User Experience Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Nov 2016
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China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective

and their management teams.” The Business of Going Global, China-Style, one of six IFCs in the MBA Program’s Elective Curriculum in 2016, was designed and led by two faculty members with extensive knowledge of the region. Willy C. Shih,... View Details

17 Dec 2015
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Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society

June of 2015, 124 undergraduates from 14 women’s colleges attended PEEK, a new two-day on-campus academic experience designed to give applicants an introduction to HBS and to business. Ultimately, Ely hopes... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Case Study: Declawing the Competition

Illustration by Peter Arkle KitNipBox is a monthly subscription service for cat owners. Each box contains products designed to keep cats happy, healthy, and fit: toys, treats, health and hygiene products, must-have accessories, innovative... View Details

01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

she picked up customer expertise at P&G and later at Disney, where she ran the Consumer Products Division. As a VP at Bain & Company, she gained industry experience that she later applied as head of the Children’s Group at Stride Rite and... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Making a Difference

frustrations are,” says Haacker, who worked closely with the Research and Resource Preservation Division to improve its strategic planning and cohesiveness in the face of dwindling resources. Tapping his work experience and HBS training,... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Meditations on the Bottom Line

guests a year in a wide array of yoga, meditation, and other health and wellness programs. "It's a safe and sacred place where people can come - regardless of their religious background - to unwind from the stresses of the world and View Details

20 Feb 2013
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Thanking Veterans Online

U.S. Army Captain Blake Hall (MBA 2010), right, in Afghanistan in 2007 with members of his unit Photo Credit: Tony Overman Blake Hall (MBA 2010) knows from personal experience that US military veterans can easily miss out on the benefits... View Details

Keywords: veterans; identity; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services; Retail Trade

10 Mar 2021
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Next Normal

once it’s safe to return to the office. PART ONE An Excerpt from Remote Work Revolution Distant but Connected Even if remote teams do a good job of promoting inclusivity and psychological safety, the remote format is an inherently solitary View Details

01 Sep 2017
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Opening Doors

and the Herbert J. Bachelor (MBA 1968) Fellowship, which honors Jeannie’s father, a Harvard College graduate who was the first in his family to attend college — and creates a challenge fund designed to inspire other HBS donors to support... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo

however, DiRomualdo has carefully maintained the original company's reputation for selection, service, and ambience - including in-store espresso cafés. "People come to our stores not because they have to but because they want to," says DiRomualdo. "The stores are... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Oct 2001
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Dean Clark on the New Academic Year

business today. Our focus is on the development of ideas and the creation of programs and experiences that will enable leaders to be effective in a turbulent and changing global economy. To bring you up to date on our progress, I would... View Details

Keywords: Kim B. Clark; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

for the world to tell you what job you're best suited for? What if you had the answers before you started your career? That's the premise of the career-matching firm pymetrics. Series of neuroscience-based games, users can determine their... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness

colleagues [at Cornell University] were studying whether spending money on experiences makes you happier than buying stuff for yourself. From those studies, we learned that—across cultures and income levels—giving is better than buying... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2008
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The Making of a School

George Bates (MBA ’25). “We had one classroom on the top of the Peabody Museum, another in the basement of the Harvard Union, and another in the basement of Lawrence Hall, which had, as I recall, a dirt floor.” Dean Wallace Donham led efforts to change that View Details

Keywords: George Bates MBA '25; Dean Wallace Donham; George F. Baker; Bishop William Lawrence; Lawrence Lowell; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 Jul 2017
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Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics

doctors often treat patients with powerful, broad-spectrum antibiotics that can have negative side effects. Ironically, this can lead to more antibiotic resistance, requiring the creation of ever more powerful antibiotics. DZD’s diagnostic is View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Feb 2000
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

very grateful. As you know, the Alumni Board of Directors works hard to ensure that the quality of your experience as an HBS graduate doesn't stop when you leave Soldiers Field. The Board meets on campus three times a year, as a group and... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

28 May 2019
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Tech for the People

project to livestream city council meetings on Facebook Live. His collaborations also included a partnership with the cloud file-storage company Box to archive videos of city council meetings, and a registry designed with IBM to monitor... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

05 Aug 2016
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Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

Amadio, pointing with pride to one such early-stage firm, Atanse, founded by Michael Kelly (MBA 1990), which manufactures devices designed to inject stem cells into damaged areas of the brain, to repair it from the inside in a minimally... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Dec 2014
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Clubs Hopping

the Skills Gap Project, the college debuted a new health-care curriculum designed to meet the skill needs of a nearby medical center. Their next project: encouraging other HBS alumni clubs to tackle the issue in their communities. “We can... View Details