Feedback Model - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2018
News

Ready, Set, Launch

critical feedback about the features they do want—and reduces the possibility that the startup will waste time developing features no one wants. Based on this feedback, a startup can then decide to adjust or abandon a concept or, if it’s... View Details

13 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment

the recent Climate Change Challenge assignment in Technology & Operations Management, a required first-year course taught by Mike Toffel, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and BEI faculty chair. More than 900 students were asked to choose a... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

electronic newsletter for alumni as well as to revamp the Web site, a project that has already begun. Finally, the committee has offered critical feedback in the area of targeted marketing that will help the School identify the needs of... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

27 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey

may help explain why some consumers may think that prices are ‘too high’: not just relative to the past, but also relative to more expensive varieties,” the authors write. You Might Also Like: Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing View Details

Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua

29 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

in others and show that all these definitions are equivalent. We then introduce a new class of substitutable preferences that allows us to model intermediaries with production capacity. We also prove that substitutability is preserved... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

professor Modesto Maidique offers a six-level Purpose-Driven Model of Leadership ranging from Sociopath to Transcendent. HBS Cases: Lady Gaga (22,795) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6812.html Published: September 26, 2011 What goes into... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Aug 2018
Blog Post

A Day in the Life as a ‘Spreadsheet Ranger’

more people are enjoying our beautiful parks, but it must be carefully managed to ensure that visitors are doing so respectfully and lawfully. 4pm – Outside of emails and Ranger visits, we have spent the rest of the afternoon back in project mode. We are View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

and sophisticated feedback procedures. Grossman points out that unlike their counterparts in the private sector, nonprofit chief executives devote from 30 percent to 60 percent of their time pursuing donations rather than meeting the... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

the need to work far harder and longer term to rebuild the trust of the associates who are rightfully wary of their true commitment to the apprenticeship model and employees’ future. To start, they should return to the mentorship View Details

Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting

09 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

formal approach to managing people—instituting regular meetings, setting goals consistently, and providing frequent feedback to employees—grew 28% larger and were 10 percentage points less likely to fail than those who got advice from... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

possibilities." Though developed as a program for Harvard alumnae, Charting Your Course could become a model for similar programs offered to interested women elsewhere. Data collected from women in the reunion classes of 1981, 1986,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2022
News

Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age

Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992), an HBS executive fellow and founder of ContinuumLab.ai, a differentiated venture firm that incubates and launches AI startups. The Institute, which launched in July, has repurposed the lab-based research View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2002
News

What You Know Depends on Where You Go

there are business models they can learn from,” remarks Kuemmerle. As an example, he points to a case involving a Pakistani air-freight company, written in response to post-9/11 student feedback requesting... View Details

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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online

learn how to formulate a customer value proposition, determine product-market fit, and distinguish between marketing- and sales-led organizations. Highlights Nicole Clay, Co-Founder and CMO, Hue Sales v. Marketing Decision The Diamond Square View Details

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

first women to enter Harvard Business School's two-year MBA program. Identity work is a process shaped by loops of action and feedback. For example, a person asserts leadership in an area, feedback affirms or disaffirms those actions,... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

26 Apr 2016
First Look

April 26

workers without an agency affiliation. This advantage declines after high-quality non-affiliated workers receive good public feedback scores. The results indicate that intermediaries have arisen endogenously to permit a more efficient... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jun 2014
Blog Post

Springing Forward on Social Enterprise Career Paths

the opportunity for feedback from panels of expert judges, to test their ideas in a rigorous and supportive environment. Within the Social Enterprise Track specifically, teams focused on ventures that generate significant social value,... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time

When the number of Internet-based businesses took off in the mid-1990s, many long-standing rules for product innovation were blown away. Previous models of development based on a sequential process of planning and execution are not... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

02 Aug 2021
What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

believes that “all-remote scales even better than the traditional model the benefits of all-remote: writing down your processes, stimulating cross-company informal communication, they get more pronounced at scale.” Carmichael’s comment... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

of moderating controversial content of all kinds. How much do users trust tech companies? The coauthors relied on a mathematical model to study strategic interactions, testing outcomes under different scenarios and rules. “It’s difficult... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology

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