Intentions - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jan 2025
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Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

When I started my journey at Harvard Business School, I was eager to broaden my business knowledge and strengthen my skills, particularly in marketing and branding. Coming from a liberal arts undergraduate background with limited exposure to business, I began my career... View Details

10 Sep 2010
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Harvard Business School dean is bent on change

31 Oct 2019
News

With Free Shipping On $1 Items, Amazon Aims To Expand Its Reach

21 Nov 2012
News

The End of Thanksgiving As We Know It?

28 Jul 2010
News

Wrongful dismissal; consumers like underdogs, too

May 2024
Supplement

Forest Park Capital (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

During the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020, Betsy Harbison formed the search fund Forest Park Capital with the intention of purchasing a small business. The case conveys the details of Betsy’s final decision at the terminus of her search, between a software company... View Details

Keywords: Search Fund; Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition; Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Tourism Industry; Web Services Industry; North America; Missouri

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20 Jan 2019
News

You can’t be productive without routines and rituals. Here’s why

13 May 2013
Blog Post

The Summer is Finally Over

It has been about a week since I finished my summer internship, and I can’t believe how quickly the time flew by. I started the internship intent on learning as much as I could about an industry that has inspired me since my childhood. At... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

July 2017
Article

The Impact of 'Display-Set' Options on Decision-Making

By: Uma R. Karmarkar

The way a choice set is constructed can have a significant influence on how individuals perceive and evaluate their options and make decisions between them. Here, I examine whether a “display set” of visible but unavailable options can exert these same types of... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making Process; Heuristics; Similarity; Categorization; Marketing Insight; Marketing; Choice; Choice Architecture; Choice Sets; Display; Retail; Consumer Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Decision Making; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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April 2015
Article

Self-serving Justifications: Doing Wrong and Feeling Moral

By: Shaul Shalvi, F. Gino, Rachel Barkan and Shahar Ayal

Unethical behavior by "ordinary" people poses significant societal and personal challenges. We present a novel framework centered on the role of self-serving justification to build upon and advance the rapidly expanding research on intentional unethical behavior of... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Moral Sensibility

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Awards

Best Article in Marketing Science Literature

Honorable Mention in 1983 competition for "Best Article in the Marketing Science Literature, 1982" from the College of Marketing at The Institute of Management Sciences for the paper with M. Kalwani, “On the Reliability and Predictive Validity of Purchase Intentions... View Details

02 Sep 2010
News

Disputing wrongful dismissal; consumers like underdogs, too

17 Oct 2024
Video

Behind the Research: Lumumba Seegars

19 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Leadership Fellow Ming Min Hui: Figuring Out Her Mission

Ming Min Hui (MBA 2015) had a very specific intention in mind when she applied to HBS. After an early career in investment banking and corporate strategy, “I wanted to apply my business skills to something more fulfilling and... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

07 Jun 2012
News

Keeping America's Best Ideas Under Wraps

26 Oct 2020
Video

Shirley Zinn

Shirley Zinn, the Non-Executive Director of Sanlam and former Head of Human Resources at Standard Bank South Africa, explains the hardships of growing up in Cape Town’s Cape Flats in the 1960s, and the importance of possessing strong values and intent in the struggle... View Details

April 1998 (Revised July 2005)
Case

Acquisition of Consolidated Rail Corporation (A), The

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Lori A. Flees and Mathew M Millett

On October 15, 1996, Virginia-based CSX and Pennsylvania-based Consolidated Rail (Conrail), the first and third largest railroads in the eastern United States, announced their intent to merge in a friendly deal worth $8.3 billion. This deal was part of an industry-wide... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decisions; Contracts; Rail Industry; United States

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March 2011 (Revised October 2011)
Case

If We Ran the World

By: Hanna Halaburda, Radka Dohnalova and Aldo Sesia

Cindy Gallop launched IfWeRanTheWorld (IWRTW) in February 2010, as what the tech world called minimum viable product, in order to real-world test Gallop's "business of the future" concept while development was ongoing. IWRTW was conceived to bring together human good... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Outcome or Result; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Network Effects

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