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- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
speak. The net result is that consumers are more likely to consume when a price is vivid and fresh than when it is obscured or distant. In the case of a health club, this means that members are more likely... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
inevitably lose because they paid a premium price. They lose to the people who have more patience and more discipline. Third, it’s easy to talk in the abstract, but in real View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
reinvesting in the underpinnings of our economy and laying the groundwork for long-term prosperity. That means investing in infrastructure, clean energy, and education. We need... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
Lang Related Links “It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t”: New research by HBS associate professor Jordan Siegel finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
illnesses, positioning themselves in the mainstream,” predicts Debora Spar. “Venture capitalists will fund research into stem-cell science that runs in accordance with the wishes of society. Firms will... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
accompanied by lower inflation and interest rates—that justify deficit spending to produce both economic growth and social programs designed to improve our quality of life and reduce social inequality” (JohnfrmClevelnd). Or, it prompts... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Blog
When Generations Learn Together
What happens when a father and son team up to attend executive education programs together? Bracken Seaberg (BS) and Jim Seaberg (JS) discuss their shared experiences in Private Equity and Venture Capital and Changing the Game:... View Details
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
capitalist system, and we should cherish it. At a time when people are losing trust in the role of business enterprise in society, it is your job to restore their confidence in... View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
unhealthy working environment. Yet it shouldn't take a negative headline to move companies toward CSR. In fact, Rangan says, many owners and executives of large, successful corporations are driven by their conscience to give back.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Illustrations from VectorStock.com The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) aims to supercharge HBS’s research agenda by applying a lab-based model similar to that used by the scientific community for problem solving, which will both complement and... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
wedding in 2003. Then life got very complicated. Less than twelve months after getting married, Jen was diagnosed with MFH sarcoma, a rare cancer of the soft tissue. For two years, she endured painful rounds... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
time. So that's also puzzling and somewhat troubling." Early Promise In its first years of life twenty or so years ago, the biotechnology sector seemed healthy and its future looked bright. One early... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
feeder,” he says. “Our customers are the same sort of people who have ZOOTS do their dry cleaning and who get their DVDs through Netflix,” Gisholt remarks. “It’s another way to put something else in your View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
have to make sure our actions always match our values,” she says, and that means being as open about the little things as the big ones. Here’s a sense of what that can look like when the stakes are higher: The second phase of the... View Details
- Web
One-Year Action Plan Update - Advancing Racial Equity
we deem it impossible to achieve our institutional aims without such diversity and without a diverse student body, our distinctive and well-proven pedagogical means would be severely impaired. In short, we... View Details
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abide by all such rules and conditions. “Harvard Business School Online Content” means all content or other material, in whole or in part, available through the Programs or... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
Continued success in diagnostic systems relies heavily on product innovation and software engineering. But Ludwig found that the DIS division had lost its edge—a key competitor had improved its own products so that they outperformed DIS's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
After more than a decade of nearly can’t-miss growth, China’s stock market began a precipitous summer slide that has spooked investors worldwide. In July, the Shanghai composite index dropped 15 percent from June, prompting the People’s... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
companies are springing to life up and down the virtual lanes of the Information Superhighway. As the use of color and moving pictures becomes routine, says Sahlman, Internet "stores" may well be able to give customers an experience that... View Details