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23 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Break the Expert’s Curse

hand and forming chords with the right. This was the "rediscovery" group. The idea came from Zhang's personal experience. "I used to play the violin," she explains. "During orchestra practice, sometimes we would turn around our... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

28 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

operatives getting out in the communities and face-to-face contacts. Phone banks were de-emphasized. "It was a historic moment for the 2008 and 2012 elections in the way ground troops were utilized," Chung says. Mass Advertising Turning... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

extended family of partners and stakeholders and with regard to their employees. After outlining some of the strategic uses by vanguard companies of their new or renewed values and principles, I will turn to exactly what is involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

too early. It turns out that a number of very competitive labor markets have suffered from similar problems. In some recent years, law students who apply to clerk for federal appellate judges were hired almost two years before they would... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

the potential existed to sell the company soon for a substantial return to one of its competitors. However, if the market turned in a big way, the potential valuation could come screaming down. The business would not fail, as it was... View Details

Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

positive correlation between the number of journal articles published between 1981 and 1997 by semiconductor company researchers and the number of patents held by firms. "It turns out," he said, "that publications by IBM... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

social acceptability of entrepreneurship, has the Internet played a similar role in catalyzing venture capital activity overseas? It has, although it's still in the infancy stage. The greatest change stems from U.S. venture capital firms going abroad and transferring... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

messages, stayed the same. That one-hour loss of overlap represented a 19 percent reduction in opportunities to communicate synchronously during the typical workday—but the impact of that gap also depended on the type of job. The researchers found: Employees handling... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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5.1 Information Technology | MBA

the School's stated brand and style guide . Use of Computers and Wireless Devices in the Classroom Generally, computers and other wireless devices should be turned off and stored during class, except such computers or devices that are... View Details

09 Jul 2019
News

The Road to Impact

When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance, but ever since his undergraduate days of studying public and international affairs at Princeton, Offensend planned that, one... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

28 May 2019
News

INK: Maker’s Manual

solving many of the same problems along the way but in isolation. So she wrote the manual. Drawing on her own experiences and the road map established by Grommet’s ventures, Pieri’s book, How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas into Products... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2017
News

Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

has really turned to, how can Ken not be the face every day?” Heissler is slowly transitioning customer care to other members of his team, a process he calls necessary but sometimes painful. Got a case? To take part in a future “Case... View Details

Keywords: April White

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

served as executive director of the Corporate Responsibility Officers Association until 2013. Things didn’t turn out the way the partners had originally envisioned, but Crespin was hooked on merging business with social responsibility and... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Jun 2015
News

Leadership on a Global Stage

over the mountain and a white dove flying in a circle. That was the day I turned the corner.” Jefferson would ultimately move forward with his vision and get his life back on track. First, however, he needed an inspiring combination of... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Dec 2005
News

Baker’s back

we affected the culture of the School with Spangler, and Baker has given us a chance to do even more. We’ve turned the building around — it used to be on the edge of the campus, and now it is in the middle. Even more exciting is seeing... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

30 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 30

specificity that drives down the degree of hierarchy in the electronics sector. Differences in transaction patterns in turn may result from the differences in the power level of underlying technologies, which affect product specificity... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

includes only those activities that add discernable value for customers and corresponding rewards for the channel partners. The focus is first on identifying what must be done; only then does it turn to where that work will reside. The... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

01 Jun 1997
News

Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

another. With China on the rise, Shanghai could turn out to be a formidable rival. HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an expert on competitive strategy, doffed his jacket to deliver an animated lecture on "The Competitive Challenges in... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

09 Sep 2016
News

MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

human capital to help entrepreneurs. So if I see something interesting, I can jump on it. Provide a little bit of fuel with some capital. And then, power it up with a lot of people that can make an idea turn into reality. So it is a... View Details

30 Jan 2018
First Look

January 30, 2018

developed economies and then turns to developing countries, covering the following topics: farmers' adoption of AI, how AI affects their decision to invest in risky assets, and the extent to which AI helps farmers smooth income and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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