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Marketing - HBS Online

knowledge through polls, quizzes, and problem-solving exercises designed to accelerate and reinforce your learning. Exchange ideas with your classmates, broaden your perspective, and challenge your worldview. Social Join a global... View Details

01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

that have informed LGBT organizational research from the late nineteenth century to date. The frames include a "medical abnormality," "deviant social role," "collective identity," and "social... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing

challenges facing people with ASD: When his son was about three years old, the boy’s development of speech and social skills seemed delayed. The Sonnes reached out to pedagogues and psychologists in an attempt to understand what was... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services; Computer

08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

adult decision maker. Finally, we list a set of open questions that could be profitably addressed by future research. Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’

care, and other social goods. These are the consumers who are now trading in their sport-utility vehicles. They include the empty-nester baby-boomers, less confident than before, who are tired of heating unused spaces in cavernous... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

22 Feb 2019
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Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

programming partnerships. As a result, Telemundo has become one of the top networks in social engagement in the industry. “Conde talked about the challenges of understanding the changing preferences of young... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment

27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

intensive companies, and blind review of solution submissions. We find that technical and social marginality, being a source of different perspectives and heuristics, plays an important role in explaining individual success in problem... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2007
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Up from the Ashes

very long trips, he preferred to go by rail. He did not board his first airplane until 1937, flying from an academic meeting in Chicago to Miami for a midwinter vacation. He wrote from Miami that he half-expected the plane to crash during... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

this framework for the time path of U.S. policy require central parameters of the model, namely the elasticity of taxable income or the marginal social welfare weights on top earners, to take unconventional values. We use inferred View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research Associates View Details

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Field Course: Advanced Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog

students who have taken Field Course: Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care, Q2 and those who have not. If we reach the enrollment limit, preference will be given to students who took Field Course: Business Plans for Innovating in... View Details

09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns

practices and sustainable products. They're the ones checking the packaging and labeling to ensure that there is a positive social and environmental impact message as well, specifically on consumer products. And they View Details

28 Apr 2023
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Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life

company-wide communications, encourage employees to put their preferred pronouns in their signature, and create a culture that encourages the use of gender-neutral pronouns when asking folks about their private lives as it relates to... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

13 Jul 2020
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Locally Grown

local companies was dictated by Fenwick-Smith’s preferred working style and his convictions: He wanted lots of face time with young leaders and the burgeoning companies Aravaipa would fund, while also being mindful of the environmental... View Details

Keywords: April White

07 Feb 2005
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How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

hire in cohorts are more likely to have strong organizational career imprints. These two factors socially reinforce the kinds of capabilities, connections, confidence, and cognition that people pick up; they enhance the commonality among... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

03 May 2004
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Business History around the World

While many history departments of American universities prefer to keep business as a separate discipline, HBS entrepreneurship professor Geoffrey Jones encourages the examination of history as a way to better understand contemporary... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

17 Apr 2023
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Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future

“Sugarcane EVA is a preferred material because it is made using swift-growing, rainwater-fed, renewable sugarcane. Using sugarcane provides a more sustainable alternative to petroleum-based, non-renewable materials often used in... View Details

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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog

learn from social entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs who have developed innovations with a social purpose. Finally, the course will expose students to Japanese culture and traditions, allowing them to gain a... View Details

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

all the turnaround situations I've witnessed, we should remember that leading a corporate turnaround isn't a one-size-fits-all process. It requires that CEOs pay attention to the specifics of a company's problems and that the leaders bring their own View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

maximizing, yet asymmetric payoffs. Studies 1 and 2 showed that people prefer to maximize profits when interacting within their social category, but chose suboptimal individual and joint profits when... View Details