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  • 06 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

previously in our analysis of his Amazon shareholder letters. 4. Jeff Bezos’ patents are customer-centric For a more granular look at Bezos’ inventions, we performed a word frequency analysis using the abstracts of his patents. The top... View Details
Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail
  • 20 Dec 2022
  • Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

aligned with its strategic performance goals and its human and customer-centric values. Because managers at all levels are held accountable for implementing and maintaining this governance and learning system, it becomes embedded in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
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By: Rohit Deshpande

Rohit Deshpandé is Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business Schoolwhere he currently teaches in the Owner/President Management Program and in other executive education offerings. He has also taught global branding, international marketing, and... View Details

  • 24 Jan 2011
  • HBS Case

Terror at the Taj

with Ruth Page and David Habeeb of the HBS Educational Technology Group, Terror at the Taj Bombay: Customer-Centric Leadership documents the bravery and resourcefulness shown by rank-and-file employees during the siege.  Video interviews... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accommodations
  • 07 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

This customer-centric approach and entrepreneurial mindset immediately had me hooked so I began searching for opportunities to do more. Learning by Doing. Professor Perri encouraged me to roll up my sleeves and start getting my hands... View Details
  • 29 Jan 2021
  • Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

vaccination efforts. In contrast to the product-centric view employed to develop and distribute the vaccines, the shots-in-arms problem of convincing people to be vaccinated requires patient- or customer-centric solutions. [div... View Details
Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

example, Jaime M said, “What you define as pride would be better stated as humility, a customer-centric focus as opposed to an organization driven focus. You can build pride around humility and it will be tempered in a positive way that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter

great customer service is no longer the responsibility of just one department. Creating the customer-centric organization. (12,182 visits) What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style Researchers use machine-learning to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Digital Marketing & AI Workshop - Course Catalog

explore topics such as SEO, paid and influencer marketing, social media (organic and paid), email/SMS, Amazon, and analytics. Through mini-cases on brands both large and small, we’ll apply industry-leading tools and GenAI workflows to assess market opportunities,... View Details
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: HelloFresh

genuine passion for food and a very customer-centric mindset. What recruiting tactics have you found most successful in engaging with students and/or alumni at HBS?On-campus interviews is what we find most successful. We love investing... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • Profile

Fumi Tamaki

industry as the ideal opportunity to gain a more customer-centric business experience. “In addition to the formal services,” Fumi says, “there are club events, conferences, speakers – so many useful places to gather information about... View Details
  • 03 Dec 2024
  • News

From One to Many

aligned with and support the specific type of culture you want to cultivate, such as a more collaborative, accountable, or customer-centric culture. The practice should be easy to understand and implement, so that it can be adopted... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • Blog Post

What You Need to Know about the Latino Student Organization

Prior to HBS, Karla Mendez was working as a management consultant in the Silicon Valley, focused on customer-centric engagements for technology clients. She wanted to pursue an MBA to hone her leadership skills, develop more confidence in... View Details
  • 16 Jun 2015
  • Blog Post

Military Alumna Reflects on Time at HBS

shared a customer-centric view and I deeply admired his vision and determination to bring this vision and practice to our nation’s Veterans via VA. I was humbled and honored when Bob asked me to come join his leadership team. Today, as I... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Downtime

books? Outside of Shakespeare’s plays and the King James Bible, I would say George Eliot’s Middlemarch. I’ve read it twenty times now. Rohit Deshpandé is the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing and a pioneer in research on View Details
Keywords: fiction; Christianity
  • 07 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?

perform, customers notice. Marketing roulette For example, those who use Amazon’s Subscribe & Save service to preschedule periodic deliveries at a discount, may believe they deserve preferential treatment from this customer-centric... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • Web

Managing Customers for Growth - Course Catalog

roles where managing customer relationships and driving customer growth are central. This includes: Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders (e.g., CEOs, CMOs, Chief Growth Officers, Chief Customer Officers) seeking to build and scale View Details
  • 11 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

large or small); and what changes to make to pricing terms and product features. Purchase this case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806188 Best Buy Co., Inc.: Customer-Centricity Rajiv Lal,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

to balance its Chinese heritage claims with claims of modernity. The China skin care market is growing extraordinarily fast. Is that an asset or a liability? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511051-PDF-ENG Terror at the Taj Bombay: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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