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- 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
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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
- 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
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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
- 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
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
supplier aggressively explore synergies across its various component agencies as well as eliminate research redundancies. Value experience and judgment. CMOs should tap the knowledge and intuitions of managers and researchers who've lived... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
stay a leader," as Donna Dubinsky (CEO of Handspring, Inc.) says. Once a smaller or weaker firm starts to play defense, the game is usually over. So "play offense and play to win," is the advice of Intuit founder Scott... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
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Teaching & The Case Method | Baker Library
Method , authored by Christensen, Louis B. Barnes, and Abby J. Hansen, remains a seminal publication focusing on teaching with the case method in business, medicine, education, and government. Christensen was well respected for his artful combination of class... View Details
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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
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
businesses that use the technology to support business strategy and design…. However, the distinction is blurring as adoption of Internet-based business models penetrates to the very core of how firms do business. IBM, AOL, Time Warner, Microsoft, and View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog
and the importance of systems thinking as an intuitive lens to achieving long-lasting impact. Designing for Systems Change : The process of developing and testing effective solutions to enduring problems through the idea of being... 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
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
they do, think what they think, and why they like or don't like your products. Getting that level of insight requires more intensive interactions with customers than CRM tools permit." It requires that you develop a "poetic insight into customers—a deep... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
alpha-test of the service and completed an in-depth survey of potential customers to explore the market. Most of the feedback was positive, which confirmed Berger's intuition about this market opportunity. Berger had found a more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
revenue effect (increased payment from higher-ranked advertisers like A can exceed the direct effect (increased payment by the lowest-ranked advertiser, i.e., B. So minimum bids matter even more than intuition suggests. Other Google... View Details
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
younger investors were lured in. If you read historical accounts of the Tulip Bubble, as well as other famous examples, it turns out that this is pervasive. Our intuition was that this might explain how these stocks became overvalued in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
of their work each day on a numerical scale and to describe briefly one work-related event that stood out in some way. What have you discovered about the relationship between creativity and time pressure? Most managers I’ve talked with are View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
alpha test of the service and completed an in-depth survey of potential customers to explore the market. Most of the feedback was positive, which confirmed Berger's intuition about this market opportunity. Berger had found a more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
some ways in which firms' business models may impact their negotiation outcomes. Several of the proposed pathways work intuitively through the intrinsic characteristics (motivation, personality, etc.) of agents negotiating on behalf of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel