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  • June 2008
  • Article

The Multiunit Enterprise

By: David A. Garvin and Lynne C. Levesque
A multiunit enterprise is a geographically dispersed organization built from standard units (stores, restaurants, or branches) that are aggregated into larger geographic groupings (districts, regions, and divisions). Although this organizational structure has become... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Global Range; Research; Business Ventures; Problems and Challenges; Business or Company Management; Business Headquarters; Organizational Design; Talent and Talent Management; Goals and Objectives
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  • 02 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

forward to lead his country to victory in World War II." The lesson, says Nohria, is that Churchill and other great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young
  • Profile

Loujaine AlMoallim

understanding of leadership? I wouldn't say that my perspective on leadership has necessarily changed – rather, it has developed and evolved in a positive direction. One important insight I've gained is that a key pillar of effective leadership is View Details
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

the best way for Guler to optimize the company’s investment in its customer loyalty program? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516087-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-020 AnswerDash (Abridged) It is 2014... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?

(last) 4 decades optimizing global production to the lowest cost denominator and just-in-time delivery a global production system that is optimized for lowest cost is not very resilient. We will now View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 16 Feb 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Platform Competition Under Partial Belief Advantage

    Keywords: by Hanna Halaburda & Yaron Yehezkel; Consumer Products
    • 15 Nov 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

    intersperses longer-form algorithmic picks with its new YouTube Shorts. TikTok presents only short-form video, one at a time. The difference may seem slight, but it is not. YouTube is a general-purpose video tool, while TikTok optimizes... View Details
    Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
    • March 1, 2021
    • Article

    Transitioning to Clean Energy Transportation Services: Life-cycle Cost Analysis for Vehicle Fleets

    By: Stephen Comello, Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
    Comprehensive global decarbonization requires that transportation services cease to rely on fossil fuels for power generation. This paper develops a generic, time-driven life-cycle cost model for mobility services to address two closely related questions central to the... View Details
    Keywords: Decarbonization; Electric Vehicles; Renewable Energy; Biofuel; Carbon Emissions; Mobility; Batteries; Energy; Environmental Management; Environmental Accounting; Transportation; Operations; Management; Sustainable Cities; Decision Making; Investment; Energy Industry; Transportation Industry; Utilities Industry; Motorcycle Industry; Auto Industry; Consulting Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
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    • 2023
    • Case

    Christiana Figueres and the Collaborative Approach to Negotiating Climate Action

    By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
    This case study centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to build momentum for, and ultimately pass, the 2015... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Regulation; International Relations; Leadership
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      Building Sustainable Cities

      By 2050 the number of people living in cities will have nearly doubled, to 6 billion, and the problems created by this rampant urbanization are among the most important challenges of our time. Of all resource-management issues, the author argues, water, electricity,... View Details

        Building A Culture of Health

        This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a robust model, rooted in organizational and scientific knowledge, for companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four... View Details

        • 01 Jun 2023
        • News

        Pet Project

        Spies says. The team has spent years optimizing the business for best-in-class DTC subscription metrics. The company enjoys retention rates of 95 percent or more, where competitors sit at the 50 to 60 percent mark. But in order to grow... View Details
        Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
        • 01 Jun 2024
        • News

        Quantum Leap

        today’s fastest digital supercomputers years to complete. Quantum computers will be able to carry out complex financial chores like pricing derivatives and optimizing portfolios in the blink of an eye. They will crack even the strongest... View Details
        Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
        • 2023
        • Article

        Probabilistically Robust Recourse: Navigating the Trade-offs between Costs and Robustness in Algorithmic Recourse

        By: Martin Pawelczyk, Teresa Datta, Johannes van-den-Heuvel, Gjergji Kasneci and Himabindu Lakkaraju
        As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to make consequential decisions in real-world settings, it becomes critical to ensure that individuals who are adversely impacted (e.g., loan denied) by the predictions of these models are provided with a means... View Details
        Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods
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        • 2018
        • Working Paper

        Detecting Anomalies: The Relevance and Power of Standard Asset Pricing Tests

        By: Malcolm Baker, Patrick Luo and Ryan Taliaferro
        The two standard approaches for identifying capital market anomalies are cross-sectional coefficient tests, in the spirit of Fama and MacBeth (1973), and time-series intercept tests, in the spirit of Jensen (1968). A new signal can pass the first test, which we label a... View Details
        Keywords: Investment Management; Anomalies; Portfolio Construction; Transaction Costs; Investment; Management; Asset Pricing; Market Transactions; Cost
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        • 2016
        • Working Paper

        Controlling Versus Enabling — Online Appendix

        By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
        Section 1 of this online appendix contains the proof of the technical Lemma (Lemma 2) used in the Proof of Lemma 1 in the main paper, which states that Ω* (.) is continuous and differentiable at R*. Section 2 provides the linear example with cost differences between... View Details
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        • 05 Jul 2022
        • What Do You Think?

        Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?

        those days, there was fascination with air freight and the trade-off of inventory and transportation costs—as in spending more for air transport in order to spend less on owning inventory, thereby optimizing what we called the “total cost... View Details
        Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
        • 19 Oct 2022
        • Op-Ed

        Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

        optimal cofounder JDs for each role. Once each has taken a stab at this exercise on their own, share these JDs with each other (converge) and discuss where you were all coming from for each role. Not only will this better define each... View Details
        Keywords: by Julia Austin
        • November–December 2015
        • Article

        Active Postmarketing Drug Surveillance for Multiple Adverse Events

        By: Joel Goh, Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir, Mohsen Bayati and Stefanos A. Zenios
        Postmarketing drug surveillance is the process of monitoring the adverse events of pharmaceutical or medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical... View Details
        Keywords: Drug Surveillance; Health Care; Stochastic Models; Queueing; Diffusion Approximation; Brownian Motion; Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis
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