encouragement - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

customers are encouraged to trade down to lower margin merchandise or services, or just become so confused that they won't buy. It is difficult enough to compete with others; do not compete with yourself! By and large, simple product... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

motivate and encourage its students to join the fight by bringing more of these challenges to the forefront in the classroom and making careers in these spaces more accessible and practical. As students, the greatest opportunity for us is... View Details

04 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

the beginning Why do people take such a risk when there's plenty of other money out there? Because [friends-and-family] money is too easy to obtain, which encourages people to start marginal businesses. Beyond that, friends and family do... View Details

Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

01 Oct 1997
News

High Fives

have encouraged our clients to take substantial portions of their U.S. equity portfolios and buy international stocks.” Views on investing in emerging markets: “Those markets are enticing but can be unbelievably volatile. We think the... View Details

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

new electronic-based century. I hope that this review of the opportunities for writing the history of electronic-based businesses and industries—the industries that created the infrastructure for the new electronic century—will encourage... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

was born. Everyone offered their well wishes, support for anything my family needed, and encouragement when I needed it most. I remember when The first friend I decided to tell I was pregnant was a sectionmate of mine with whom I am very... View Details

05 Jul 2021
What Do You Think?

Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?

pandemic, we still have to ask ourselves whether the future of the CXO is a bright one. After all, isn’t the customer experience everyone’s responsibility? Shouldn’t everybody be encouraged to regularly test the customer experience... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Harvard Business School

Rodriguez MBA 1984 Argelia Rodriguez was the first president and CEO of the District of Columbia College Access Program (DC-CAP), an organization established in 1999 to encourage and enable public and public charter high school students... View Details

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

"button downed" and idealizes a more sophisticated, centralized approach. Both often "look down" on one another. Anything that can be done to bridge the gap is very useful. Several things can be done to encourage... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

contact information. They also took advantage of newspaper ads and other public postings. Identifying members for their first side was just the beginning. The founders then had to encourage the property owners to post their listings on... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Sep 2019
Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

argue a position are crucial skills, and views HMS clinical rotations and HBS classes as being “amazing academic environments in which to develop and hone one’s ability to be an advocate for a cause, a patient, or an idea.” Although she acknowledges that each school... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

a software company that encourages households to reduce their energy consumption. From Opower's earliest days, its managers utilized experiments to amplify their environmental impact and enhance customer value. We will revisit some of... View Details

02 Mar 2012
HBS Seminar

Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University

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AOM Ethno PDW 2009-2014

AOM PDW 2014: Being There/Being Them: Entry, Exit, and In-Between in Organization Ethnography

Co-Organizers: Michel Anteby, Harvard; Curtis K. Chan, Harvard; Julia DiBenigno,... View Details

2017
Other Book

Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices

By: Matthew Taylor, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent

I was not the only person appointed to the Review. My fellow Review team members, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent have not only been an important source of ideas and wisdom throughout the process but have led in engaging with key groups of... View Details

Keywords: Future Of Work; Labor Relations; Marketplaces; Employment; Labor and Management Relations; Labor; Markets

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Press / Media

By: Karim R. Lakhani

Can America Invent Its Way Back?

BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008

Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details

Research Summary

Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

counterintuitive driver: the fact that in the US, pharmaceutical companies subsidize the purchase of their drugs. Medicare, the government insurer for elderly or disabled people in the US, encourages patients who can’t afford their drug... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical

30 Apr 2019
News

Founder of Hinge Has Some Thoughts on Your Dating Profile

on-again/off-again relationship with the woman who eventually became his wife a few months ago, inspired the development and unique features of Hinge. “My experience with Kate taught me the importance of being vulnerable,” McLeod told Vogue. “Hinge View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

26 Jun 2019

Harvard Graduate School Information Session in Washington, D.C.

This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School. Candidates with an interest in pursuing a joint degree between two of these schools are particularly View Details

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