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- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
encouraging, how and when we set overall rules for encouraging (volunteerism) and how we plan to assess, monitor, and manage need to (be) addressed." Alden Cushman added: "how information is collected, put into context, prioritized, and impacts business View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
Paper: How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions? Research Paper: How Can Decision Making Be Improved? What do you think of this research? How much intuition goes into your own decision-making? Share your... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
the long term. Faculty Books Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling by Frank V. Cespedes (Harvard Business Review Press) Although US companies invest almost $900 billion annually in... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
infringers? In a recent paper, researchers looked at the issue of IPR from a wider perspective: Does the presence of stronger intellectual property rights increase international technology transfer in general? It's an important question... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- February 2013
- Article
Daily Horizons: Evidence of Narrow Bracketing in Judgments from 9,000 MBA Admission Interviews
By: U. Simonsohn and F. Gino
Many professionals, from auditors and lawyers, to clinical psychologists and journal editors, divide a continuous flow of judgments into subsets. College admissions interviewers, for instance, evaluate but a handful of applicants a day. We conjectured that in such... View Details
Simonsohn, U., and F. Gino. "Daily Horizons: Evidence of Narrow Bracketing in Judgments from 9,000 MBA Admission Interviews." Psychological Science 24, no. 2 (February 2013): 219–224.
- Article
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
McFowland III, Edward, Sandeep Gangarapu, Ravi Bapna, and Tianshu Sun. "A Prescriptive Analytics Framework for Optimal Policy Deployment Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects." MIS Quarterly 45, no. 4 (December 2021): 1807–1832.
- April 2010
- Teaching Note
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific Creativity with Metrics
Teaching Note for [607008]. View Details
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
that satisfy all 3 management responsibilities are likely to be made first and without outside (governmental) encouragement. In fact, some researchers claim that these decisions, representing "low hanging fruit," have already... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
a degree in engineering physics, Light earned a DBA from Harvard’s joint program in decision and control theory in 1970. Light’s research and teaching have focused on capital markets and institutional asset... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Evaluation and Learning in R&D Investment
By: Alexander P. Frankel, Joshua L. Krieger, Danielle Li and Dimitris Papanikolaou
We examine the role of spillover learning in shaping the value of exploratory versus incremental
R&D. Using data from drug development, we show that novel drug candidates generate more
knowledge spillovers than incremental ones. Despite being less likely to reach... View Details
Frankel, Alexander P., Joshua L. Krieger, Danielle Li, and Dimitris Papanikolaou. "Evaluation and Learning in R&D Investment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-074, May 2023. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 31290, May 2023.)
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
thousands of women and men MBAs, research by Catalyst finds that women are still placed in less-promising roles and at lower compensation from their first post-MBA job—and those gaps only widen over time. This means that today's MBA women... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
Julian Zlatev and Christine Exley (Image by John Ritter) Both Associate Professor Christine Exley and Assistant Professor Julian Zlatev apply the tools of their research to examine a simple question: What makes people give? Exley became... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
School researchers: Disregarding advice from colleagues could invite harsh backlash that just might damage valued workplace relationships, according to the recent paper Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice, published in Organizational View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- April 2012 (Revised August 2013)
- Case
General Motors Technical Center India – Powertrain Engineering
By: Willy Shih, William Jurist, Brian McIntosh and Helen Wang
Prabjot Nanua was proud of the growing capabilities of the General Motors Technical Center India Powertrain Engineering group that he oversaw. Since 2003, engineers there had expanded the center's capabilities, developing a reputation within GM for completing... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Headquarters; Research and Development; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; India
Shih, Willy, William Jurist, Brian McIntosh, and Helen Wang. "General Motors Technical Center India – Powertrain Engineering." Harvard Business School Case 612-074, April 2012. (Revised August 2013.)
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data edited by Thomas Davenport (FT Press) This book, a collection of research papers from the International Institute for... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance". Her research on more than seventy audit and consulting teams—combining survey data, hundreds of interviews, and direct observation at meetings—reveals insights into... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
(photo by Cade Martin) At my 20th HBS reunion I heard faculty member Michael Wheeler describe behavior people engage in when they’re being deceptive. The room was transfixed. No one was on their phone! It turned out there is a robust,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
pricing—a phenomenon that admittedly makes no rational economic sense. When presented an opportunity for a freebie, "classical economic theory says you should pay nothing," says Santana. "Why buy something when you can get it for free?" And yet,... View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
amount of information. Studying the unconscious mind offers exciting new avenues for research, including creativity, decision making, and sleep. Research by Bos and his colleagues suggests that unconscious... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
human connection); the destructive behaviors they adopt to relieve their anxiety (busyness, comparing themselves to others, and blaming others for their frustrations); and the behaviors they must adopt to... View Details