Shaping the Waves - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

the sunk cost effect. Patients would be more likely to say, "I'm paying for it, I shouldn't let it go to waste." Q: Some purchases reflect the capricious nature of people. Is it ever better to get... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

2021
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Does Who Helps You Impact Your Behavior? Examining the Effects of Social Interactions on Knowledge Sharing in Online Communities

By: Eunkwang Seo, Frank Nagle and Sonali K. Shah

Online communities provide vibrant forums for knowledge sharing and are increasingly being used by individual users and firms to source knowledge and create and capture value. Yet, there is much to learn about how the actions of community members affect other members,... View Details

Keywords: Online Communities; Knowledge Development; Innovation; Reciprocity; Knowledge Sharing; Networks; Innovation and Invention; Interpersonal Communication

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Tony Cragg Over the Earth 2014 | About

investigates the complex internal formal constructions and geometries that give rise to exterior forms. In Over the Earth , Cragg explores not only nature and the forces of... View Details

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OWN: The Power of Company Ownership - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog OWN: The Power of Company Ownership Course Number 1235 Senior Lecturer Josh Baron Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits Exam or Paper Overview: This course explores the power of ownership in View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

direction. He then learned that by coating a thin sheet of plastic with microscopic crystals, he could stretch and align the crystals before the material dried. This synthetic polarizing material could be... View Details

19 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition

friendships with classmates from all walks of life, and through these relationships I have been inspired by the multitude of ways that my classmates are shaping the world.... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology

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Arbor Health Care Company

By: Myra M. Hart and Stephanie Dodson

A venture-funded start-up runs into trouble when health care reimbursement policies change radically. With the help of its board, the company develops a new strategy, becomes profitable, and makes a public offering. The second wave of changes introduced by Clinton... View Details

Keywords: Industry Structures; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Succession; Business Startups; Transformation; Strategy; Venture Capital; Policy; Initial Public Offering; Health Industry

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22 Nov 2015
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Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job

A recent story in the New York Times that details entrepreneurs’ growing interest in shaping policy highlights the lobbying efforts of Hello Alfred, a personal butler service... View Details

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

the economy at large absorb adverse economic shocks? Or does the local population decline, stuck in economic decay? The answers to those questions are vital for economists,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

networks as we know them, with their devices, will cease to exist within the next decade. These bit based clod machines will yield to a kind of biologic environment, where the systems are secondary to View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Oct 30 2019
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Leading Change in Real Estate

07 Jan 2015
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SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

our personal computers. In an effort to shape our individual images through the use of networking devices, we are nevertheless disclosing many things about ourselves that can be employed by clever marketers... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Feb 06 2019
Testimonial

Implementing Vision on a Global Scale

10 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology

remote organization. Alife Health was created and critically shaped under the direction of mentors across the Harvard community. Their support has helped propel View Details

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Bibliography - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Shaping of American China Policy, 1784-1844 . Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1997. Fairbank, John King, Ernest R. May, and Alfred D. Chandler. America’s China Trade in Historical Perspective: The... View Details

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

party to another, spreading it out over large groups, and (in some cases) simply reducing it outright. These policies, in turn, have profoundly shaped the environment in which business operates. Public risk... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

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Melvin Edwards Searching for the Word 1989/2019 | About

civil rights. Searching for the Word is based on an earlier 1989 maquette Edwards created for New York's Governor’s Arts Awards and recalls his other public sculptures from the same period, such as Southern... View Details

Elizabeth R. Johnson

Liz is a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior program at Harvard Business School. She is broadly interested in studying identity, inequality, and well-being, particularly how intersectional identities shape workplace experiences.

Prior to... View Details

19 Dec 2011
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Anthony J. Mayo: An interview by Bob Morris

17 Sep 2024
Blog Post

The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024)

questions I posed before the MBA, HBS has brought me closer to being the mission-driven, responsible leader I aspire to be. How has the classroom experience enriched your... View Details

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