Exploratory Learning Behaviors - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jan 2025
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New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses

stronger,” he says. “Some are coming out of retirement to share their expertise. It helps them stay connected to HBS while helping businesses and their communities thrive. It’s a win-win situation for both sides.” To learn more about HBS... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

to promote new behaviors and monitor symptoms. They man quarantine control points 24/7 and attend to patients that need to be isolated at village health stations. Many operate without light at night and lose communications when they... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Four Ways to Create Lasting Change

Many managers know that even when their firm launches a change initiative with great fanfare, it is tough to make the changes last. More often than not, employees wearily dismiss the initiative as another management fad. Soon enough, processes and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

June 2020
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Real-time Data from Mobile Platforms to Evaluate Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure

By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Kevin Alvarez, Arielle Dror, Emerson Wenzel, Catharina Hollauer and Sooji Ha

By displacing gasoline and diesel fuels, electric cars and fleets reduce emissions from the transportation sector, thus offering important public health benefits. However, public confidence in the reliability of charging infrastructure remains a fundamental barrier to... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Transportation; Infrastructure; Behavior; AI and Machine Learning; Demand and Consumers

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01 Dec 2011
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Reimagining the MBA

Issue Focus: Leadership Illustration by Craig Frazier What HBS Learned from West Point The Evolving Case Method Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Making the Leadership Case Related Faculty Research What Top Scholars Say about... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2011
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Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

do not have the time for that." As you said, good judgment in thinking fast or slow is an important characteristic of outstanding leadership. Can it be taught or does it have to be acquired over time? How do leaders learn how to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

School researchers: Disregarding advice from colleagues could invite harsh backlash that just might damage valued workplace relationships, according to the recent paper Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice, published in Organizational View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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1.1 HBS Community Values | MBA

1.1 HBS Community Values 1.0 Academic Information & Policies The MBA Program is built around the HBS Learning Model, where students and faculty teach and learn from one another. The goal of Community Values... View Details

05 Nov 2014
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Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

question, behavioral science not based on those assumptions gained ascendance. At first, the contributions from behavioral science were based on laboratory tests, too many of them involving handy college... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 1998
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From Wildlife to Winetasting

opportunities will be mailed to alumni before the conference, but interested travelers can learn more by visiting the conference Web site: www.hbscsa.co.za/99conf. View Details

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Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell

Research focus Michelle: Ryan and I are both interested in deeply understanding what happens when customers interact with an organization’s operating system. Insights about customer behavior can influence a company to operate differently... View Details

30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations

year. On April 9, a letter to the HBS community from Dean Kim B. Clark and a statement from the Faculty and Staff Standards Committee (FSSC) reported the results of an investigation that had found a pattern of behavior within one class... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference

history. For two days in late May, representatives from the School’s extensive network of alumni clubs convened on campus to exchange ideas, participate in case discussions with faculty, and learn about AlumniMagnet, a new... View Details

Keywords: clubs; Centennial; outreach; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

July–August 2025
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Don’t Let an AI Failure Harm Your Brand

By: Julian De Freitas

How companies market their AI systems affects the repercussions they face when their products fail. Marketers must promote their AI products with potential failure in mind. To do that, they must first understand consumers’ unique attitudes toward AI. Marketers who... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Attitudes

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02 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?

Piskorski with information about its members, covering user demographics such as age, gender, height, and body type. The data also included usage patterns—how users learned about one another's profiles, how many profiles they viewed on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

30 Apr 2025
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A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado

DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2010
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Eight Join HBS Faculty

capital markets and firms’ social, environmental, and governance performance. Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit, also had ties to HBS before joining the faculty. After earning her doctorate in... View Details

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

into a disruptee. Learning To Chicken-scratch If a technology is to succeed, in theory at least, it should not require people to radically change their behavior. Instead, companies that promote the technology should hope for a gradual... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Using Gen AI for Early-Stage Market Research

By: James Brand, Ayelet Israeli and Donald Ngwe

Generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), offers a promising new tool for early-stage market research by simulating customer responses to product concepts. This can allow companies to draw conclusions similar to those they’d obtain by surveying... View Details