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- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
layout that would optimize product flow and plant capacity — critical to reducing process time — and made extensive use of simulations to generate insights. They created Cardboard City, a three dimensional model of a manufacturing cell... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
departments within the firm could query it for answers to questions ranging from optimal pricing to product design. What prevents this from materializing? After all, machine learning is delivering self-driving cars and beating human... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
director Frank Capra's underdog tales lightened Depression-era despair with irrepressible optimism and laughter. Capra's "fantasies of goodwill" packaged hope for the hopeless. The Cinderella Man, James J. Braddock, was an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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HBS - The year in Review
students. Following extensive experimentation, HBS launched the academic year with new hybrid classrooms that could seat up to 25 students in person and the rest remote, optimizing the experience for both groups through the addition of... View Details
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Managing Human Capital
The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal... View Details
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The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details
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Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
Staples before coming to the bookseller, the future of Barnes & Noble lies in brick and mortar, an optimism that he has taken from the recent growth of independent bookstores. “That’s another sign that people do want places to go to buy... View Details
Keywords: April White
Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier
Your guide--using the compelling stories of changemakers and the tools of economics--to the transformation and future possibilities of the business and economics of space. Harvard Business Review Press, 2025.
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By: Feng Zhu
Professor Zhu’s research focuses on the design of platform business models and its impact on platform performance. Platforms have become central to our economy. A platform is a product or service that enables two or more customer groups to interact. For example,... View Details
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Sustainability and Integrated Reporting
A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details
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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
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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
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By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
Analysts and Research Reports," and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) issued Rule 472, "Communications with the Public." Both were effective in May of 2002, which is subsequent to the data used in our study, but seem to have noticeably affected the... View Details
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
in individual information processing steps of the S&OP process, a tradeoff which to our knowledge has not been highlighted in the supply chain management literature. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-001.pdf View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
engine that ensures an optimal fit down to the level of soft skills. Berendt came to Talent Alpha after 18 years in the tech industry, most recently at the global IT service provider Luxoft. There he observed that the 25,000 small IT... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer
Click Here If people made purely rational decisions, life might be much easier for marketers in selling products and services. But few of us are that rational. Instead, our decisions are based on illogical biases such as loss aversion and over View Details
Keywords: by Amelia Kunhardt
- 06 Jun 2023
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Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
Decarbonization and Sustainable Production, our group visited Van den Ende Rozen, a family business located in Monster, near The Hague and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The company leverages greenhouse technology and digitalization to View Details
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Jill Huggett
experience enables Jill to fully appreciate the many challenges one faces throughout their career. Jill's coaching style is realistic, practical and applicable. She coaches people to strive for the optimal outcome and persist until... View Details
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