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- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
Harvard Business School. The experiment was typical of thinking in those days: If only we had better ways of communicating, especially better ways of tracking customer preferences and demand. Now we do. Another notion prevalent in those...
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- 21 Aug 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study
Back To Basics According to Coles, his company's training program is highly attuned to the case study method. Just the process of explaining and justifying company actions, Coles said, flies in the face of the educational culture View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
motorists represent the prevalence of “consumer inertia” in the retail gas market. Consumer inertia is the tendency of some customers to buy or continue buying a product, even when superior options exist. Companies that can accurately...
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Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
Ayelet Israeli noted that technology can’t succeed alone: “Leadership, agility, adaptability, compassion, and ingenuity will set the most successful organizations apart.” Ariel Stern cites the prevalence of telemedicine as an example of...
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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
leadership is the prevalent theme for me. It has been proved in my business and my life repeatedly. Situations that many view as hopeless and beyond rescue have been transformed by a committed leader." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "People...
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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
the long-run winners.” Ayelet Israeli noted that technology can’t succeed alone: “Leadership, agility, adaptability, compassion, and ingenuity will set the most successful organizations apart.” Ariel Stern cites the prevalence of...
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- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
Tawan Davis (MBA 2006) was 15 years old when he first recognized an issue prevalent in American cities. “I asked my grandmother why everyone else had money and we didn’t,” recalls Davis, who grew up in Portland, Oregon, now one of the...
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- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
we need universal health-care insurance. This lack of penalty might explain why overt dodging appears so prevalent in politics (and in life). “Listening is much more taxing than we might think.” The second interesting finding was that...
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by Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
idea is formally evaluated as the basis of a commercial venture. Users also tend to engage in collective creative activity prior to firm formation—often within the social context provided by user communities—that results in the improvement of ideas. Finally, we provide...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
the raw bits and bytes," remarks Gerstner. A second strategy was built on the future of networked computing, a prescient decision made well before it became a prevalent business model with the rise of the Internet. Despite the...
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- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
said, "maybe the only thing that can help is common sense and learning to keep our mouths, and e-mails, shut." The most prevalent attitude about dealing with a leaky Internet was to assume the worst and act accordingly. In Mike...
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by James L. Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
original notion. Most important, they say, although creativity may seem most prevalent in places like Silicon Valley and Hollywood, it can be learned and managed in every kind of organization. Of particular interest in Leonard and Swap's...
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by Laurie Joan Aron
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
ago as Apax’s chairman to devote all his time to trying to improve the lives of the disadvantaged in Britain and the Middle East. “When I graduated from Oxford, I was full of the idealism that was prevalent at universities in the 1960s,”...
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- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
whether or not a post had a "popular" tag, which in turn was determined by the total number of page views of blog posts containing that tag in each month. The results seemed to back up the prevalent criticism by media scholars,...
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- 18 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Coming to HBS after Military Service
in a high stakes environment forced me to be comfortable with analyzing information, deciding on a way forward, and implementing a course of action. The opportunity to gain these soft skills at a relatively young age is prevalent among...
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- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
that is still prevalent in many companies," says Quelch. "We develop other words to talk about mental health—we call it 'stress' or call on people to be 'resilient.'" But normalizing the issue in the workplace can create even more...
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- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
national male circumcision rates for African countries are both a strong predictor of HIV/AIDS prevalence and uncorrelated with other determinants of economic outcomes. Two-stage least squares regressions do not support the hypotheses...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
hypertension." Why Diabetes Is A Good Case But first, diabetes. Beaulieu chose diabetes as a context in which to spark discussion on organizational and financial systems for several reasons, she said. It is a very prevalent disease:...
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- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
“Attacking this question is fundamentally important for both the science and the practice of creativity,” she writes. “It seems increasingly likely that products and services resulting from the creative behavior of ordinary individuals may not only become more View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
Although clusters are most prevalent in advanced economies, you say that they're one of the essential steps for countries moving in that direction. How are clusters nurtured in emerging nations? A: Many developing countries have...
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Re: Michael E. Porter