Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (3,932) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (3,932) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 119 of 3,932 Results →
  • August 2015
  • Article

Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

By: Pol Antràs and C. Fritz Foley
This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how these terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; International Finance; Financing and Loans; Trade
Related

    Achieving Reliable Causal Inference with Data-Mined Variables: A Random Forest Approach to the Measurement Error Problem

    Combining machine learning with econometric analysis is becoming increasingly prevalent in both research and practice. A common empirical strategy involves the application of predictive modeling techniques to "mine" variables of interest from available data,... View Details
    • 06 Mar 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Four Strategies for Making Concessions

    Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie's book A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System (ILR Press, 1991). The head of a manufacturing firm was preparing to initiate talks with the leadership... View Details
    Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
    • 12 Mar 2021
    • News

    My Favorite Case

    behave more peacefully in the barnyard, leading to a higher yield of eggs and meat for the farm. The ability of the case authors to recognize this device as a solution to a production problem was extremely clever, and the statistical View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • January 2014 (Revised August 2017)
    • Case

    StepSmart Fitness

    By: Robert J. Dolan, Benson P. Shapiro and Alisa Zalosh
    StepSmart Fitness, a manufacturer of exercise equipment, is undergoing a sweeping reorganization. The new CEO has terminated the District Sales Director and Regional VP and promoted 30-year-old Benjamin Cooper to manage the underperforming New England district. A... View Details
    Keywords: Analysis; Restructuring; Salesforce Management; Management Succession; Performance Improvement; Manufacturing Industry; Sports Industry; New England
    Related
    • Web

    Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

    Tactical Choices Show Hide Details Concepts BATNA Analysis Psychological Factors Offer Analysis Bargaining Tactics Featured Exercises Negotiation simulation (Negotiating a Single Issue Agreement:... View Details
    • Article

    Resilience vs. Vulnerability: Psychological Safety and Reporting of Near Misses with Varying Proximity to Harm in Radiation Oncology

    By: Palak Kundu, Olivia Jung, Amy C. Edmondson, Nzhde Agazaryan, John Hegde, Michael Steinberg and Ann Raldow
    Background
    Psychological safety, a shared belief that interpersonal risk taking is safe, is an important determinant of incident reporting. However, how psychological safety affects near-miss reporting is unclear, as near misses contain contrasting cues that... View Details
    Keywords: Psychological Safety; Near-miss Reporting; Health Care and Treatment; Safety
    Related
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Cluster Mapping as a Tool for Development

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    This report builds on the foundational work on cluster mapping that Prof. Michael E. Porter has led at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), Harvard Business School over the last two decades. He launched the U.S. Cluster Mapping Initiative in the late... View Details
    Keywords: Industry Clusters; Development Economics
    Related
    • 21 Dec 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

    strategy problems arose from limited or faulty data, or poor analysis of the industry and competitors. To say it differently, I thought the problem was a failure to understand competition. This surely does happen. But the more I have... View Details
    Keywords: by Joan Magretta
    • 05 Aug 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

    meanwhile, is known colloquially as "the stress hormone," because cortisol levels go up when people experience stress. An analysis of the post-math-test saliva samples, compared with the pre-math-test saliva, revealed something unexpected... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 01 Oct 1999
    • News

    Banking on Success

    outlook for the next fifty years, I would say it's sensational. How would you rate your personal computing skills? I've kept up pretty well, by necessity. You can't get a stock quote today without being able to use a computer. Our ability to produce information for... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
    • Web

    Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

    journal for "The Value of Descriptive Analytics: Evidence from Online Retailers" with Ron Berman ( Marketing Science , 2022). Shunyuan Zhang : Nominated for the 2022 John D. C. Little Award for “Frontiers: Can an AI Algorithm Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality? An... View Details
    • Web

    Matthew C. Weinzierl | About

    policy that hold sway among the public, political and economic leaders, and leading tax thinkers, and then characterizing the implications of using those objectives in the analysis of optimal taxation. In other work, he has explored the... View Details
    • 27 May 2015
    • Blog Post

    What is an HBS Section?

    classroom experience as well. Section also provides a level of academic support. You become very invested in making sure everyone in the section is thriving academically. From frequent student-led review sessions, to informal phone calls with section mates asking about... View Details
    • Article

    Sales Methodologies and Selling

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    Sales methodologies play an important role. A common approach in a sales force allows for consistency, dissemination of best practices, acceleration of learning, and it helps the firm to scale because management then has common metrics to monitor and evaluate. However,... View Details
    Keywords: Methodology; Sales; Analysis
    Related
    • Web

    Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

    of the 1997 Raymond Vernon Prize for outstanding article for "Fair Siting Procedures—An Empirical Analysis of Their Importance and Characteristics" (with Bruno S. Frey, Journal of Policy Analysis and... View Details
    • 07 Jan 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    The Better Way to Forecast the Future

    Whether it’s booking a hotel, renting a movie, or buying a car, many of us consult multiple reviews before deciding. It’s called aggregating opinions, and we do it without even thinking about it. Crowdsourcing works so well, in fact, says Harvard Business School... View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation
    • 07 Aug 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

    contradictory to sound judgment. It only emphasizes it . Judgment is an encapsulation of all those elements data, facts, processes, etc that go into decisions from which we have learned in the past." Joe Schmid said: "Our education and work environments are... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • Web

    Research Design - Impact Investments

    have identified a universe of over 13,000 portfolio companies of more than 400 impact investors. This research enables the segmentation and analysis of the impact investing universe at a previously unprecedented level of depth and scope.... View Details
    • 03 Jan 2017
    • First Look

    January 3, 2017

    provide analysis and derive general insights from this negotiation campaign. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52027 Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments By: Sebenius,... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel