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  • 20 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Creating a Positive Professional Image

can never know exactly what all of your key constituents think about you, or how they would describe you when you aren't in the room. You can, however, draw inferences about your current professional image... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 04 Sep 2013
  • What Do You Think?

How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?

shifting" based on systematic innovation and the constant testing of assumptions, all required to maintain transient advantage. They are organizations designed to create... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

What Makes a Good Leader

masters of the classical elements of rhetoric, as outlined by Aristotle centuries ago. "You can reach people through logos or logic, by appealing to their sense View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 18 Mar 2013
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: LEGO

Ole Kirk Kristiansen eventually shifted the business from making houses and furniture to crafting wooden toys. He based the name of his new... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation
  • February 2021
  • Case

Enterprise Agility at Komerční Banka

By: Euvin Naidoo, Suraj Srinivasan and Sarah Gulick
In 2017, Jan Juchelka, the new CEO of Komerční Banka, identified the need for the bank to start an enterprise wide agile transformation. He started by working to create a sense of urgency to kick-start a process to enable the level of service delivery to customers he... View Details
Keywords: Agile; Agility; Transformation; Organizational Structure; Business Headquarters; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Systems; Banking Industry; Czech Republic
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Research Overview

Jillian has an interest in understanding the effect of high worker autonomy and uncertainty on operational metrics. Her research attempts to empirically explore the relationship between efficiency, resource utilization, and quality in hospital settings.... View Details

  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment on Public Procurement in Uganda

By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Francesco Loiacono, Edwin Muhumuza and Edoardo Teso
We study whether information frictions and corruption perceptions deter firms from doing business with the government. We conduct two nationwide randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in collaboration with the national public procurement supervisory and anti-corruption... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage; Government and Politics; Crime and Corruption; Trust; Perception; Business and Government Relations
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Incorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting.

Forecasting firm-level sales is a key activity in top-down planning in most organizations. In the retailing industry, firms can use inventory and price to stimulate demand. Hence, standard time series methods for sales forecasting can be improved by incorporating... View Details
  • TeachingInterests

Interpretability and Explainability in Machine Learning

By: Himabindu Lakkaraju

As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to aid decision makers in high-stakes settings such as healthcare and criminal justice, it is important to ensure that the decision makers correctly understand and consequent trust the functionality of these... View Details

  • 2009
  • Article

Modeling Expert Opinions on Food Healthfulness: A Nutrition Metric

By: Jolie M. Martin, John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman, Max H. Bazerman and Lisa Sutherland

Research over the last several decades indicates the failure of existing nutritional labels to substantially improve the healthiness of consumers' food and beverage choices. The difficulty for policy-makers is to encapsulate a wide body of scientific knowledge in a... View Details

Keywords: Judgments; Food; Nutrition; Labels; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Demand and Consumers; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods
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    Airbnb in Amsterdam

    In February 2014, Amsterdam became the first city to issue new regulations specifically to allow home-sharing. Airbnb's Molly Turner, Global Head of Civic Partnerships; her colleagues at the San Francisco based home-sharing platform; and her counterparts in... View Details
    • 01 Aug 2022
    • What Do You Think?

    Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?

    shared values and behaviors and hence its performance. That’s why a recent study associating Confucian beliefs with positive performance of Chinese firms caught my eye. In it, three scholars based in China... View Details
    Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
    • January 2008
    • Background Note

    Equity Derivatives

    By: Joshua Coval and Erik Stafford
    The goal of these simulations is to understand the dynamic replication technique behind the Black-Scholes/Merton options model. The simulations focus on a single stock and a risk-free discount bond, which are used to replicate a contingent payoff. The underlying stock... View Details
    Keywords: Equity; Bonds; Stocks; Price; Risk Management
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    • December 2018
    • Case

    Bata versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance

    By: Suraj Srinivasan, Iris Leung and Quinn Pitcher
    Set in 2016, “Bata India versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance” compares the strategies and financial performance of two Indian footwear companies. Bata India had long been the market leader in footwear in India, but its leading market position was being challenged by... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Strategy; Operations; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Analysis; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    • 21 Jun 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Multi-Sided Platforms: From Microfoundations to Design and Expansion Strategies

    Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Technology
    • 03 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

    date, then taxes this difference as ordinary income. An 83 (b) election allows the tax computation to be made based on the value at the time... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • Web

    Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    capitated payments. January 2020 Presentation Value-Based Health Care Core Concepts Value-Based Health Care Core Concepts by Professor Michael E. Porter Professor Michael E. Porter presents the current status View Details
    • 14 Sep 2021
    • Blog Post

    Top 5 Myths About HBS

    Chad Losee, Managing Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, recently sat down with Cyril Straughn-Turner, second-year MBA student and Chief Admissions Ambassador, for a “Busting HBS Myths” event aimed at demystifying what business... View Details
    • 09 May 2023
    • Blog Post

    Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)

    relationships based on mutual respect and understanding. For me, community is the cornerstone of my Asian American identity, a testament to the... View Details
    • Web

    Middle East & North Africa - Global

    Middle East & North Africa Cairo, Dubai, Istanbul, Tel Aviv HBS continues its efforts to build a deep understanding of and expertise in global business practice and innovation around the world, including... View Details