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- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
longer will access to incremental markets be the primary expansion driver; increasingly the drive must be to capture scarce sources of intellectual and human capital—strategic resources that can provide sustainable competitive advantage...
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by Staff
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Harvard Business School Case 909-010 Pat Fili-Krushel has agreed to take on the job of first executive vice president of administration for AOL Time Warner, leading corporate human resources, internal communications, real estate and...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
tried installing video terminals in one of its restaurants to allow patrons to place their own orders. Younger customers loved them, but older people preferred to talk with human attendants. I recently tested an on-line banking system and...
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- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Professor at the University of Ottawa and a visionary founder of The Prosperity Project; Jen Lee Koss (MBA 2008), founding partner of Springbank Collective; and Michelle Banik, a human resources consultant and former Chief People Officer...
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Margie Kelley
- Career Coach
Lauren Murphy
Lauren is the Founder and Principal Coach of Pivotal Executive Coaching, partnering with senior business leaders to accomplish their professional and organization goals. She works with executives in technology, healthcare, real estate, consumer products, and financial...
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Consumer Products;
Investment Management;
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
that empowered people and a compelling shared vision build great companies, and Zensar’s success is a visible result,” says Natarajan. —RT Kent Thiry Mayor for Life Thiry with DaVita employees: “We find that most human beings want to be...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Arts, Entertainment;
National Security and International Affairs;
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Health, Social Assistance;
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Manufacturing;
Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services;
Professional Services
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
organizations and in society disrupts the learning cycle at the heart of becoming a leader. Women must establish credibility in a culture that is deeply conflicted about whether, when, and how they should exercise authority. Practices that equate leadership with View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50648 2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—The public health footprint associated with corporate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
from every other life form on the planet. (The “old” brain—that lower rear 30 percent—is responsible for more rote behaviors and drives: breathing, heartbeat, reflexes; anger, hunger, sex.) And this is how we learn—by moving through the...
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- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
researchers to include dynamic elements in their models that have substantially broadened the range of policies under consideration. These are very new, so their influence on policy is still relatively small, but I expect that they will have impact over the longer...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
and money shape our social relationships? Across three studies, utilizing self-report (N=127; N=249) and behavioral outcomes (N=358), we provide the first evidence that the chronic orientation to prioritize time over money encourages...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
http://hbr.org/product/experience-the-finger-lakes-the-groupon-partnership-decision/an/814010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-086 Learning From Extreme Consumers Traditional market research methods focus on understanding the average experiences of average...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
display promotions away from smaller revenue brands toward larger ones following periods of poor financial performance. This indicates the behavior is determined by parties above brand managers in the firm. These findings are consistent...
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Martha Lagace
- July – August 2008
- Article
When Virtue Is a Vice
By: Anat Keinan and Ran Kivetz
Choosing duty over pleasure today can cause regret down the road—whereas regret over the reverse is fleeting. Marketers of luxury products and services should consider prompting customers to predict their future feelings about choices made now.
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Moral Sensibility;
Marketing Strategy;
Consumer Behavior;
Emotions;
Luxury
Keinan, Anat, and Ran Kivetz. "When Virtue Is a Vice." HBS Centennial Issue Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2008): 22.
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
Behavioral research suggests that human learning in some multi-agent systems can be predicted with surprisingly simple "foresight-free" models. The current note discusses the implications of this...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Our findings illuminate the micro-foundations of innovation in firms by highlighting a trade-off between organizing patenting activity to maximize scope versus speed. Publisher's link:...
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- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
Internet Auctions" currently in press in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Malhotra says the research carries lessons for business people who bid on everything from...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
day game guy, all the way.” Instant replay in baseball? “Very limited use is probably OK, but I prefer human judgment.” Favorite player? “Mays, the greatest ballplayer ever.” The group Baer helped assemble paid $100 million for a storied...
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- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
in fortunes are vivid examples of the private sector's cycle of Schumpeterian creative destruction. In contrast, the list of the largest nonprofit organizations has remained stable over decades. Large nonprofits do not disappear and few new ones—Habitat for View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- June 2010 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
State Grid: Corporate Social Responsibility
By: Christopher Marquis, Nancy Dai, Dongning Yang and Hong Wu
In October 2009, State Grid, the largest utility company in the world, and a pioneer and leader in CSR practices in China, was planning its 2009 CSR Report and long-term CSR implementation. Some of the specific challenges faced at the time include: How could the...
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Management Systems;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Corporate Accountability;
Behavior;
Change Management;
Global Range;
Employees;
Utilities Industry;
China
Marquis, Christopher, Nancy Dai, Dongning Yang, and Hong Wu. "State Grid: Corporate Social Responsibility." Harvard Business School Case 410-141, June 2010. (Revised August 2010.)