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- 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tackle tough business challenges like reworking an outdated strategy or business model.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
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
pass their knowledge on to followers. "It's not something we do naturally," Zhang says. "Once we get good at something, our intuition is not to say, 'OK, let me go see how it feels to be bad at it again.' But the findings suggest that if... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
(reading the plan, talking to people they know ) and others granting a meeting without looking at the plan at all. Some angels rely on their intuition while others crunch a lot of numbers. Almost all angels source carefully, make good use... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- Web
What an Army Commander Learned About Using AI to Combat Cyberattacks | Working Knowledge
to respond to cybersecurity threats. Although we figured out how to get through that harrowing exercise without the benefit of modern-day tools, the experience revealed our biggest weakness: a lack of real-time intelligence. We had to rely on manual coordination and... View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
conducted by [Mareike] Wieth and [Rose] Zacks has shown people are very good at making intuitive decisions at times when they are not at their best according to their circadian clock. In this research participants showed greater insight... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
creative new markets. Lessons in Corporate Finance: A Case Studies Approach to Financial Tools, Financial Policies, and Valuation by Paul Asquith and Lawrence A. Weiss (DBA 1989) (Wiley) This book explains the fundamentals of the field in an View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
see shortcomings in what I do or didn't do, and that's the thing that disappoints me the most. Proud moments Years ago my mom and dad came to one of our company meetings. I told the story of how Intuit wouldn't be here without my parents,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
customers use Starbucks as a regular hangout or informal office — a "third place" between home and work. How has this aspect of the stores evolved over time? In the beginning, we knew on an intuitive level that Starbucks was about far... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
price for the aftermarket.” If intuition and financial fundamentals figure in Harris’s work, so too does a good measure of faith. “It’s not like I wear it on my sleeve, but everybody knows that it’s part of who I am,” she remarks. “Once... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
to help fuel what typically would be a good number of investing years going forward. Are entrepreneurs born or made? It’s a combination. There are some gifted entrepreneurs who have an intuitive sense of how products, customers, and... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
people intuitively discount the future to a greater degree than can be rationally defended. Second, positive illusions lead us to conclude that energy problems do not exist or are not severe enough to merit action. Third, we interpret... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
understand every situation is what I felt Manufacturing was all about." 24 8 George E. McCown, "Assistant's Lecture," 9 October 1962, 5. GFD-HBS. 9 Jean-Louis Barsoux, INSEAD: From Intuition to Institution (New York: St. Martin's Press,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
started. But it faced many questions as the ventures grew and started to win their first customers. How should NBI handle the transition of the venture back to a mainstream division within Intel? Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/608100-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
whom I have worked with as an advisor) now offers Working Capital Terms, a non-card payment option that businesses can use to pay vendors. And, this month they announced a partnership with Intuit so their cardholders, who use QuickBooks... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
with wages should be considered more widely for determining taxes. Alternatively, if policies such as a height tax are rejected, then the standard Utilitarian framework must fail to capture intuitive notions of distributive justice.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 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
Keywords: Consulting
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
envisioned had not materialized. In a last-ditch effort to jumpstart the stalled exchange, the team built some software that created email templates and provided easy access to sales-contact data to personalize them quickly, making the task so View Details