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  • April 2023
  • Article

The Subjective Expected Utility Approach and a Framework for Defining Project Risk in Terms of Novelty and Feasibility—A Response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘Uncertainty and Risk-Taking in Science’

By: Jacqueline N. Lane
In their Discussion Paper, Franzoni and Stephan (F&S, 2023) discuss the shortcomings of existing peer review models in shaping the funding of risky science. Their discussion offers a conceptual framework for incorporating risk into peer review models of research... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Research; Resource Allocation; Perception
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  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

director, Alicia Dadlani, based in Columbus, OH and additional staff and researchers eventually operating from strategic locations throughout the region. The center works closely with HBS faculty and experts in the field, developing case... View Details
  • Web

2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

movement. Join alumni experts to discuss impact investing innovations across asset classes, hot button topics like the anti-ESG movement, and critical public policy intersections. Alumni will leave this session with a better understanding... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

remember that data, like all information, is power, and not everyone will embrace this transition readily. Functional experts and leaders can become resistors to change, especially if the data challenges deeply held assumptions based on... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
  • February 2022
  • Case

Leading The UK Vaccine Task Force

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Claudia Pienica
This case describes the first six months of the UK Vaccine Taskforce, under the leadership of Kate Bingham. With a career spent in the private sector as a biotech investor, Bingham’s appointment within the government was considered unusual. The overarching brief given... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccine; Government; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Science; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Leadership; Decision Making; Government and Politics; Health; Innovation and Management; Governance; Change; Government Administration; Health Industry; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; Europe; United Kingdom
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  • June 30, 2020
  • Article

Bipartisan Tax-Free Solution to Health Care Financing: Coupling HRAs With a Public Option

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Richard Boxer and James Wallace
A combination of health insurance initiatives by the presumptive 2020 Democratic and Republican presidential nominees could expand health care coverage and significantly reduce costs, without raising taxes. Along the way, the combination could revitalize private... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Financing; Public Option; Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA); Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost Management
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  • March 2017 (Revised May 2017)
  • Teaching Note

The Strategy Execution Series

By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
This is the teaching note for the 15-module Strategy Execution series. New management tools and techniques are needed to implement strategy in the 21st century. Rapid innovation, entrepreneurial competitors, and increasingly demanding customers have radically altered... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Strategy Execution; Performance Measurement; Profit Planning; Organization Design; Profitable Growth; Management Attention; Organizational Conflict; Job Design; Business Strategy; Management Systems; Entrepreneurship; Competition; Organizational Design; Performance Evaluation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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  • 2009
  • Case

What People Want (and How to Predict It)

By: Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris
Historically, neither the creators nor the distributors of cultural products such as books or movies have used analytics -- data, statistics, predictive modeling -- to determine the likely success of their offerings. Instead, companies relied on the brilliance of... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Creativity; Customer Satisfaction; Forecasting and Prediction; Markets; Business Model; Publishing Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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General Management - Faculty & Research

| Faculty Research Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 323-039. In 1990, satellite expert and Sirius XM founder Martine Rothblatt was determined to save the life of her seven-year-old daughter, Jenesis, who was diagnosed with a terminal... View Details
  • 21 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

  PublicationsA History of Irish Economic Thought Authors:Thomas Boylan, Renee Prendergast, and John Turner, eds. Publication:London: Routledge, 2010 Abstract For a country that can boast a distinguished tradition of political economy from Sir William Petty through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2009
  • Chapter

Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Kate Roloff and Lucy H. MacPhail
We review research on expertise diversity, psychological safety, team collaboration, and role identity to propose a model in which reciprocal affirmations of expertise identity among team members—a feature of the team environment that we conceptualize as a dimension of... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Identity; Cooperation
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  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

CTO or a CIO? Huang: Based on several interviews we did, two key qualifications are commonly expected for this role. First, this person needs to be an expert in legal and compliance issues, primarily to ensure that no laws are violated... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • 29 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side

commissioned artworks were rated by expert judges as significantly less creative than their non-commissioned—self-initiated—work. The judges didn't know which works were commissioned, and they weren't familiar with any of the artists'... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Fine Arts
  • Web

Finance - Faculty & Research

offered scalable, proven solutions to overfishing, ocean pollution, and climate change. Its investments were approved by an expert impact committee, and the fund’s carried interest depended on it meeting impact targets that were confirmed... View Details
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Europe - Global

scalable, proven solutions to overfishing, ocean pollution, and climate change. Its investments were approved by an expert impact committee, and the fund’s carried interest depended on it meeting impact targets that were confirmed by its... View Details
  • 16 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

experts to paint a picture of the world of career navigation, and to draft recommendations for improving it. The report calls for overhauling the systems now in place under a new umbrella: “career navigation.” For people trying to launch... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology
  • 22 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

II model and wage data from Salary Expert to factor global and regional labor costs differences. ‘Nobody’s going to believe this’ The authors say their study is likely the most comprehensive so far on the topic. However, they caution that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Computer; Information Technology; Technology
  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

venture-stage companies that offered scalable, proven solutions to overfishing, ocean pollution, and climate change. Its investments were approved by an expert impact committee, and the fund’s carried interest depended on it meeting... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

The Exchange: Help Wanted

Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

eliminate one-quarter of its 162,500-member workforce by the mid-2000s. Yet the company continued to struggle. In 2002, turnaround expert Thierry Breton took over as CEO, restructuring the company’s debt, reducing operating costs, and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding