experience economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

Public School Districts Author:Stacey Childress Abstract This working paper offers concrete examples of improved productivity and efficiencies at the district level, drawing from the author's experience working with districts and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jan 2021
News

Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

on his favorite music. It was just this seventies disco hit, everybody breaks out dancing. It was such a profound experience of seeing the excitement and the potential for people having a new life, and how much fun and joy they were... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Faculty Books

from choosing experiences over stuff to spending money on others. They describe new research revealing that luxury cars often provide no more pleasure than economy models and that commercials can enhance the... View Details

28 Jul 2015
Blog Post

Nairobi Love: Heading Home

available from my own classmates running review sessions, tutoring through Student Services, office hours with professors, et cetera, has been wonderful. I thrived in classes like The Entrepreneurial Manager, and Business and Government in the International View Details

18 Apr 2022
News

Home Grown

actually just roam around the street and say, oh, I like this, I like that. And I like this pair of shoes, I’m going to buy something. What you’re doing is you’re discovering, and that’s the true shopping experience that the world’s... View Details

30 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 30

paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15023 Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Evidence from Indian Software Services Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract In settings ranging from product... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2017
News

Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving

Long before HBS professor Karim R. Lakhani used crowdsourcing to develop pioneering research on the science of innovation, his experiences working at General Electric and the Boston Consulting Group piqued his curiosity about how such... View Details

01 Jun 2021
What Do You Think?

Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?

unfreezing a labor market that saw jobs going unfilled even as people were looking for work? Has it created a pool of “new” talent—that is, prospective employees with work experience seeking new career opportunities? The female labor... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2000
News

Q & A: Gustavo Herrero

democratic regimes and have adopted market-based stabilization programs, opening up their economies to foreign trade. And just as in the United States, another strong and exciting phenomenon has been the impact of the new View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2010
News

Money Matters

other policymakers to remove regulatory barriers that entangle Indian start-ups. Worse than government red tape is the lack of risk capital for emerging firms, says HBS professor Tarun Khanna, an expert on the Indian and Chinese economies... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Dec 2020
News

Advance Racial Equity in the Office

don’t even realize it’s happening, Rice says, but it means that people of color can’t compete on equal footing for career mobility. Doing nothing to fix systemic disadvantages is “fundamentally racist, not to mention cancerous to our View Details

24 Feb 2011
News

Show Time

An Oscar statue (CC BY-NC 2.0) The Academy Awards are coming up, that annual homage to movies and their place in popular culture. The festivities are also a reminder of entertainment’s importance as a mainstay of the U.S. economy and, for... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

15 Apr 2017
News

Bringing Markets to Myanmar

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes For 25 years, David Brunell (MBA 1962) has worked in private sector development all over the world, transforming centralized economies to market-based View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Dec 2001
News

Q&A: John Quelch

regional business schools. One aspect of this effort is our annual Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning, which brings faculty and business school leaders from universities in emerging economies to HBS to learn about case and course... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

29 Apr 2019
News

A Global Mission

For more than 50 years, Art DeFehr (MBA 1967) has been a fixture at Palliser, the Canadian furniture company founded by his family. He served as CEO of the 2,000-employee firm from 1984 to 2015 and continues to sit on its board. For the last half century, DeFehr has... View Details

07 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

outcome methods don't seem to apply? Performing the research to answer these questions led to the publication of this book. It is based on project records and interviews exploring the experiences of men and women who have managed, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2009
News

Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

Environmental Management, which, she says, is not incongruous to what she’s been researching and teaching for years. “To me, the move into the environment seems like a relatively smooth one,” she says. “If we think about removing something like 80 percent of the carbon... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Jan 2010
News

Tweet, Tweet

It’s strange to think about (with Boston temps stuck below freezing) but this time last year I was in Monterrey, Mexico, wrapping up a 10-day Immersion Experience Program (IXP) with 48 HBS students. (You can read about that trip, and the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

26 May 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

supplier aggressively explore synergies across its various component agencies as well as eliminate research redundancies. Value experience and judgment. CMOs should tap the knowledge and intuitions of managers and researchers who've lived... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

21 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 21

http://hbr.org/product/keeping-up-with-the-quants-your-guide-to-understan/an/11177-HBK-ENG 2006 Strategic Management Journal Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies By: Alcácer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung Abstract—Geographically... View Details