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- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
consumers to reduce their energy usage. OPOWER was co-founded in 2008 by two young Harvard graduates, Dan Yates and Alex Laskey, who were inspired by Robert Cialdini's behavioral science research showing that people's normative beliefs-and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
Lean start-up strategies aren't just for start-ups anymore. That was the key message that Intuit cofounder Scott Cook (HBS MBA '76) shared in a small seminar with Harvard Business School faculty recently. Since its launch in 1983, the... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
observed, "Chat rooms and corporate message boards have had a much more profound change on the privacy of business organizations than the tragic events of 9/11." There is almost a tone of resignation in the responses. For... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
this recovery has not been as robust as those in the past. There are some mixed messages coming out of Washington as well. President Obama wants to accelerate the housing recovery, because it is such an important part of our economy and... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
the country's first public access technology center established in an inner city, said the center has 26 computers plus video and music editing equipment, and offers residents classes in computer programming. The center is conspicuously located in Harlem to send a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
Summing Up One significant theme in responses to this month's column suggested that there is a role for varying degrees of "buy-in" and "groupthink" in effective leadership. The message seems to be that leaders should... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
technical and academic writing over the past decade has focused on mergers and acquisitions, which are typically negotiauction situations. But one of the main messages in the book is that the deal strategies and structures that have... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
promotions: This may look like leadership, but it is often followership in disguise. Leaders, Auchincloss suggests, must be able to turn away from powerful, beguiling messages about success and work hard to understand what really matters... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
resources, and the processes on which "growth and scale depend" in the larger enterprise. "My research," said Hart, professor and entrepreneur, speaking from experience, "is all about the importance of experience. The subtle View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
Vaccinations Evive Health is a company that manages communication campaigns on behalf of health insurance plans and large employers. Using big data techniques and insights from behavioral economics, Evive deploys targeted and effective View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
March 2005, Winfrey phoned Koehn precisely as arranged, and the interview, originally scheduled for twenty minutes, lasted an hour and twenty minutes. Koehn reflected, "Her message to our case was about purpose: one's purpose and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
consumers and workers, and the political realities of modern governments. That appears to be a central message conveyed by responses to this month’s column. Ian Brinkley raised the issue of shifting needs of trading partners as a problem... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
students have lived only in a world of increasing globalization. It's easy to conclude that the world will continue to become more and more integrated, but globalization is not necessarily a one-way street." The message for MBAs seems to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Andrew Jackson's First Annual Message to Congress in 1829 and the second document from Jackson's Second Annual Message in 1830, the year the Indian Removal Act was passed. The third and fourth documents... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
to long-term goals. We integrate our statistical results with qualitative information from interviews, which highlighted the importance of reinforcing the organizational goals’ message and providing support for their attainment. We also... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
agents over eight weeks to examine how differing types of guidance and training impact the agents' inventory management. We find agents who are trained in person and receive an explicit, personalized, daily text message recommendation of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
message to all businesses, Paine says: Even though the claims against the board were ultimately dismissed, the saga underscored the importance of the board’s role in fostering a safe and respectful organizational culture through its... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
School) How to Make Furloughs More Humane (Harvard Business Review) Coaching Your Team Through Uncertain Times (Harvard Business Review) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Consistent messaging to customers A problem with... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
research and practice that can guide and improve the selection process and its outcomes. Their message was: "We know how to do it. And here's how." As Al Shealy commented, "The research isn't being used." Dan Erwin... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
job. Q: What role do senior managers have in improving the situation? A: Senior management has the responsibility to send a strong message that how one accomplishes the objectives is important, and that honesty, transparency, and a... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update