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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Xu Abstract—We investigate how dynamic pricing can lead to more product returns in the online retail industry. Using detailed sales data of more than two million transactions from the Indian online retail market, where price promotions... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
and behaviors—not just your words—communicate the need for change; How to keep fanning the flames of urgency even after your transformation effort has scored some early successes. Written in Kotter's signature no-nonsense style, this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
inflation, three presidents, Nixon, Ford, and eventually the next year, Carter, had caused me to work 80, 90 hours a week and create a negative net worth. I didn't plan to go to my HBS fifth reunion in 1975 and I didn't really have the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Thanks to the combined energy of over six hundred enthusiastic alumni, a dozen insightful HBS faculty members, and a score of respected experts, the 1997 Harvard Business School Global Alumni Conference, "Greater China: Myths, Realities,... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
understood and managed. The key to success? Incentives. Fortunately, new research has shed light on the role incentives can play in promoting new ideas, but these findings have been absent from innovation literature-until now. By using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
stereotypes and does not address why, then these differences—in temperament, values, attitudes, and behaviors—take on a determinative quality. In a culture that readily promotes gender essentialism—the belief that sex differences are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
cooperate. That year was among the rainiest on record, flooding more than 2 million hectares in northern Nigeria. Yet that December, Mustapha harvested 4.6 metric tons of maize, about triple his annual average. After saving some for his family and selling the rest, he... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
ideas and approaches that promote growth. Employees can become inspired with their understanding of how their organization creates value and intends to be a healthy, growing entity. For example, at Duke Children's Hospital Dr. Jon... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
suggested a tech security recruiting push aimed at women akin to the “Rosie the Riveter” campaign of World War II.) Bonaparte offers the example of how universities are attempting to attract more women to STEM careers. If a school wanted to View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
(the company that invented voicemail); Jane Fonda’s Workout; and Playboy TV/Video, my most instructive failure was during my year as product manager of Tostitos. Top management had decided that we would implement a “trial size” promotion... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Policies that would create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce the harmful consequence of loss... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
leave from her position as a financial analyst at Chrysler Corporation in Detroit, caring for her firstborn son, Arthur. Today, a second child-care leave (for son Andrew) and four promotions later, Middlebrooks appears to have struck the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
market. The building of brands has played out in an interesting manner on the Internet. While one of the draws of advertising on the Net is that it provides measurability, the science of building a brand has always been difficult to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
for that same promotion that you’ve been working towards for a couple of years, that you have all the same professional ambitions that you did before Your boss, not from a place of malice, but your boss may say, oh gee, well, hmm, this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
building the faculty through the recruitment and promotion of outstanding faculty members, strengthening research, enhancing Executive Education, and launching important initiatives in ethics and social enterprise. He also oversaw a major... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
further promote commercial avoidance. Based on the model estimation, we optimize the branding activity under marketing control for ads in the sample to reduce commercial avoidance. This reveals that pulsing the brand presence—while... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
insurance crisis of 2002-2003. The study tracks the promotion and use of a set of accounting and risk controls put in place to control the troubled insurance division and discusses how and why particular management control systems shift... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Past Issues - Alumni
Customer Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library Complete Table of Contents April 1998 Plunging Into the Net World Class Learning The International MBA Experience Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION... View Details
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Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits IFC: Cape Town; Africa Rising General Management Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie January 2026 J 3.0 IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero Entrepreneurial Management, General... View Details