Filter Results:
(495)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(495)
- People (2)
- News (98)
- Research (320)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (69)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(495)
- People (2)
- News (98)
- Research (320)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (69)
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
they were the fresh popcorn, strictly out of habit. Lately, Norton has been studying the brain chemistry of decision makers, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in order to determine the neural signatures of decisions based... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Feb 2021
- News
Building Hope
this process is not entirely clear. It appears to increase the amount of a neurotransmitter called glutamate, which then helps build new neural pathways in the brain. Ketamine has the potential, Zapolin... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Morrell
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
presented at different stages of decision making prior to a purchase. We examine the sequence-dependent effects of price and product information on the decision-making process at both neural and behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent This Summer Coding
implementing the techniques myself that I grasped how biases can get trained into a neural network unintentionally. Being able to recognize these biases and observe how they take form helps to not only understand the problem but also... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability. Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Harley Munsell
smaller organizations increase their brand awareness on campus. All companies have their own timelines for recruiting and their own unique goals. As a Recruiting Relations Manager, I am here to offer guidance throughout the whole process... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
Summing Up In the judgment of respondents to the October column, repeating the development of disruptive technologies is an admirable but elusive target. Respondents commonly asked whether it is a process disrupted by too many... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
process has a number of built-in, even cultural, aspects that resist change," Fox writes. "These include an irregular and erratic flow of weapons systems appropriations; the very nature of cutting-edge, highly risky research and... View Details
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
especially with grocers, is that they use these cards to give discounts at the checkout. In the process of doing this, they have accumulated a lot of data. What they do with that data is anybody's guess. Other retailers, such as Talbots... View Details
- Web
1.4.1 HBS Learning Model | MBA
interaction. These values apply both in educational and extracurricular activities. The HBS MBA Program educates leaders through a process of active participation and shared learning. Its goal is to create an environment in which students... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
rewards, respectively. The analysis yields three main findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract. The effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
and incentives—whether organizations promoted and rewarded employees based on performance and tried to keep the best performers from quitting. To collect the data, the researchers hired teams of MBA students who could interview managers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
potential value of new technologies by first holding them up against the company's business model.We argue that successful firms tend to interpret the potential value of nascent technologies in the context of the dominant business model already established in the firm.... View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
model of invention as a process of recombinant variation and selection. Our contributions are to highlight the skewed outcome distributions resulting from evolutionary search and to develop theory that can be tested by modeling the higher... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Janina Motter
says, “were skeptical about my mixed background – start-ups were more open.” Her first company collapsed after a year. But she found a more enduring – and rewarding – path forward at Heliotrope Technologies, a smart windows startup. Hired... View Details
- Profile
Jeff Bernstein
me. In classes, I face challenging situations I've never faced before. I can apply processes that I've learned to genuine events. As a proxy for the real world, the case method is tremendous." Through his cases, Jeff says he has... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Massachusetts General Hospital's efforts to restructure quality and safety to illustrate the value of beginning with a focus on organizational culture, using a systematic process of engaging clinical leadership, developing an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
consummatory phases of reward processing. Recent improvements in the spatial and temporal resolution of neuroimaging techniques have allowed researchers to separately visualize different stages of reward... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
In the past decade, physician burnout has evolved from a serious concern to a troubling epidemic, affecting 50 percent of physicians and physicians-in-training. Excessive workloads, process inefficiencies, and administrative burdens... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
innovations might impact—and be impacted by—workers, consumers, organizations, and society. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55845 March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Choice... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman