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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
List) constantly struggled to find balance here, against its ad-based revenue model. Secondly, Kennealey needs to figure out how to make the offering sticky and recurring. Buying a home is a monumental but infrequent event for an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
can feel out of reach. How do we leave the comfort of our homes, step away from our screens, and interact face to face? How do we create genuine bonds with people we’ve just met, and how do we maintain those ties? Even the most resilient social butterflies among us... View Details
- 24 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention
Behaviors, was prepared for the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium in 2018. Source: Alberto Cavallo “Price stickiness is very important for the impact of monetary policy,” Cavallo says. “When the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates to... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?
It’s a sticky but common dilemma for managers: A valued employee finds out that a coworker earns more, gets upset, and demands a raise. If gender or race figure into the wage gap, tensions can escalate fast. Companies, including Whole... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1
whiteboards and sticky notes, to interview customers, and design prototypes. Utilizing the process that Jake was teaching us, we were able to do all these things in a guided and efficient way that led each of our teams to make a lot of... View Details
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
to get agreement from four people before moving forward? Can we keep that person from being put on one more committee?” It can get sticky because reallocating tasks and resources means other workers will be affected. To help with managing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Ideas That Stick
demonstrate in their book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Random House, 2007). They chronicle not only urban legends but real-life success stories, explaining how six principles of stickiness (simple, unexpected,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alice Yen
for his dedication, patience, and generosity. Every year of my childhood, I watched him diligently water new seedlings and protect them from curious bees and gnarly weeds that came their way. These seeds sprouted into towering trees and vines, blossomed flowers, and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kelly Cheng
protagonists when I say my life rarely goes according to plan. Even when it seemingly does. Although unpredictability frustrates my proclivity to plan, I will strive to embrace it. I will keep my sticky notes and continue scratching out... View Details
- Portrait Project
Chao Zeng
My first job involved working onboard the trains between Shanghai and Zhengzhou, China, during the sweltering, sticky summer peak. The train ecosystem was competitive: people fighting for a spot, daring passengers jumping through windows... View Details
- Portrait Project
Danielle Slutzky
cinnamon. Sticky honey. Powdered sugar. In the concentration camps where she grew up, strangers determined how much food was enough and who deserved it. Food was a dream: unreliable, fleeting, but a source of hope. She survived to... View Details
- Web
The VideaHealth AI Factory: CEO Florian Hillen on Speed, Scale, and Innovation | Information Technology
With interviews, visuals, and live demonstrations of interfaces and labeling processes, we could use all our senses turning a potentially complicated topic into a deeply immersive and sticky learning experience. Tsedal Neeley ; Naylor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?
the lower ranks. One of the causes may well be inequities in the ability of executives and frontline labor to negotiate compensation for their skills. In particular, the declining power of unions and the stickiness of minimum wage laws... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Sep 2009
- News
I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
interviewed on the CBS Early Show about holiday tipping in a recession. In no-nonsense, rapid-fire style, the neatly-coiffed brunette whipped through the many sticky wickets that can plague a job-hunting MBA, answering perennial questions... View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
effective tax rate. Both investors and MBA students can benefit from the research, Pérez Cavazos says. Because executives’ preferences should be sticky over time, investors can get a sense of how the company will likely handle tax... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
them? It’s a sticky question, considering these products could have untold benefits “that could transform the world,” Badaracco says. Novo Nordisk acknowledges that, as the business grows, so will its impact on society—thanks in part to... View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia
Before arriving to Harvard Business School, I had built my career around bringing crazy ideas to life at Google in a variety of operations, strategy, and design roles. I was surrounded by incredible people, learned from world class leaders, and worked on View Details
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
to using funds to repair the broken infrastructure. Since sizeable commitments of this sort can further exacerbate the fiscal deficit, already high, it can worsen an already weak fiscal situation. As Indians say, we're on a sticky wicket,... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
Their results appear in the August 2018 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Many organizations have a bias toward solving sticky problems through collaboration, either in person or virtually. The more eyes on a problem, the... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland