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- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
rising college seniors. At SVMP, we developed a friendship, which turned into a relationship a year later during Laura’s work trip to the New York City Wine and Food Festival. We started off long-distance—flights between New York City and... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
marketing plan that sought to minimize or eliminate risk. As it happened, though, Quaker's very risk aversion turned out to be the greatest risk of all. ... When Brand And Management Clash One of the most striking things about my... View Details
- 20 Feb 2020
- Op-Ed
Love in the Office Is Wonderful. Except for CEOs.
XiXinXing A few days ago we celebrated Valentine’s day, a good time to reflect that love springs everywhere, even at work. After all, love in the workplace is inevitable; but be forewarned. It does not always turn out well. Is it... View Details
Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
I was poised to answer something else." And it turns out—this will shock you—doctors don't immediately think about economists as fellow members of the helping professions. People worry when they hear that we are economists that we... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
modest increases in both productivity and jobs.) It also means, even without a change in tax rates, a larger tax base. This is important to the extent that it is a major component of a government's plan to manage its capital accounts, which in View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Combining an Interest in Music and Business
down, I felt that “success” was somehow associated with my ability to get an offer from one of those “hot” recruiters. To get what everybody seems to want. But the truth is that not everybody wants what you want. Turns out I did not get... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
technological breakthroughs, market deregulation, consumer preference, or even weather and climate." Any of these factors, he argues, may affect particular markets, which in turn influence related markets and send ripples through the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
2000). But it is also politically harder to sustain then, for example, the Thai "dual track" strategy with growth impulses for both exporting and local activities that turned out to generate broad-based public support (Looney,... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 08 Apr 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It
Helena Rubinstein Used Tall Tales to Turn Cosmetics into a Luxury Brand Using guile, brilliant branding, and more than a few falsehoods, Helena Rubinstein lifted cosmetics from an accessory item for prostitutes to a great luxury product.... View Details
- 18 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal
then to turn against him. "They had different interpretations of what loyalty meant—it caused a reflection on the part of students about what they owe a leader and what they are owed by the leader," says Rose. Hamilton's story... View Details
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
this laughing matter to the test. In a new study, he used that joke and 32 others to determine whether people or artificial intelligence (AI) could do a better job of predicting which jokes other people consider funny. The question is especially relevant today as more... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
across the river, the scorpion stings the frog. "Sorry about that," says the scorpion, as they both drown. "It's just my nature." It turns out that people, like the scorpion, may be biologically predisposed to behaving badly. In short,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
important information. It turned out that the information was largely an explanation of the benefits for the company in moving. Then employees were asked to maintain their commitment to quality over the final months of their employment.... View Details
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Software Tools - Research Computing Services
can turn on 'novice' mode to get more information when using the commands: $ module --novice Note: After using modules for some time, you might be tempted to include module load directives in your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc login... View Details
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Teele Hall | About
enrollments. In addition, Teele presided over the School’s 50th anniversary celebration in 1958, which attracted more than 2,000 visitors, including then vice president Richard Nixon. Of the changes enacted during his tenure, Teele once remarked, “Our problems at the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
When I left, I was an extroverted marketer.” After graduation, he turned down a position with Salomon Brothers in order to launch his own venture, Applitek, developing a cable modem. The year was 1981, a full decade before most of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
a professor of mine once put it, you want to scatter your seeds widely to see what sprouts,” says Gross. “But you ought not try to make a thousand flowers bloom, or else they will all turn out weak. To get a few beautiful blossoms, you... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
GenZers’ need for “connection” be any less than that of preceding generations? Has the pandemic so affected their outlook and behavior that they in turn will affect the way work is performed and businesses are organized and led? Have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
an airplane. “Social media has changed consumers’ expectations with the way they communicate with brands,” says Leslie K. John, Marvin Bower Associate Professor. “I have friends who have had a bad customer experience, and they immediately View Details