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- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
customers, or colleagues. “There are natural ways in which you can support these social impulses,” Pany says. “We now have a good deal of evidence on what might motivate workers to do better because they liked their job more, or, even because it’s enjoyable.” Can View Details
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Events - Business History
(Read the full publisher’s description .) Learn more about the book at deeplyresponsible.com . Deeply Responsible Business is now available! You can order the book at Harvard University Press , Amazon , Bookshop , Barnes and Noble , and... View Details
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Leading Successful Digital Transformation
digital world, sustainable advantage comes from connections—connecting products and connecting customers. Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy may have similar features, but iPhone's FaceTime allows families and friends to connect, creating significant barriers to... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells
previous research, even stereotypes that cast people in a positive light—such as suggesting that women are kinder than men or that Asians excel in math—can trigger a negative reaction from these groups. Some companies have learned this lesson the hard way. Consumers... View Details
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Online Management Course | HBS Online
organizational behavior. Alex Glavkov Technical Program Manager at Amazon Robotics Start preparing for a future managerial role through access to best-in-class tools and frameworks. Meet Raymond, a Management Essentials participant who... View Details
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
taken a lot of paid online courses, but the HBS Online experience was close to that of the classroom and highly immersive." Swaminathan Aiyer Head of Private Equity at Amazon Web Services Learn to speak the language of alternative... View Details
- 22 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
The Forward Fellowship Convinced Me That I Belong at HBS
graduation, I’ll be moving to Seattle and starting as a Sr. Product Manager at Amazon Web Services, but no matter where I head off to next, I will always be extremely proud to tout the fact that no, I was never supposed to make it to... View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'
with customers. Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car? Car-buying sends shivers up the backbones of American consumers, so why hasn’t the industry stepped up to create a better experience? Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
it’s a forward-looking, subjective, creative exercise that requires a lot of imagination. Think about valuing Facebook today. It requires predicting the future of privacy policies around the world, the actions of Google and Amazon in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
investors to "reach for yields" by purchasing risky assets when interest rates are relatively low. A variety of arguments have been presented to explain this phenomenon; however, no single explanation has gained wide acceptance. In randomized experiments using View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- News
Andy Jassy Named Amazon’s New CEO
Amazon announced this week that Andy Jassy (MBA 1997) will take over the role of CEO from founder Jeff Bezos later this year. Jassy has been with Amazon since 1997 and currently runs View Details
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
job is self-contained, meaning a person sits at a desk all day without interactions with others, whereas the span of influence will be wide if the person must touch many people, especially others outside the unit, to succeed. A manager at an innovative,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
people, have the will to confront Google, Facebook, Amazon and the like.” On the other hand, Wittenberg stated, “What should be feared most is government colluding with the surveillance capitalist companies—all in the name of ‘security.’”... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
remotely We can get the job done, but it’s tough to flourish.” Similarly, there is growing evidence that changes in some consumer behaviors occasioned by the pandemic are not all that permanent. While Amazon encouraged us to trade off... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
advantageous prices with publishers and offer deep discounts to customers. Analysts sounded the death knell for independent bookstores—and indeed, all physical bookstores—yet again. And this time it seemed as though they had finally gotten it right. In 1993, before... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Dec 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?
our country as ‘zombie’ towns, each state may have a larger part in how Amazon operates.” Guy Higgins pointed out distinctions between practices used to gain market power in the past and present. “Standard Oil was an abusive monopoly,... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
places,” Yeomans says. Briefly explaining where the recommendations come from might also foster greater trust in them. Netflix and Amazon do this by telling users that because they chose a certain movie or product, they might be... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students
Entrepreneurship Club, and the Women In Investing Club. After graduation she will be joining Amazon as a senior technical product manager in Amazon Web Services (AWS), where she completed her internship last... View Details
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
encourage productivity, collaboration, and innovation. "But you can protect those gains if you remember the intention and motivation that sparked this movement in the first place." As economic clouds form on the horizon, these efforts might seem less urgent to some.... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore