Encouragement Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

mentorship and learnings in the early days of company building. I’m also cross-registered at MIT this semester in 15.366 Climate and Energy Ventures, a project-based class designed to bring cross-disciplinary folks together to work on... View Details

22 Feb 2024
News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Saudi Arabia, and under the patronage of H.H. Prince Faisal Bin Abdulaziz Bin Ayyaf, Mayor of the Riyadh Region. Saleh Lootah (GMP 10, 2011), president of the HBS Club of the GCC, says the Crossroads Forum was designed to enable leaders... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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John H. McArthur | About

HBS,” said Nitin Nohria, Dean of Harvard Business School. “He cared deeply about every member of the HBS community and believed in the School’s ability to transform lives. By encouraging us all to dream big dreams—in effect, spurring our... View Details

05 Jul 2021
What Do You Think?

Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?

position: the chief experience officer or CXO." A knowledge of customer experiences can be invaluable in the design and distribution of a product or service. We were convinced of that by Joseph Pine and James Gilmore in their influential... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

behavioral economics research. Our hope is that it encourages people to go back to TMS and read it for themselves—it's a truly wonderful book. Q: What do you think Adam Smith's impression would be of the current formal academic study of... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

experimentation is vital to finding product-market fit, and how to raise venture capital successfully. This course features access to an AI course assistant bot, in beta release, to facilitate your successful completion of the course. 5-6 hrs Module 1 View Details

09 Jun 2024
Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

an organization that uses engineering and design to improve people’s experiences with the health care system. The intersection of health care and tech is such a powerful space. I took STRATTECH to build fluency in the broader tech... View Details

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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

faculty members and students are responsible for understanding and complying with this policy. Faculty members and students are encouraged to seek advice from the Dean or a Dean’s designate for activities or... View Details

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Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online

apply to third-party websites and applications. We encourage you to be aware when you are redirected to a third-party website or application and to review the privacy policies and terms of use of each website and application you visit and... View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

global and a series of regional B Climate Collectives designed to support businesses to share what they are learning on topics such as how to move to a regenerative business model. How might you explore ways to reimagine your business... View Details

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

Kaplan says. "Once you have a better matching of your time with priorities, you'll want to encourage your direct reports to do the same." Do You Coach And Also Solicit Feedback From Your Key Subordinates? Most good leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

successful. The most successful competitors were those that commercialized products on either side of IBM's 360's price and performance standards; these included the much smaller Digital Equipment, with its stripped-down minicomputer, and Control Data's supercomputer.... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

among your customers as you could ever hope to generate within your own boundaries. Accept the reality that they collectively know more than you do about whatever it is your company makes, that technology has almost completely democratized the View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

08 Mar 2021
Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

matters. Ana Patricia Osorio Custodial Supervisor Being where I want to be will always be a reason to overcome some of my challenges in life. Working at Harvard Business School has motivated me during COVID. Seeing what HBS does to make us feel safe while we are at... View Details

25 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

attributes that make it a source of innovation: The creation of specialized inputs can produce value in a wide variety of different contexts. That’s true whether we’re talking about a new semiconductor tailored to the computer industry, or a service such as cloud... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service

27 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 27

focused factory hospitals, one academic and the other a private, for-profit firm. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/313030-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 413-121 Ensina! In 2011, a group of passionate social entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro, with the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

and wealth creation. Though prohibited by the Fair Housing Act of 1968, redlining had lasting implications—as did related real estate practices such as blockbusting, which encouraged white flight by playing on fears of racial integration,... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

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Harvard Business School

COGME was a consortium of ten leading business schools, including Harvard and MIT, designed to recruit outstanding minority students and provide them with financial aid and jobs after graduation. Nearly 2,000 minority students benefited... View Details

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AOM Ethno PDW 2009-2014

AOM PDW 2014: Being There/Being Them: Entry, Exit, and In-Between in Organization Ethnography

Co-Organizers: Michel Anteby, Harvard; Curtis K. Chan, Harvard; Julia DiBenigno,... View Details

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

to connect their products and services to the alleviation of crisis-related suffering and challenges. 54 percent of surveyed consumers claimed they were ignoring all new product communications during the crisis, unless the product in question was specifically View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

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