User Experience Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Mar 2019

Peek Program Chat at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad

Join this informal chat to hear directly from a past Peek participant and learn more about the residential educational experience designed for college students to gain knowledge and insight into the MBA... View Details

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Monica Chang | MBA

visualization and human-centered design to help foster care officials learn about promising practices in child welfare from other states. This experience at the intersection of technology and government... View Details

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

Public School Districts Author:Stacey Childress Abstract This working paper offers concrete examples of improved productivity and efficiencies at the district level, drawing from the author's experience working with districts and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2020

College Programs Series: Peek Weekend

This webinar will give students the opportunity to learn more about the Peek Weekend Program. Peek Weekend is a residential educational experience designed for college students to gain knowledge and insight... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Vision: Sound Science

It was a milestone to celebrate: Earlier this year, designations from FDA and European Union regulators moved researchers at the Boston-based startup Akouos, Inc., a step closer to producing the first-ever therapy for gene-mediated... View Details

Keywords: Deb Blagg

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April Chen | MBA

areas of interest: AI/ML, civic tech, education tech, algorithmic fairness and justice Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: In Spring 2022, I designed and taught CS 96,... View Details

28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

Publications October 2014 John Wiley & Sons International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications By: Collis, David J. Abstract—This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 2001
News

New Ventures New Gains

arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their faculty advisors (and getting academic credit for their efforts),... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

Credit: iStockPhoto Startups often struggle to find their first customers—especially in the sharing economy, where survival depends on securing users on both the supply and demand sides. No surprise, then, that our readers flocked to a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Krisha Patel | MBA

leverage my clinical and technical experience to explore roles in healthcare management, biotech startups, and healthtech venture capital to optimize the role technology can play in health care delivery, diagnostics, and therapeutics for... View Details

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Inessa Lurye

medical professionals listen and observe more deeply.” This approach reflects “human-centered design” and aims to direct design away from “one size fits all” product models and toward “creating experiences... View Details

25 Feb 2020

HBS in NYC: College Programs Information Session

Join us to learn more about the Harvard Business School MBA Program and opportunities for college students to experience life at HBS. This event is designed for current undergraduate students. The event will... View Details

21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

well-established organizations to act in new ways is never easy. This book is designed to support business leaders and organizational scholars who are grappling with this challenge by pulling together leading-edge insights from some of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Nov 2020

Get to Know HBS Series: Military Virtual Visit Week

Join MBA Admissions and the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA) for a week of robust programming designed for prospective applicants from the military to experience the military community at HBS. We look forward to connecting with you and to celebrating Veterans... View Details

28 Feb 2018

Peek Program Chat at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Stop by to learn more about Peek Weekend at HBS, an educational experience designed for college students to increase their knowledge and insight into the MBA degree. This Google Hangout session will be... View Details

2012
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Structuring Consulting Firms

By: Tim Morris, Heidi K. Gardner and N. Anand

This chapter presents a model of the way in which consulting and other professional-service firms organize themselves and grow. We will argue that the fundamental structural-design challenge for consulting firms, like other professional firms, is to adapt appropriately... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Management Practices and Processes; Demand and Consumers; Service Operations; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Projects; Groups and Teams; Consulting Industry; Service Industry

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22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

decade have been (1) the rise of business ecosystems caused by falling transaction costs; and (2) the empowerment of users caused by the global spread of communication technologies. A business ecosystem is a group of firms that together... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2003
News

All in a Day's Work

people are so fun and engaging.” Oakes, who studied architecture as an undergraduate at Rice University, says she’s always been interested in the link between a project’s design and its social impact. Her decision to attend HBS resulted... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Boston Community Capital; Samsung; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Real Estate

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

for designing better plastic products. In software, a number of companies let people add custom-designed modules to their standard products and then commercialize the best of those components. Open-source software allows View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

rather than creating the best content. Success comes not from making the "best" content, but from recognizing how content facilitates user connections; it comes not from protecting the value of content at all costs, but from... View Details