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Sara Roedner
Trunk Club, which provides a "curated" shopping experience for stylish men who prefer not to shop. "They're growing rapidly and the business model is constantly changing. I'll help with analyses and strategic... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
flexible random coefficients aggregate discrete choice model that accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success, and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control for unobserved quality in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Only one brand, Chanel N° 5, now over 80 years old, holds strong market positions across the world. People in different countries like quite different scents. In the words of one executive, “American women tend to prefer fresh, clean... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
women's winning chances. In contrast, in the less prejudiced states, there is no decline in new women candidates and a significant increase in the vote share and winning chances of women. The evidence is consistent with backlash driven by voter and party View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
in others and show that all these definitions are equivalent. We then introduce a new class of substitutable preferences that allows us to model intermediaries with production capacity. We also prove that substitutability is preserved... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Event Planning for Recruiting Success – Part 2
Conversations, you can reserve one of our office’s video conference rooms. Or, use your preferred web based video conference tool and we can reserve small rooms on campus for students if they need a quiet space. For public Company... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
one organization that Innosight worked with preferred to talk about transforming zombies into angels. It certainly sounds more pleasant than purging or killing zombies! We do purposefully call this a zombie amnesty to highlight the fact... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
Courtesy of Flatiron Books Courtesy of Flatiron Books When Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) sat down to write Quench Your Own Thirst, published this month, he realized he had told these stories many times before—usually over a beer, preferably a... View Details
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Yiwei Li
managerial accounting—using data to solve an organization’s problems, which has very broad applications.” Yiwei notes that he prefers management accounting to economics because it’s more practical and grounded in real-world experience. “I... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
Beshears collaborated on a field study in which 6,000 university employees were asked if they’d like to increase their retirement contributions right away or if they’d prefer to make an increase in the near future. When the future date... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
Harvard Business School. The experiment was typical of thinking in those days: If only we had better ways of communicating, especially better ways of tracking customer preferences and demand. Now we do. Another notion prevalent in those... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
Industrial customers prefer to see products and services unbundled and priced separately. Gimmicks are out; reliability, durability, safety, and performance are in. New products, especially those that address the new consumer reality and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
Christensen said. However, additional information is not what students want. In fact, many would prefer to pass the course without having to read at all. What product would allow a student to pass a course without doing the required... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
transparency to the pricing and cut out the middleman. So I say yes absolutely you can and should have some off-the-rack options (still tailored to fit). This may even be preferred for the woman who is time-strapped or low on creativity... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
examine a prominent justification for capital income taxation: goods preferred by those with high ability ought to be taxed. In an environment where commodity taxes are allowed to be nonlinear functions of income and consumption, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
families. I don’t want to discount all the benefits they get out of that arrangement. That said, my main skepticism of that preference comes from other research I’ve done on the metaverse, a vision for a 3D internet, and other digital... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics
torch relay. Lenovo's sponsorship will doubtless reinforce its brand preference rankings in China. However, around the world, Lenovo hardly wishes to be known as the Chinese PC company that consumers find convenient to boycott. Here are... View Details
- Fast Answer
Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change
environmental sustainability, agriculture, health and education sector. It prefers to make equity investments for-profit companies operating in the affordable education services across the world with a focus on Africa, Asia and Latin... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
databases: ABI/Inform, OneSource, and CareerSearch. This active committee will also survey graduates to understand how they currently use the Alumni Web site. The goal is to design a personal preference software agent that would allow... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)