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- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the Process of Innovation
data-driven analytical approach to understanding new market opportunities. "That's a great process for finding gaps in well-established markets," says Christensen, "but it's a bad process for making intuitive bets."... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gray
- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
actual human being wrote it? Do it! Want to build an intuitive web form (easy to fill out, simple to save, easy to submit) to replace a clunky paper form (hard to write, easy to lose, annoying to submit)? Do it! Want to build an app that... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
intuits a developing bottleneck in the assembly line and creates a fix before a problem occurs. It's also the CEO who draws on years of experience to solve a strategy imbroglio that has paralyzed top staff. It's the venture capitalist—who... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
there. The self-made entrepreneurs’ stories underline a complementary approach to driving business ventures—using intuition and life experience, instead of analyses and case studies. But they also share similar levels of grit, ambition... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 23 Oct 2019
- HBS Online
HBS Online Leading with Finance
Gain a deep understanding of the principles of finance - a toolkit for making smart financial decisions and the confidence to communicate those decisions to key stakeholders. Program Dates: October 23, 2019 - December 4, 2019 View Details
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 27 Mar 2019
- HBS Online
HBS Online Leading with Finance
Gain a deep understanding of the principles of finance - a toolkit for making smart financial decisions and the confidence to communicate those decisions to key stakeholders. Program Dates: March 27, 2019 - May 8, 2019 View Details
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
foreign income from taxation. The intuition for this is that tax rules should leave "who owns what" undistorted. If countries impose worldwide taxation, then the highest-productivity buyers may be handicapped by their tax... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
self-confidence to make an irrational or intuitive decision that goes against the logic of the organization? AG: I've made the point about pretending confidence and building your own confidence in the face of this valley of death. If you... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
idea because the monopoly surplus is higher than that from a duopoly,” Luo explains. This intuition was originally developed by her colleagues Dennis Yao at Harvard Business School and Jim Anton from Duke University. “This threat is more... View Details
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
"The beauty about the mathematical model is that it allows us to show mathematically that our intuition works; it also allows us to investigate how various factors such as different platform production costs and exclusive content affect... View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
the importance of building in opportunities to measure the costs and benefits. "A skeptic of regulation would say that SOX wasn't needed at all, that the system would have fixed itself," he continues. "But what was the cost of fraud to the overall... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Peter Wendell (MBA '76)
home runs, including Intuit (founded by Wendell's HBS classmate Scott Cook), StrataCom, Heartport, and other technology-oriented startups. A member of the California Research Center's steering committee and a proud father of six, Wendell... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
the student had interviewed industry leaders to better understand the barriers to growth that Indian private equity firms face — his analysis echoing findings from Sadun’s own research. “It built on intuitions that I already had, but... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
cases and then making it very intuitive and simple, like the original Google home page. I think a lot of the innovation today is around trying to understand the core consumer-use cases and the needs that crypto technology can really... View Details
- Profile
Arthur Rock
Computer. Rock has had a remarkably intuitive sense of the people with whom he invested and his steady hand and ever-curious intellect provided invaluable mentorship and advice to a legion of technology giants. What has become standard... View Details
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
pricing for first-exposure products on the site. Many in the industry have relied on years of experience and intuition to determine pricing—can Wilson provide new insights? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
tackle tough business challenges like reworking an outdated strategy or business model. The culture evolves as you do that important work.” They then suggest that “it makes intuitive sense to look at culture as an outcome—not a cause or a... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
behavior, they do a search on Google when they are ready to make a decision," says Gupta. "So search ads get all the credit for the sale. But search ads are at the bottom of the [purchase] funnel; display ads are at a higher level. Everybody in the industry View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
While IT provides "very good, detailed, fact-based data," according to Berg, nothing substitutes for walking the stores to get an intuitive sense of how things are working out. Added conference participant Paul Kastner of... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- Web
WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley - Recruiting
following companies: Applied Intuition , C3 AI , Databricks , Google , Imbue AI , LinkedIn , Lucid , Meta , Microsoft , NVIDIA , Nuro , Perplexity , Scale AI , Skydio , Snowflake , and Uber . Exploring Silicon Valley: First Impressions... View Details