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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
step back and asked, What’s the fundamental relationship between money and happiness? We were interested in answering that question in order to design interventions: What can we change for people? Professor Whillans, your research looks... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
beliefs,” Greenwood says, chalking it up to an abundance of optimism. Before the crisis, for instance, the “Armageddon scenario” for housing price growth in 2006 was a 5 percent drop. During the lowest point of the crisis, housing prices fell by 31.8 percent. This... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
dating platforms were designed by men, they are optimized for surfacing as many choices and pictures as possible,” she says. “My goal is not to get people to just browse hot photos and connect. My goal is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
at 40 percent), proactively publicize the School's Web site and add new features that will attract more alumni to the site, and develop push technology allowing alumni to subscribe to specific online offerings. Last year, the committee served as a sounding board for... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
Illustration by Peter Arkle KitNipBox is a monthly subscription service for cat owners. Each box contains products designed to keep cats happy, healthy, and fit: toys, treats, health and hygiene products, must-have accessories, innovative... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service by John A. Goodman (MBA 1971) (AMACOM) These days businesses have more opportunities to enhance the customer experience than ever before. Goodman explains how businesses can design and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data edited by Thomas Davenport (FT Press) This book, a collection of research papers from the International Institute for Analytics, addresses a wide variety... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
performance rather than individual or unit performance. Beer and Katz thus suggest that instead of putting energy into designing complicated incentive plans intended to motivate executives, top managers should focus on developing an... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
for which she led the design to optimize for both patient and staff experiences. “I will now be leading projects to drive our operational efficiency to the next level and to deliver an even better... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
affordable prices, a unique offering in the otherwise crowded wedding industry. But custom design creates ongoing operational challenges. As it grows, should Anomalie leverage its supply-chain advantages to create a line of off-the-rack... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
services. The first really magnificent building was 998 Fifth Avenue, built in the early 1900s. It was known as simply 998. Everybody knew what it was. The same was true of 740 Park Avenue and 834 Fifth Avenue—where Rockefellers did live. Both buildings were View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
January 31 to February 1. Before a Burden Hall audience of some nine hundred students, business leaders, and academics, keynote speaker Dr. Edgar Cheng, chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, voiced optimism for the British colony's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
different kinds of organizations. “There continues to be a wasted opportunity to think about workplace design more strategically.” That hallway encounter evolved into a Harvard Business Review article, “What’s the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
old person's car. They sell to a whole range in their market. And what all these companies do effectively is they have intergenerational design teams that help develop products for older adults. And another area where we see stealth View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
series of summit-style events that bring like-minded technology and design innovators together with experts in the field of aging. The next step will be scaling the enterprise through local chapters in cities around the world and raising... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
mechanical engineering courses at Northeastern University, and two years as a second lieutenant in the Army (“doing a major’s job”)—proved to be ideal credentials for Knott’s eventual role as founder, president, and CEO of Riverdale Mills... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
was ripe for innovation.” By graduation, the pair and a third cofounder, Dan Hunter, had launched Yoshi on the streets of Palo Alto. Hunter was the mechanic; he retrofitted his old pickup truck with extra fuel tanks. Alexander was the engineer; he View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
challenges posed by developing, manufacturing, and deploying electromechanical systems that can survive the punishment meted out by the sea—a corrosive medium a thousand times denser than air that wreaks havoc on generators, sensors, and computerized equipment. View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
Task Force and the resulting Racial Equity Plan have been crucial first steps in a community-wide, multi-year effort. Since the plan was announced in September 2020, we have designed the School's first chief diversity and inclusion... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
we could tap the wisdom of the crowd to help design them? When you start thinking about making cars this way, at some point you’ve ceased thinking about cars and started thinking about a modern alternative to mass production. People will... View Details