Patterns - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks

Williams, who wrote the Academy-award-winning score for Jaws. It’s one of the most recognizable and influential scores in the world. In modern pop culture, great white sharks are inexorably tied to the terrifying two-note pattern of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Media & Broadcasting

26 May 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

for consumers to envision or articulate their needs. Even so, and despite budget pressures, smart marketers devote a portion of their market research to getting a handle on future changes in consumer behavior. Are consumers of your brand going to revert to previous... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

31 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

Sophie Q. Wang Abstract—In this paper we document the patterns of labor market participation by women and ethnic minorities in venture capital firms and as founders of venture capital–backed startups. We show that from 1990 to 2016 women... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

them."6 This may be true enough, but here Schumpeter extends the theme of cycles into something like a determinate paradigm. He attempts the hopeless task of fitting historical patterns of business booms and busts into predictable... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

01 Sep 2018
News

Your Keyboard Is Listening

certain key, collecting more than 2,000 data points. Research has shown that this behavioral biometric is highly consistent over time, seemingly unique to each individual typist, and nearly impossible for another person to replicate. Samzelius believed that monitoring... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 1997
News

HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment

determined largely by individual "interest patterns" that stabilize in early adulthood. Because these patterns are realized through specific work activities, a given job is best analyzed by examining its underlying activity structure.... View Details

Keywords: Bob Binstock

Blog

Lessons from Jazz in the Live Online Classroom

of breaking patterns and habits, once stating, "If it sounds clean and slick, I've been doing it too long." Like jazz musicians, executives need to step out of their comfort zone, said Barrett, speaking to over 100 executives from the HBS... View Details

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5.3 Community Standards Outcomes & Sanctions | MBA

and are generally followed by a more significant sanction if a pattern develops. A warning becomes part of the student’s official record but is not considered a formal disciplinary action. Warnings are not noted on a student’s transcript... View Details

30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

functional form of the underlying model that best represents the data. Thus researchers could use such methods to explore novel and robust patterns in data, allowing the researcher to engage in inductive or abductive theory building. ML’s... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Daniela Villafuerte | MBA

importance of this research can have a great and tangible impact on the quality of life of society. Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: As an INTEL-ISEF Finalist, I developed a system that measures sound decibels and displays light... View Details

19 Nov 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?

brick-and-mortar retail, specifically in the form of large-scale shopping malls, is still the dominant venue for consumer purchases in the developed world. Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data This study proposes a practical and tractable model of economic... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

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

photography, Machine Age photographers created elemental shapes and abstractions of industrial production that extolled the functional beauty of worker and machine. In an image produced for the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company, for example, the imposing arms of a loom... View Details

19 Sep 2016
News

The Real Meaning of Love

how this is so nuanced in different ways in all of our lives, whether we’re like the big scary bully in the corner or whether it’s just the patterns we use to interact with each other to resolve conflict, et cetera. How can you have a... View Details

20 Oct 2016
News

Smart Moves

INRIX analytics offer similar benefits to corporate customers, Mistele adds, providing greater efficiencies to company fleet operations, commuting time estimates to realtors and home buyers, hourly traffic patterns to retailers and... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

05 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 5, 2006

traditionally rewarded men for their masculine displays of bravado and their interactions centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were notably absent. Although the company did not set out to change the traditional gendered View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

A series of experiments demonstrates this pattern in competitive contexts in which considering others' perspectives activates egoistic theories of their likely behavior, leading people to counter by behaving more egoistically themselves.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2003
News

Books

to new product and service failure rates of 80 percent or more, Zaltman urges market researchers to challenge the status quo. “The sinking of the Titanic resulted from a failure to question two-and-a-half decades of practice,” he notes. “Similar View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

13 Aug 2018
Blog Post

Following My Dream: Launching a Venture

at different times of the day and observed customization and turnout patterns on a longer time-frame. Users are excited to try out new ingredients and we even served a user who has never had a smoothie before in his entire life! (He loved... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Jun 2020
News

Staying the Course

path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin When using Dreambox, first-graders can learn pattern recognition from colorful cartoon pirates, third-graders are quizzed... View Details

Keywords: April White; online education

01 Oct 1997
News

Theory & Practice

the ways in which game theory can help explain actual patterns of interaction. Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers of Management by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard Business School Press) In a new book that draws on nearly two decades of... View Details

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