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  • 03 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Five Ways to Build Community at HBS

When I was admitted to HBS on December 9, 2021, I was so excited that I flew to Boston the next day to spend the weekend exploring the city, and visualizing what this next chapter in my life could mean for me. By January, I decided not to... View Details
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Design of Search Engine Services: Channel Interdependence in Search Engine Results

By: Benjamin Edelman and Zhenyu Lai
The authors examine prominent placement of search engines' own services and effects on users' choices. Evaluating a natural experiment in which different results were shown to users who performed similar searches, they find that Google's prominent placement of its... View Details
Keywords: Search Engine; Organic Search; Sponsored Search Advertising; User Interface; Channel Substitution; Search Technology; Consumer Behavior; Online Advertising
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    Randolph B. Cohen

    Randolph B. (Randy) Cohen is the MBA Class of 1975 Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. Cohen’s main research focus has been the identification of top investment managers and the prediction of manager... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; investment banking industry
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Platform Information Provision and Consumer Search: A Field Experiment

    By: Lu Fang, Yanyou Chen, Chiara Farronato, Zhe Yuan and Yitong Wang
    Despite substantial efforts to help consumers search in more intuitive ways, text search remains the predominant tool for product discovery online. In this paper, we explore the effects of visual and textual cues for search refinement on consumer search and purchasing... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Behavior; E-commerce; Decision Choices and Conditions; Learning; Internet and the Web
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    • September 2013
    • Exercise

    An Exercise in Designing a Travel Coffee Mug

    By: Elie Ofek and Michael Norris
    In recent years design has emerged as a critical factor in the success of many new products. This case exercise provides a hands-on way to experience the design process and offers a structured approach for incorporating key considerations that can aid in effective... View Details
    Keywords: New Product Development; Innovation; Market Research; Competitive Positioning; Design; Product Development; Consumer Products Industry
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    Active World Model Learning with Progress Curiosity

    By: Kuno Kim, Megumi Sano, Julian De Freitas, Nick Haber and Daniel Yamins
    World models are self-supervised predictive models of how the world evolves. Humans learn world models by curiously exploring their environment, in the process acquiring compact abstractions of high bandwidth sensory inputs, the ability to plan across long temporal... View Details
    Keywords: World Models; Mathematical Methods
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    • 02 Mar 2020
    • HBS Seminar

    Drew Carton, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

    • 13 Oct 2015
    • First Look

    October 13, 2015

    conclusions about the universality of gender stereotype content. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49830 in press Journal of Behavioral Decision Making Should You Sleep on It? The Effects of Overnight Sleep... View Details
    • November 2018
    • Article

    Worthy of Swift Trust? How Brief Interpersonal Contact Affects Trust Accuracy

    By: Oliver Schilke and Laura Huang
    Organizational scholars have long underscored the positive consequences of trust, yet trust can also have dysfunctional effects if it is not placed wisely. Though much research has examined conditions that increase individuals’ tendencies to trust others, we know very... View Details
    Keywords: Trust; Interpersonal Communication; Judgments; Perspective
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      Six Myths of Product Development

      Many companies approach product development as if it were manufacturing, trying to control costs and improve quality by applying zero-defect, efficiency-focused techniques. While this tactic can boost the performance of factories, it generally backfires with... View Details
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      Why Every Organization Needs an Augmented Reality Strategy

      By: Michael E. Porter and James E. Heppelmann
      While the physical world is three-dimensional, most data is trapped on two-dimensional pages and screens. This gulf between the real and digital worlds prevents us from fully exploiting the volumes of information now available to us. Augmented reality (AR), a set of... View Details
      Keywords: Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness
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        Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance

        Get to better, more effective strategy.

        In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In "Better, Simpler Strategy," Harvard... View Details
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        DESIGN THEORY AND PRACTICE ES285

        By: Roberto Verganti

        Any organization, business or venture grounds its value on how “meaningful” are its products (functionally, symbolically and emotionally). Design Theory and Practice (DTP) empowers students to create products that are meaningful, to people who use them and to... View Details

        Keywords: Integrated Design; Leadership; User Experience Design; Design; Strategy; Technology; Product Design
        • 01 Jul 2014
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency

        Keywords: by Ryan W. Buell, Tami Kim & Chia-Jung Tsay
        • 2019
        • Article

        An Empirical Study of Rich Subgroup Fairness for Machine Learning

        By: Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu
        Kearns et al. [2018] recently proposed a notion of rich subgroup fairness intended to bridge the gap between statistical and individual notions of fairness. Rich subgroup fairness picks a statistical fairness constraint (say, equalizing false positive rates across... View Details
        Keywords: Machine Learning; Fairness; AI and Machine Learning
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        • 29 Jan 2014
        • Working Paper Summaries

        The Rising Cost of Consumer Attention: Why You Should Care, and What You Can Do about It

        Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira
        • Web

        Resumes & Cover Letters - Alumni

        letter also conveys your personal communication style, tone, and professionalism. An effective employment letter should: Be targeted and personalized State why you are interested in the company Explain how you can fill a need Convey your... View Details
        • 29 Oct 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: October 29

        134,000 arrest records for drunk driving in Washington State) and by participants with the authority to penalize transgressions in an experimental lab setting. An additional experiment provides evidence that this effect is driven by... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • Web

        Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

        fallibility, along with the fallibility of the organizations we create and work in, can we truly navigate these challenges effectively to thrive in an uncertain world. 2025 Reunion Livestreams—June 6-7, 2025 WEEKEND 1 Tap into the energy... View Details
        • 23 Dec 2002
        • Research & Ideas

        Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

        Often overlooked in essays on leadership is the role of the organization's measurement and management system. Effective leaders, however, know that measurement and management systems play a critical role in communication; in establishing... View Details
        Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton