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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

Concepts Idea Selection and Evaluation Defining and Refining Your Prototype Plan Prototyping: From Exploration to Validation Leading Concept Development Featured Exercises Concept Poster: Organize all information about an innovation... View Details

14 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving

listening to podcasts, according to a survey of hundreds of drivers who commute to work each day conducted by a group of interdisciplinary researchers, including Raffaella Sadun, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

Enroll Now Key Concepts Identify a business opportunity Evaluate an idea and assess the market Explore the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship Leverage experiments to validate concepts and refine your business strategy Discover the key... View Details

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

towards the end of the summer. Sophy: During the summer, I conducted field visits and surveys to understand better the need and gap. I discovered that while parents have higher willingness to pay, it is the opportunity to improve... View Details

04 Aug 2011
What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

learned something from it that we can use in making future decisions. As a result, we give unwarranted credit to such things as experience, intuition, and even common sense. Watts challenges our ability to assess the validity of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

surveys and course data All FAQs Launching Tech Ventures FAQs Could you tell me a little more about the AI Course Assistant chat bot? + – You can think of the beta version of the Launching Tech Ventures AI Course Assistant chat bot in two... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

ventures. This course also introduces participants to the idea that entrepreneurs run structured experiments to validate ideas and refine business strategy. Participants work through real-world challenges faced by entrepreneurs across a... View Details

24 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 24

Surveys differed in the dimensions of teamwork that they assessed. The most commonly assessed dimensions were communication, coordination, and respect. Of the 35 surveys, 9 met all of the criteria for psychometric View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Fast Answer

Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship

Filling the Gap: Underserved Markets in the Black Community Use these resources to validate the need underlying your business idea. Please contact infoservices@hbs.edu to schedule a consultation with a Baker librarian. ... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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New Releases

organizations. Their extensive empirical research draws on in-depth case studies of the organization, structures, systems, and management practices in nine large MNCs; a detailed survey of headquarters-subsidiary relations in three of... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Sep 2020
News

Road Work

small-business loan market was being mispriced and underserved,” says Sean, who serves as CEO (Kenny is COO). It’s an assumption that required finding early stage funding partners willing to take the risk necessary to validate the... View Details

Keywords: banking; LatinX; small businesses; COVID-19; Finance

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

advisers that what I was seeing was reproducible and scientifically valid. It also just happened to be personally valid for me." “Having the net made these people more willing to walk on the high wire.” Olds focused his initial study... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Peeling Back the Global Brand

Hans-Willi Schroiff, vice president of market research and business intelligence for the German company Henkel, described why detergent has made a valuable case study for new and edgy marketing. (They cautioned that they are not ready to claim any View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

13 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

they often brush them aside in favor of using their own intuition. Sure enough, that pattern emerged in the research team’s survey of 119 full-time workers from a variety of industries: 59 percent said they had consulted with multiple... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

from a recent survey of 652 museums in "Museums on the Map, 1995-2012" (published just this past year by Fondazione di Venezia). After setting certain research parameters in order to provide focus to the study (e.g., I looked at arts... View Details

08 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

10-040, November 2009.) Abstract We survey the recent literature on the mental health effects of conflict. We highlight the methodological challenges faced in this literature, which include the lack of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention

capacity coming online worldwide over the next half-decade. That forecast is almost 30% higher than last year's edition of the rolling 5-year projections. Likewise, a new survey by Columbia University's energy think tank polled investment... View Details

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

of the criteria for psychometric validity, and 14 showed significant relationships to non-self-report outcomes. Conclusions: Evidence of psychometric validity is lacking for many teamwork survey instruments.... View Details