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- 2023
- Working Paper
The Complexity of Economic Decisions
By: Xavier Gabaix and Thomas Graeber
We propose a theory of the complexity of economic decisions. Leveraging a macroeconomic framework of production functions, we conceptualize the mind as a cognitive economy, where a task’s complexity is determined by its composition of cognitive operations. Complexity... View Details
Gabaix, Xavier, and Thomas Graeber. "The Complexity of Economic Decisions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-049, February 2024.
- 22 May 2024
- HBS Case
Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore
understands users’ emotions TikTok presents videos it thinks a user might engage with, rather than waiting for the user to choose posts they prefer or follow those of influencers or friends. Its single-page vertical videos allow the app... View Details
- 09 Feb 2024
- HBS Case
Slim Chance: Drugs Will Reshape the Weight Loss Industry, But Habit Change Might Be Elusive
what may at first blush appear to be an easier fix: new drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro, says Harvard Business School Professor Regina E. Herzlinger, who has studied the American health care system for decades. Wegovy has been... View Details
- Web
Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Stephen’s other research here . More Info Sizing up Corporate Restructuring in the COVID Crisis By: Robin Greenwood , Benjamin Iverson & David Thesmar NOV 2020 In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial and legal system will need... View Details
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
demonstrates a more holistic approach to learning from large-scale organizational failures. It suggests that we cannot think about individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis in isolation. Instead, we need to examine how... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
balancing profit, growth and control. Difficulties encountered in the business are due to management's attempts to design and use formal control systems to achieve profit and performance goals. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
from government. Suggestions of causes of the current challenge of rapidly rising costs in relation to quality of outcomes, at least by the imperfect measure of life expectancy, included waste in the system (Julie Maire, Edward Hare, and... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
and operators with other clients. However, Emergia also needs to think about how Fonaveu will react and whether these tactics will endanger the collaborative relationship the couples have been working toward. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
media products, there's the perception that all things digital should be less expensive, or free. So I think this most recent skirmish has resulted in a truce at most." "The odd thing is that no one is really focusing on the... View Details
- February 2019 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
KangaTech
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik and Steven Randazzo
On a warm January afternoon in 2019, Steve Saunders, Dave Scerri, Carl Dilena, and Nick Haslam (see Exhibit 1 for biographies), co-founders of KangaTech, wrapped up the latest round of discussions about the future direction of their sports-technology start-up. Focused... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Technology Commercialization; Prototype; Business Startups; Technological Innovation; Sports; Health; Commercialization; Research and Development; Decision Making; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Sports Industry; Health Industry; Australia
Lakhani, Karim R., Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik, and Steven Randazzo. "KangaTech." Harvard Business School Case 619-049, February 2019. (Revised August 2019.)
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
told, was a therapy called applied behavior analysis. “Then they handed us a list of ABA providers and said, ‘good luck.’ And that was all the medical system had for us.” At first, he accepted that answer at face value, but nonetheless... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- Web
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
occurring in the same paper. I will use my knowledge of behavioral ethics and my experience as a co-author on a fraudulent paper to explore changes that are needed to improve research integrity. About the Unit The NOM Unit seeks to understand and improve the design and... View Details
- 06 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Leaders Lose Their Way
enable them to think clearly about work and personal issues. A System To Support Values-centered Leadership The reality is that people cannot stay grounded by themselves. Leaders depend on people closest to... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
systemic and equitable changes in how they hire and promote from within. “It’s not simply about recruiting and getting people into the role. How are you going to give them sponsorship, give them mentorship?” says Hill, who coauthored the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
former chief of staff, the task was accomplished. Clay believed (as do I) that most people are more capable than they realize. All it takes is asking someone to do something they don’t think is possible. I’m a big believer in the... View Details
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
at Princeton University. He then earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard’s Department of Economics. His research approach—applying economic theory and competition thinking to complex... View Details
- 04 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness
of the time and white people 75 percent of the time. “People ... seem to ignore the diversity of the remaining group, which is what you’d think they’d care about if they think that diversity is good... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
markets, highlighting concerns as China strives to modernize its financial system to meet global competition and support its fast growing economy. Purchase the note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
from that.” The new inventory system was actually something Whole Foods had started to implement before the Amazon deal, pressured by activist shareholders who had seen the grocer’s stock and sales margins slipping for two years. “This is... View Details
- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details