Cognition and Thinking - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 2016
Case

thredUP: Think Secondhand First

By: Thomas Eisenmann, Allison Ciechanover and Jeff Huizinga

In the fall of 2016, the management team at thredUP, the largest U.S. online retailer of second hand clothing, is deciding whether to expand into international markets. Over the past 12 months the 7-year-old startup, which had raised over $130 million in venture... View Details

Keywords: Scaling Start-ups; International Expansion; Online Consignment; Apparel; Internet and the Web; Expansion; Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Business Startups; E-commerce; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; San Francisco

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March 2010
Column

Think Outside the Building

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Keywords: Cognition and Thinking

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15 Nov 2016
News

HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking

Professor Lauren H. Cohen (photo by Eliza Grinnell) Professor Lauren H. Cohen (photo by Eliza Grinnell) Professor Karim R. Lakhani (photo by Richard Howard) Professor Karim R. Lakhani (photo by Richard Howard) Collaboration between faculty members at Harvard Business... View Details

27 Jan 2020
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Think Outside the Building

24 Apr 2014
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Thinking globally about business challenges and people's lives

Stever Robbins (MBA 1991) is a serial entrepreneur who applies an engineering mindset to solving problems for companies and coaching people through career and life changes. (Published April 2014) View Details

23 Feb 2022
Video

Thinking Differently: Part Three

27 Apr 2007
Conference Presentation

Frameworks for Thinking about Modularity, Industry Architecture, and Evolution

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Framework; Cognition and Thinking; Engineering

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December 1998 (Revised April 1999)
Case

Mind of the Market: Top Down Cognitive Processes, Primer Six

By: Gerald Zaltman and Kathryn A. Braun

Keywords: Markets; Research; Consumer Behavior

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01 Jun 2012
News

Think Locally, Act Globally

Issue Focus: The Global Manager Mittal Issue Focus: The Global Manager Around the World They Call Him Mr. China Bringing Global Back Home In 1976, in India’s Punjab region, 18-year-old Sunil Bharti Mittal (OPM 27, 1999) borrowed a modest sum from his father View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information

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4 Stages of the Design Thinking Process

March 2018
Case

EKOL Logistics: Thinking Outside the Box

By: Willy C. Shih and Esel Çekin

This case describes Ekol, an intermodal transportation and logistics company, and how it manages capacity planning. Its busiest routes linked motor vehicle assemblers in Germany and Turkey with many of their parts suppliers, but it had also developed key links in... View Details

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Is the Moral Domain Unique?: A Social Influence Perspective for the Study of Moral Cognition

By: J. Lees and F. Gino

The nature of the cognitive processes that give rise to moral judgment and behavior has been a central question of psychology for decades. In this paper, we suggest that an often ignored yet fruitful stream of research for informing current debates on the nature of... View Details

Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Social Psychology

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16 Sep 2021
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Dean Datar on Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving

Courtesy Patrick McGinnis Courtesy Patrick McGinnis Dean Srikant Datar recently spoke to author, podcast host, and venture capitalist Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004) about design thinking View Details

2018
Working Paper

Moral Prospection: Cognitive Bias and the Failure to Predict Moral Backlash Toward an Organization

By: J. Lees

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2017
Gender Conformity & Nonconformity

Thinking Expansively About Gender Nonconformity and Workplace Anti-Discrimination Strategies

01 Jun 2008
News

Watching the Brain Think and the Surprises of Science

“ One unstated objective of science is to make a difference: to learn something, or make something, that changes the way people think or behave. Many of the biggest discoveries — the most important scientifically View Details

Keywords: science; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

06 Jun 2008
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

rises to the top levels are very productive and very diligent individuals who tend not to reflect and are extremely efficient at deploying other people's ideas," implying that this type of leader is not... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

Aug 2014
Conference Presentation

A New Look at Corporate Parenting: Linking Structure and Cognition in the Multibusiness Firm

By: Ranjay Gulati

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21 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?

shortcuts and heuristics, and therefore they're susceptible to biases and mistakes. The implication is that if maybe they thought more, they'd do better. "And then there's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel