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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links The Railroads: The First Big Business Beginning in the mid-sixteenth century, local railroads around the world served as a means of... View Details
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

for Outstanding Faculty Service. 2017 Ethan C. Rouen : Winner of the 2017 Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal from the American Accounting Association for “Financial Statement Irregularities: Evidence from the Distributional Properties of... View Details
  • August 2019
  • Case

Walmart's Omnichannel Strategy: Revolution or Miscalculation?

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
This case describes Walmart's omnichannel strategy in 2018 as it battled Amazon for online retail market share. The case discusses Walmart's early forays into online retail, as well as its 2018 strategy, which aimed to integrate Walmart's enormous brick and mortar... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Strategy; Internet and the Web; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Competition; Retail Industry; Bentonville; Arkansas; New Jersey; Seattle; United States
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  • 30 May 2024
  • News

How to Have Effective Conversations

who can be consistent super communicators, who can connect with almost anyone. And going into this, I thought it was because they were super charismatic, or they were extroverts. And it turns out that's not true at all. There's kind of a normal View Details
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Rounding the Bend

Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 30 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

mean and the distribution around that, and then look at the overall shape of what we get, and determine whether we are actually getting something that looks like a realistic demand curve or not,” Israeli explains. When the GPT prompt... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz

    Paul Hamilton

    Paul studies the economic complements needed for firms to realize productivity gains from machine learning and artificial intelligence. These complements include data, human capital & skills, organizational processes, and business models. 
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    • 31 Mar 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services

    large scale helps distribute the fixed costs, reducing per-transaction cost. Narayana Hrudalaya, for instance, has installed cutting-edge expensive equipment for heart procedures, but the high volume of its operations drives down... View Details
    Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
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    2.1.3 Classroom Recording, Photography & Social Media - MBA

    shared unless individual permission has been explicitly granted. Preserves the integrity of the HBS learning environment by not publishing or distributing case materials or course content to anyone who has not enrolled in a class,... View Details
    • March 2018 (Revised March 2018)
    • Teaching Note

    OpenInvest

    By: Boris Vallee and Caitlin Reimers Brumme
    Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its platform in 2015 to enable retail investors to tailor their portfolio to their personal values in an automated way, for instance by screening out weapon manufacturers stocks or overweighting LGBTQ... View Details
    Keywords: Socially Responsible Investing; Investing For Impact; Robo-advisors; Investment; Values and Beliefs; Customization and Personalization; Technology; Financial Services Industry
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    Creating Value Together

    By: Maxim Sytch and Ranjay Gulati
    Conventional wisdom suggests that companies should avoid growing dependent on their business partners. If one company, the thinking goes, grows too dependent on a counterpart by getting the entire input for a particular activity from it and is not able to switch... View Details
    Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Performance Improvement; Partners and Partnerships; Power and Influence; Value Creation
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    Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

    Internet service. The space also houses some historical treasures for the School, including the Written Analysis of Cases slot; the Baker 20 case distribution center; a rendering of the original Baker Library stacks and grille; and an... View Details
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    Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

    the chief architect of Kiva's game-changing product vision. Prior to Kiva, Mick worked on a business process team at Webvan designing a next generation distribution strategy for grocery home delivery, during which he experienced... View Details
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    Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

    draw conclusions about the larger population and craft sound survey questions. Highlights Sampling Calculating Confidence Intervals Show Hide Details Concepts Creating Representative and Unbiased Samples The Normal Distribution Confidence... View Details
    • 29 Aug 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

    distributions. Instead, after comparing 17 different measures, we find that a measure comprised of two separate variables—called the Ortega parameters—reflect the best-fitting model for our dataset of over 3,000 income distributions at... View Details
    Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser
    • 09 Sep 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Boundary Spanning in a For-Profit Research Lab: An Exploration of the Interface Between Commerce and Academe

    Keywords: by Christopher C. Liu & Toby E. Stuart; Biotechnology
    • Research Summary

    International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship (joint with Andrew Charlton)

    By: Laura Alfaro
    We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Researchers have stressed the role of new firm activity and economic dynamism on growth. Yet, the empirical effects of international capital... View Details
    • March 2011
    • Article

    Talking Past Each Other?: Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    This article analyzes the extent to which two institutional logics around climate change—the climate change “convinced” and the climate change “skeptical” logics—are truly competing or talking past each other in a way that can be described as a logic schism. Drawing on... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Values and Beliefs; Cognition and Thinking; News; Conflict and Resolution
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    • 2015
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    Scalable Detection of Anomalous Patterns With Connectivity Constraints

    By: Skyler Speakman, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
    We present GraphScan, a novel method for detecting arbitrarily shaped connected clusters in graph or network data. Given a graph structure, data observed at each node, and a score function defining the anomalousness of a set of nodes, GraphScan can efficiently and... View Details
    Keywords: Biosurveillance; Event Detection; Graph Mining; Scan Statistics; Spatial Scan Statistic
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    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set forth in previous chapters to theories of firm boundaries from economics and management. Complementary goods have more value when used together than separately. Complementarity may... View Details
    Keywords: Complementarity
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