Cognition and Thinking - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

Professor Srikant M. Datar in a recent case study, Data Science at Target, co-written with research associate Caitlin N. Bowler. “Target had to make this big shift from thinking only about retailing to also View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

04 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

represented by debates over machines versus humans, analytics versus intuition, economic versus societal value, exploration versus exploitation, egoism versus altruism, etc.” "What we need to do is think of the oneness of nature View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

21 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

to go through the full core curriculum and two summer internships before moving on to upper-level electives. For me, the immersive experiences have really paid off—every year, I’ve noticed major shifts in how I View Details

June 2008
Article

The Multiunit Enterprise

By: David A. Garvin and Lynne C. Levesque

A multiunit enterprise is a geographically dispersed organization built from standard units (stores, restaurants, or branches) that are aggregated into larger geographic groupings (districts, regions, and divisions). Although this organizational structure has become... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Global Range; Research; Business Ventures; Problems and Challenges; Business or Company Management; Business Headquarters; Organizational Design; Talent and Talent Management; Goals and Objectives

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02 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

2008 book, Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America—and How We Can Get More of It. And while his next move was to run the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) think tank, he couldn’t shake... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Morrell

26 May 2023
Blog Post

Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

that had the resources to teach me really well and the freedom, even as an intern, to own a project,” she said. “It was thinking critically with both sides of my degree, and... View Details

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Skydeck - Alumni

the tactics and the trials of her “acquisition entrepreneurship” journey Quantum Leap Quantum computing has revolutionary potential, but it’s been stuck in the lab. John Levy (MBA 1979) thinks his startup... View Details

Teaching Interest

Managing Human Capital: Keeping Hope Alive in Organizations (Not offered 2013-2014)

Managing Human Capital has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the general manager who seeks to manage both other people and his or her own career with optimal effectiveness. Any and all students who believe they will need to effectively manage... View Details

21 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life

insights in particular: Employees and managers can disagree on impact. Although employees and managers may both think the impact of a person’s work is important, this does not... View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

18 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works

not the goal for redundant communication. Even if a powerful manager is clear and direct with an employee, it's still the redundancy that counts. "I didn't think we'd find this. I was stunned,"... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Middle East & North Africa - Global

Middle East & North Africa Cairo, Dubai, Istanbul, Tel Aviv HBS continues its efforts to build a deep understanding of and expertise in global business practice and innovation around the world, including... View Details

13 Dec 2019
Blog Post

All Is Well in Texas: How Julia Cheek Founded Her At-Home Lab Testing Startup, EverlyWell

company full-time. Although Julia does not regret the choice to focus on schoolwork, reflecting she thinks maybe should have used that time to start a company instead. After HBS, Julia ended up taking a job, View Details

12 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

Evolutionary Nature of Breakthrough Innovation: Re-Evaluating the Exploration vs. Exploitation Dichotomy Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas Engineering Serendipity: The Role of Cognitive Similarity in Knowledge Sharing... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace

07 Jul 2021
Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

employees as well as customers and the general public. “It’s shocking the number of companies that don’t apologize,” Gupta says. “They think it’s an admission of guilt.” Losing trust The list of companies... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

March 2008
Article

Radically Simple IT

Many managers think that developing and rolling out a major IT system is like putting up a warehouse: You build it and you're done. But that does not work for IT anymore. Taking that approach results in rigid, costly systems that are outdated from the day they are... View Details

Keywords: Design; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry

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04 Apr 2023
Book

Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

investment, and the people who weren’t nominated averaged no return at all. That was our first signal that some of these alternative screening mechanisms based on soft information could transform how we View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

18 Jul 2023
News

The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Anaïs Nin, Richard Wright Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs think Downton Abbey meets Call My Agent. -A family movie about the world of dreams, set on Earth and... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

What is Disruptive Innovation?

For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which industry entrants will succeed. Unfortunately, the theory has also been widely misunderstood, and the "disruptive"... View Details

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