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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
company embrace a more interactive model? Deighton isn’t so sure. “People don’t want to be fed a menu of books based on their past selections,” he says. “They favor serendipity — they want to be surprised and charmed.” That highlights the... View Details
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
word is overused. But in some corner of the lives of each of these people, there was a streak of lightning that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
advertising last year, and yet we received Brandweek’s Marketer of the Year award. I’m proud of that. We put our efforts into fueling word of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
As a professor in the Strategy Unit, Bharat Anand has studied how media companies move a traditional product into the online space. Some have managed that transition well, he says, and others have not. In the early days, Anand observes, several newspapers simply posted... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
week in advance of delivery. Looking to determine how personal decisions made for tomorrow differ from decisions made for several days from now, researchers from Harvard Business School and the Analyst Institute evaluated a year's worth... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
to the point where analysts can “fingerprint” particular authors by the probability of how they use connecting words like “the,” “and,” and “that.” More recently, machine learning has moved into the realm... View Details
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
that may bias our decisions, and we should proactively change the system so that we naturally make better decisions.” Related Reading: Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
and players all over Wall Street: When a crisis like this one first appears, it’s obvious only to a handful of people. And the steps required to snuff it out are onerous, painful, and radically unpopular among the masses, who don’t... View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
Instead of seeking patents, many inventors and firms choose to keep the details of their innovations secret, out of the public view. But what are the implications View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 28 Feb 2011
- News
Rebooting the Human Condition
engineered cells, biological tissue, and robots. This perfect storm of innovation will allow humans to shape their own evolution (as well as that of other species) and create solutions to energy, health, and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
3 Reasons I Chose to Attend HBS
my second semester at HBS, I vividly recall the application process. For prospective students, I have a few words of advice. Before you even start to think about why your dream school is such a great fit,... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Putting Entrepreneurial Skills to Work in City Hall
Now teaching HBS’s first course in “public entrepreneurship,” Professor of Management Practice Mitchell Weiss (MBA 2004) served as chief of staff for late Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, helping lead what the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say (Part 2)
2019) is the Senior Director of Digital Talent/Strategy and Instructor at Barry’s If you were to describe your HBS experience in 3 words what would they be? Epic, amazing, and transformational. Was an HBS... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
On the Road: HBS in Israel
This summer HBS Admissions headed to Israel to host a number of events for prospective students in the area. Outreach Director, Jill Fadule (along with her youngest son Joseph), had the chance to sightsee, connect with local alumni, and... View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
the TV. A few mouths actually dropped open. Of course, some people thought the customer was wrong. "He doesn't understand." "He needs to be educated." "The reason why . . . ."... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Notes from W50
away with the guilty feelings that arise from the conflicting demands of career and motherhood. But we can ban the words 'having it all' from the English dictionary." —Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995), COO,... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
In our January 2 update, we featured the first part of a two-part interview with HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an internationally influential expert on strategy and competition. (Porter was recently appointed to a University... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 27 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right
word out about the recall. Among other methods, the company is using bold red ads on high-traffic Internet sites such as Yahoo.com to find owners of the affected products and drive them to the Mattel Web... View Details
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
We've heard that Eskimos have 100 words for snow—a common way of expressing how language affects the way we see the world. Whether or not that particular example is true, cultural linguists have long... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding