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- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
"A world without surprises or bad news is utopian I often coach employees to expect the worst and prepare for it studies should focus on preparation rather than prevention." Paul McKay commented that "By having a clear, focused View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1970 Born, Oakland, California 1993 Earns BA, Political Economy, UC Berkeley 1993 Joins McKinsey, Business Analyst 1998 Earns MBA/MPA 1998 Joins Consolidation Capital Corp., VP View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
Fortune magazine's "Fifty Most Powerful Women in American Business." Why has Lucent performed so well since its divestiture from AT&T? We have been growing globally faster than our markets. Our ability to focus on the hottest growth segments in the communications... View Details
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
lacking private sector experience, I was also pushed to develop more effective strategies for translating the business case for equity and inclusion. My final year provided opportunities for synthesis, as I enjoyed electives across both... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
change). They can be used to diagnose a culture and to model how likely an individual leader is to align with and shape it. The authors offer five insights regarding culture's effect on companies' success: (1) When aligned with strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
able to collect hundreds of terabytes of data on the shoppers. Given that the company already makes close to $1 billion in advertising, that is information the company can then quickly turn around and sell to advertisers for an even... View Details
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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
helps explain why platforms offering a restricted number of candidates can coexist alongside those offering a larger number of candidates, while charging higher prices. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-098.pdf View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Lady Gaga, and LeBron James? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge over their rivals? In this book, drawing on my case studies and other research on the worlds of media and sports, I... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
Co.: Breaking New Grounds Harvard Business School Case 807-004 Examines the strategies of a Boston-based start-up to market Rwandan coffee. Describes the history of the coffee industry, the era of cartelization and the International... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
announced staff cuts in reaction to slowing or declining demand. US government data from October suggests that employers remain cautious, adding just 12,000 new positions in the month as unemployment remained steady at 4.1 percent, edging... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
with far-reaching impact on the global economy—a shortfall the Private Capital Project expects to address by collecting and curating previously unavailable data. “One of our initiatives involves creating a platform that will combine big View Details
- 26 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More
down in May. He teamed with prominent economists to study price data from June 2018—the month before the trade war began—to early 2019. Their work combines import and export prices at the US border, collected by the Bureau of Labor... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
in California and Texas, asking questions about coalition building, data collection, evaluation, stakeholder management, and community engagement,” she says. “This was at a time when COVID-19 was exposing a big range of underlying health... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
simulations, but Strategic Brew stands alone in scope. All 940 first-year students play the game simultaneously as part of the required Strategy course. Roughly 40 faculty and project members manage and supervise the events. “It’s a... View Details
- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
contexts. This means that Log9 has a unique and well-differentiated CVP to offer OEMs as it seeks to gain new customers and grow. Go-To-Market: One striking revelation was Log 9's strategy for targeting a commercial customer base. By... View Details
- 03 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1934217 Elevating Repositioning Costs: Strategy Dynamics and Competitive Interactions in Grand Strategy By: Menon, Anoop R., and Dennis A. Yao Abstract—This paper proposes an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Alexandra C. Feldberg
spent a year working at Columbia, taking classes, and doing research. I then moved across the country to San Francisco, where I completed a fellowship with Education Pioneers doing data analysis and strategy... View Details