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- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
performance to provide quantitative insight into the link between a firm's business model choices and its profit consequences. The method is applied to Walmart by building a qualitative representation of its business model and mapping... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
LA and completed a film program at USC, so I wasn’t even sure business school was a good choice at that point. But in the long term, I envisioned a career that had a foot in both business and creative. MB:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
organizations evolve over time. With HBS assistant professor Lakshmi Ramarajan and Deborah Kolb from the Simmons School of Management, McGinn is looking at two decades of archival information on activities and beliefs at Deloitte, known... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
consequences of these changes and shifts for the firm's success, strategy, and organization. A Choice Prediction Competition, for Choices from Experience and from Description Authors:Ido Erev, Eyal Ert,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
organizations in Chile and around the world. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/612046-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/612047-PDF-ENG Location Choice for New Ventures: Cities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
nefariousness of individual politicians and political parties. It’s the structure and rules of the political game. Political marketing is “do or die.” Candidates typically represent one of only two viable choices for voters and face a... View Details
- Profile
Xue (Ken) Yuan
Just before beginning his MBA studies, Xue was a summer associate at Northern Light Venture Capital, where he reviewed “new materials and clean-technology companies.” For Xue, HBS was the clear choice for advancing his career. “I knew I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management
Eugene Soltes (photo by Russ Campbell) Eugene Soltes (photo by Russ Campbell) Making ethical and moral decisions in business can be murky and is difficult to teach in the vacuum of a business school classroom, argues Associate Professor... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
clubs," we show that 1) fees serve as a signal of price discounts, such that stores that charge fees are perceived as offering better deals for identical items; 2) the presence of fees can increase consumer spending and overall store profitability; and 3) the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2011
- News
The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
academe: a tree planted near Burden by the PMD 70 class at their graduation. The class may have been inspired by the Partners Association, which had planted a tree in front of Soldiers Field Park apartments. PMD 70 donated the money for the tree but left the View Details
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
believe that with all of these positive cognitive effects, you might also get benefits for decision making,” says Karmarkar, who conducted the research with UMass Amherst psychology professor Rebecca Spencer and Stanford Graduate School... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/09/contextual-intelligence/ar/1 September 2014 The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption Appetite, Consumption, and Choice in the Human Brain By: Knutson, Brian, and Uma R. Karmarkar... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
determinant of choices than fairness, and iii) agents display a marked propensity to work for principals with similar distributional concerns. Working PapersReport on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Jon Schechter
dropping work for a two-year MBA was not a choice he took lightly. “It wasn’t a financial decision,” says Jon, “but a long-term investment in myself. Two years, in the long run, is a blip. But what I get out of it is unique. I’ll probably... View Details
Keywords: Tech
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
social-enterprise track to complement its traditional business competition. Houghton was joined by Ashley Magargee and Naomi Weinberg (both MBA '01), along with Marcel Acosta, a Loeb Fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, and... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
self-report of the licensee. The self-reporting aspect of the environment gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
of all organizational units. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-030.pdf Future Lock-in: Or, I'll Agree to do the Right Thing Next Week Authors:Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When making decisions a person often thinks that she should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
even a potential mate. “When you’re observing another person’s choice, the choice itself becomes very diagnostic,” says Barasz, who graduated in May and will soon join the faculty of the IESE Business School... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Kruti Patel Goyal (MBA 2004)
My parents were in the hospitality business. They owned a motel, so we grew up working at the business as well as living at the business. I remember vividly some moments of really intense stress. And it was because my parents took a lot of risk to build the business.... View Details
Keywords: Sarah Wyman
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
Harvard Business School today released "Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided," a comprehensive analysis of the state of US competitiveness in 2016, based on five years of the US Competitiveness Project's multi-faculty research. The US... View Details