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- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
don't notice it, but we only have visual information when the eye is fairly fixed." Combining the expression data with the eye-tracking data yielded important results. "We found that people's attention patterns on-screen were different View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
"Creativity does have a reputation for being magical," says HBS professor Teresa Amabile. "One myth is that it's associated with the particular personality or genius of a person—and in fact, creativity does depend to some... View Details
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
whether we should be happy or sad when companies merge." Quantifying Quality Sheen faced the challenge of tracking both product pricing and product quality before and after company mergers. As a finance scholar, he depends on... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
a productive way for a company to respond? Spar: To be targeted is to be chosen by an NGO (or group of NGOs) for specific attack. When this occurs, NGOs use a range of tactics, from pickets to boycotts to "cut up your credit card" campaigns. How firms respond... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
The stereotype is that creativity depends almost exclusively on a person's level of 'genius' — their raw, inborn talent for doing what they're doing. "Of course, talent is an important aspect of creativity," Amabile said.... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “Who's actually putting those groceries on the shelves still and who's driving the truck to get that food that gets put on those grocery shelves? It's the working class. We View Details
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
firms aim to replicate success, and how they find, foster, and sell potential blockbuster products. Also illustrates how similar efforts by competitors increase each firm's dependence on a handful of hits. Contains detailed unique... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
the final analysis, doesn't our faith in organizations still depend on trust placed in the leadership of the businesses in which we invest and for which we work? And doesn't that in large part depend on the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
represented a substantial barrier to entry to any competitors, our long-term success would depend on customer service, scalability, and building the brand. While practically every other dot-com chose to advertise on the Internet, we saw... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
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Takedown Policy | Baker Library
request for just cause. Upon determination of just cause, the item or items in question will be removed from public view until the request is resolved. Depending on the library’s findings, we may restrict access to the materials in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Building Your Own Dream Team
This era of social networking would surely have been invented by Keith Ferrazzi (MBA ’92) had it not sprouted on its own. Ferrazzi is well known as a professional networker in the best (or worst, depending on whom you’re talking to) HBS... View Details
- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
the energy crisis, and (2) the economic meltdown. I’ve been rereading Energy Future, HBS professor emeritus Robert Stobaugh’s 1979 best-seller that predicted America’s dependence on foreign oil could well lead the country into serious... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
case studies, for example, are five times more costly to produce than domestic ones. Conducting the intensive, field-based experiments that Ashraf’s research requires depends on even greater resources than those needed to write a case.... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
differential in turn depends on the mobility of the technology's labor force, which we model through the extent that technologies depend upon immigrant scientists and engineers. Spatial adjustments are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
How to Think About Networking
beginning the conversations in the networking process, it is important to have thought about the career criteria that are important to you in your next position. These can be stated in six or eight declarative sentences. You may or may not mention any of these in your... View Details
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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
of fintech is about providing services to banks. Third, many innovators depend on banks as their partners – either to provide credit to them or to facilitate their financial transactions, both in lending and in payments. In this first... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change
What do Chinese coal plants and the American legislative branch have in common? They are both major adversaries in the fight against climate change, according to former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón. "The most serious problem is in the United States... View Details
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
effects—wherein the value of a service is dependent on the number of people using it. Case in point: Amazon.com's attempt to enter the online auction business failed because eBay already had such a strong, ever-growing base of sellers,... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School’s Armed Forces Alumni Association
Lee (MBA 2025), Chief Financial Officer "Throughout my time in the military and now at HBS, I’ve come to realize that the legacy I leave behind depends on the impact I have on others. As a female veteran—representing just 1% of our... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP and the Bonus of Climate Educator Collaboration
(and already does) require climate knowledge. Sometimes progress is dependent on raising awareness of teaching materials; sometimes it is finding that open space to fit new teaching materials into a course; sometimes it’s about a new... View Details