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Introduction - The Product - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

breakfast cereals. In the industrial photograph collection, business school students could study techniques of commercial photographers who exploited the dual nature of the medium: photographic realism (or the illusion of it) within a highly theatrical context meant to... View Details
  • July – August 2008
  • Article

When Virtue Is a Vice

By: Anat Keinan and Ran Kivetz
Choosing duty over pleasure today can cause regret down the road—whereas regret over the reverse is fleeting. Marketers of luxury products and services should consider prompting customers to predict their future feelings about choices made now. View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Moral Sensibility; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Emotions; Luxury
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  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa

On the final day of Africa Rising, a course about business in Africa taught by Professor Caroline Elkins, Hakeem Belo-Osagie’s (MBA 1980) emotions were running high. “I had that sense of accomplishment when you know you’ve managed to say... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds

Feagler retained his passion for the mountains and outdoor life. In 1995, this avocation led to an accident that meant the end of his aviation career and the beginning of an ordeal that would severely test his physical and emotional... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Navy; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 15 Sep 2020
  • News

Lifting Fallen Families

fundraising with individuals and large corporate partners, and partnerships with Veterans Affairs, the nonprofit continues to see increases in its gifts to families and the number of people the organization is able to find and assist. The View Details
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Turning Point: Ready or Not

small lemon tree in the graveyard where his father and uncle had been buried. His death made me realize my own mortality, but it was more of a rational response than an emotional one. My grandmother’s death felt different. Like so many... View Details
Keywords: reflection; life experience; leadership
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Alumni Books

contexts while staying grounded in one's own natural style. Molinsky advises how to overcome the emotional and psychological impediments to doing so. Leadership and the Art of Struggle: How Great Leaders Grow through Challenge and... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Do Good: Eat Chocolate

farmer, a plant worker, or an artist. It’s a trade, not aid, model.” Asked if this really makes a difference to your average chocolate fiend, Endline admits, “Some research would tell you that consumers may not be able to articulate the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 02 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Women, Work, and the "M" Word

and emotional changes, they predominantly feel isolated and too often, ashamed. They don’t feel comfortable in the workplace or supported by their employers. Elektra’s Menopause in the Workplace report found that 40% of women feel their... View Details
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman
We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between the preferences people anticipate they will have over a series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Decision Choices and Conditions; Attitudes; Conflict and Resolution; Emotions; Film Entertainment; Cognition and Thinking; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

seemed obvious. Q: Customers are ruled by these four drives, just like everyone else. So what product, or product strategy, is needed to attract the four-drive customer? A: Those who study brands have found that great brands are based on a strong View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • March–April 2013
  • Article

Language Matters: Status Loss & Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations

By: Tsedal Neeley
How workers experience and express status loss in organizations has received little scholarly attention. I conducted a qualitative study of a French high-tech company that had instituted English as a lingua franca, or common language, as a context for examining this... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Status and Position; Loss; Spoken Communication; Emotions; Attitudes; Behavior; Globalization
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  • 05 Jul 2011
  • News

Driving Innovation

today,” Stewart said. Putting her clairvoyance to work, with smartphones now outshipping PCs, Stewart predicted in the article that mobile-optimized Web sites will be the next frontier for consumer marketers who are looking to advance on the competition. “There's the... View Details
Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 10 AM – 11 AM EDT, 22 Oct 2015
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

Collective Impact: An Innovative Approach to Improving Public Education

In this webinar, Professor Grossman will describe an innovative approach to improving public education Collective Impact and how you can get involved to help transform public education in the communities you care about. View Details
  • 28 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Harness Auction Fever

or money in trying to acquire the item, they may continue to bid past their initially set limit. To quit before "winning" makes it difficult to self-justify initial investments in pursuit of the item. Competitive arousal—or the mechanism underlying... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Web Services; Technology
  • 02 May 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?

"to go and be with you" (Mike Flanagan), "high emotional stability" (Pete Ciekurs), and "authenticity in everything we do" (Raji Gogulapati). Some of these things can be taught, justifying a leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 18 Jul 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

is committed to building a team that embodies scientific excellence and emotional intelligence, with the goal of translating innovative research into therapies that significantly improve patient outcomes. Aaron also holds a strong belief... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud

sponsors of the music app she used every day. Subsequent research in the HBS alumni database gave her two possible contacts, the CEO and Lisa Elis, a graduate of the HBS Executive Education program. Via LinkedIn, Noa wrote Elis a “long and View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Turning Point: Sum of the Parts

backgrounds. While I kept up a good game face for two years, internally I registered great emotional dislocation. It was difficult to be the only Asian American in a classroom of 80 students. Some of the white students declined to respond... View Details
Keywords: happiness; purpose; meaning; work-life balance; social pressures
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain

includes practical tips, inspirational support, and medical insights. On the practical side, Cohen discusses how to find the right wig, get rid of the bad taste of chemotherapy, and ease the pain of mouth sores. At a more emotional level,... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker