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- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
pass their knowledge on to followers. "It's not something we do naturally," Zhang says. "Once we get good at something, our intuition is not to say, 'OK, let me go see how it feels to be bad at it again.' But the findings suggest that if...
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- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
(reading the plan, talking to people they know ) and others granting a meeting without looking at the plan at all. Some angels rely on their intuition while others crunch a lot of numbers. Almost all angels source carefully, make good use...
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by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 07 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?
through case reading, case discussions, reading the textbook and having informal discussions with classmates, the more intuitive and clear the material became. At HBS, we learn finance and accounting through the case method just like...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
creative new markets. Lessons in Corporate Finance: A Case Studies Approach to Financial Tools, Financial Policies, and Valuation by Paul Asquith and Lawrence A. Weiss (DBA 1989) (Wiley) This book explains the fundamentals of the field in an View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
see shortcomings in what I do or didn't do, and that's the thing that disappoints me the most. Proud moments Years ago my mom and dad came to one of our company meetings. I told the story of how Intuit wouldn't be here without my parents,...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
customers use Starbucks as a regular hangout or informal office — a "third place" between home and work. How has this aspect of the stores evolved over time? In the beginning, we knew on an intuitive level that Starbucks was about far...
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Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967) - Recruiting
also an HBS grad. They became a demanding mentor who offered guidance, helping me to mature as a manager, develop good business habits, and inform my intuition for decision making. As I progressed in my career, taking on positions with...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
price for the aftermarket.” If intuition and financial fundamentals figure in Harris’s work, so too does a good measure of faith. “It’s not like I wear it on my sleeve, but everybody knows that it’s part of who I am,” she remarks. “Once...
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- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
people intuitively discount the future to a greater degree than can be rationally defended. Second, positive illusions lead us to conclude that energy problems do not exist or are not severe enough to merit action. Third, we interpret...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
supplier aggressively explore synergies across its various component agencies as well as eliminate research redundancies. Value experience and judgment. CMOs should tap the knowledge and intuitions of managers and researchers who've lived...
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by John Quelch
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
stay a leader," as Donna Dubinsky (CEO of Handspring, Inc.) says. Once a smaller or weaker firm starts to play defense, the game is usually over. So "play offense and play to win," is the advice of Intuit founder Scott...
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by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
started. But it faced many questions as the ventures grew and started to win their first customers. How should NBI handle the transition of the venture back to a mainstream division within Intel? Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/608100-PDF-ENG...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
production could affect consumer purchase behavior. The researchers found: When a firm voluntarily discloses its costs, the consumer is more attracted to the brand, which increases willingness to buy. "There's this lay intuition that when...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
kind of leadership. “Since the investment and R&D decisions you make today are often not easily quantifiable and not coming to fruition for fifteen to twenty years, special intuition and judgment are required,” he observes. “Compared with...
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- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
whom I have worked with as an advisor) now offers Working Capital Terms, a non-card payment option that businesses can use to pay vendors. And, this month they announced a partnership with Intuit so their cardholders, who use QuickBooks...
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by Karen Mills
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
with wages should be considered more widely for determining taxes. Alternatively, if policies such as a height tax are rejected, then the standard Utilitarian framework must fail to capture intuitive notions of distributive justice....
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
actual human being wrote it? Do it! Want to build an intuitive web form (easy to fill out, simple to save, easy to submit) to replace a clunky paper form (hard to write, easy to lose, annoying to submit)? Do it! Want to build an app that...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
envisioned had not materialized. In a last-ditch effort to jumpstart the stalled exchange, the team built some software that created email templates and provided easy access to sales-contact data to personalize them quickly, making the task so View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
businesses that use the technology to support business strategy and design
. However, the distinction is blurring as adoption of Internet-based business models penetrates to the very core of how firms do business. IBM, AOL, Time Warner, Microsoft, and View Details
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by Lynda M. Applegate
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
they do, think what they think, and why they like or don't like your products. Getting that level of insight requires more intensive interactions with customers than CRM tools permit." It requires that you develop a "poetic insight into customers—a deep...
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by Jean Ayers