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13 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

Those wearing a heavy backpack were more likely to choose healthy snacks over potentially guilt-inducing fattening ones. For a detailed account of the experiment, see "The Burden of Guilt: Heavy Backpacks, Light Snacks, and Enhanced... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

"I don't present these approaches as cure-alls, saying if you just run a contest or a corporate venture program everything's going to be wonderful," Lerner says. "But there's a lot of promise and potential in this tool... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

these groups, and potential financial gains were lost due to a lack of sufficient coordination. The point is not that coordination is easy, or automatic. But when the group interest is material and evident, a fairly high level of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull

14 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 14

the exclusively domestic orientation of the "hierarchical industry leaders" can entail large missed opportunities for other members of the ecosystem, who are unable to fully exploit their potential in global markets. For... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

research on potential employers. 19. The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to 'Simplifiers' The mass consumption of the 1990s is fast fading in the rearview mirror. Now a growing number of people want to declutter their lives and invest... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

20 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

a new toothpaste that had helped drive Colgate to a record value share in the important U.S. market, was in the global pipeline for 2005. Burton had on his desk the proposed marketing launch plans for CMF in China and Mexico. Each plan sought to maximize the business... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

Q: What are you working on next? A: In researching several of the cases on networks for my course and the casebook, I was struck by the tremendous potential for this approach to transform the effectiveness of the sector. Thus, my current... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

very "transactional" or "deal-making" terms. They do not think about the potential value of the relationship. So, they structure fairly narrow contracts, with lots of ways to bail out. They then mitigate the risks by... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology

28 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates

effectively." Online daters sitting behind a computer, says Frost, "have a lot of time to ruminate and form ideas about potential partners that may or may not coincide with reality, because they're not getting any social... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Publishing

14 Jul 2020
Blog Post

Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation

in. Educate team members who are writing event descriptions and invitations about removing gendered language, jargon, and idioms that can make potential candidates feel excluded. Just like your job postings, event descriptions are an... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Work & Life - Race, Gender & Equity

Care Tech. / Social Assistance 49 55 Software Publishers / Technology 52 54 “My career has been fulfilling and I achieved most of the goals that I had set for myself. I’m still young but feeling a bit burnt out and would like to work fewer hours and View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

Bluetooth in Android and Apple smartphones to determine proximity between people, and thus assess their potential exposure to the coronavirus. A random ID attached to a user’s phone number generates temporary, encrypted IDs. When users’... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

08 Mar 2018
News

HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact

an AASU Past Presidents portrait project; encouraging current and potential HBS students to participate; and engaging HBS faculty members with alumni in local communities across the country. “Alumni have been a big part of this... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

16 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

ideas, assesses their importance today, and explores their potential for the future. Through its wide historical focus, this Reader challenges the widespread assumption that creativity research is mainly a product of the second half of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Rakhi Mehra

very practical test. "We had a thousand participants and sixty panelists," she says. "Success meant anticipating potential downfalls and planning around them. For her summer internship, Rakhi will accept a consultancy... View Details

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Mengwen Zhao

team, but to inspire others. The most important part of leadership work is to bring out the highest potential in others." This summer, Mengwen will return to China as a consultant with McKinsey. "I want to explore all the time.... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; CPG; Healthcare/Biotech

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Fangfang Wang

R.O.I. It’s really about opening you up to diverse intellectual challenges. The personal development here is way more important than the potential economic advancement or return.” View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education; CPG

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Lehman Brothers - Introduction | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

banking and financial advisory services for corporations, the government, and private individuals, and consistently showed foresight in its ability to recognize the potential of emerging industries, from retail to aviation to high tech.... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

All in Good Time

percentage of revenues as well. Potential employees can post their résumé and use the Mom Corps job bank at no charge; they can also pay a fee to have their résumé revamped. The challenge of maintaining Mom Corps’ sense of identity and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; staffing agencies; parenthood; Accounting, Tax, Bookkeeping, Payroll Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2018
News

INK: The Bookshelf

leave. It goes back to this sense of reliance on others during wartime and adversity that can unlock the human potential for groups.” EXCERPT “There isn’t anything secret about presenting. The necessary skills are simple, the keys to... View Details

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