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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
complex stouts, porters, and IPAs to engage potential ambassadors with more experienced palates. Have a consistent view of your consumer target. A founder’s passion and intuition need to be converted into a clear consumer insight and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
problem-solving challenges. “I became a professor to understand why communities, like those that create open-source software, were innovating. It did not correlate with my intuition about the best ways to incentivize innovation and... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
investing in fellow HBS alumnus Scott Cook’s (MBA 1976) Intuit Inc. “I tried but I lost the deal and I still think about it 27 years later,” Breyer told a room full of young entrepreneurs and budding venture capitalists in Boston on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
see shortcomings in what I do or didn't do, and that's the thing that disappoints me the most. Proud moments Years ago my mom and dad came to one of our company meetings. I told the story of how Intuit wouldn't be here without my parents,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Deal on Wheels
so high, sellers typically make a few thousand dollars even after CarLotz takes its cut. “Once we realized that serving people—not selling cars—is the business we’re in, that established a basis for rooting all our decisions in creating a differentiated experience,”... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
envisioned had not materialized. In a last-ditch effort to jumpstart the stalled exchange, the team built some software that created email templates and provided easy access to sales-contact data to personalize them quickly, making the task so View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
from anything so unquantifiable as emotion, Moon values that intuition and wants to “help validate” it. More Retail Revolutions Speeding Up Accessories BaubleBar cofounders Amy Jain and Daniella Yacobovsky (both MBA 2010) apply the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
and fewer stock-outs, regardless of item price. "Retailers are shortsighted if they stock inventory by thinking only in terms of their own economics," says Bell. His findings offer the numbers to back up an intuitive assumption: stock... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
creative new markets. Lessons in Corporate Finance: A Case Studies Approach to Financial Tools, Financial Policies, and Valuation by Paul Asquith and Lawrence A. Weiss (DBA 1989) (Wiley) This book explains the fundamentals of the field in an View Details
- 16 Feb 2011
- News
Healthy Growth
combination of analytical and intuitive reasoning we practiced has been invaluable in growing a company.” Looking to the future, Ayers currently is envisioning what IDEXX would look like as a $2 billion firm. Even with IDEXX’s leap in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
of their work each day on a numerical scale and to describe briefly one work-related event that stood out in some way. What have you discovered about the relationship between creativity and time pressure? Most managers I’ve talked with are View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
- Bloomberg L.P. Scott D. Cook - Intuit Thomas A. James - Raymond James Financial Sandra L. Kurtzig - E-Benefits READ MORE Gordon M. Binder - Amgen Michael R. Bloomberg - Bloomberg L.P. Scott D. Cook - View Details
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
there. The self-made entrepreneurs’ stories underline a complementary approach to driving business ventures—using intuition and life experience, instead of analyses and case studies. But they also share similar levels of grit, ambition... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
kind of leadership. “Since the investment and R&D decisions you make today are often not easily quantifiable and not coming to fruition for fifteen to twenty years, special intuition and judgment are required,” he observes. “Compared with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
grads. The Intel/HBS relationship grew over the years, all because Andy Grove had the intuition to challenge what lay behind his own stereotyped view of HBS grads. Paul C. Vilandré (MBA ’68) Hayden Lake, ID We Lost a Legend Professor... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
customers use Starbucks as a regular hangout or informal office — a "third place" between home and work. How has this aspect of the stores evolved over time? In the beginning, we knew on an intuitive level that Starbucks was about far... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
financial services companies as it determines its stand on a matter of increasing public prominence. Oberholzer-Gee teaches the case in Strategies Beyond the Market, a second-year elective that focuses on the interplay between business strategy, governments, and NGOs.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Alison Wood Brooks, offer useful advice gleaned from years of research on “reappraisal”—reconsidering a situation to change its emotional force—and ritual. Get excited “People have this really strong View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
intuition - developed through years of experience in their areas of expertise, although none of them could likely explain where their information has come from. "By its very nature, the tacit dimensions of knowledge are very difficult to... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross