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- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
Stereotype Content Model Authors:P. Caprariello, A.J.C. Cuddy, and S.T. Fiske Publication:Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (in press) Abstract The stereotype content model (SCM) posits that social structure predicts specific... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
color, are an integral part of the experience. Visitors can come just to stroll or picnic on the grounds. Creating that same close-to-nature ambiance inside the building required imaginative technology and painstaking attention to detail throughout a three-year design... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
the Community Entrepreneurs Program and attend sessions that cover the basics — business literacy, planning, and launch, for example — while those further along in the process can get help through CWE’s Business Excellence Center or by... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
plopped down on his white-suited bottom and coaxed the store owner to drag him several yards by the ankles. When the audacious Johnson jumped up to proudly display a pristine backside, the owner declared, "I'll buy some!" Samuel C.... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
psychology that accounts for behaviors inconsistent with ethical beliefs and describe how people reconcile their immoral actions with their ethical goals through the process of moral disengagement. We then examine how the mind selectively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
bills, and Certificates of Deposit) is riskless only at short horizons. When we buy a Treasury bill or a CD, we know in advance the return we are going to get, and we also know that we will recover our principal intact. But a long horizon... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
the strategy and marketing literature on the importance of creating customer value. In our everyday language, we think of a customer as someone who buys goods or services. But we have recently witnessed an explosion in the definition of a... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
Experience Economy (Harvard Business School Press, 1999), because "most practitioners have taken the concept of one-to-one marketing and bastardized it into CRM. They're using CRM tools to design better processes for a nonexistent... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
because they were a chain, they were a business; they had very advanced processes like very good information systems. Health Stop grew to be a $100 million company. But these guys were run out of business by the hospitals and by the... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Transparency with Costly Information Processing By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marco Pagano Abstract—We study a model where some investors (“hedgers”) are bad at information processing, while others (“speculators”) have superior... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
(Singapore/Indonesia) and Gojek (Indonesia) soon evolved into similar offerings over time. The critical element of imitation startups is how they adapt to the local market in which customer tastes, buying habits, and willingness to pay... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
quality, or particular excellence in its price?" Reinvention German companies have also had to reinvent themselves, as Porsche accomplished between '93 and the present, he continues. In a sense Porsche is applying Japanese production View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
the price that some farmers are going to be able to afford." This could be a good thing for Woolf Farming & Processing because it could purchase, on the cheap, neighboring farms that didn't invest in water conservation... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
When private equity (PE) firms buy a company, they typically follow a standard playbook to create value—streamlining operations, restructuring debt, changing management, and cutting costs. However, as digital technologies and artificial... View Details
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
population buys online and as we’ve seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, there are a lot of benefits,” Dzodan shared about his business thesis. “The model we built for Facily is that we let people get together so they can place bulk orders... View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
investors compete for profits—and the competition isn’t fair. In particular, using profits to buy back stock provides immediate (although not as much as many assume) benefits to shareholders. Investments in labor provide much longer-term,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
authors also teamed to write The Magic of Innovation, published in the European Business Review earlier this year. A Magical Process Thomke maintains that innovative managers looking to create successful new products or services can... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
“Investors in those funds benefit from that process, as they tend to buy the company at a discount from the market and sell it back later to the market for a premium once the company has been turned around.” But private equity is not a... View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
action. For them, a mediocre decision is better than wavering. Applied to negotiation, being proactive allows a firsthand reading of the market and gives you a key role in shaping how the game evolves. As soon as the new CBA was in place, some NHL general managers... View Details
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
can achieve. Should he accept the offer provided by a private equity firm that is buying up other small competitors in his industry? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807125 The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace