Exploration And Exploitation - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Field Course: Ideation and Prototyping for Innovation - Course Catalog

conduct rigorous customer and domain expert interviews to explore a problem space; how to synthesize data from interviews; how to develop and use customer personas View Details

29 May 2013
Blog Post

“A place to grow personally and professionally.” - Yolanda Anton

even consulting about it. I want to understand how the whole company moves, and not to limit myself to some of its areas. HBS was therefore my perfect answer. Two years to take a deep breath. To explore... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology

18 Mar 2014
Blog Post

BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up

It’s Tuesday afternoon, March 4th. A lively group of HBS students passionate about retail entrepreneurship sit in Aldrich 108, waiting. Then “ping!” – up pop Julia Straus (HBS ’11) and Katharine Hill (HBS ’12) who both work at BaubleBar,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

Research Summary

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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details

Keywords: Well-being; Judgment And Decision Making; Health; Prosocial Behavior

10 Jul 2023
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

What books are HBS faculty members reading this summer—and are certain publications especially meaningful to them? Turns out, faculty are interested in a variety of topics, everything from exploring spirituality View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Aug 2009
Working Paper Summaries

A Decision-Making Perspective to Negotiation: A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future

Keywords: by Chia-Jung Tsay & Max H. Bazerman

20 Nov 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurship and Business Groups: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey

Keywords: by Asli M. Coplan & Geoffrey Jones

04 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

come to HBS to make a career pivot from their pre-MBA industry and/or function. This is particularly true for students interested in careers in cleantech, climate, energy, and sustainability. Often, these ‘career switchers’ want to View Details

10 Feb 2016
HBS Seminar

Hong Luo of Harvard Business School and Julie Mortimer of Boston College, Department of Economics

11 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

started in her early years. The influence of her mother, an artist, and her father, a mathematician-turned-businessman, inspired Leahy to explore both passions throughout her life. Her parents also... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

16 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate with Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016)

What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? I graduated from Washington University with an undergraduate degree in civil engineering and, just before applying to HBS, I was a management consultant at Deloitte. After taking a step back from the... View Details

23 Jul 2024
In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

economic interdependence is the primary motivation for insecurity and policy actions to manage competition with China. In work I coauthored with Margaret Pearson of the University of Maryland and Kellee Tsai... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications

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The Global Health Delivery Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

courses. Cases capture real-life scenarios and explore a range of issues, including how leaders implement value-based principles. The cases are available for all at no cost online through Harvard Business... View Details

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive - Course Catalog

the written assignments, you will be asked to declare which tool(s) you used. For class discussions, we encourage inquiry and the exploration of ideas. Many of the theories have important nuances that are... View Details

14 Aug 2014
Working Paper Summaries

The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game

Keywords: by Karen Mills & Brayden McCarthy; Banking; Financial Services

March 2006 (Revised June 2006)
Case

The Speedway That Won't Slow Down

Dick Berggren, well-known FOXTV announcer for NASCAR races and executive editor of Speedway Illustrated magazine, considers how to grow the business he founded and balance his time, energy, and commitments to his wife. Explores the explosive growth of media businesses... View Details

Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Business Plan; Media; Sports; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States

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01 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Josh Latson and his Fellowship: “It’s like a pie eating contest.”

after a year. I felt comfortable having an exit option.” As it turns out, neither party has wanted to exercise that option. Now entering his fourth year at BMC, Josh has been able to leverage his fellowship into an in-depth exploration of... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

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Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) - Course Catalog

approaches have an important role to play in the mix. The course will explore business approaches, including CSR and CSV, its opportunities as well its limitations. We will study how new “venture... View Details

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

invent a product, a large company can’t just swoop in and steal it and dare the little guy to fight it. NPEs claim they are protecting these little guys. Opponents, however, say they are View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

02 Apr 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

income and education can, by extension, lead to poor health outcomes. Much of the research that does explore the impact of organizational practice focuses on outcomes such as cost View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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