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- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
When information is asymmetric (the quality of a potential partner is known only to himself), it may seem that partner choice is not possible without signaling. Many mutualisms, however, exist without signaling, and the mechanisms by... View Details
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Is AI Coming for Your Job?
At the same time, for other tasks, AI will provide useful outputs but will need humans to optimize these outputs and complete tasks successfully. When thinking about "knowledge work," it is especially important to consider that many of... View Details
- 07 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
production is incredibly resource intensive and that even a small shift in consumption and production can have a massive impact on greenhouse gas emissions. From there, Karen Skelton, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy at the Department of Energy, expressed her... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
systematically give lower scores to research proposals closer to their own areas of expertise and to highly novel research proposals. We interpret the empirical patterns in relation to a range of theoretical mechanisms and discuss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
command-and-control approach to management, remains in place, the newer tools designed to decentralize strategic decision making will never achieve their full potential, Hope and Fraser argue. The solution is not better budgeting... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- Web
Climate Impact - Business & Environment
rural India.” Danielle Colson MBA 2022 | Co-founder & COO, Mantel “Mantel is developing the first liquid phase materials that capture CO2 at high temperatures. Our molten borate technology enables new process designs that reduce costs by... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
medicine in recent years.) This shortcoming, we believe, has a direct bearing on society's ability to demand and obtain responsible conduct from executives, as well as on management's ability to maintain the public trust required for the View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
weigh funding, capacity, and other resource constraints. They would also need to designate an agency or organization to administer plans, and create a system for buying coverage. A key decision would likely involve whether holders should... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
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My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
cardiovascular exercise and hydration. It’s not that we are uninformed, unable, or lazy. It’s that we’re just not in the habit. “The idea is that habits are equivalent to addictions” With that in mind, the researchers designed a field... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
investors and entrepreneurs need, optimize both technological sophistication and financial sophistication-approaches designed to attract capital by offering different levels of risk and return, different... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
IEEE Security & Privacy Accountable? The Problems and Solutions of Online Ad Optimization By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Online advertising might seem to be the most measurable form of marketing ever invented. Comprehensive records... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2018
- News
Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1946 Born, Rio de Janeiro 1969 Earns BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Military Institute of Engineering 1974 Earns PhD, Economics, University of Chicago 1974 Named... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
mechanical engineer. With no design background, she has integrated her love of design, engineering, travel, and sustainability all into MAYU. We’re really excited to see where this venture goes!” Karan with... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
analyzing that data and designing strategy around it. That’s one reason eight HBS professors pooled resources in June to launch the Competing on Business Analytics and Big Data Executive Education program. “It was unprecedented to engage... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
the story. We've had students at undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels telling us that they couldn't stop reading because they were eager to know what would happen next. In addition, chapters of the book are designed like teaching... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
Education looks like in color-blind 'post-race' times, when racism is deemed to be 'off the political agenda'. From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education By: Tia Brown McNair This book offers practical... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
products for different business contexts requires that a firm deploy different new-product development processes. Products designed for stable and mature end-user markets require a process optimized for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
PublicationsEnterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions Through Big Data Author:Thomas H. Davenport Publication:FT Press, 2012 Abstract This book, an edited collection of research papers from the International... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne