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- 27 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?
from SoMa to Sand Hill Road. This weighed on me as I applied to and decided to matriculate at HBS. It is odd when you think about it: what better example could there be of herd-like thinking than suggesting... View Details
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
think of the role of advertising as providing primes that are psychological in nature as a means of persuasion, you can take something that exists in society—a consumer preference for fair skin—and leverage it for good or for bad.”... View Details
- 05 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?
brands, simplified pricing that replaces the retailer's constant sales and coupons, and an updated store design that promises to make one think more of Apple's high-touch emporiums than a typical department... View Details
- 20 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Black Visionary Leadership and Redefining What's Possible
you just don’t have the same chance. In thinking about what we could do during our time at HBS to help level the playing field, we came up with these concepts as an independent project. We recognize that we are extremely privileged to be... View Details
- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
executives on Wall Street. According to Chua, their research found that "people who were made to think about luxury prior to a decision-making task have a higher tendency to endorse self-interested decisions that might potentially... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- Web
Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
Entrepreneurship Essentials Professor William Sahlman Master a proven framework for building and financing new ventures, and make your entrepreneurial dreams a reality. 4 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Enroll by March 20 $1,850 Certificate Design... View Details
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
restaurants of gaming the system by stacking reviews by friends and family, or simply falling prey to a popularity contest by uninformed palates. "Given the evidence, I don't think many people would dispute Yelp's influence,"... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
My point here is not to disparage discipline or, indeed, the marketing professionals of Quaker Oats. Their failure with Snapple wasn't a matter of ineptitude or a bureaucratic tin ear. Nor do I think it was a case of a nimble upstart... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
they preach. Drawing inspiration from Edgar H. Schein's influential book Career Dynamics, DeLong suggested that managers should think about three levels of human behavior in organizations. The first is technical skills, be they in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
the innovation process (as Pete Clekurs pointed out). The park is designed to create fast-response product development by linking product designers to manufacturers in a way that minimizes the need to ship... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
when they raised their hand, the point at which they stopped listening to what was being said by other students. Others posed counter-questions that are important to consider as well. For example, Aim suggested, "I think the right... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
offerings: Design Thinking and Innovation, Power and Influence for Positive Impact, and Sustainable Investing. Total HBS Online revenue amounted to 8 percent of the School’s total revenues in fiscal 2022,... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- Book
Creating the Experimentation Organization
new ideas and gauge their effects is a game changer, revealing surprising insights that can lead to incremental changes that can have a cumulatively huge effect on business. After research that the checkout experience could be improved, for example, Booking’s View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
proposed the idea of a low-cost quartz design that would compete in the market not on precision, but on fashion. SMH pursued the risky idea, but the project's young engineers, Elmar Mock and Jacque Muller, found themselves ostracized by... View Details
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
distribution of residents by race. The results were clear: When given the opportunity to do so, White people preferred to design their environments in ways that maximized their exposure to other White people and minimized their contact... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research where people have two distinct modes of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
cardiovascular exercise and hydration. It’s not that we are uninformed, unable, or lazy. It’s that we’re just not in the habit. “The idea is that habits are equivalent to addictions” With that in mind, the researchers designed a field... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Leading at State
lecturer in Executive Education who also has a background in the civil service in his native Canada, worked with the State Department to design the custom program. Career employees in government agencies face unique challenges, Ager says.... View Details
- 02 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Nikki Philip
and a community savings and loans cooperative in Migori County, Kenya. At Lwala I worked in Monitoring & Evaluation, Program Design & Implementation, and Development. After two and a half years at Lwala I took a position in Player... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
Alternatively, the group may designate "intellectual watchdogs" who are assigned the task of scrutinizing the process for unchecked assumptions and challenging them on the spot. Well-Defined Criteria. Without crisp, clear goals,... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto