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    Willis M. Emmons

    WILLIAM (WILLIS) EMMONS is Senior Lecturer and Director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard Business School, a position he has held since 2004.  As Director of the Christensen Center, Emmons oversees programs to... View Details

    Keywords: airline; infrastructure industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; utilities
    • 2017
    • Chapter

    Toward Transparent Reporting of Psychological Science

    By: Etienne P. LeBel and Leslie K. John
    In this chapter we make a case for increased transparency of the methods used to obtain research findings. Although comprehensive reporting facilitates accurate assessment of a paper’s claims, the current reporting norm is secrecy, not openness. We begin by putting... View Details
    Keywords: Research; Problems and Challenges
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    • 30 Mar 2020
    • News

    Why Is the U.S. Behind on Coronavirus Testing?

    • 30 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 31, 2006

    accounting, improve price and volatility discovery, and expand international risk intermediation activities. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-026.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsC. R. Smith and the Birth of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 09 Feb 2017
    • News

    A New Approach to Civics Education

      Teresa M. Amabile

      Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. Originally educated and employed as a chemist, Teresa received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. Her current research investigates how people approach and... View Details

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      Environments Through case method courses, FIELD projects, tech simulations, introspective exercises, and more, you will discover your potential and leave a more inspiring leader than you ever thought... View Details

        James E. Austin

        Dr. Austin holds the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. Previously he held the John G. McLean Professorship and the Richard P. Chapman Professorship. He has been a member of the Harvard... View Details

        Keywords: agribusiness
        • July 2019
        • Case

        Christmas Inc. (A)

        By: Susanna Gallani, Gregory Sabin, Lexor Adams and Nicholas Haberling
        Santa Claus is facing increasing pressures to contain costs. The economic model that has worked for centuries is starting to show some cracks, to the point that he is considering outsourcing part of its toy production. Evaluating the bids his team collected from... View Details
        Keywords: Costing; Production; Cost; Analysis; Decision Making; Strategy
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        • 15 Aug 2023
        • HBS Case

        (Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?

        virtual-reality future yet to materialize as hoped by its biggest proponents. Chief among its backers: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who two years ago went so far as to change his social media company’s name to Meta and vowed to spend billions to bring the... View Details
        Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Computer; Information Technology
        • 2009
        • Working Paper

        Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement

        By: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling
        This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—providing a theory that explains when each of these methods is likely to be the most efficient. The... View Details
        Keywords: Business Units; Business Headquarters; Decisions; Cost; Investment; Investment Return; Profit; Revenue; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Managerial Roles; Performance Efficiency; Strategy
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        • 01 Jul 2013
        • Research & Ideas

        Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

        money to invest. Associate Professor Ramana Nanda further differentiates between crowdfunding through donations or lending and equity crowdfunding. In the case of donations, which is currently much more common, funders expect little if... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
        • 2023
        • Working Paper

        In-Context Unlearning: Language Models as Few Shot Unlearners

        By: Martin Pawelczyk, Seth Neel and Himabindu Lakkaraju
        Machine unlearning, the study of efficiently removing the impact of specific training points on the trained model, has garnered increased attention of late, driven by the need to comply with privacy regulations like the Right to be Forgotten. Although unlearning is... View Details
        Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Copyright; Information
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        FIELD Foundations

        By: Alison Wood Brooks

        FIELD Foundations is a course for first-year MBA students in the Required Curriculum. As a complement to case method courses that students take in the first year of the MBA program, FIELD Foundations offers hands-on leadership practice and immersive team... View Details

        • 21 Nov 2011
        • News

        Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Charles M. Williams Dies at 94

        • May 2017
        • Case

        Promontory, Inc.

        By: Frank V. Cespedes and Amy Handlin
        Promontory, Inc. is a small, privately owned firm in the promotional products (specialty advertising) industry. After starting the firm two years ago with the intention of pursuing a high-quality/high-price strategy, the CEO is seeking methods of increasing sales... View Details
        Keywords: Salesforce Management; Marketing Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Business Model; Sales; Advertising Industry
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        • July 2014 (Revised May 2015)
        • Case

        Making Room for the Baby Boom: Senior Living

        By: Charles F. Wu, Joseph Beyer and Arthur I. Segel
        Tom Alperin's National Development has purchased a building site in affluent Wellesley, MA, and is in the process of deciding whether to build apartments, a combination of independent living and assisted living units for seniors, or perhaps even higher acuity... View Details
        Keywords: Senior Living; Assisted Living; Independent Living; Property; Finance; Real Estate Industry; Boston; Massachusetts; United States
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        • 2011
        • Chapter

        Developing an Effective Organization: Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory

        By: Michael Beer
        The field of organization development is fragmented and lacks a coherent and integrated theory and method for developing an effective organization. A 20-year action research program led to the development and evaluation of the Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)-a platform... View Details
        Keywords: Learning; Corporate Governance; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Research; Alignment; Theory; Value
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          David Ager

          David Ager is a Senior Lecturer in Executive Education.  He engages CEOs, CHROs, and their teams to design and deliver customized executive development experiences for executive, senior and high potential leaders.  The companies hail from diverse sectors including... View Details

            Overcoming Overconfidence: Teamwork and Self-Control

            This paper analyzes interactions between agents who are overconfident regarding their own future self-control relative to others. The paper considers the problem of incentivizing several such agents, and compares two methods: assigning work individually to each... View Details