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- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
this effect drives advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and interpersonally distance... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
wisdom of the crowd, with each product being reviewed many times (some with more than 1,000 reviews). Because of this, the way in which information is aggregated is a central decision faced by consumer review websites. Given a set of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
yes, Watson is a big deal. Perhaps the best place to start to understand it all is in 2007, in the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. There, a team of... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
sanctification, contributing to the growing literature on social construction of value. 2013 pub Six Ways to Sink a Growth Initiative By: Laurie, Donald L., and J. Bruce Harreld Abstract—The conventional wisdom about how best to pursue... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
a room. He’s gregarious without being dominating. He’ll ask that you tell him to shut up if he’s being an idiot before delivering wisdom that sounds as if it came from the oracle itself. His laugh can fill a space. He asks about a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
higher prices," says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, who spent 12 years running a professional services firm. That's right. Higher prices, not lower. “Competing on price is ultimately a bet on your cost position.” Cespedes View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
extremely encouraging, questions about raising his next venture round and the overall environment has made him question the wisdom of this plan. This case provides students an opportunity to explore the true cost of venture debt and when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
world with new clarity. If there is one strain of conventional wisdom pervading every company in every industry, it is the importance of competing hard to differentiate yourself from the competition. And yet going head-to-head with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
The rise of e-commerce. Big data. AI. Given these trends (and many others), there’s no doubt that sales is changing. Yet much of the current conventional wisdom is misleading and not supported by empirical data. In this no-nonsense book,... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
to focus in order to improve this crucial dimension of talent acquisition. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50539 December 15, 2015 Harvard Business Review Don't Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
private creditors is positively correlated with growth; and (4) public savings are strongly positively correlated with growth, whereas the correlation between private savings and growth is flat and statistically insignificant. These empirical facts contradict the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Holger Rathgeber (Portfolio) The authors use a parable of a stressed meerkat community in the Kalahari Desert to consider why organizations rise and fall and how they can rise again in the face of adversity. Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Abstract—Seven experiments explore people's decisions to share or withhold personal information and the wisdom of such decisions. When people choose not to reveal information—to be "hiders"—they are judged negatively by others... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
discussions about the pitfalls that might cause that high rate of failure? The ways in which we resist architecting prenuptial agreements or other ways that could be where we see a lot of analogs from founding teams, the founding teams... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
surprised us, both by revealing the extent of entrepreneurial involvement among HBS alumni and by giving clear evidence of the path to entrepreneurship," observes Stevenson. "It debunked the common wisdom that some people are born to be... View Details
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others with wisdom to share. Q: Can I take the class if I just have an idea but I haven't started yet? A: Yes, this is typically the situation of between a quarter and a half of the teams in the course. Q:... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
value is that all the people aren't seeing, and then visualizing it, and then putting a team together to capture that value. My name is Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch, and I'm MBA Class of 1992. My first job was in a shoe store, and my... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
founder and CEO, J.B. Schramm; Chief Strategy Officer, Mora Segal; and the College Summit team must now decide whether or not to dramatically redefine their organization's theory of change. College Summit could continue to "get... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
about timing. There's a feeling about, you know, the right metrics that I think you either learn through experience or you know, you can gain wisdom over time. Look, I'd say feeling, feeling was important. But not data-free. Right? Like,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
from whence and why they came, we edge closer to the wisdom that makes being 60-something pretty damned interesting. Jeffrey Jenest (MBA 1978) One student’s teachings Eight years ago, I was a math teacher and principal of a school in... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios