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- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
patented method of doing this, called the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET), centers on having interview subjects select images that best reflect their state of mind concerning the item in question. The images consumers select... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
appreciate that legal matters are an integral and manageable part of doing business. Organizationally, managers need to facilitate frequent, two-way communication with legal counsel and provide them with enough business information to View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
ever to win the honor, which he shares with Myron S. Scholes of Stanford University. Merton, the School's George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration, joins more than thirty Harvard University faculty members who have won a Nobel Prize. The news View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
Warmth and competence represent the central dimensions of group stereotypes, the majority of which are ambivalent-characterizing groups as warm but incompetent (e.g., older people, working mothers) or competent but cold (e.g., model minorities, female leaders), in turn... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
forecasting, despite a number of characteristics that make it a challenge to fit to a dynamic supply chain environment, to be effective in that context. We further show that the forecasting process, together with the supporting mechanisms of information exchange and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
bad results. If this premise seems plausible, then we should ask: Have recent declines in startup valuations and VC investments have been big enough to elicit another threat-rigidity response? Probably not—at least not yet. But when... View Details
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
switch, the more conservative you are. This is a standard risk elicitation method that’s been used in the laboratory countless times now,” Minor says. He then compared the survey results to the investors’ actual portfolio choices. What he... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 31 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
The HBS Business and Environment Initiative launched the Climate Rising podcast in 2019 to elicit insights from leaders working at the intersection of business and climate change. The podcast is particularly valuable for those seeking to... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
opportunities and elicit strategic responses by focal firms. We develop theory and provide empirical evidence of how innovative activity changes in response to product recalls in the U.S. medical device industry. Focal firm recalls slow... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
processes. In particular, our analysis systematically disentangles the obstacles that members of low status social groups must overcome to elicit verification of their positive self-views. People in this situation are not only working... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
Hill's cowriter on Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Good Leader. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a "team sport," not the act of a sole inventor. "Truly innovative groups are consistently... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
seek economic ways of making both employees and targeted customers know that you value their loyalty—this doesn't require a lot of money; and fourth, work even harder at creating "owners" by eliciting suggestions from employees... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
staff are well positioned to conceive improvement opportunities based on first-hand knowledge of what works and does not work. The innovation contest may be a relevant and useful vehicle to elicit staff ideas. However, the success of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
likely stereotype (on warmth and competence) and elicited emotional prejudices (admiration, contempt, envy, and pity). Seven of eight specific predictions are fully confirmed, supporting the SCM's predicted causality for social structural... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
wage disparity, which is more a symptom than a cause of the larger problem. These discussions often elicit an observation that, in many developed economies, too many workers can't live on the money they make. For whatever... View Details
- Web
Field Course: Ideation and Prototyping for Innovation - Course Catalog
prototype possible solutions and elicit feedback on prototypes from potential customers and domain experts; How to use AI to accelerate prototype development and review. How to contend with a paradox: successful ventures and new products... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
terms. The case elicits discussion surrounding the following questions: How do we develop a framework to measure the financial cost and benefits of social and environmental externalities? What are the challenges of doing so? What do we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
meeting the founding teams. We find that the predictability of venture outcomes varies with the intensity of research and development (R&D) in the sector. In R&D-intensive sectors, such as life sciences, the ideas that elicit more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
direct competition with each other elicit size effects: consumers like small brands more when they compete with big brands and like big brands less when they compete with small brands. We further explore the relationships between brand... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
Behavior and Human Decision Processes When and Why Randomized Response Techniques (Fail to) Elicit the Truth By: John, Leslie K., George Loewenstein, Alessandro Acquisti, and Joachim Vosgerau Abstract—By adding random noise to individual... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman