Patterns - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture

her sleep patterns – to try to improve her performance. It was during this time that she connected with Wallerstofer, who had a PhD in biotechnology and had spent the previous decade building consumer facing nutrition products based on... View Details

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

patterns of their male colleagues," says coauthor Kolb. And without women in high places, younger women lack the role models and mentors to help them succeed. It seems the organization is signaling that being female is a liability,... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

01 Nov 2016
First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 to 1994. The interaction of this preexisting network structure with patent growth... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

that you might be changing existing communication patterns among staff” One likely reason for the decline: processing electronic records can change the way staff members communicate with one another, clogging up what had been a well-oiled... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

pattern of actions guide it. He is attempting to give you that philosophy and pattern of action, and to help you develop your own." George E. McCown (HBS MBA '62), Research Assistant to Georges Doriot, 1962... View Details

31 Oct 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

issues in business history concerned how business enterprises innovated and created wealth as well as patterns of success and failure in that process. There now exists, after a lag, a compelling stream of research focused on the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

-1,000 otherwise" over "0 with certainty." Studies 3, 4, and 5 address the apparent discrepancy between these results and the evidence for loss aversion documented in previous research. The results reveal that only under very specific conditions does the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 24

terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, reveals broad patterns about the use of alternative financing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?

of war. We have reached the tipping point where Pax Americana now threatens Brand America. For some, the problem is the Bush administration's pattern of unilateral decision making. For others, especially in Europe, Bush's manner has... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2009
News

Alumni Books

Publishing) The most dangerous problems are those you don’t know about. Roberto presents seven skill sets useful for uncovering such problems: how to get past dangerous information “filtering”; watch how people behave, not what they say; pick meaningful View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

11 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

Question: What patterns emerge from history that can help us better understand where we are today? Sophus Reinert: To many people, globalization is teleological, something that necessarily becomes stronger over time and leads to an... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

14 Mar 2007
Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

shares of private-equity groups reveals wild fluctuations. As Judge Medina stated when reviewing the changing rankings of underwriters a half-century ago, "The only pattern is no pattern." Thus, the reality of the market seems... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures

detailed understanding of the local context, but also to have a perspective on opportunities and resources globally," he said. A number of open questions remain, however. In terms of the importance of local context, he asked, which aspects of local context matter... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2000
What Do You Think?

Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?

and England (Joseph Ramsey). Several respondents pointed out, however, that the benefits of deregulation are less obvious to consumers than its failures. The latter include short-term dislocations of demand-and-supply patterns and the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jan 2011
News

Robert Kraft, MBA 1965

to be an extremely risky decision made by a sports fanatic, but in time it proved to be a winning business move. The decision to buy the Patriots fits a pattern that Kraft developed at a young age. He is a man who believes that anything... View Details

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In-Person Programs: Q&A with Portfolio Directors

had to go to great lengths to come to campus, overcoming all sorts of obstacles including getting vaccines, navigating overall travel restrictions as well as their own company’s restrictions on travel, and much more. Once they arrived, they went through the usual View Details

28 Jan 2011
News

HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation

pioneered the case method and nurtured its adoption in business education around the globe, Moon is cautiously optimistic that the latest curriculum changes will repeat that pattern by developing new techniques that can be replicated... View Details

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

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

29 Feb 2016
HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

patterns and reduce your monitoring staff by 25 percent, but it’s better to explain how the public will get through rush-hour faster and how they will be able to pick up their kids more quickly,” says Weiss. In addition, he says, “city... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

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