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    Nancy F. Koehn

    Nancy F. Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Her... View Details

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    • 07 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook

    Walk into any local coffee shop, and you might see people using Amazon Kindles—but you’re not likely to spot anyone with a Sony Librie, even though Sony was the first company to make an e-reader in 2004. “It was probably a better... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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    "How Social Networks Moderate Loss Aversion"

    The literature on consumers’ relationships with their brands emphasizes that, when people form relationships with brands that mirror their social relationships, the norms of social relationships are used as guiding principles in their interactions with... View Details
    • 27 Feb 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

    for hiring, the concept of a slot is absent from virtually all of economics. Macroeconomic studies of vacancies and search come closest, but the implications of slot-based hiring for individual worker outcomes has not been analyzed in a View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 May 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    What Your Competition is Telling You

    competitors can help grow the market for your products and services, thereby boosting your sales at a time when, with the U.S. slowdown entering its third year, new revenue is exceedingly hard to find. Moreover, the presence of a... View Details
    Keywords: by David Stauffer
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    Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge

    Reduction Act. He explains the U.S. EPA’s role in balancing climate action with economic development, while promoting environmental justice. David also offers insights on career opportunities at the intersection of business, climate, and government. 29 Oct 2024 Cold... View Details
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    Activities, Government & Clubs - MBA

    Business Association Catholic Students Association Central & Eastern European Club Chess Club Christian Fellowship Club Basketball Coffee and Tea Club Conservative Club Crimson Parents D Democrats, Liberals and Progressives Club E... View Details
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    Seamus Bann

    PE/public markets from a non-finance background, 2) prepare for consulting interviews, and 3) navigate the coffee chat and networking fall experience. He's also passionate about supporting veterans through... View Details
    • July 2009
    • Article

    Bad Riddance or Good Rubbish? Ownership and Not Loss Aversion Causes the Endowment Effect

    By: C. K. Morewedge, L. L. Shu, D. T. Gilbert and T. D. Wilson
    People typically demand more to relinquish the goods they own than they would be willing to pay to acquire those goods if they didn't already own them (the endowment effect). The standard economic explanation of this phenomenon is that people expect the pain of... View Details
    Keywords: Value; Judgments; Consumer Behavior; Attitudes
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    • 21 Mar 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?

    The most captivating item in Michael Norton's office is a Star Wars The Force Trainer, a toy that allows would-be Jedi warriors to levitate a Ping-Pong ball within a tube using only the power of focused thinking. Norton, a marketing... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 21 Apr 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: April 21

    to the support of companies, investors, and the initiatives of a number of NGOs, widespread regulatory intervention has yet to materialize. Outside of South Africa, adoption remains voluntary, accomplished via social movement abetted, to varying degrees, by View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
    • 09 Apr 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

    capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been plagued by frictions: it is hard for a lender to determine which... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 02 Feb 2016
    • Blog Post

    A Summer Internship in General Management

    Like many of his classmates, Andrew Ling (MBA 2015) decided to use the summer between his first and second year to try out something new. Formerly a consultant at McKinsey, he spent his summer working in a marketing and general management... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
    • 12 May 2015
    • Blog Post

    A Summer Internship in General Management

    Like many of his classmates, Andrew Ling (MBA 2015) decided to use the summer between his first and second year to try out something new. Formerly a consultant at McKinsey, he spent his summer working in a marketing and general management... View Details
    • 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 entertainment competing for their... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
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    Finance - Faculty & Research

    Financial Markets ; Growth and Development ; Economic Sectors ; Financial Services Industry Citation Read Now Related Greenwood, Robin, David S. Scharfstein, and Robert Ialenti. "The Evolution of Financial Services in the United States."... View Details
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    Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

    Starbucks. In 2007, Işik founded Aragon Capital with investments in Caffe Nero, one of the leading coffee house operators in the world. She is a member of the board of Endeavor Turkey. It is the Aşurs' hope that this fellowship will... View Details
    • 20 Feb 2007
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    First Look: February 20, 2007

    Co.: Breaking New Grounds Harvard Business School Case 807-004 Examines the strategies of a Boston-based start-up to market Rwandan coffee. Describes the history of the coffee industry, the era of... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 10 Jan 2018
    • Blog Post

    8 Tips to Help You Prepare for the Case Method

    consulting. Through my job, I was able to travel, live, and work in emerging markets in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. I developed a passion for digital inclusion and expanding access to renewable energy which ended up being the focus... View Details
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    Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

    describes its co-founders' motivations and their strategy for disrupting an industry in the midst of dramatic structural change; and asks whether a16z's success to date has been due to its novel organization structure. a16z's 22 investment professionals are supported... View Details