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- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
her chin. Now if I spend some time setting up that scenario and then follow up by asking you to tell me how much you like Mac computers, I promise you that you'll rate them more highly than you would have if I hadn't just talked about how... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
with pro-organizational suggestions, is pervasive and is driven by a set of common implicit theories about speaking up in organizations. Our second study used scenarios about speaking up to validate and extend these findings through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
She urges directors to talk much more about risk and cybersecurity and be nimble in response to rapid change. “We have to make decisions now based on solid assumptions and do serious scenario planning for the future.” The Personal Side of... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
organization. You attach it to real conversations that people have again and again.” The idea is to touch on all kinds of scenarios to clearly outline the behaviors that are off limits. While it might be obvious that some unwelcome... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
everywhere—instead of getting bogged down in long-term planning for scenarios that are not likely to emerge. This article first appeared under the title The Secret Sauce of the Service Sector on the Harvard Business School website. View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
more vehicles than they can sell and—unable to make money from new cars—turn to service and trade-ins to eke out margins. And at the bottom of the chain are customers trapped in high-pressure negotiations for a car that isn't the exact model they want. That's the grim... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
Robert Hargraves, an energy policy instructor at Dartmouth College, which forecasts a hypothetical but startling scenario for the world's electricity consumption. [Click the image to see the slide.]"Even if we were capable of cutting US... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
started InMobi? Naveen Tewari: I always felt that the country has had the ability, the technological prowess, the entrepreneurial spirit to be able to build something. And we have had scenarios of, you know, a few companies getting built... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
instead a scenario where the traveler can summon a pooled vehicle that takes her and several other riders from where they live to where they work, saving them hours and saving the city money. No cash changes hands, reducing both petty... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
scenarios that show how teaming to innovate provides the spark that can fertilize creativity, clarify goals, and redefine the meaning of leadership. Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation by Linda A. Hill, Greg... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
for workers who leave for competitors, and ensure that they are aware of these costs. The goal isn’t 100 percent retention, but avoiding the worst-case scenario of talented people joining the competition, taking clients with them. Advice... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
be higher and the pay-for-performance sensitivity will be lower relative to a scenario in which the measure is not mandated. In contrast, if the mandated measure's informativeness dominates the measure's sensitivity to effort, then effort... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Likewise, major fleet operators, like Amazon, Fedex and UPS, offer the perfect scenario for EVs. As Erika noted, “They typically have fixed and shorter routes that work well with battery life.” Indeed, in 2019, Amazon pledged to be carbon... View Details
- Web
4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA
instructor. Faculty members in either scenario should take care not to act in a way that might create real or perceived conflicts of interest—for example, the faculty member should ensure that all participants or students have equal... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
political speech in the workplace—now. Discussion is both widespread and inevitable as the election process heats up. To prepare, game out scenarios and determine how you would manage them. The reality, of course, will be different. But... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
Trelstad: Hold virtual fundraising events and engage loyal donors Organizations need to think quickly and practically about cash flows and revise their scenarios for getting through the crisis and then a less optimistic 2021 scenario.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
U.S. couple of decades ago, would only broadly cover three categories. My life journey over the past 23 years has highlighted how different I was in every scenario I found myself. From the time I realized I was gay (weird, not normal,... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
goal was to drive practical and tactical conversation about what women should know and do when faced with #MeToo-type issues in the workplace,” she says. “So we structured the discussion using three possible scenarios that the panel then... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
alternative in a given choice set range between 17% and 83% depending on how the alternatives are displayed both in the data used for estimation and in the counterfactual scenario under consideration. This occurs even though the market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
the costs and benefits of land placed under different uses. Policy scenarios then determine the amount of land under each land use and the implications for costs, benefits, and carbon emissions. A "low-carbon development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne