Qualitative Methods (General) - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009

Competition Between Differentiated Products with Demand for More Than One Variety Author: Andrei Hagiu Abstract We analyze the existence of pure strategy symmetric price equilibria in a generalized version of Salop's (1979) circular model... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Jul 2016
Blog Post

Coming to HBS after Military Service

Not everyone has the luxury of a break between their military service and HBS, but take whatever time you do have, whether it is 2 weeks or 2 years, and allow for self-reflection before the excitement (and chaos) of RC year begins. The case View Details

17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

incentives to recall the rules accurately (Experiment 3). Finally, moral forgetting appears to result from decreased access to moral rules after cheating (Experiment 4). Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of Hospitals' Internal... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim offer an introduction to the best methods for consuming data. In this excerpt, Davenport and Kim discuss multiple ways to tell a story with data, "the best way to communicate results to nonanalytical... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Admit It: You’re in Denial

the line in order to retool his factories for its successor, the Model A. To make the change, he shut down production for months, at a cost of close to $250 million. This chain of events was disastrous for the company because it allowed Chrysler’s Plymouth to gain... View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management

20 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

The Power of Ordinary Practices

her research. New Business: Teresa, tell us about the general context of your research. Teresa Amabile: With all the focus entrepreneurs and business executives place on strategy, they can lose sight of the people "in the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

Turkey. When the video ends, Janice McCormick, director of Academic Services, flicks on the lights and leads the group on its first foray into case method learning. Despite McCormick's encouragement, it is an awkward exercise, marked by... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

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From Classroom to Workplace: Theory to Practice | Baker Library

fostered graduate business education for women. They continually adapted to changing times and attitudes toward working women. As W. K. Jordan, historian and fourth president of Radcliffe College, observed, "Mr. Whitehead and his colleagues have most wisely kept their... View Details

26 Jan 2016
News

The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)

rewarding. From time to time, we’ll receive unsolicited emails from customers who tell us they can’t live without our product. Those touches of positive reinforcement definitely keep us motivated and energized. It also helps that Jillian is one of my closest friends,... View Details

20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

Social Psychological & Personality Science Agent-based Modeling: A Guide for Social Psychologists By: Jackson, Joshua Conrad, David Rand, Kevin Lewis, Michael I. Norton, and Kurt Gray Abstract—Agent-based modeling is a longstanding but underused View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average skill intensity and reliance on external capital. Third, we use a new dataset... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006

the economy that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of information technology (IT) in general and enterprise information technology in particular. In a series of case studies, we... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2021
News

My Pandemic Year

denial, plus a barrage of questions: What does "virtual" mean? Can you even teach the case method virtually? Wait, we can’t hang out in large groups? What are we going to do about section events? Video Embed It dawned on me when I took... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Making It Possible to Explore and Grow

non–fossil fuel methods of generating electricity, we still need to confront the challenge of powering our vehicles. And that’s where biofuels come in: “We may never be able to eliminate fossil fuels from... View Details

31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

capital sources. Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain By: Fisher, Colin M., Julianna Pillemer, and Teresa M. Amabile Abstract—How do teams working on complex projects get the help they need? Our View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

incentives for them to work on a solution. And when I was thinking systematically about where else I could look, I discovered a company, InnoCentive.com, that took problems in R&D labs and broadcast them to outsiders. So the study was a direct port of both the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Reading Between the Lines: How to Spot the Skills You Need Among the Resumes You Get

consumer interactions is fairly unique, we need to attract people from different backgrounds,” he says. “We’re always trying to build a bridge between a candidate’s background and what they might be able to do here.” Fitzpatrick and Tamblyn View Details

Keywords: All Industries

04 Jun 2014
What Do You Think?

Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?

Summing Up Is the Potential Negative Impact of New Information Technologies on Customer Loyalties Overstated? Customers will remain loyal to brands that meet their needs, regardless of the effects of new information technologies on their View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products; Technology

01 Jan 2003
News

Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "What stood out for me initially was the first-year section, where I made some of my closest friends and thrived in the give-and-take of class discussions. I loved the case method as a process for testing ideas. It... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

Press) The authors outline a method to discover and revitalize the exceptional business that exists inside an organization. The method relies on the well-established 80/20 rule to direct focus and attention;... View Details

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