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Terms of Use - Alumni

outlined below. Before using the services, Alumni are encouraged to review this page, the HBS Privacy Notice , and the Alumni Website Full Terms of Use (pdf) . HBS Alumni also have access to the Harvard Alumni online platform , which is... View Details
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Ways to Give Today - Alumni

Fund There are two ways you can make a gift through your donor-advised fund: Support HBS now by recommending a grant to Harvard Business School (legal name: “President and Fellows of Harvard College”). Support HBS in the future View Details
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

More Information HBS Working Knowledge Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)? By: Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik More Information HBS Working Paper Series Does 'What We Do' Make Us 'Who We Are'? Organizational View Details
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Downstream businesses that utilize global suppliers frequently use auditing programs to monitor their suppliers’ working conditions and are often deployed to address reputational concerns associated with procuring from unregulated suppliers. Despite their widespread... View Details
Keywords: Audit Quality; Remote Work; Outsourcing; Econometric Analysis; Switching Costs; Service Operations; Performance Effectiveness; Retail Industry; Service Industry

    Achieving Reliable Causal Inference with Data-Mined Variables: A Random Forest Approach to the Measurement Error Problem

    Combining machine learning with econometric analysis is becoming increasingly prevalent in both research and practice. A common empirical strategy involves the application of predictive modeling techniques to "mine" variables of interest from available data,... View Details
    • 22 May 2019
    • Blog Post

    What is FIELD Global Immersion?

    where they are discussing cases, and actually step into the shoes of a protagonist; 2. Enhance students’ cultural intelligence and ability to adapt to doing business in foreign contexts; and 3. Practice the human-centered design... View Details
    • 07 Oct 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: October 7

    Experiment in Computational Biology By: Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim Lakhani Abstract—Most of society's innovation systems―academic science, the patent system, open source, etc.―are "open" in the sense that they are designed to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 30 Mar 2021
    • Blog Post

    Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent with Professor Hakeem Belo-Osagie

    a faculty member’s area of expertise or passion. We caught up with Professor Hakeem Belo-Osagie, who taught the Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent. This course was designed to... View Details
    • 14 May 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: May 14

    that decays over time, similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 11 Jan 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 11

    painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. At best, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses. This new book explains how to avoid that fate... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2001 (Revised November 2001)
    • Background Note

    Running and Growing the Small Company: Course Overview

    Addresses challenges facing managers, presidents, and owners in generating and sustaining superior performance, especially as a company broadens its mix of goods and services, increases the volume of its sales, and enlarges the size of its workforce. The critical... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Talent and Talent Management
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    People Are Experience Goods: Improving Online Dating with Virtual Dates

    Because internet search mechanisms are designed for finding searchable items, we tend to conceptualize the things we seek online in terms of their objective characteristics. For some pursuits, however, this illuminates a mismatch between processes and goals. In online... View Details
    • October 2022 (Revised February 2024)
    • Case

    Masdar City: Aiming for Sustainable and Profitable Real Estate

    By: Boris Vallee and Fares Khrais
    Masdar City broke ground in 2008 and was conceived by the Abu Dhabi government to be an international beacon of innovation in sustainable energy and real estate. It was also to be a profitable investment for the government. At first glance, the two goals pulled in... View Details
    Keywords: Analysis; Business Growth And Maturation; Decisions; Public Sector; Financial Crisis; Construction; Climate Change; Green Technology; Borrowing And Debt; Corporate Finance; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Cost Of Capital; Equity; REIT; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Innovation; Growth And Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Urban Development; Middle East; United Arab Emirates; Sustainable Cities; Green Building; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financing and Loans; Real Estate Industry; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Abu Dhabi
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    • May 2021 (Revised February 2024)
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    THE YES: Reimagining the Future of E-Commerce with Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    By: Ayelet Israeli and Jill Avery
    THE YES, a multi-brand shopping app launched in May 2020 offered a new type of buying experience for women’s fashion, driven by a sophisticated algorithm that used data science and machine learning to create and deliver a personalized store for every shopper, based on... View Details
    Keywords: Data; Data Analytics; Artificial Intelligence; AI; AI Algorithms; AI Creativity; Fashion; Retail; Retail Analytics; E-Commerce Strategy; Platform; Platforms; Big Data; Preference Elicitation; Predictive Analytics; App Development; ＂Marketing Analytics＂; Advertising; Mobile App; Mobile Marketing; Apparel; Online Advertising; Referral Rewards; Referrals; Female Ceo; Female Entrepreneur; Female Protagonist; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Creativity; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Forecasting and Prediction; Marketing Channels; Digital Marketing; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; AI and Machine Learning; E-commerce; Digital Platforms; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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    • 2021
    • Chapter

    Dis-Atlanticism: The West in an Era of Global Fragmentation

    By: Rawi Abdelal and Ulrich Krotz
    BOOK ABSTRACT: Is the EU a Success or a Failure? Should It Stay or Should It Go? Britain and the EU. The Big Waste or Essential to Feed Europe? The Common Agricultural Policy. Observers of the European Union could be forgiven in thinking that since its inception the EU... View Details
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    Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems

    By: Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes and Alyson Falwell

    Objective To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) to the safety and efficiency of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives.

    Data... View Details

    Keywords: Perspective; Opportunities; Safety; Performance Efficiency; System; Failure; Conferences; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Experience and Expertise; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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      The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage

      From HBSP: " In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their... View Details
      • November 2024 (Revised January 2025)
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      MiDAS: Automating Unemployment Benefits

      By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
      In 2015, the state of Michigan considered whether to nominate its Michigan Integrated Data Automated System (MiDAS) for a prestigious state technology award. Launched in 2013 amid severe budget pressures, the $47 million automated fraud detection system was designed to... View Details
      Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; AI; Machine Learning Models; Algorithmic Data; Automation; Benefits; Compensation; Cost Reduction; Government; Fraud; Government Technology; Public Sector; Systems; Systems Integration; Unemployment Insurance; Waste Heat Recovery; AI and Machine Learning; Government Administration; Insurance; Decision Making; Digital Transformation; Employment; Public Administration Industry; United States; Michigan
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      • August 2016
      • Case

      VMD Medical Imaging Center

      By: Susanna Gallani and Eva Labro
      VMD Medical Imaging Center, a local independent provider of medical imaging services, is facing some important challenges. Despite efficiency improvements and cost cutting initiatives carried out over the past few years, their profitability is shrinking; their prices... View Details
      Keywords: Costing; Death Spiral; Transfer Pricing; Activity Based Costing and Management; Competitive Strategy; Medical Specialties; Health Industry
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      • 2014
      • Teaching Note

      Fine Harvest Restaurant Group

      By: Clara X. Chen, Kenneth A. Merchant, Tatiana Sandino and Wim Van der Stede
      The Fine Harvest Restaurant Group cases A and B examine a company's design of a new system to evaluate the performance (and determine the bonuses) for its restaurant managers. Fine Harvest had traditionally evaluated restaurant managers based on store margins and had... View Details
      Keywords: Incentive Systems; Relative Performance Evaluation; Restaurant Industry; Accounting; Economics; Human Resources; Measurement and Metrics; Labor; Performance; Salesforce Management; Retail Industry; North and Central America
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