Priming - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2010
News

One Student’s HBS Journey

interests choral conducting, prime numbers, carpentry, writing, and yoga. She spent the January Term backpacking around Africa by herself before joining the HBS Outdoors Club to scale Mt. Kilimanjaro. In a regular Harbus column, titled... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2008
News

Innovation as P&G’s Key

Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) team up to show how P&G has reconnected with customers and primed a sustainable innovation engine. Charan contributes cases and lessons from companies he has worked with, including IDEO, Nokia, Shimano,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

24 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

PublicationsiPhones for Friends, Refrigerators for Family: How Products Prime Social Networks Authors:Lalin Anik and Michael I. Norton Publication:Social Influence (forthcoming). Abstract We show that View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2001
News

Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment

For most of the past 25 years, Jeff Sagansky has followed the same ritual every morning. He gets up early and pores over the previous day's Nielsen ratings, those omnipotent numbers that detail who's watching what on television from dawn to View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Arts, Entertainment

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

The really good news, I think, is that opinion leaders in Japan have been persuaded by the book. I was invited to personally give a copy to the prime minister. We are hoping that the book becomes the basis for—and becomes an important... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

05 Apr 2020
News

Launching in a World in Limbo

the context. With potential customers largely confined to their homes, it will now go up against established platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video that can be watched on any screen, including the living room TV. Quibi works only... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Joel Bines

offered by his parents, who, he says, "taught me the value of extending myself and working hard." Bines's forays into the unfamiliar began just after his graduation from Bates College. After serving as a student intern for the Manhattan-based public relations firm Nike... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

Above: photo by Dimitris Papamitsos/ Greek Prime Minister’s Office Nearly all of the low-slung café tables in the Hotel Grande Bretagne’s lounge are already occupied by late in the afternoon on an average Thursday. This is the domain of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Mar 2005
News

Time to Trek

homes of HBS students, and met with numerous business leaders and politicians, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. “Treks really open up the field for students and expose them to industries and jobs in locations that aren’t typically... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Feb 2022
News

Industrialist Rahul Bajaj Dies at 83

with convenient mobility solutions,” Pawan Munjal, chairman and CEO of Hero MotoCorp, a Bajaj competitor, told Forbes. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted that Bajaj “will be remembered for his noteworthy contributions to the world... View Details

19 Sep 2019
News

Predicting Human Behaviors

“Self-driving cars today know what they are seeing and how fast the object is moving, but they aren’t good at predicting what a human will do next,” explains Misra. “We want to help machines understand humans.” For Perceptive Automata, the road to CES (where the... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2005
News

Job Interviews

important; the rest of the meeting often serves to confirm an initial judgment made very early on.” That confirmation process frequently begins with an open-ended question such as, “Tell me about yourself,” which Butler views as a prime... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Oct 2024
News

Ratan Tata, Visionary Business Leader, Dies at 86

Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975), who was one of India’s most admired leaders, died on October 9, in Mumbai. The Tata Group announced his death in a statement. He served as chairman and chief executive of the Tata Group from 1991 to 2012, during which time profits multiplied... View Details

26 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

Parliament, and they get pushed from session to session, despite their urgency. There is a rampant lack of clarity and leadership from the major political parties. The main opposition party, the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), recently announced Narendra Modi as their... View Details

Keywords: by Zeenat Potia

21 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

actual grassroots that I had worked from.” Silverthorne: She also made change happen from inside government, where she was nominated by the prime minister of India, Inder Kumar Gujral, to the upper house of parliament in appreciation of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video

02 Jul 2015
Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

repay its debts in the current terms. Prime Minister Tsipras and the Syriza government have acted irresponsibly by bringing a rushed, confusing, and unfair referendum to voters, by breaking the trust with the European institutions instead... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking

07 Nov 2024
Blog Post

Meet the Aerospace & Defense Club

Security Conference, which we host each spring in partnership with MIT Sloan’s Security and Technology Club. This conference is a premier defense tech event that features esteemed speakers like sitting US Senators, senior Department of Defense and Allied officials, and... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

18 Apr 2017
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CRC Companies LLC

would like to share with fellow recruiters or those who are new to recruiting with HBS? HBS candidates are the best of the best—be sure to work with your Recruiting Relations Manager to develop a recruiting strategy that allows you to get on campus early and often to... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

01 Jun 2016
News

In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)

later she defeated a seasoned incumbent to win a seat in parliament. Her experience led to cabinet positions including Minister for Ageing, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women’s Issues, and Minister for Education, Science and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma

01 May 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718039 Harvard Business School Case 517-064 Note on the Impact of Millennials on the Food System In 2016, the millennial generation (those age 19 to 35 in 2016), the largest generation by population in the U.S., was entering its... View Details