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- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the Process of Innovation
feedback on every idea, his reputation for deep knowledge, and the impressive industry contacts he's acquired have earned him a loyal following: his idea-generation process yields 200 interesting concepts a month. The Winnowing Phase The... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gray
- 28 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Event Planning for Recruiting Success - Part 1
companies keep in mind feedback from students while they prepare. Students tell us that company presentations work well when given by a charismatic and authentic presenter who is knowledgeable and passionate about the company and the... View Details
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A Eureka Moment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Project, Bucala and four Harvard students surveyed parents, teachers, and students to determine customer demand and gain a clearer understanding of educational needs when building their app. With a human-centered approach to design, they used the customer View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
into a community of cat lovers. — Doris Banchik-Moxley (MBA 1984) 1) As a subscription service, invoke a simple recurring mechanism to allow faster feedback on your customers’ preferences. This will allow you to improve products and... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
itself. ©iStock/Nina Piatrouskaya Pitching an idea before actually producing a product can be advantageous to an entrepreneur because of the possibility of early and ongoing feedback from a seasoned buyer. By using this approach, the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
functional support units. Business units to customers: The priorities of the customer value proposition are communicated to targeted customers and reflected in specific customer feedback and measures. Business support units to suppliers... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
current? KL: We’ve created four platforms to stay engaged with our constituents. One is a Learning Network (see related story) in which we foster a feedback loop among our alumni, practitioners, and faculty. We are building ways to share... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
sales annually. “Two hundred families are employed and benefitting from his enterprise,” says Bhargava. The best part of the program, says Bhargava, and what keeps him going, is the feedback from I Create alumni and their families. “The... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
and shareholder expectations, and is investing well in its people and information resources. To help companies ensure that the board receives the right information about company strategy and performance, as well as feedback about the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
feedback to the employee may be adequate but of limited value toward the employee's development Most people manage for performance's sake rather than for development, he added. Managers who manage for performance are more likely to be... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
they can answer it in Slack.” You Might Also Like: In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go? Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity? Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge Feedback or ideas to share? Email the... View Details
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
trends? What do you think? Note: The term "consumer generated marketing" is derived from a term, "consumer-generated media," coined by Pete Blackshaw, chief marketing officer of Intelliseek, an Internet-based consumer View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap
down the line and to gaining trust in each other. 4. Force yourself to pitch to people whose opinions you care about We pushed ourselves to pitch our idea, even when we knew all of the questions weren’t perfectly answered, to people whose opinions we trusted.... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program
of the classroom. Your comment buddy would give you a signal if you needed to participate, and then give you feedback after class to help improve your comment.” 2. You’ll be inspired by female faculty members in the classroom “I was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
economies, and accounting/control. Thanks to the support of our colleagues in Executive Education, this five-module program will be rolled out in New York City starting in January. The reunions subcommittee was chaired by Janet Clarke (AMP 111, 1992). It analyzed View Details
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Commencement 2013 Address | About
experience, I hope you also realize how much HBS learned from you during this experience, and from your willingness to be the pioneers in this important experiment. Probably 40% of what we did in the second year of FIELD was different than what we did with you the... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
to be one of my classroom teachers tomorrow. And so they are incentivized to have very real feedback with these individuals, in real time, under the supervision of one of their mentor teachers. And that is a tradeoff we're willing to... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
police to protect the citizens. Olstrom dubbed the phenomenon "co-production." Since then, it has become common for organizations to treat consumers as production partners. Many high-tech firms hire existing customers to beta-test early versions of products, in order... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
any other factor, including class size and quality of the facilities. In various studies, the truly great teachers do things like giving good, individualized feedback while remaining sensitive and responding to interactions going on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett