Patterns - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

added, “Climate change has generated extreme weather events, including floods and droughts, which are further aggravated by changing water patterns due to deforestation and urbanization. Water is the messenger of climate change. It is one... View Details

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

no longer suffers losses from offering customized services. The menu prices also motivate customers to shift their purchasing and delivery patterns in ways that lower total costs to the benefit of both the company and its customers.... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

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International Health Economics

By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson

Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international linkages between domestic health care economies. However, the growth in domestic health care sectors is often attributed to medical innovations whose... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Global Range; Economics

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

will discuss patterns that explain a large fraction of these failures and what entrepreneurs can do to anticipate patterns and reduce mortality risk. Participants will learn how founders can decide whether... View Details

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

ability to recognize patterns with our own ability to interpret them should be a tremendous boon to our creativity. However, if we feel threatened by the machines that we're working with, like they are going to take over the work that we... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love

key moments of crisis in which their self-confidence falters. These in turn can lead them to become more rigid, sabotaging their own performance. A coach’s job is to prevent team members from lapsing into this pattern and to help them... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Sports

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

to Clicks: Predicting the Patterns of Cross-Channel Elasticities over Time” ( Journal of Marketing , 2012) with Thomas Steenburgh, John Deighton, and Mary Caravella. Julian De Freitas : Recipient of an Anderson Fund Grant from Harvard... View Details

16 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

we're doing," says McEvoy. Today, Queen Elizabeth II wears her Burberry trench coat. But so does supermodel Kate Moss. At Waterford Crystal, CEO John G. Foley (HBS ISMP '89) has brought on contemporary designers like Versace and Vera Wang to create new china View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

01 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

of anti-social words. This pattern of findings suggests that luxury-primed individuals were not more likely to have anti-social cognition, but were less likely to have pro-social thoughts. In other words, when thinking about luxury,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

08 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

PublicationsHow Much Is a Reduction of Your Customers' Wait Worth? An Empirical Study of the Fast-Food Drive-Thru Industry Based on Structural Estimation Methods Authors:Gad Allon, Awi Federgruen, and Margaret P. Pierson Publication:Manufacturing and Service... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Mar 2016
HBS Seminar

Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School of Management

07 May 2024
Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

some communities experience disproportionate impacts because of existing vulnerabilities, historical patterns of inequity, socioeconomic disparities, and systemic environmental injustices (e.g., redlining).” What criteria were used to... View Details

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

have an edge in their markets. These firms are “more innovative—stronger at anticipating shifts in consumer needs and consumption patterns that make new products and services possible, potentially generating a competitive edge.” Of equal... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

studied were profitable and respected in their industries, we find this pattern striking. Perhaps one reason for this skew is that people seemed to have stronger negative emotional reactions to negative leader behaviors than the positive... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Side Effects: The Case of Propecia

Physicians could be enticed with promises of increased business. Another advantage to the product claim route: Merck could boast greater success with patients than its chief drug competitor in the market, Rogaine. One audience member noted that up to 40 million men in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Pharmaceutical

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

the crisis cripples or amplifies the demand for your work. In either case, this is a good time to take stock of your priorities and rethink your patterns of collaboration. By auditing your work responsibilities and project commitments,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

are right. The overall success on global export markets as well as the particular pattern of industries that successfully export provides valuable "revealed" information on underlying competitiveness conditions. Low levels of... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

should loudly trumpet their A rankings as a matter of course. Then B-ranked restaurants or schools would reveal their rankings, to separate themselves from the Cs. The pattern would continue to the C establishments and so on. "The... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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