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  • Research Summary

Designing Productive Zones of Privacy

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

A common theme that integrates my research and course development is how increasingly transparent workplaces can improve productivity and performance by putting up certain boundaries to observation. While the research above empirically and theoretically explores the... View Details

Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Field Experiments; Design; Organizational Design; Performance
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Time and the Value of Data

By: Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani and Marco Iansiti

Managers often believe that collecting more data will continually improve the accuracy of their machine learning models. However, we argue in this paper that when data lose relevance over time, it may be optimal to collect a limited amount of recent data instead of... View Details

Keywords: Economics Of AI; Machine Learning; Non-stationarity; Perishability; Value Depreciation; Analytics and Data Science; Value
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  • 11 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

this guy Y? What I would say in general is, it’s fiction. But there are details and thoughts that I pulled from my experience for verisimilitude.” Kim sees his business and literary endeavors as complementary forces in his life. “I like to think there’s a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park
  • 08 Feb 2016
  • Blog Post

Applying to Business School as a Couple

environment. We are both really proud to be each other’s partners. Also, sharing what we learned from the day when we get home. It has led to lots of great debates! What’s the biggest challenge about being at HBS? We are lucky to be involved in two sections. But the... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

People skills make all the difference at senior levels. How have your priorities changed since 1974? After graduating from HBS, I embarked upon a very career-centric existence, and I have to admit that it has paid off. But since having children, my life is more View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 28 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

possibly to an extent where even meritorious lawsuits are not being brought, though that is hard to establish empirically. “The bottom line from our study is that the balance has moved away from investors and towards auditors.” A... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting
  • 16 Apr 2019
  • Blog Post

How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience

experience balances with the all too common FOMO (fear-of-missing-out) that is quite palpable on campus.   While traditionally in society extroverts have received the bulk of attention, introverts are increasingly being acknowledged for... View Details
  • 16 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses

step in the right direction, and one of the few major drivers of IPv6 deployment. But so far OMB hasn't yet tried to force agencies to actually use IPv6, knowing that it would be too costly, too inconvenient, and on balance too hard to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Telecommunications
  • Web

2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

participants were next asked to rate several specific threats to the financial system, including market turmoil due to political risk, The Federal Reserve unwinding of its balance sheet, the Federal Reserve's low interest rate policy, the... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

have created, balancing their generosity with the need to keep some of that value for themselves. Achieving this balance may not be as easy as it seems. Keystone organizations must make sure that the value... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • Research Summary

Overview

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
  • Research Summary

Overview

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
  • 2020
  • Discussion Paper

Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19

By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Peter Clinch
This paper aims to provide policy makers, especially those focused on the longer-term growth potential of their countries, with an initial framework to think about their action priorities in the context of the overall COVID-19 response. Our focus is on the... View Details
Keywords: Competitiveness; COVID-19 Pandemic; Competition; Government Administration; Health Pandemics; Economy; Supply Chain; Safety
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  • 2010
  • Article

Hospital Performance, the Local Economy, and the Local Workforce: Findings from a U.S. National Longitudinal Study

Background: Pay-for-performance is an increasingly popular approach to improving health care quality, and the US government will soon implement pay-for-performance in hospitals nationwide. Yet hospital capacity to perform (and improve performance) likely depends on... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Performance; Health Industry; United States
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  • 11 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

infrastructure that separates companies could have profound implications and incentivize companies to become more long-term-oriented. Q: What is the lesson for corporate leaders as they seek to balance the need for long-term strategy with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • September 2023
  • Case

Derek Aguirre

By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman
Derek Aguirre is the executive director of a nonprofit organization in Detroit, Michigan that uses the sport of squash as a vehicle to support young people in low-income urban areas. The case discusses his path to pursue meaningful work and his reflections on the... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Job Search; Happiness; Well-being; Work-Life Balance; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise; Business Startups; Sports; Education; Mission and Purpose; Education Industry; Sports Industry; Service Industry; United States; Boston; Detroit
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  • 02 Mar 2016
  • News

David Moss is Rewriting History

classroom to vote on issues or work in small groups? Moss isn’t talking about the essence of the case method as he explains the importance of teaching civics as a dynamic and engaging topic, but he could be: “The three branches of government are extremely important,... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • March 2023 (Revised April 2023)
  • Case

Shelly Sun at BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leader

By: Boris Groysberg, Colleen Ammerman and Sarah L. Abbott
Shelly Sun had founded BrightStar Care, a home health care and medical staffing agency, 20 years earlier and had grown the business to over 300 franchised locations and $654 million in annual system-wide sales. Sun had spent years working to get “the right people in... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneur; Family Business; Franchising; Health Care; Women-owned Businesses; Growth And Scaling; Organization; Franchise Ownership; Entrepreneurship; Work-Life Balance; Growth and Development; Health Industry; United States
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  • 16 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

and set an aggressive goal to repay the full balance within 4 years of graduating. I am on-track to reach that goal. Is there any advice you would like to share with prospective or current HBS students regarding loans or debt repayment?... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Home Base

Above: Dowling at home in New York City: “There’s no one model for being a working parent.” Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) had built a successful career in leadership development and executive coaching at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in the 2000s, but there was one... View Details
Keywords: April White