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- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
explore the challenges of information collection and analysis. Students will, experientially, gain insights into how information is used and be exposed to a framework for identifying and evaluating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
incentives to engage with shareholders. Misaki Capital was founded in 2013 with a strategy of constructively engaging with portfolio firms, providing operational and financial advice to management in order to improve shareholder value. This case asks View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
Yelp restaurant reviews to target hygiene inspections? “There is so much data now, it’s exhilarating—and frightening” “There is all sorts of data that is coming in now,” says Luca, “and if you use it carefully you could revamp the way that every policy is View Details
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
zap a commercial. We observe at the microsecond level what causes people to get 'ticked off,' stop watching, and press the button." The Eyes Have It Teixeira learned of eye-tracking technology as a Ph.D. student at the University of... View Details
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
highest levels of their industry and ask them to learn the basics of another language that you want to make the basis of communication in your company? Aren't they going to feel like a student in high school? Tsedal Neeley: I've written... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 25 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
SANCTIONS IN ORDER TO TRY TO HELP SOMEONE WHO IS MAYBE GOING THROUGH A DIFFICULT TIME." Zlatev, who partnered with Justin Berg, an assistant professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and former Stanford doctoral student Alisa... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
Simulation B alters the setting by allowing students to determine expected returns through a simultaneous auction. We continue to have agreement over the covariance matrix, and implicitly over expected payoffs, but allow View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
charcoal and fuel wood. Antitrust Scrutiny of Google Authors:Edelman, Benjamin G. Publication:Journal of Law Abstract I evaluate antitrust claims against Google and propose possible remedies. While Google's specific tactics are often... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Chicago's difficult decision recently to close a number of schools, given that there were too many facilities for too few students. The goal is for the remaining students to thrive with more resources per capita, with a focus on... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
clinical psychologists and journal editors, divide a continuous flow of judgments into subsets. College admissions interviewers, for instance, evaluate but a handful of applicants a day. We conjectured that in such situations, individuals... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
managers formulate problems, evaluate their difficulty, define “good enough solutions,” and optimize the ways in which they will solve them in advance of attempting to solve them. The paper introduces both a framework for the analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
of Dublin, Ireland-based Elan Drug Technologies (EDT)-a deal that was expected to close in the fall. The case describes the history of Alkermes, provides information about the planned merger, and details the funding options. The case gives View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
to business school students about their role and responsibilities. They are not merely agents of shareholders. They are leaders and trustees of perhaps the most significant institutions in the contemporary era. How managers see themselves... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
GUIDES is an easily remembered framework that can help the business leader and student to confidently and quickly identify, organize, and interpret a country's key economic indicators. Alternatively, it can help them to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
attitudinal v. substantive (re)structuring, and intra-organizational v. inter-organizational bargaining. This short article introduces and comments on essays that evaluate and discuss these dualities. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
raises her over-subscribed fund and begins the search process. The following useful information is included for students who are considering starting a search fund: offering memoranda, fundraising techniques, staffing, screening... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
Gupta faces three major problems in teaching cases: 1) his students, accustomed to lectures, don't know how to conduct a case discussion; 2) the students are using the Internet to discover the outcome of managerial dilemmas posed in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
Assistant Professor Douglas Fearing doesn't have the magic bullet to make this painful part of air travel a thing of the past. But his research on evaluating and improving the performance of complex systems such as air traffic control... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
functional administrators. Beginning in 1912, Harvard offered a required second-year course in "business policy," which was designed to integrate the knowledge gained in functional areas like accounting, operations, and finance, thereby giving View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
evaluated under more permissive incentive schemes are rated significantly less risky than the same loans evaluated under pay-for-performance. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne