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- 25 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Secret Life of Supply Chains
however, all the industries that comprised that sector or how many jobs it contained. Two years ago, she teamed with Mercedes Delgado, professor at Copenhagen Business School and research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of... View Details
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
data scientist at Amazon; and Nils Wernerfelt, an economist at Meta, Facebook’s parent company. In one of the largest studies of its kind, Luca and his coauthors analyzed more than 800 public health advertising campaigns that reached 2.1... View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
approach essentially joins two initially separated intellectual traditions, the descriptive and the prescriptive. For many years, cognitive and social scientists performed careful laboratory experiments to determine what subjects actually... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
money-driven society to a time-smart one—would be higher productivity and lower health care spending. Shifting the rhetoric could be contagious in a way that social scientists are discovering is quite powerful. We look to others to see... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Accidental Innovator
artists seem to rely on accidents to generate interesting and creative outcomes. How often accidents are involved in important innovations is also difficult to say. How do you define the time boundaries of an accident? What does "often" mean? Ernst Mach, a... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
managers, HR specialists, and data scientists work together to use data to improve employee-related decisions and practices. New analytic approaches and new sources of digital data are starting to revolutionize this field, he said, such... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
Some events mark a generation. If a marker is a source of deep learning about ourselves, as Malcolm Salter believes it is, then the Enron crisis is exactly that for business people. Political scientists have the Bay of Pigs; engineers... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
we already have. “Philosophers are normative; They tell you what an ideal state looks like. Behavioral scientists tell you how people actually behave,” Bazerman says. “I use a prescriptive approach to provide new insights into how you can... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
panel of 100 historians and scientists that began cataloging 1,500 yoga poses found in ancient texts written in Sanskrit, Urdu, and Persian. The goal was not to challenge Bikram in court, the case explains, but rather to keep others from... View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
scientist who can’t wait to get to the classroom to share the experiment. If you adopt this mindset, students will remain intellectually and spiritually in the classroom with you.” The Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice in... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
disciplines, where academic research is leading to the development of a second skin that could improve drug delivery or alerting farmers and scientists on how to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural farming. Harvard Business... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
strong foundation of facts and a very comprehensive search for the facts. At the same time, he was an incredibly systematic thinker and researcher, a social scientist in the truest sense of the word. If you looked at his desk at 1010... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
way we will build a new theory about leaders that, even as it acknowledges that most individual leaders have little impact, identifies the relatively rare circumstances when a single individual in the right place, at the right time, can make history. Philosophers and... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
Education offerings that teach scientists business and organizational fundamentals? What about joint MBA/Ph.D. programs? How about science/business seminars, more science-based cases, and more science-savvy faculty to teach them? We don't... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
in a way that they never were. Twenty years ago, said Lander, information was a trivial component of biomedical research. Most of what a scientist did was based on work taking place in his or her own lab or in a few other labs. Now, of... View Details
- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
income, employment, religion, and health status. Other factors were psychological and behavioral, like political affiliation and how much people trust the scientists responsible for making health recommendations. Why are women behaving... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests
scientists to create a tool that does just that. The plugin modifies Chrome to hide the name and face of guests requesting to stay with Airbnb hosts. “Debias Yourself” is a downloadable browser plugin that lets an Airbnb host view a... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
among scientists that was unprecedented in human genetics research. A professor of genetics and director of Harvard Medical School's Lipper Center for Computational Genetics, Church noted that his own computer experience dates back to... View Details
- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
Solutions? Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation Borrowing a practice that is common in the open source software community, HBS professor Karim Lakhani and colleagues decided to see how "broadcasting" might work among View Details