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- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
ratios. Students can apply the traditional DuPont decomposition framework to drill down into the business model of the two companies. The case then allows students to use the modified (also known as additive or alternate) DuPont approach... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
to traditional causal inference methods, ML methods make far fewer a priori assumptions about the functional form of the underlying model that best represents the data. Given this, researchers could use such methods to explore novel and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
calculus class. We think we can supercharge that so that the traditional system can be less traditional, so to speak and serve a lot, lot more students. The pandemic, I think really underlined this need of needing a safety net educational... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
enables the fledgling units to share important resources from the traditional units—cash, talent, expertise, customers, and so on," they write, "but the organizational separation ensures that these new units' distinctive... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
various cultural traditions and the challenges faced when a company from another tradition enters the market. The complexities of such research start with language, she notes, recalling a visit to a Chinese... View Details
- Portrait Project
Tom Doyle
faith and other traditions for trusting that our beliefs coalesce around recognizing and building what is good ...debt to my church for giving me a podium from which to preach ...debt to my siblings and friends for sharing the miracle of... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Editor's Note
C L A S S N O T E S I S S U E ith thoughts of summer getaways on nearly everyone's mind this month, we report on a bittersweet farewell, the Class of 2002's Class Day and Commencement. This year's traditional rites of departure were... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres Abstract—We describe how to employ machine learning (ML) methods in theory development. Compared to traditional causal inference... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: U.S. Law and Economics in the 1920s By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—The impact of institutional economics in shaping the American regulatory tradition has largely been dismissed as an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
human-resource foundation. As more and more companies come to that conclusion, competition for scarce human resources heats up. The Role Of The Executive In The "war For Talent" Era Senior managers at most traditional companies... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
traditional Taylorist view of the company as a centrally driven entity that creates wealth by getting better and better at doing the same thing. But now the problem is quite different. Competition is no longer in global scale-intensive... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct-selling... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
innovation is accelerating rapidly, and means big changes and challenges for the sector. We are seeing rapid changes both in traditional retailers and in startups. The largest traditional retailers are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rob Price (MBA 1997)
I learned classical piano in the traditional way as a kid, but as soon as I could get a synthesizer and play Foreigner and Journey, I escaped. That, for me, reinforces how our method builds on traditional... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth, and Oliver Tercieux Abstract—In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
understanding of second-generation bias into a new approach to women's leadership development, moving beyond traditional programs developed for men. "Most leadership development for women is 'add women and stir'—basically, delivering... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
Richard J. Kogan
After spending a lengthy career at a smaller pharmaceutical firm, Kogan joined Schering-Plough in 1982. Throughout the next several years, he was a part of a group of executives that helped raise revenues from $1.8 billion in 1982 to $4.5 billion in 1994. Kogan... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
A Helping Hand for Health Care
The HBS Buffalo Club continued its tradition of sponsoring community leaders for HBS Executive Education courses by sending senior management teams from two of the area’s health-care providers to the School’s new Managing Health- care... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Japan. An entire system of governance was blown away. In 1911, an imperial tradition of more than 2,000 years ended. After the subsequent disasters of world war and Maoist utopianism, China was an impoverished third world economy holding... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
Prize, while not a traditional corporate brand, has a very high HQ. In their paper, Urde and Greyser explain the factors that make it so: History important to identity: The Nobel prizes are the legacy of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel