages other alumni and entrepreneurs to bring on interns. “It can be scary to think about using your time to build an internship program as time is our most valuable resource,...
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Becca Carnahan
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
year, but no one is encouraging their work.” Having been a trader and investment adviser, and the head of a major auction house, he knew that business could provide the solution. “I thought I should create an art market rather than...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 14 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
lending encouragement to his colleague, and some friendly pressure to get his application in. From HBS, Tingle was looking to gain skills and experience he could take back with him to investing, either going back to private equity or...
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- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
lines. The discussion can end with comparisons of the Mexican political and government circumstances that encourage this method of producing workforce housing as compared with the U.S., China, India, and other markets. Purchase this case:
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Alzheimer's, MS, and Huntington's) and do so by encouraging collaboration among researchers in the HMS community. When Ivinson takes the helm in 2001, he finds a dysfunctional center with little organization or structure. In addition, he...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
schools open but encouraged parents to pick up their kids if they wanted to." (For his part, Lhota had been able to confirm by phone that his wife and two children were safe, while leaving messages that he was, too.) Some sixteen hours...
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- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
campus is closed to most motor vehicles, a rule that encourages face-to-face encounters along the walking paths. Taxis, and often black limousines, patiently wait for their clients on the campus' margins. As the campus master plan...
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- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
and higher profits. The system also encourages government and industry managers to place higher priority on gaining congressional approval to begin new acquisition weapon programs or obtain additional funding for ongoing programs than it...
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- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-038.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsFood Security and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Harvard Business School Case 508-002 The Mormon Church focuses on self-reliance and being prepared for emergencies. Part of their...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
explains. "We illustrate mechanisms that will encourage dialogue across internal boundaries and look at techniques such as using stretch goals to get people to think outside the box." In The Classroom The AMP classroom is full...
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- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
managers is that there's a great advantage to be gotten for both sides in creating an environment in which both parties feel powerful. And I don't mean that just on the sort of touchy-feely level. For example, when you're negotiating across departments within an...
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