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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
what I wished they were, and I was marginalizing things that should probably be more important to me. And I said, “What the hell, man?” On a plane one day, I overheard one of the most famous men in the world confessing to his wife that he... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
the presence of an alert for a low-score restaurant reduces its probability of getting a low score again. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54177 In the Shadows? Informal Enterprise in Non-Democracies... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
The founders wondered whether they should change the approach to growth: Should they slow it down temporarily or maintain the growth rate (and fix operational issues)? There was a high probability that BlackBuck's cash balances would fall... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
team, and using that to build the marketing plan,” says Flatley. It helps that they are neighbors at the company’s corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, about 10 miles west of Chicago. “We yell over the walls,” says Cunningham. “I probably... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
every time you put a product in market, you’d probably want a lot of eyes on it, too. But it also means you don’t get Nest. Venkat offers the FirstBuild production approach as a counter: To make a device that produces “nugget ice”—a more... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
problem-solving, so you’re probably going to be able to see two or three solutions around something in a way that other people don’t.” The other benefit, the neurologist noted, was creativity. While Lo never saw herself as a creative... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
the payoffs are, and then the probability of each of the payoffs. But in this case, you talked about the information asymmetry, and it's very clear in the social media context, the fear of missing out totally miscalculates what the... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
retailers’ margins and even increase conversion. We demonstrate using a simple theoretical framework that inducing consumers to inspect higher-priced items first may simultaneously increase the average price of items sold and the overall expected purchase View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
you and make it easier to ask for aid from others. Build a definable set of skills and knowledge that add value to others. You will probably want flexibility at some point, and this is how you get it. Be concrete and document your... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Rowe explains. "The challenge was to find ways to conserve energy and make a profit." In the mid-1980s, New England Electric initiated pilot programs for its commercial and small industrial customers to help them conserve energy and thus forestall the View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
institution; a number of volunteer student organizations were formed to reach out to the surrounding community; and the term "social responsibility" found its way into case discussions with some degree of regularity. "Looking back, those two years are View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
City of Boston Mayor’s Office, Harlem Children’s Zone, Equal Justice Initiative, Mercy Corps, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Leadership Fellows Press Release 2024–2025 Leadership Fellows Audrey Atencio Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Nabig Chaudhry View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue By: Rashid, Faaiza, Amy C. Edmondson, and Herman B. Leonard Abstract—Three years ago, when a cave-in at the San José mine in Chile trapped 33 men under 700,000 metric tons of rock, experts estimated the View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
with high demands, but the perspective that I gained is probably the most valuable profession- al experience that I’ve had to date. Bryan Lee | 25th Combat Aviation Brigade US Army ENTERED SERVICE FROM: San Francisco, CA REASON FOR... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
and CEO Barry Diller. Mr. Diller was and is a brilliant businessman, but we simply had different management styles—I was unhappy and resigned after about a year. Leaving a position like that was certainly a failure, in my eyes at least (and View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
that helps him make these decisions. But he is human and he has made some mistakes. Probably the most famous one would have been the Pentium chip incident. What went wrong there? A: What happened was that under certain circumstances, the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
the public sector’s response to big problems at all levels. The key, Weiss argues, is a shift from a mindset of Probability Government—overly focused on safe solutions and mimicking so-called best practices—to Possibility Government. This... View Details
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2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
heat, drought, and seismic events. Risk, readiness, and resources are quite variable by geography – what investments have the best ROI given the high probability (or low probability) of incidence? What are forward looking land use... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Through a working agreement with the PGA TOUR, we have obtained access to proprietary "ShotLink" data that pinpoints the location of every shot taken on the PGA TOUR. Using these data, we develop distance-based models for two components of putting... View Details