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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

complements and substitutes and discover the power of complements as a competitive advantage. Highlights Pricing Complements Discerning Complements from Substitutes Creating Complementarity Show Hide Details Concepts Understanding... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

participants showed a relatively low need to get clean, regardless of whether they had used Facebook or LinkedIn. Implications And Next Steps The overall findings pose a paradox: Networking makes low-power employees feel unclean, which... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells

your order.” Gender-tailored marketing messages from these brands and others—including Mangria and Pink Power tools—are common, yet new research shows they can turn off consumers, particularly women. In fact, they often backfire to the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

School Case 811-064 Aardvark is an online social search service that allows users to pose questions and receive answers from other users in their extended social network. The case explores the process that Aardvark's founders used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an alternative view where increasing concentration of economic activity and power in the world's largest corporations, the... View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment

especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change: hurricanes, wildfires, and sea level rise pose immense risks for the reliable delivery of electricity. As one example, restoring electric power in... View Details
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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Concepts The Multiple Regression Equation Adapting Concepts from Single Regression Performing Multiple Regression Analyses New Concepts in Multiple Regression The Caesars Staffing Problem Featured Exercises Estimate the relative predictive View Details
  • 03 Jan 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

introduction to Ms. Hesselbein in 1988. Case preparation, appearances in my classes, and writing for her later publications then followed. "As Hesselbein put it, 'the power of language is so important in this job.'" Welch and Hesselbein... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to, and marketing of, an individually held commitment savings product leads to an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

welfare of the overall firm and to its members if less powerful participants are to follow. So far we have focused on the implications of the drives to bond and to acquire and the interplay between them. The drives to learn and to defend... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 19, 2016

challenging task. We outline how to effectively mobilize groups through the power of communication. This note will serve leaders and members of diverse groups as they find their voice to inspire, unite, and engage others through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

successfully complete three courses from their selected Learning Track within 18 months. Participants are expected to fully complete all coursework for each program in a thoughtful and timely manner. They must meet each week’s course module deadlines and fully answer... View Details
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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

Participants are expected to fully complete all coursework in a thoughtful and timely manner. This will mean meeting each week’s course module deadlines and fully answering questions posed therein. This helps ensure your cohort proceeds... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

through a conceptual lens, asking what theoretical mechanisms appear to be most consistent with the data. And he poses the question of what policymakers can do—with either regulatory tools or monetary policy—to help moderate credit-driven... View Details
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

managerial human capital explanation of retention. Download the paper: http://people.hbs.edu/jwulf/TargetCEOWulfSinghSeptember2010.pdf   Working PapersReversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation, and the Power of Ideas Author:David Moss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

dramatically weakened portfolio of both current and future products. Although much attention has been focused on electric cars, hybrids, and fuel cells, I believe that the key player in the carbon-conscious automobile market of the next ten years is the compact car,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

Control Systems Introducing the Three Wheels of Profit Planning Building a Balanced Scorecard Selecting Goals and Measures Powering up Performance Goals with Incentives, Part I Powering up Performance Goals... View Details
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

management don't listen or don't know how, we can't tap the full power of the amazing talent in our own organizations. Listening is learning." Rosa Urtubi added that "listening is assuming the responsibility, generosity to do something... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Full Court Press

didn’t exist before.” Growing basketball on the continent entails addressing the logistics and marketing challenges inherent in trying to scale any operation across 54 countries. It also poses a deep cultural challenge—the kind where the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

session, Professor Beshears will lead a mini case discussion that serves as a launching pad for a presentation illustrating the power of the “choice architecture” approach for influencing the behavior of customers and employees.... View Details