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- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
stage. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317105-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-513 Intuit: QuickBooks (B) This short case updates the earlier Intuit case on transitioning from a product company into a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
intones, "How do you prepare to deal with the unexpected that's coming up? Get there early, set the place up. Read every signal you can get. So it's intuitive, but it's also systematic." Those two qualities—systematic preparation, along with an View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Christensen rhetorically intones, “How do you prepare to deal with the unexpected that’s coming up? Get there early, set the place up. Read every signal you can get. So it’s intuitive, but it’s also systematic.” Those two qualities — systematic preparation, along with...
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- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
simple model of collective action which is intended to capture the various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective action. We argue that several of these intuitive theoretical arguments rely on special...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
show that when consumers are forward looking, the value of concealment is context dependent; we present insights and discuss intuition regarding which product categories likely lead to positive vs. negative values of concealment. Download...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
think, personal intuition about how these environments kind of play out. And now that’s my job. Day-to-day. I build a business around it, but I get to think about and live in that world every day. I believe that taking something that I...
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- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
for fifteen to twenty years, special intuition and judgment are required," he observes. "Compared with operations, marketing, and strategy, we don't really know as much about how to manage research or value it, especially when...
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- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
volitional (experiments 2A and 2B) and are driven by decreases in trustworthiness engendered by decisions to hide (experiments 3A and 3B). Moreover, hiders do not intuit these negative consequences: given the choice to withhold or reveal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
she'd created for herself caused her to ignore the more intuitive part of the leadership equation, with disastrous results—until she let go of the need to appear invulnerable and reached out to another manager. Jon, a personal trainer who...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
being and acting in any leadership situation that is a spontaneous and intuitive effective response to what one is dealing with. In creating leaders we employ the ontological discipline (from the Latin ontologia "science of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
intuition for the basic economic forces in this decentralized market through a series of examples that sequentially build on each other layering on the particular fees and collateral requirements commonly levied in short-selling...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
leverages his many years of teaching experience at Harvard Business School to lay out important macroeconomic concepts in engaging, clear, and concise terms. In a simple and intuitive way, he breaks down the ideas into "output,"...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Art Nature Business
define and describe this work. A far more complex geometry would be required. Solid Geometry was created not with mathematics in mind, but from an intuitive system. The incomprehensible is what intrigues. Something mysterious, primal and...
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- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
effects and direct competitive effects on the producer side. We show that this can sometimes make proprietary platforms more socially desirable than open platforms, which runs against the common intuition that open platforms are more...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four experiments examine the moral psychology of indirect agency. Experiments 1A, 1B, and 1C reveal effects of indirect agency under conditions favoring...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
mean-variance optimization with sample means and covariances. The Bayesian inspired Black-Litterman model is described after introducing the intuition of the Bayesian approach to inference in a univariate setting. Purchase this note:...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
to influence local funders is important information. Our interviewees suggest that local firms have a very intuitive sense of this from their fundraising activities and we hope our framework will make this more systematic. For executives,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
relationships between disparate data sets and then assess the significance of conclusions reached. Fast Start to Career Success: Making the Most of Your First Job By Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967) Outskirts Press Your first job is a time to develop habits and View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
Abstract—The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
insights and discuss intuition regarding which product categories likely lead to positive vs. negative values of concealment. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49531 The Long-Run Dynamics of...
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Sean Silverthorne