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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Christensen Center: Open for Business
(1989). “The School has always fostered good mentoring relationships among its faculty,” notes Emmons. “The center will complement that important practice.” The center will also pursue best-practice research on a range of topics, including the tailoring of teaching... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has... View Details
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
On It? The Effects of Overnight Sleep on Subjective Preference-Based Choice, forthcoming in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Sleeping on a decision may not lead to a happy outcome. ©iStock/vadimguzhva In order to test their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
those of their firms? Can such behaviors be predicted and averted? That is a subject of Daniel Kahneman's new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. He concludes, based on his research, that as decision-makers, we rely too heavily on System 1... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
adaptation of the strategy map—perhaps done annually—and provides a central resource for implementing all five management processes to become a strategy-focused organization (the subject of our previous book): mobilize, translate, align,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
for people in need; its food service makes brownies for, among other clients, Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Appetizing as it sounds, the business is subject to market fluctuations like any other, cautioned Sherman. No one should attempt to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
patented method of doing this, called the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET), centers on having interview subjects select images that best reflect their state of mind concerning the item in question. The images consumers select... View Details
- 02 May 2018
- Blog Post
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
determines the value of sharing would be low and “the distraction it would cause would be significant.” This prompts the subject of our conversation today: Should compensation data be shared inside organizations? On what should a decision... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
entrepreneurs, now VC and CEO advisers) believe the four traits in the title (or HSGL) are critical for entrepreneurs. From their work with hundreds of business builders around the globe, they found that every one of their subjects... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
business leaders from the region. Session topics covered the current status and outlook for various industries and issues ranging from venture and investment capital, to entertainment and media, to consumer marketing. Other panels examined View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
the Genome Institute of Singapore. With so much to do, Yeo sets a very fast pace. Eighteen-hour days are the norm. Outside the office, he's often poring over books and journals on subjects such as immunology, genetics, and microbiology.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
DoubleClick last April, WPP quickly countered with the purchase of 24/7 Real Media. Also high on Sorrell's agenda is the subject of corporate social responsibility (CSR)—or global corporate citizenship—which he says was catapulted into... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
mechanism, which we refer to as the "clamped second price auction mechanism," into the laboratory to determine whether it helps human subjects learn to play their optimal strategy faster than the standard second price auction... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
error-prone by using employees' subjective time estimates. Also, in the mid-1980s, we failed to fully understand the critical role played by capacity when estimating cost driver rates. The insight about the central role for capacity did... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online
innovation Earn by: completing any three courses within either subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 4 Modules, 20-25 Hours Download full syllabus 5-6 hrs Module 1 Design Understand... View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges Between Education and Business
participants when they came together to report on their group discussions, "Your ideas clearly show the great dividend we can get through cooperation, exchange, and learning from one another." Barriers Linger Businesses have lots of reasons to be hesitant about... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month | Baker Library
"Success by 40," which features small business successes by young, local entrepreneurs. The subjects range from fast food chain owners to fashion designers to seafood wholesalers. The stories showcase the diversity of entrepreneurial... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
incentives and compensation systems, is investigating his theory that effective measurement of performance must use subjective judgment and qualitative assessments in combination with objective measures. Professor Carliss Y. Baldwin, with... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
study, they asked the subjects (all of whom were working on projects requiring creative effort) to fill out a daily electronic diary form that required numerical answers to questions about their work that day, as well as their emotions,... View Details
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
sociologists (and increasingly, economists) view networks to be essential to the functioning of markets, I will review much of the work that has been done in economic sociology on the formation of networks, as well as a little of the research on the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace