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Knowing Your Students - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

about teaching the students, as opposed to teaching the case. Instructors who know their students well are better able to create a learning experience that is genuinely participant-centered. A familiarity with student's backgrounds... View Details

April 1993 (Revised April 2006)
Case

Colgate-Palmolive Co.: The Precision Toothbrush

By: John A. Quelch

Colgate-Palmolive Co. is considering how to position its new technological toothbrush, Precision. The case explores issues concerned with new product launches and requires students to do profitability analyses of different positioning alternatives. View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Product Positioning; Product Launch; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States

12 Aug 2011
Working Paper Summaries

From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management

Keywords: by Anette Mikes

27 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 27

two countries given the likely adoption challenges once the infrastructure and cars are ready, as well as decide how quickly to begin pursuing other countries (and if so, which ones). A big part of the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Jul 2021
Blog Post

A View from the Horizon

make a difference in people’s lives and uplift our communities—even if the payoffs are well on the horizon. So, with my most sincere gratitude, thank you HBS and Dr. Cash for... View Details

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

in order to understand how well these initiatives might work,” Coffman says. “And it was a great opportunity to work with my mom It’s always great to work with someone I admire.” Specifically, Baldiga and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

submitting ideas when considering promotions might also provide another incentive, as well as publicly recognizing innovative workers, Gallani suggests. “There is a little bit of a tradeoff between pay for performance View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

01 Jun 2007
What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

performance." Generally speaking, respondents favored schemes designed to reward long-term as well as short-term performance, encourage retention, recognize special needs of an organization, be based on the achievement of both... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

employee with young kids at home, or someone taking care of elder relatives, or a worker needing to focus on their own physical and mental health as a result of the situation will not be able to do a 40-hour... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

November 2018 (Revised February 2019)
Case

Israel at 70: Is it Possible to (re)Brand a Country?

By: Elie Ofek and Sarah Gulick

In the spring of 2018, Israel was set to celebrate its 70th anniversary. While there was much to rejoice in reaching this milestone, the country’s brand image internationally was far from ideal. Past efforts to impact perceptions of Israel, spearheaded by the Ministry... View Details

Keywords: Branding; Brand Management Of Places; Nation Branding; Brand Positioning; Public Diplomacy; Marketing Communication; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Perception; Change; Israel

Portrait Project

Taylor Wilson

I see sympathy in some eyes and discomfort in others when I struggle to utter the simplest of words. At times, tears well up and I want to disappear. My stutter began in second... View Details

01 Jan 2013
News

Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960

at DC's Community Foundation to support issues they believe in, primarily empowerment of women and girls, ocean conservation, and sustainable cities. Organizations that have benefited from their involvement... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

turn, led to BlackTech Week, an annual event established in 2015 to connect startup founders, tech professionals, and investors, drawing crowds well beyond the Black community. Armed with advanced degrees... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

January 2024
Case

Sprouts Farmers Market

By: Rajiv Lal, Forest L. Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred

Sprouts Farmers Markets (Sprouts) is a Phoenix, Arizona-based chain of 400-plus natural foods stores in 23 U.S. states and $6.4 billion in sales as of 2022. In its product assortment, brand image, and store environment, Sprouts emphasizes freshness, health, innovation,... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Strategic Planning; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Competition; Retail Industry; United States; Arizona

11 Oct 2023
News

Soldier On

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details

07 Oct 2019
HBS Seminar

Tristan Botelho, Yale University

2011
Other Unpublished Work

Networks as Covers: Evidence from On-Line Social Networks

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

Sociologists have extensively documented that networks influence market exchange through improved matching and vouching. In this paper, I propose that networks can also blunt the signal of market participation, as actors who are on the market surrounded by their... View Details

Keywords: Job Search; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology