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Ximena Garcia-Rada
which suggested that research would be a good fit for me.” Ximena put her theory to the test by accepting a position as a Research Associate at the Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University, working... View Details
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Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Role (MDD) - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Role (MDD) Course Number 1556 Professor Amy Edmondson Associate Professor Tiona Zuzul Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Exam (Previously: Becoming a General Manager) Course Overview Making View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
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Dean’s Conference Call Spotlights HBS Global Initiative
TOKYO VISIT: Dean Clark and wife, Sue, with Masako Egawa (MBA '86), Japan Research Office executive director, and University of Tokyo professor Takahiro Fujimoto (DBA '89). Photo Courtesy Japan Research... View Details
- 21 Jan 2009
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from these temporal inconsistencies, positing that the "should" self dominates during the prediction and recollection phases but that the "want" self is dominant during the critical action phase. We draw on the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2014
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- 01 Aug 1998
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A Roaring Success in the Windy City
Johnson Publishing Company, Johnson was an ideal choice as the opening speaker at the Chicago conference. Titled "2000+: Global Innovation & Entrepreneurial Leadership," the event attracted alumni from around the globe and offered an invigorating mix of cutting-edge... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead
faculty. Just two years into his HBS career, Light won the 1972 Excellence in Teaching award for his work in the first-year MBA course on Managerial Economics, which, he points out, drew on the faculty’s research in View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
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How to Sink a Startup
When Noam Wasserman (HBS MBA 1999) spent his MBA summer internship working for a VC firm, he observed important universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the "fundamental implications of those View Details
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- 28 Sep 2020
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What Can Economics Say About Alzheimer's Disease?
- 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9
enthusiastic). As predicted, those who prepared for the job interview with high- (vs. low-) power poses performed better and were more likely to be chosen for hire; this relation was mediated by nonverbal presence, but not by verbal content. While previous View Details
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- 09 Dec 2015
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How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?
predict demand and set prices to maximize revenue of products that have no historical sales data? To that end, they set out to develop a pricing decision support tool that would use existing data to maximize revenue on new products. The... View Details
- April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
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Fleet Oil Company: An Exercise
The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Non-Renewable Energy; Cost; Production; Performance Productivity; Research and Development; Energy Industry; Atlanta; Houston
Gavetti, Giovanni. "Fleet Oil Company: An Exercise." Harvard Business School Supplement 711-512, April 2011. (Revised April 2011.)
- 02 Jan 2012
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manager faced decisions that could have derailed the performer's career. A new case by Associate Professor Anita Elberse examines the strategic marketing choices that instead created a global brand. Why Leaders Lose Their Way (21,651)... View Details
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- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
Business School from the 1960s onward marks the decisive ascendancy of economics, and particularly financial economics, in business education over the other behavioral disciplines, as well as the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607064 Ascent Media Group (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 607-080 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607080 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2018
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Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
Clubs News Clubs News At the request of the HBS Club of London, the Baker Library presented a live webinar on December 5 to remind alumni of their lifetime access to the preeminent business research library. “The webinar covered remote... View Details
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Experience Theory, or How Desserts Are Like Losses
By: Jolie M. Martin, Martin Reimann and Michael I. Norton
While many experiments have explored risk preferences for money, few have systematically assessed risk preferences for everyday experiences. We propose a conceptual model and provide convergent evidence from seven experiments that, in contrast to a typical “zero”... View Details
Keywords: Experiences; Monetary Gambles; Risk Preferences; Experience Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions
Martin, Jolie M., Martin Reimann, and Michael I. Norton. "Experience Theory, or How Desserts Are Like Losses." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 145, no. 11 (November 2016): 1460–1472.
- September 2007 (Revised May 2011)
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Commercializing an MRI Breakthrough
The challenges and best strategies for the commercialization of university technologies are illustrated in this case which documents an MRI breakthrough that arose from the Charles Marcus laboratory at Harvard. Students discuss the interdependencies of intellectual... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Higher Education; Patents; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Commercialization
Fleming, Lee. "Commercializing an MRI Breakthrough." Harvard Business School Case 608-064, September 2007. (Revised May 2011.)
- 01 Jun 2009
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Research Foundation edited by Laura Morgan Roberts and Jane E. Dutton (Psychology Press) In today’s new world of work and organizations, creating and maintaining a positive identity is an important challenge that requires a new... View Details
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Anastassia Fedyk
from currencies to commodities. The experience helped me gain a much better understanding and appreciation of finance, and solidified my desire to pursue a career in research. Research Interests Most of my View Details