• 12 Aug 2019
• Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

first time. Get help—don’t try to figure it out yourself. You will spend more working hours than you ever imagined learning how to navigate people things while running your business, fundraising, etc. Hire a coach or find friends with management View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

• 17 Dec 2014
• Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

pricing can be found in the article Deconstructing the Price Tag.) The Brain Shopping Experiment In a series of experiments, participants went shopping—while lying on their backs inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

• Web

Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Retail Work Breaking the Cycle The Good Jobs Strategy Show Hide Details Concepts Talent Linking Productivity and Customer Delight Competing on Flexibility Compensation Policy Featured Exercises Create an employee journey map to find ways to improve the employee View Details

• 14 Jul 2014
• Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

consumer believes." Along with Michael Norton, professor of marketing, Avery explores those extremes in a recent HBS teaching note, Learning from Extreme Consumers. The researchers developed the concept as part of the Field Immersion View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

have observed in recent years. See Sam’s other research here , David’s other research here , and Jonathan’s other research here . More Info Can Policy Tame the Credit Cycle? By: Jeremy C. Stein JAN 2021 Jeremy provides a brief survey of... View Details

• 05 Oct 2020
• Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

time more: 1. Prioritize important work and fend off interruptions. On average, business professionals spend 23 hours a week trapped in meetings, and a recent survey of more than 700 workers revealed that 99.9 percent were routinely asked... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

• 05 Jun 2020
• Research & Ideas

How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

fund.” The group surveyed 13 fund managers about 28 funds, and conducted qualitative interviews with six anchor investors. The paper was written by Shawn Cole, the John G. McLean Professor at Harvard Business School; Rob Zochowski,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

• 15 Sep 2015
• First Look

September 15, 2015

decision support tool for Rue La La's daily use. We conduct a field experiment and find that sales do not decrease due to implementing tool recommended price increases for medium and high price point products. Finally, we estimate an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Online Management Course | HBS Online

participants throughout the course. Learn about bringing this course to your organization . Learner Stories 87% acquired new skills that were immediately applicable This program debunked many myths about management. I highly recommend anyone with or without managerial... View Details

• 06 Oct 2020
• Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

support all these activities through a conscious and proactive effort to be as effective and clear as possible in their communication to both internal and external stakeholders. To learn more, read Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees - Recruiting

experience for many of the black business executives included in the book Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience , co-edited by Mayo, University of Virginia Professor Laura... View Details

• 21 Apr 2009
• First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and a field View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace