Representative Experiment - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

impulsive—than the exact same purchase made by higher-income Joe. In another experiment, a nationally representative panel of over 1,100 participants read about a soon-to-be new parent named Alex, who was described as either a high- or... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

07 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

Battalion. While at HBS and SEAS (the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences), Weston built his own video game, Regent, and honed his product management and entrepreneurial skillset. He is also Co-President of the HBS Show Club and the Admissions View Details

14 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

suggests that cortisol reactions may represent energy mobilization within the metabolic system in preparation for a potential threat (the ‘fight or flight’ response), and that this cortisol reaction may not be accessible to the subjective... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

their boards of directors. It's a tribute to his years of experience as a corporate and community leader and to his stature as one of Canada's most distinguished executives. Barford graduated from the University of Toronto at the age of... View Details

05 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

her own positive experiences with RLX. While the RLX-Impress negotiation was particularly tricky to get off the ground, establishing trust is critical to achieving success in any negotiation, because all negotiations involve some level of... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

and diversity, representing a new pride and interest in ethnic and local beauty ideals. The tremendous growth of skin lighteners in India and East Asia is one sign of this trend. While global companies are concerned that the core... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

importance of processing one’s crucibles: people need not feel like victims or stuff their experiences deep inside themselves. Rather, by understanding themselves and reframing their experiences, they can find the pearl inside that View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Descriptive Statistics Relationship Between Two Variables Featured Exercises Create visual representations of data in Excel Define and calculate descriptive statistics Create scatter plots and calculate the correlation coefficient 8 hrs Module 2 Sampling and Estimation... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

entrepreneurship, branding, and innovation expertise. Bluemercury’s innovative retailing and human resource model has been the topic of numerous books, including Shopping: Why We Love it and How Retailers Can Create the Ultimate Customer View Details

08 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

thwarting the confident protagonists of an apparently popular project. Actively monitor local currents and cross-currents of opinion. Reportedly, Amazon did not hire a single New Yorker to continuously engage with community groups to build support; most of its View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction

19 Jan 2024
News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

locks, clogging toilets, messing with machinery, and slashing tires. Today, 76 years after the manual was written, cybersecurity breaches likely represent the most dreaded act of outside obstruction many companies face, Thomke notes. But... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

to the CEO. In many cases, the chief legal officer should be a member of the top management team who is expected to weigh in on all issues, not just represent the legal function. Q: What managerial levels are we talking about here? A:... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

combat ranking biases, web developers have created “fair-ranking algorithms” that try to serve up a more equitable list of relevant results in a search query. For example, a fair-ranking algorithm might ensure women and other underrepresented groups, including people... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

"dynamic trajectories" perspective. We collect and analyze a unique dataset of all entry and exit events for Fortune 50 and FTSE 50 firms (as of 1991) in India in the period from 1858 to 2013 and, additionally, we document detailed case studies of four MNEs... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

the experience of development and fundraising professionals in the impact investing space—that anchor investors are motivated by the ability to catalyze additional change by supporting fund managers early in their fund raise, often... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

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Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

experience are tough or that engineering students like to do numbers. Suggestion: Drawing on student experiences can greatly enrich the class discussion, as long as instructors avoid making generalizations... View Details

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.slideshare.net/Energy909/the-landscape-of-integrated-reporting Productivity Orientation and the Consumption of Collectable Experiences Authors:Anat Keinan and Ran Kivetz... View Details