Mirroring - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2018
News

Disrupting India’s Dental Market

economies of scale or scope. Dental practices were typically a single office run by the same person who wielded the mirror and probe. Chains usually topped out around a dozen locations, which Singh concluded was the most a medical... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

23 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

Magicians will stand in front of the mirror to test, revise, retest and further revise illusions until they get them just right. Thomke says that celebrated escape artist and magician Harry Houdini owned a very large collection of locks... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

opened the Estée Lauder counter at Saks herself. She was determined to make each sales point for the brand "a tiny, shining spa" that whispered elegance and enjoyment for female consumers. Her signature blue color was everywhere. She chose the lighting and... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

09 Mar 2021
News

Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

featuring leaders from a diverse cross section of schools and businesses spanning the country. The case studies profile school leaders confronting a variety of challenges in urban, suburban, and rural public schools, as well as private, faith-based, and charter... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

15 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

period—some 31,160 new ventures listed in the NCCS-GuideStar National Nonprofit Research Database, produced by the National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute. The findings in this second analysis mirrored the first:... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

responses across countries shows that these responses mirror popular sentiment about climate change. For countries whose populations had come to see global warming as a pragmatic collective threat, efforts to promote the reduction of CO2... View Details

Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull

20 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

collective research process. In particular we show that the process of creating breakthrough innovations of meanings partially mirrors the process of creating breakthrough technological innovations. Studies of design-driven innovation may... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Jun 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

come by on your toughest days. When leaders and aspiring leaders seek out advice, they’re often told to try harder. Dig deeper. Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting... View Details

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

counterproductive response in many of us: “If the car is spinning out of control, it grips our jugular of emotion and makes this negative feeling course through our veins. We feel deflated and victimized,” he said. “We look in the mirror... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)

Barry’s Bootcamp. “You’re not meant to go through life alone, and HBS doesn’t expect you to go through it alone,” said Gomih. “CPD wants you to tap into the resources, and it’s like they give you a mirror that empowers you to make good... View Details

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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog

period following the last day of class. It will mirror the format of the midterm written exercise. Students are not required to be on campus to take the exam. The final comprises 35% of the grade. Copyright © 2024 President & Fellows of... View Details

08 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

behavior. At the other are open source software communities, in which the participants are much more loosely coupled by comparison. The mirroring hypothesis predicts that these different organizational forms will produce products with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

company to serve an affinity constituency was often the only choice for success in business. Q: How has that situation changed today? Do paths to power mirror trends and values in society at large? A: There are still inside and outside... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

customer, and so by tracking its "smooth" or "bumpy" ride, we would be able to mirror how the customer would feel. But what we did not realize at that time was the enormous second-order impact of the OMC concept.... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

what you put up into space. Everyone knows the James Webb Space Telescope. Most of us saw its amazing mirror that unfolded in these hexagonal shapes. If Starship were flying, you could just put the whole Webb in Starship, unfolded. I’d... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

Journal. Most of the thirteen agent-led diversified firms had widely dispersed equity ownership; however, in a few companies, like Times Mirror and King Broadcasting, members of firms' founding families owned the majority of shares. Among... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

15 Sep 2020
News

How To Make Diversity a Reality

George Floyd moment —have really internalized that vision of that. And are now doing work to really understand what's behind this. Does systematic racism really exist and why? CEOs and others have to look in the mirror and simply make the... View Details

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Nation, HuffPost, and The Atlantic. In 2017, she was the co-recipient of the Newhouse Mirror Award for Best Single Feature of 2016 for an in-depth investigative report on free speech and the internet, and a Wikipedia Distinguished Service... View Details

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Preface - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Dutch Humanism, intentionally illustrated passages from Matthew to comfort the poor and to warn the rich (nos. 1 and 8 ). Other prints in this group are more judgmental–portraying the folly and consequences of excessive wealth through inscriptions and symbols. The... View Details

07 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

government should regulate or encourage commerce will be a central debate. How does your research help us think about this question? A: History is a mirror that is both reflecting and distorting, and can very seldom offer us easy answers... View Details