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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
wanting each case to be relevant and to focus on a broad spectrum of concepts, they felt strongly that the course as a whole needed to be greater than the sum of its parts. As they discuss their first experience teaching The Dynamics of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Profile
Justine Lelchuk
each day has in store for me. Finally, I was looking for a company that valued training and would support my decision to go to grad school." Deloitte Consulting met the criteria, placing her in a rotational program that exposed... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was designed to provide a clean source... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—Many have argued that overoptimistic thinking on the part of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
intriguing. That experience planted the seed for a 50-plus-year career at Stanford exploring new auction designs and formats—work recognized in 2020 with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In this special edition of Skydeck... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
to first dates, people frequently experience performance anxiety. And when experienced immediately before or during performance, anxiety harms performance. Across a series of experiments, we explore the efficacy of a common strategy that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
circle and said, "Well, lads, ship and stores are gone. Now we’ll go home." “The decisions you make in a life-and-death crisis have a new, lasting importance. You can choose to ignore that, but you do so at your own peril.” —Nancy Koehn... View Details
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
there is room available for merchants to experiment with different value combinations. "Contingent free shipping magnifies the effectiveness of a promotion" To help online sellers understand the complex relationship between... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Thinking About an MBA? Think About Your Purpose
conviction that pursuing a business career with deep purpose can be a powerful way to make a lasting difference in the world. Here are three common themes that emerged from the executives: They allow their personal experiences to energize... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
more traditional in top-down organizations. What are the experiences that are hard to replace in remote work? And how can companies replace those with digital experiences? Associate Professor Prithwiraj Choudhury on the lasting lessons... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
Senior Associate Editor Garry Emmons, who set out to find “change agents” whose work warrants higher visibility. Sharing the spotlight with Lemmon are Richard Bailey (MBA ’81) and Katie Hood (MBA ’01). Drawing on her experiences in... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
written of his personal experience with the healthcare system. Cue MinuteClinic, located in 640 CVS stores across 25 states. Staffed with nurse practitioners and physician assistants, it provides on-the-spot... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
finding homes for dogs and vice versa. The Wagaroo website describes the company as “a team of fun humans with years of dog experience and a desire to create a healthier, happier marketplace for matching dogs and people.” “We can help... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
pure-play stores can’t directly match. Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration. Rembrand M. Koning: Think like a startup and experiment Given that every week... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Dressing by Number
Taking Tailoring High Tech Katrina Lake Dressing by Number Dressing by Number Karen Moon Making Big Data Fashionable Making Big Data Fashionable Ivy Ross Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future Creating the Shopping View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
psychological discomfort of dissonance. Similarly, physically cleansing oneself eliminated the relationship between inauthenticity and prosocial compensation. Finally, we demonstrated additional evidence for discriminant validity: these effects were not driven by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967) - Recruiting
entrepreneurial inclination fostered by growing up in a family that owned retail stores and enjoyed telling stories of their sales. Advertising was a popular career with a certain amount of glamour in the 1950s and 1960s. I, too, liked... View Details
- 20 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All
PeopleImages Sale! Even the word is enough to send a flutter through the hearts of certain shoppers, who salivate in anticipation of scoring a discount off a product’s original price. Few consumers stop to think, however, that the only way they know they are getting a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Peer Advisory Council By Tina Corner-Stolz (PMD 74, 1999) ForbesBooks Tina Corner-Stolz has been driven by one mission for almost two decades: creating such an exquisite Member Experience (MX) for her peer advisory councils (PaCs) that,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
some tales, and then ask for tips,” Bines says. The experience taught him that the better you understand your customer, the richer the tips. He has worked in customer-facing businesses ever since, including his current role as managing... View Details