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- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
converse with individual consumers and follow through with messages adapted to their unique needs and interests. Direct mail and the telephone, however, have been relatively expensive to employ on a mass-market scale. Now, digital... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
Message in a Melody that hosted music events to fundraise for Pediatric Oncology Research. At twenty, some friends and I tried to build a second-hand item marketplace on my campus—we failed because we were not resilient to negative... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
$200,000. “Music transcends everything about us that is physical,” says Harris. “So often a song can say something in a way that a conversation can’t. I like being in a position of communicating a message of hope, joy, and the idea that... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
requested amount generates a small increase in the settlement rate. However, for the same reduced request, a message informing infringers of the price reduction and acknowledging the possible unintentionality generate a large increase in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
7,000 messages a day in subtle ways, not so subtle ways. And it's everything from things they hear on the radio or other music they're listening to T-shirts people are wearing to video games to things they're seeing online. And so to cut... View Details
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
Director Eileen Chang, past fellowship recipients, and donors focused on the impact and meaning of the fellowship. In total, 108 alumni and potential donors participated. “The many voices in this discussion represented powerful messages... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Beau D'Arcy
and social media messages of support from friends, family, and total strangers." How would you respond to skeptics who question whether such an ambitious project is possible? "It is not uncommon for somebody to judge my book by... View Details
- 05 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
Joey Fatone from the band *NSYNC to read me a going away message on Cameo, which put a smile on my face thousands of miles away. This gesture showed how people-centric and awesome the team is, and how they made the best out of the given... View Details
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
innovations, companies and markets necessary to save the planet. To memorialize their content, organizers from the HBS Business and Environment Initiative asked panelists to share (in writing) the main messages they hoped attendees would... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
answers." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "One of the most important elements of leadership is fairness. You have to be consistent in the decisions that you make and the messages that you deliver. An organization looks to you as representative... View Details
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
of Women World Leaders and Former Managing Director and Senior Advisor of Goldman Sachs, presents "Does the Message about the Importance of Diversity Need to Change?" at the 2017 Gender and Work Symposium. Laura Liswood, Secretary General... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
savings. "There was this macho message that if you really want to be part of this family, you must put all of your savings into our 401(k)," Luthra says, visibly angry. "They went bust and took 25 years of [my] savings with... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
managers. Health care innovators must master not only managerial skills but also the complex forces affecting the sector." One clear message emerging from the conference was the importance of change management. How are concepts underlying... View Details
- 16 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
organization,” Roberts suggests. 4. Keep confronting racial bias in hiring Companies should train managers to root out racial bias from their hiring and recruitment processes. They should also invest in retaining black professionals, in part by reinforcing the View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)
driven. There need to be systems in place to drive the change forward and create the broader messaging that assert its importance and relevance. Those are the issues that really drove me to do this work and still stand as true. Holly: I... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
career studying technological change, Henderson has observed trends and common traits across a variety of industries. “I believe energy is the problem of our time.” And her message is optimistic. Moving to clean energy "is not... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
Ibaraki National University that we hope will create more and more foot traffic. People will be able to come to shop, meet for coffee, go to museums and concerts. They can also go to the Ibaraki Robots Arena by tram. I think the tram will be a central part of downtown... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
self-made men and that made for a strong connection. Both had very high expectations and insisted they be met. If they said, “Take that hill by 6 a.m.” and you reported back that the hill was taken at 6:15, they’d say, “You’re 15 minutes late.” They would convey that... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
tenure from 2011 to 2013 at JCPenney, where messages from top executives were so murky, the retail company was described as a place where “communication goes to die,” the researchers write, leading to rumors and distrust within the firm.... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz