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  • 27 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

machines that included information about the product’s name, price, description, and consumer ranking. Two of the 10 products included in their product information pages a strategic text string, a sequence of letters and numbers produced... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology
  • 19 Nov 2019
  • News

Study shows working from home can benefit employees and companies

  • Awards

National Association of Corporate Directors. Directorship Corporate Governance Hall of Fame

By: Jay W. Lorsch
Jay W. Lorsch was elected to Directorship magazine's Corporate Governance Hall of Fame in 2009. Hall of Fame members are a select number of exemplary individuals who have so uniquely contributed to the shape of modern corporate governance that they deserve special... View Details
  • September 2010 (Revised December 2012)
  • Case

Assembling Smartphones: Takt Time ≠ Cycle Time?

By: Willy Shih and Ethan Bernstein
The case was prepared to be used as part of a process review in the first year Technology and Operations Management course at HBS. It offers students an opportunity to discuss the context of a manufacturing process choice, and then examine actual production numbers... View Details
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Research and Development; Design; Six Sigma; Measurement and Metrics; Production
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  • Teaching Interest

Overview

I am passionate about teaching across a number of topics, most recently Data Science and Probability. Details on my graduate teaching experience can be found on my personal webpage. View Details
  • Article

Who Benefits from Religion?

By: Daniel Mochon, Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely
Many studies have documented the benefits of religious involvement. Indeed, highly religious people tend to be healthier, live longer, and have higher levels of subjective well-being. While religious involvement offers clear benefits to many, in this paper we explore... View Details
Keywords: Religion; Values and Beliefs; Welfare
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  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Empirical Tests of Information Aggregation

Keywords: by Pai-Ling Yin; Technology; Web Services
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Reinventing Retail: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores

By: Ryan Raffaelli
This study examines how community-based brick-and-mortar retailers can achieve sustained market growth in the face of online and big box retail competition. The appearance of Amazon.com in 1995 led to a significant decline in the number of independent bookstores in the... View Details
Keywords: Bookstores; Competitive Strategy; Business and Community Relations; Customization and Personalization; Growth and Development; Retail Industry; United States
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  • September 1983 (Revised November 1984)
  • Case

Syntex Laboratories (B)

The recommendations of the consultants require a number of assumptions and modifications to be implemented by Syntex Labs. Presents the initial implementation plan of the company. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Salesforce Management; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 22 Apr 2014
  • News

If a Bubble Bursts in Palo Alto, Does It Make a Sound?

  • February 2008 (Revised September 2008)
  • Case

Indesit Company: Does Global Matter?

By: Joseph L. Bower
In 2007, the leadership of the Indesit Company is focused on long-term corporate strategy. After 3 decades, the company has emerged as the number 2 home appliance producer in Europe. Should they invest further to be number 1, or should they focus on the global market,... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Global Strategy; Growth and Development; Business or Company Management; Brands and Branding; Markets; Problems and Challenges; Corporate Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 13 Feb 2018
  • News

Is America in a Retail Apocalypse? Ask Yelp

    The Future of Leadership Development

    The need for leadership development has never been more urgent. Companies of all sorts realize that to survive in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment, they need different leadership skills and organizational capabilities from those that... View Details

    • 14 Sep 2015
    • News

    When Will the Internet be Cheaper?

    • 13 Jan 2017
    • News

    Higher Minimum Wage May Have Losers

    • 16 Oct 2012
    • News

    Economist from Harvard shares Nobel Prize

    • 25 Apr 2014
    • Video

    Patrick O'Connor - Making A Difference

    • Research Summary

    An Unlimited Moments GMM Estimator

    A short time series relative to the number of moment conditions in a GMM framework yields an inconsistent estimator.  To circumvent this problem, researchers generally restrict the number of moment conditions to some fraction of the length of the time... View Details
    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Anticommons and Optimal Patent Policy in a Model of Sequential Innovation

    By: Gaston Llanes and Stefano Trento
    We present a model of sequential innovation in which an innovator uses several research inputs to invent a new good. These inputs, in turn, must be invented before they can be used by the final innovator. As a consequence, the degree of patent protection affects the... View Details
    Keywords: Cost; Revenue; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Research; Motivation and Incentives
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      William J. Poorvu

      William Poorvu is the Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He taught and was responsible for the real estate courses there for 35 years. He was the school's first adjunct professor, its first adjunct professor... View Details