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- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
organization of people working in small teams; crowding employees together in ways that resemble a Stanford dorm room; messiness as a virtue; staying functionally organized as long as possible; one-day reorganizations; and, again, hiring...
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Mohit Bathija
bedridden)—dodging cars, rickshaws, and cows through the crowded streets. I looked ahead to the woman handing out the food and saw a foreign boy of my age wearing white basketball shoes and a red baseball cap witha "C" on...
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- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
states show considerably stronger propensity for both social and spatial homophily than those from high-representation states. These manifestations of homophily are amplified on crowded days, such as the peak day of the festival, which we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
an effective solution for companies. She co-wrote the journal article with HBS doctoral student Grace Cormier, as well as three employees of Happify, Allison L. Williams, Acacia C. Parks, and Julia Stafford. Happify, which funded the research, competes in an...
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- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
disregard—advice all the time. A widely recommended strategy for figuring out the most accurate solution to a complex problem is to reach out to multiple people to leverage the wisdom of the crowds in weighing alternatives. Prior research...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
prize. In a community-based setting, you give up IP in exchange for complementary assets that create value for customers. Then there's the fear that my competitors will find out what I'm working on. Open companies have adopted a nuanced attitude that embraces...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
affordable prices, a unique offering in the otherwise crowded wedding industry. But custom design creates ongoing operational challenges. As it grows, should Anomalie leverage its supply-chain advantages to create a line of off-the-rack...
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April White
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
explains dramatic events in the international economy, such as recurrent banking and financial crises in several countries. Much of this explanation focuses on the role of confidence, expectations, and crowd psychology. These factors...
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- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
With the advent of customer relationship management (CRM) in the late 1990s, companies came to believe that by using technology to tailor their offerings to individual consumers' needs, customer loyalty—and company profits—would skyrocket. But in today's View Details
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by Jean Ayers
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
Business School Press) When he talks about his research on the process, economics, and management of experimentation, Associate Professor Stefan Thomke is fond of quoting Thomas Edison’s notion that “the real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be...
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- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
hours available to maximize ad revenue—the shift to popular content crowds out niche shows. (The researchers did not study the effects on viewing habits created by digital video recorders and on-demand programming.) Online, there are no...
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
including Profitable Advertising , Printers’ Ink , and the Inland Printer , offered advice on designing trade catalogs that were both informative and inviting. Fowlers Publicity Encyclopedia provided such guidelines as: “Do not crowd...
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- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
that " we will need to think deeply about how to ensure these crowds we are tapping into (through information networking) are given sufficient opportunities to learn and to properly feel engaged." Both achievements and failures...
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Event Guidelines | About
support event programming (for crowd control, public safety, or dignitary protection). HBS Operations reserves the right to require a detail for any event at its sole discretion. These details will be arranged directly by HBS Operations &...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
partnered with IBM Q Network, Rigetti, and Honeywell Quantum Solutions. They are among a growing crowd of enterprises—including Alibaba, Amazon, Baidu, Intel, Google, and Microsoft—diving in headlong. Although he was initially circumspect...
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- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
while the second is the dependence of peoples' self-esteem on the extent to which they perceive that others agree with them. Government spending crowds out the charity that ensues from these forces only modestly. Moreover, people's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
suggest that the approach might be used more widely in teaching technology management, particularly with "digital natives," who have come of age in an environment crowded with engaging approaches to communication and...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. But when vying against others in industries where high uncertainty, long development cycles, View Details
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by Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
With the addition of Dick Jenrette (MBA ’57) as the third founder, the new firm was ready to be launched. DLJ made a name for itself as a pioneer in several other ways as well. Rather than following the crowd and focusing on high-priced...
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- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
growth at the firm level. Importantly, however, we also document substantial crowding out of non-treated firms' employment within local labor markets. While the overall net employment effect was positive, it was close to zero in tight...
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by Sean Silverthorne