Systems Thinking - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Nov 2022
Book

Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work

opioid crisis?” asks Bazerman. “We think the Sackler family. What caused the number of sexual assaults at Miramax? Harvey Weinstein. And it's not that these answers are wrong. It's just that it's taking other people off the hook who could... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Organize Care Around Med... Organize Care Around Medical Conditions To deliver more value, providers... View Details

29 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

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

said, the fallen advertising revenue has probably been more dramatic than anyone expected. The advertisers are right to at least take a pause here and think about whether they want to remain involved with Twitter. In the longer term, Musk... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology

27 Jul 2020
Book

Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

one manager said. “I hate the feeling of not doing anything that I don’t think is productive.” And some resisted reflecting, saying it was easier to focus on the here-and-now, rather than look down the road where they might be forced to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Feb 2024
News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details

24 Oct 2023
Research & Ideas

When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

support Black-owned businesses. For instance, Yelp introduced a system in which users could click a button to search for and identify local Black-owned restaurants. “We wanted to know whether the programs were effective—or if they could... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage

01 Dec 2023
News

The Exchange: Help Wanted

Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

18 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details

Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology

10 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?

of services. "Some of these are point-of-sale situations where we didn’t traditionally think about tipping 15 percent." “In many establishments, we’re now moving to digital payment systems such as Toast that... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette

16 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

participants should think about innovation opportunities in data curation, he suggested. "Some US government data is still on COBOL-based platforms," Kundra reminded the class. "So we think an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

04 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

to democratic systems as a whole. Now, with ChatGPT and other gen AI tools, the questions regarding data privacy have become more complex: “Where is the data coming from? Is it sensitive to someone?” If regulators or customers ask this... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

January 2025
Case

AI Meets VC: The Data-Driven Revolution at Quantum Light Capital

By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan

Ilya Kondrashov, CEO of Quantum Light Capital, was driven to harness AI for identifying high-potential scale-ups. Collaborating with Nik Storonsky, founder of Revolut, the duo observed that most venture capital (VC) decisions were heavily influenced by emotion, with... View Details

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23 Feb 2011
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the Wran Report). Although the Wran Committee had considered several potential funding schemes, it ultimately proposed a radical system in which students would pay tuition financed through income-contingent loans provided by the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

capacity for systems thinking and empathetic product design, to how they navigate diverse sources of capital to build either for-profit, nonprofit, or hybrid organizations. The course also looks at how View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

past"). In the latter case, she lacks both control over the thought and access to its origin. We suggest that its apparent spontaneity should lead her to attribute it special meaning ("Why would I think of him in this moment unless it is... View Details

18 Feb 2014
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and that they needed to commit themselves to the dual goal of producing benefits for society and their firms' bottom lines-to creating "shared value." But the specific actions they could take to bring about this change were less clear. This ebook offers some... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

true in the corporate world, the researchers looked at preexisting field data at a midsize bank in Tokyo. The bank had tracked employee productivity for two-and-a-half years following the launch of a new mortgage-processing system in June... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

boundaries of businesses have become much more diffuse because of digital technology driven business models. Now, if you think about Walmart and Amazon, both their business models have changed over time. Many companies are becoming tech... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail

13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

PublicationsHow Will You Measure Your Life? Authors:Clayton M. Christensen Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the Article: http://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life/ar/1 The... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You a Strategist?

academic research that started to take hold in the 1980s and '90s. The work brought much-needed economic thinking to strategy's underpinnings. It armed legions of MBAs and strategy consultants with frameworks and techniques to help... View Details