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- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
reported feeling, to such an extent that receivers viewed regifting as similar in offensiveness to throwing gifts away (whereas givers clearly preferred the former). This asymmetry in emotional reactions to regifting was driven by an...
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
profit implications for the entrant of inventing a new business model and for the incumbent of responding with business model reconfigurations could be substantial. In particular, the value of business model innovation may be so substantial that the incumbent may...
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Martha Lagace
- Profile
Maliha Khan
In college, Maliha Khan kept her family's textile business at arm's length, preferring to follow a path that would lead to a PhD in political science. But as she approached graduation, the business changed dramatically. "Pakistan...
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Jennifer Kelly
different styles — some were authoritative, some preferred a service approach — but they were all effective!" "The case method," says Jennifer, "is a much more challenging way to learn business concepts. It's easy to...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)
CFO, Gary Crittenden, asked me to become CFO for Citi Holdings right at the beginning of the financial crisis. He told me: “Careers are defined in times of crisis.” I said, “You want me to be CFO of a bad bank?” and he said, “I prefer you...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others' Preferences By: Barasz, Kate, Tami Kim, and Leslie John Abstract—Consumers readily indicate liking options that appear dissimilar—for...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
and implement our idea for a kids’ menu,” says Jiang. “But we discovered that the consumer preferences and concepts of a bakery were completely different in Brazil. It challenged us to understand the customers’ mind-sets,” explains...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
businesses and organizations to provide users with a highly personalized selection of goods, services, and information." Employing passwords and aliases to ensure anonymity, individual users supply personal preference and choice...
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Garry Emmons
- 02 Nov 2010
- News
Commanding Officers
Current and former students, such as Donovan Campbell (MBA 2007) have served with distinction in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Armed Forces Alumni Association is one of the most active student clubs on campus. (One current HBS student, who View Details
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Closings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
participant-centered learning. They worry that students will become dependent on the instructor to present a definitive synthesis and analysis of the discussion, thus shifting responsibility away from participants to assess and continue to reflect on what they have...
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- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
reason–people tend to form brand preferences when they’re young. Young consumers who are alienated by a perception of corporate support for Trump might be lost for a lifetime, not just an administration. “A company that is seen as...
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by Gautam Mukunda
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 17, 2007
Preferences and Intrapersonal Conflict Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between the preferences people...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?
office or leading the family are less likely to foster a culture of growth, risk taking, and wealth creation. According to Jeremy Dean, a researcher at University College London, optimists prefer to think about how they and others can...
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- 22 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges in Leading Professional Services
the past, few leaders in PSFs took the time to gain commitment to the direction of the firm—they only talked about vision and then executed on it. Q: You note that senior partners have often preferred to respond to challenges and...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
stake, as is often the case in a strike by public employees, there would be no fund to accumulate and divide. And in some cases one side might prefer to bear the costs of an ordinary strike - if, for example, management replaced workers...
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- 30 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest Over Colgate?
“That was pretty incredible to us, that you’re able to identify these patterns even with this simulated data.” The team then introduced two brands of toothpaste, Crest and Colgate, and set Colgate as the preferred brand. By altering the...
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- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
expert and crowd preferences might be expected to differ greatly. We instead find substantial agreement between the funding decisions of crowds and experts. Where crowds and experts disagree, it is far more likely to be a case where the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
This relationship between the tax preferences of institutional shareholders and firm payout policy could reflect dividend-averse institutions gravitating to low-dividend paying-firms or managers adapting their payout policies to the...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
effects. Overall, the analysis suggests that the global standardization hypothesis has considerably less momentum than the juggernaut that it is sometimes portrayed as. Q: You have written that customer preferences for globally...
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by Martha Lagace