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- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?
Kris Johnson Ferreira, Bin Hong Alex Lee, and David Simchi-Levi. The paper won the 2014 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Practice Award. Related Reading from Future Assembly: When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
partisan issues. But we do advance science and document the consequences of decisions that we make as a society. And while businesses like GE, Wal-Mart, and Johnson & Johnson are showing real leadership on...
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Roger Thompson
- January 2018 (Revised January 2020)
- Case
STRIVR: Changing the Game in Virtual Reality
By: Rajiv Lal, Matt Denison, Robert Higgins and Scott Johnson
The CEO of a growing virtual reality company that trains athletes must decide whether or not to stay in sports or expand into other areas.
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Keywords:
Virtual Reality;
Strivr;
Internet Of Things;
Football;
Retail;
Training;
Startup;
Start-up;
Start-up Growth;
"Sports Organizations,;
Experiential Marketing;
Business Startups;
Technological Innovation;
Sports;
Information Infrastructure;
Applications and Software;
Digital Platforms;
Technology Adoption;
Sports Industry;
Technology Industry;
Retail Industry;
United States
Lal, Rajiv, Matt Denison, Robert Higgins, and Scott Johnson. "STRIVR: Changing the Game in Virtual Reality." Harvard Business School Case 518-048, January 2018. (Revised January 2020.)
- April 2011 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
Internet Securities, Inc.: Path to Sustainability
By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr and Ryan Johnson
Founded in 1994 when the Internet was still a "toy for techies," the case is set in 1998 when Internet IPOs were red-hot. Internet Securities provides hard-to-find financial, business, economic, and political information on emerging markets. Information from over 600...
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Acquisition;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Venture Capital;
Cash Flow;
Initial Public Offering;
Analytics and Data Science;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Valuation
Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, and Ryan Johnson. "Internet Securities, Inc.: Path to Sustainability." Harvard Business School Case 811-098, April 2011. (Revised June 2011.)
- 1994
- Book
Managing Business Enterprises after Communism
By: Gary W. Loveman, Simon Johnson and David T. Kotchen
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
million Pursuing Perfection grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition to funding an improvement-science training program, the grant requires that the hospital undertake improvement projects. Hence, Kotagal develops...
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- October 2017 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
Improving Worker Safety in the Era of Machine Learning (A)
By: Michael W. Toffel, Dan Levy, Jose Ramon Morales Arilla and Matthew S. Johnson
Managers make predictions all the time: How fast will my markets grow? How much inventory do I need? How intensively should I monitor my suppliers? Which potential customers will be most responsive to a particular marketing campaign? Which job candidates should I...
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Machine Learning;
Policy Implementation;
Empirical Research;
Inspection;
Occupational Safety;
Occupational Health;
Regulation;
Analysis;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Policy;
Operations;
Supply Chain Management;
Safety;
Manufacturing Industry;
Construction Industry;
United States
Toffel, Michael W., Dan Levy, Jose Ramon Morales Arilla, and Matthew S. Johnson. "Improving Worker Safety in the Era of Machine Learning (A)." Harvard Business School Case 618-019, October 2017. (Revised April 2018.)
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
socially responsible mission. There is tremendous inefficiency in the environmental community, and one of our goals is to facilitate the formation of strategic alliances between and amongst environmentalists and other sectors of society to reduce some of this overlap...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
two-megawatt power systems, manufactured in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, are also in use in areas as diverse as Chile’s Atacama Desert; Johnson City, New York; and Tehachapi, California, as part of a “smart grid” solution designed to...
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- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) was a government official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He served as assistant secretary of defense for installations and logistics and, from 1967 to...
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- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used...
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- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
NVC event on February 24. Nine teams pitched before a panel of seven HBS alumni judges (representing the four Texas clubs) and an audience of close to 100. NICKSON, presented by Cameron Johnson (MBA 2012), took the regional win with its...
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Margie Kelley
- May 18, 2012
- Article
Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss
By: David I Levine, Michael W. Toffel and Matthew S. Johnson
Controversy surrounds occupational health and safety regulators, with some observers claiming that workplace regulations damage firms' competitiveness and destroy jobs and others arguing that they make workplaces safer at little cost to employers and employees. We...
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Keywords:
Regulation;
Occupational Safety;
Evaluation;
Regression;
Matching;
Difference In Differences;
Safety;
Health;
Working Conditions;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Competitive Advantage;
Performance;
Manufacturing Industry;
California
Levine, David I., Michael W. Toffel, and Matthew S. Johnson. "Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss." Science 336, no. 6083 (May 18, 2012): 907–911. (Online supplement (appendix). Featured in an article by the head of US OSHA, and in U.S. News & World Report and many other news outlets. Basis of U.S. Congressional testimony on promoting safe workplaces.)
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How Warm Days Increase Belief in Global Warming
By: Lisa Zaval, Elizabeth A. Keenan, Eric J. Johnson and Elke U. Weber
Climate change judgments can depend on whether today seems warmer or colder than usual, termed the local warming effect. Although previous research has demonstrated that this effect occurs, studies have yet to explain why or how temperature abnormalities influence...
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Zaval, Lisa, Elizabeth A. Keenan, Eric J. Johnson, and Elke U. Weber. "How Warm Days Increase Belief in Global Warming." Nature Climate Change 4, no. 2 (February 2014): 143–147.
- August 2012
- Teaching Plan
Living PlanIT (TP)
By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, John Macomber and Ryan Johnson
Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, John Macomber, and Ryan Johnson. "Living PlanIT (TP) ." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 413-039, August 2012.
- Web
Judging | New Venture Competition
Deniz Johnson COO, Stratyfy Dominique Gagnon VP/GM, Consumer Brands, Debut Durjoy Bhattacharjya CEO, medicalrecords.com Elise Lelon Board of Directors, Managing Director (former) & Veteran Business/Executive Coach, VB Asset Management,...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
find out what the facts really are. You have to separate rock solid truth from the surrounding haze of assumption. That is what Jim Burke (MBA ’49), then-CEO of Johnson & Johnson, succeeded in doing when boxes of Tylenol products were...
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- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
story of how mission and finance can play out over a very long period. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/dana-hall-funding-a-mission-d/an/114031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 513-103 Ron Johnson: Retail at Target, Apple, and J.C. Penney In April 2013,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
Alphabet/Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Berkshire Hathaway, Johnson & Johnson, Exxon and Walmart as well as China’s Tencent and Alibaba—currently, the most valuable public companies in the world. There should be no debate...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
hilarious as it is sad.” —Assistant Professor Meg Rithmire, on The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson Quoted “One of the things that this question around art in South Asia often brings up is the notion of when there are so many other...
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