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- 04 Aug 2017
- News
The negative side of positive thinking
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
practitioners and companies.” Sandra Pérez Botero Design Thinking and Innovation Participant Create products and services that resonate with your audience by understanding and applying human-centered design....
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- 26 Oct 2012
Information Session
Group information sessions led by our Admissions staff. Learn about the MBA program and ask questions. Session begins at 4:15 EST in Aldrich 108. No registration required.
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The art of thinking creatively
Art Society. The works, all by “very young, emerging artists,” can be viewed online, but the collection program is intended to be seen in person in order to help students think more imaginatively in their...
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- 21 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
How to Think About Networking
a connection knew about the posting, with a good portion of those jobs not even existing until a person appeared on the scene to offer a solution to the problem. There are two ways to think about a network – picture two images each with...
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- 09 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?
Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the...
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- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
the other, but that is not always true. The reasons are partly financial—meaning that by managing your operations well you may be able to eliminate wasteful activity, such as unnecessary hospitalizations. And partly I View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when...
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- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
HBS heavy-hitters Clay Christensen and Michael Porter closed out a recent conference organized by HBS and Harvard Medical School. Held on the HBS campus November 14 and 15, "Healing Ourselves: Addressing Healthcare's Innovation Challenge"...
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- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
the jobs exported are those involving relatively little "ownership" potential and they are replaced by those created by the entrepreneurial, small-business engine that has fueled the U.S. economy...
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by James Heskett
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
co-chaired the conference and co-edited the book, with the idea of capturing as much as possible of the excellent thinking that came out during this event. By "broadband explosion" we mean the...
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- December 2019
- Article
Invest in Information or Wing It? A Model of Dynamic Pricing with Seller Learning
By: Guofang Huang, Hong Luo and Jing Xia
Pricing idiosyncratic products is often challenging because the seller, ex ante, lacks information about the demand for individual items. This paper develops a model of dynamic pricing for idiosyncratic products that features the optimal stopping structure and a seller...
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Dynamic Pricing;
Idiosyncratic Products;
Item-specific Demand;
Demand Uncertainty;
Active Seller Learning;
The Value Of Information;
Price;
Information;
Value;
Learning
Huang, Guofang, Hong Luo, and Jing Xia. "Invest in Information or Wing It? A Model of Dynamic Pricing with Seller Learning." Management Science 65, no. 12 (December 2019): 5556–5583.
- June 2019
- Article
Learning to Become a Taste Expert
By: Kathryn A. Latour and John A. Deighton
Evidence suggests that consumers seek to become more expert about hedonic products to enhance their enjoyment of future consumption occasions. Current approaches to becoming expert center on cultivating an analytic mindset. In the present research the authors explore...
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Latour, Kathryn A., and John A. Deighton. "Learning to Become a Taste Expert." Journal of Consumer Research 46, no. 1 (June 2019): 1–19.
- 06 Feb 2020
- News
What We Learned From Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
- August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
- Case
LendingClub (A): Data Analytic Thinking (Abridged)
By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
LendingClub was founded in 2006 as an alternative, peer-to-peer lending model to connect individual borrowers to individual investor-lenders through an online platform. Since 2014 the company has worked with institutional investors at scale. While the company assigns...
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Data Science;
Data Analytics;
Investing;
Loans;
Investment;
Financing and Loans;
Analytics and Data Science;
Analysis;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Business Model
Datar, Srikant M., and Caitlin N. Bowler. "LendingClub (A): Data Analytic Thinking (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 119-020, August 2018. (Revised September 2018.)
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Learning About Leadership
you learn what senior leadership behaviors don't work. “One thing that really didn't work was company leaderships that over-promised and under-delivered––every business has risks––and company managements that feel comfortable and are...
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Finance
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
about which the English language literature is minimal. Related Reading: Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time What do you think about this research? Have you led...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
thinks about competitive strategy. One of the things I enjoy about having conversations with these two is I always learn something. One of the things I dislike about current events shows is when they bring...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
company’s materials are designed to be as user-friendly as possible. A parent might help a child with pattern recognition by having them tap out rhythms with household utensils, or teach them to count by...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
Many cases discussed by MBAs require students to project themselves into CEO-level situations that could be a number of years away. The opposite is true of “Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC,” which chronicles the dilemmas faced View Details