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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
Researchers have long known that building high levels of voter trust and participation are essential to help fragile democracies thrive. The 2013 national elections in Kenya, which followed vast government changes after a flawed national... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 17 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York
interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical issues and opportunities of our times—from climate change and environmental sustainability to racial equity and social and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
escape denial. But there are telltale signs of it in an organization. And if you don’t spot it, you can’t fight it. Ask yourself: 1. What happens to the bearer of bad news? Does your firm “shoot the messenger”? Doing so doesn’t change... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
businesses to get funding. A number of crowd-funding platforms had appeared, but none were really set up to serve small businesses. I wondered if there was an opportunity there, and I called John to discuss the idea. Our conclusion was that it would be very difficult... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Finishing Touches
began to move into their new offices in Baker over the summer, even as workers continued to carry out the finishing touches that will prepare the building for its official dedication on September 19. Look for further coverage and photos of the View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
about anything. Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the country believe it could crawl out of a depression, rallied it around social change that created a middle class, and mobilized the greatest military in the world to conquer fascism. After... View Details
Keywords: Government
- Portrait Project
Marlene Ngoyi
I once dreamt of becoming a film-maker. When asked why, I often justified my aspiration with elaborate arguments in order to convince the skeptics. In reality, I did not want to be a film-maker, I simply wanted to depict stories that would awake emotions, View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
things with an independent lens and facilitate conversations between the board and the executives, which might not otherwise happen in a constructive way." CHANGING LANDSCAPE "I think there is much more of a focus on outcomes and outcomes... View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- News
The Key to Inclusive Leadership
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
mantra included: "At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock," and the straightforward "man in the Hathaway shirt." By 1985, Ogilvy changed his tune, agreeing that a little fun is fine,... View Details
- 20 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All
the ruse and know full well these prices are just guidelines. Unrepentant Perhaps for that reason, some companies have ended up in court several times, showing no signs of changing the practice. “When a retailer like Kohl’s gets sued over... View Details
- 21 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
My Fear of Student Debt: Funding the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
then became mentors. HBS also matched me with the donor of my need-based aid, and facilitated a dinner on campus with my donor. These fellowship experiences changed the trajectory of my professional and personal life. Pursuing my dream of... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
The nonprofit world required a change in thinking for Tercek. "At Goldman Sachs, goals and metrics were super clear," he said. "At TNC, it's not as black and white. All the work we do is important. But we have to be vigilant about... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
pace of change in many markets accelerates and as some industries move toward serving "markets of one," the cost of understanding and responding to customers' needs can easily spiral out of control. In the course of studying... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 24 May 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Reinventing the American Wine Industry: Marketing Strategies and the Construction of Wine Culture
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
between tax brackets within a state-year cell and which absorb heterogeneity and contemporaneous changes in economic conditions; ii) an instrumental variable approach, which predicts changes in an individual... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
far." ShotSpotter has developed technology to help law enforcement detect and locate gunfire, and Clark believes that the officers who stood by as Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd should be prosecuted. “It’s really, really important that those other officers are... View Details
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Simmons Graduate School of Management, in Boston. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, she taught at Columbia University and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Professor Ely received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Yale... View Details
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
behavior would not sit well at the annual industry association meeting and your holier-than-thou superiority claim might tempt fate and attract a terrorist attack. If anything, safety is downplayed as pre-flight instructions to airline... View Details
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably
several other sites where encouraging consumer product-return was a major challenge because of the behavioral change required for that industry, hence we continued to wrestle with the question of how... View Details