Operating Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

automobiles; it was up to Huber to figure out what that meant. Primarily the GM leadership was looking to justify GM's earlier multibillion-dollar acquisitions of Hughes Aircraft (which included commercial satellites) and Electronic Data View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

29 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

research agenda to systematically address the social welfare implications of financial innovation. To complement existing empirical and theoretical methods, we propose that scholars examine case studies of systemic (widely adopted)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About

and Artificial Intelligence increasingly are becoming required capabilities, driving operating model performance and enabling growth like never before. Moreover, the design of new business models—or, for incumbent firms, the ability to... View Details

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

along with the new legal restrictions, New York's top brokers had to decide whether a new system for securities trading was needed and, if so, what it should look like. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

operating effectiveness and efficiency, ensure high levels of employee engagement, and improve their overall global competitiveness. After a successful career as an executive with Fortune 500 companies Chase Manhattan Bank (now JP Morgan... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

An American Odyssey

on it, and quantifying the consequences is an essential step toward true progress, economically and socially, around the world.” Web Extra “A National System of Income Supplementation” View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

cities. Expanding slowly, by the mid-1970s Continental was installing operations in metropolitan areas, including Boston, which became company headquarters. Continental Cablevision is now the nation's third-largest cable View Details

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Commencement 2019 Address | About

than it has in the past. Around the globe, people are wrestling with growing inequality, increasing divisiveness, and the rising threat of systemic challenges such as climate change. They are living with the terrifying insecurity that... View Details

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

customers willingly pay higher prices. The relevant readers are general managers responsible for a P&L, marketing and sales managers responsible for making product and selling decisions (including pricing), and people in operations... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

has ever seen. In the past, biographers of Lord Liverpool have not sufficiently acknowledged the importance of his foremost skill: economic policy (including fiscal, monetary, and banking system questions). Here, Hutchinson's decades of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2008
News

A Force for Good

stood at a crossroads. It was, by any measure, the preeminent business school in the world. Indisputably, it was the largest, in terms of MBA enrollment, size of faculty, endowment, and operating budget. Its research budget alone — some... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

April 2024 (Revised July 2024)
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Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Quinn and John Schultz

Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk was owned by a charitable foundation, and since its founding in the 1920s had focused on producing insulin to treat diabetes. In 2017, however, it released Ozempic, a diabetes treatment with the revolutionary side effect of... View Details

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31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

employee’s desk is only 166 meters from the clinic. Base proximity does not predict vaccination probability. Conclusions and Relevance: Minor changes in the environment can have substantial effects on the probability of vaccination. If these results generalize, health... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

compete now as a full-service investment firm without charging the hefty commissions that 'full service' usually implies. Our online presence is just part of a larger operation designed to help customers achieve their long-term financial... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

09 May 2018
Research & Ideas

A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School, and Mike Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at HBS, experts in scheduling and in inspections, respectively. “The more inspections you... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Service

20 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Misgovernance at the World Bank

that reason, the Executive Board was created to oversee the operations and aid allocations. For its part, the Board of Executive Directors is the decision-making body of the World Bank's two primary component institutions: the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

made it far enough to launch a spring and fall collection and received widespread media coverage. The brand was slowly starting to gain traction with customers, too. But by the end of 2012, the startup—running low on cash and plagued by View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

ideas. Assignments to projects can make a big difference, too. You want people to have work that they're going to find appropriately challenging — not so far out of their skill range that they just can't do anything, but certainly something that's going to get them to... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

12 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

Experiment By: Acimovic, Jason, Chris Parker, David F. Drake, and Karthik Balasubramanian Abstract—When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

since the HBS Business Plan Contest. Brontes Technologies Eric Paley, MBA 2003 Micah Rosenbloom, MBA 2003 Brontes Technologies has developed and commercialized a revolutionary 3D imaging system that eliminates the need for the... View Details

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