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  • 2006
  • Working Paper

Managing Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning

To date, little research has been done on managing the organizational and political dimensions of generating and improving forecasts in corporate settings. We examine the implementation of a supply chain planning process at a consumer electronics company, concentrating... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Business or Company Management; Supply Chain Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Planning; Electronics Industry
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  • 18 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying

Keywords: by William R. Kerr, William Lincoln & Prachi Mishra
  • Web

Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

4,000 over 12 years, building crisis centers for new mothers to help them keep their babies and stabilize their lives, and working with adoptive parents for better outcomes. The foundation had begun to expand internationally, first to... View Details
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Faculty & Research - Global

4,000 over 12 years, building crisis centers for new mothers to help them keep their babies and stabilize their lives, and working with adoptive parents for better outcomes. The foundation had begun to expand internationally, first to... View Details
  • October 2010 (Revised June 2014)
  • Case

Volkswagen do Brasil: Driving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
A new management team at VW do Brazil develops and deploys a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard to accomplish a turnaround and cultural change after eight consecutive years of financial losses and market share declines. The team uses the strategy map to align... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Developing Countries and Economies; Management Teams; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Strategic Planning; Balance and Stability; Motivation and Incentives; Communication Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Auto Industry; Brazil; Germany
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  • 2022
  • Chapter

Lessons Learned from Support to Business during COVID-19

By: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Benjamin Iverson and Adi Sunderam
The authors survey the new federal subsidies and loans provided to businesses in the first year of the pandemic—including the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, and aid targeted at specific industries such as airlines... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Small Business; Government Legislation; Policy
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  • February 2016
  • Case

Banking and Politics in Antebellum New York

By: David Moss and Colin Donovan
After a long period of solid Democratic control, Whigs secured a majority of seats in the New York State Assembly in 1837, the same year that a major financial panic had crippled the banking system and shaken public confidence in the state's governance. The next year,... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Central Banking; Ethics; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; History; New York (state, US)
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  • 10 Dec 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Vulnerable Banks

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Augustin Landier & David Thesmar; Banking; Financial Services
  • Research Summary

A major area of Professor Torfason's research is the behavior of individual social network structures. He studies the violation of norms – specifically the use of excessive force in conflict situations – within the empirical context of a large online... View Details

  • 19 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022

Stress) It's not about the bigger home or the better vacation. Financial stability helps people escape the everyday hassles of life, says research by Jon Jachimowicz. 3. Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • Web

Leadership Initiative - Leadership

she served for several years on the Advisory Board of Women in Animation, a non-profit organization striving to improve the representation and career opportunities for women in the animation industry. Currently she serves as a corporate advisor for View Details
  • February 2009 (Revised March 2013)
  • Case

Shanghai Diligence Law Firm (A)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Catherine Zhang
Shanghai Diligence Law Firm, started in January 2006, is a rapidly growing law firm in China's burgeoning legal services market. In addition to the usual challenges facing all professional service firms (picking and retaining talent and building a desired client... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Motivation and Incentives; Legal Services Industry; China
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  • Web

Careers Blog

Brij, a platform connecting brands and customers. She reflects on building confidence, embracing uncertainty, and turning early doubts into the drive to lead and grow a venture-backed company. [...] Read more 17 Jun 2025 Balancing Career View Details
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Wide Horizon

There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

considered a broader Twitter ban. What short-term actions should Musk take to stabilize the situation, and how should he approach long-term strategy to turn around Twitter? Andy Wu and co-author Goran Calic, associate professor at... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 29 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

reaction of advertisers today is more of a prelude to what might happen in the future. So far, we haven’t seen that many structural changes to the business yet, and the changes and experiments are rolling out progressively day by day. Gazette: What does Musk need to do... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
  • 02 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

prices would plummet, their competitors would be all over them, and employees would be jumping ship.—HBS professor Joe Badaracco Some great managers struggle with change and fail to be great leaders, while a great leader might fail to create a sense of View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young
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Skydeck - Alumni

bitter, decades-long conflict between loggers, environmentalists, government officials, and First Nations Mental Illness and the Workplace Katherine Switz (MBA 2000) on how her own experience with bipolar disorder led to forming the View Details
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

What Makes a Good Leader

great managers struggle with change and fail to be great leaders, while a great leader might fail to create a sense of stability in an organization and not measure up as a manager. HBS professor David Thomas points out that "increasingly,... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • Web

Spreading the Word – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

ultimately securing national stability at a time of economic and social unrest. 11 Elton Mayo, The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization . New York: MacMillan, 1933, p. 159. The "Hawthorne Effect" Research Links Baker Library |... View Details