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  • Program

Risk Management for Corporate Leaders—Virtual

Summary All organizations—even those with sophisticated models of risk exposure—are vulnerable to disaster. In most organizations, risk management attempts to avoid disasters by emphasizing compliance, internal controls, and conformance to View Details
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A Prescriptive Analytics Framework for Optimal Policy Deployment Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

By: Edward McFowland III, Sandeep Gangarapu, Ravi Bapna and Tianshu Sun
We define a prescriptive analytics framework that addresses the needs of a constrained decision-maker facing, ex ante, unknown costs and benefits of multiple policy levers. The framework is general in nature and can be deployed in any utility maximizing context, public... View Details
Keywords: Prescriptive Analytics; Heterogeneous Treatment Effects; Optimization; Observed Rank Utility Condition (OUR); Between-treatment Heterogeneity; Machine Learning; Decision Making; Analysis; Mathematical Methods
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  • March 2009 (Revised October 2009)
  • Case

CalPERS' Emerging Equity Markets Principles

By: Robert G. Eccles and Aldo Sesia
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and external money managers were... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Value; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; China; California
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    A Prescriptive Analytics Framework for Optimal Policy Deployment Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

    We define a prescriptive analytics framework that addresses the needs of a constrained decision-maker facing, ex ante, unknown costs and benefits of multiple policy levers. The framework is general in nature and can be deployed in any utility maximizing... View Details
    • 02 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    10 Trends to Watch in 2024

    The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 04 Jun 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance

    Keywords: by Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn & Jordi Quoidbach
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Marlous van Waijenburg

    Professor van Waijenburg’s research focuses on the historical roots of relative African poverty and state fragility. Where sufficiently reliable and comparable records exist, she creates new datasets from a range of qualitative and quantitative archival sources. The... View Details

    • Web

    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    AI-nization: Fueling Growth with Data and AI Join Mickey Mikitani and Professor Tsedal Neeley to discuss how Rakuten continues to set the pace as a global innovation leader. They will discuss building an ecosystem and operating model that... View Details
    • 16 Aug 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization

    Keywords: by Karthik Ramanna; Accounting
    • 03 Jun 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Eliciting Taxpayer Preferences Increases Tax Compliance

    Keywords: by Cait Lamberton, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve & Michael I. Norton
    • 06 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams

    Virtual meetings have become the standard for global and hybrid team communication, but what happens when the call ends? Participants who are in the same room keep talking—and the tone of those conversations can dramatically impact team... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 2007
    • Book

    From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession

    By: Rakesh Khurana
    Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform.... View Details
    Keywords: Social History; Business Education; Moral Sensibility; Profit; Leadership; Managerial Roles; United States
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    • 26 Sep 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: September 26, 2006

    high-definition (HD) technology created a need for a format with greater storage capacity. Instead of agreeing on a single standard for a new HD disc, however, key players had formed two rival camps. The Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats each... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Apr 2023
    • Blog Post

    How to onboard recently graduated MBAs

    functional area to another. That can be exciting, but as new hires they’re navigating a new set of norms, expectations, and signals of what’s valued in their new organizations.” Brennan would know. In addition to coaching HBS students,... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 11 Jun 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Measurement Errors of Expected Returns Proxies and the Implied Cost of Capital

    Keywords: by Charles C.Y. Wang
    • January 2015 (Revised April 2015)
    • Case

    Zeal: Launching Personalized and Social Learning

    By: John J-H Kim and Christine S. An
    Set in 2014, this case follows John Danner and his team at Zeal as they consider their product development strategy. In February 2013, serial entrepreneurs John Danner and Sanjay Noronha co-found Zeal, an education technology start up providing a web-based, mobile... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Education Technology; MVP; Product Development; Product Market Fit; Monetization Strategy; SaaS Business Models; Education; Personalized Learning
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    • 26 Aug 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: August 26, 2008

    tests always involve a vigorous search not only for confirming evidence, but for disconfirming evidence as well. We undertake such a search in the context of a single well-known case: the Federal Radio Commission's (FRC's) 1927 decision not to expand the broadcast... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 30 Aug 2006
    • Op-Ed

    The Compensation Game

    rise of executive pay over time as a product of efficient markets and argued that the increase merely reflects the growing marginal productivity of chief executives. Unfortunately, this standard defense reflects a broad misconception of... View Details
    Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
    • Web

    Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

    year Sit-down strikes at GM and other auto makers Government work programs launched: CCC, PWA, WPA CIO union created NLRB created Fair Labor Standards Act sets minimum wage Influence: Low 40 1940 19 Rosie... View Details
    • Web

    Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    health care by defining global standard sets of outcome measures that matter most to patients and driving adoption and reporting of these measures worldwide to create better value for all stakeholders. ICHOM... View Details