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- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?
predictive and prescriptive analytics can be combined to develop a tactical decision-making tool that makes a big impact on the bottom line. For details about the research and the successful machine learning tool, see the paper “Analytics... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
Finance," focused on five subjects: corporate capital raising, corporate restructuring, extracting information from security prices, risk management, and security design. The fifteen papers presented at the conference, chosen by a... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Shawn A., Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract—This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Uncorked
“they needed a token broad” — with Scott Paper Company, where, among other things, she made an advertising breakthrough: getting an ad for sanitary napkins on television for the first time. Recalled McClelland, “We couldn’t run it before... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Snappy Salute
a rarity among big-company CEOs, only 8 percent of whom have served in the military, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (December 5, 2010) reported. Furthermore, the paper said, Pinchuk “quotes ancient Indian epic poetry, and is so dedicated... View Details
Adolph S. Ochs
A consummate newspaperman, Ochs reported the news without sensationalism in his first paper, the Chattanooga Daily Times and then in his second, The New York Times. He swiftly turned The New York Times around. When he bought it in 1896, it only had a circulation of... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
In a working paper presented at the June colloquium, HBS professors Michael Porter and Nitin Nohria consider the CEO’s role in the large, complex organization that is typical in today’s global economy. An excerpt follows: “CEOs must... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008
Working Papers Reality versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about Privatization Authors: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky Abstract Argentina privatized most public utilities during the 1990s but... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
LAWSON: Campaigning for Congress, a probusiness entrepreneur who advocates for the middle class. An IBM engineer, Stacey Lawson (MBA 1996) noticed that a number of her colleagues, though surrounded by technology, still used pencil and View Details
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Diversity on Boards - Alumni
Paper Proceedings. By: Alicia DeSantola, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Julie Battilana Women on Boards: Another Year, Another Disappointment February 2014, Harvard Business Review Digital Articles. By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell Dysfunction... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Ann Moore, MBA 1978
30 years, they wanted to give me a gift, and I thought it appropriate to set up a fellowship to help women at HBS. On my desk for 30 years was a single sheet of paper that was from a women's organization in Washington, D.C., that had... View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
New research suggests that organizations wishing to avoid gender stereotyping in the hiring or promotion process-and employ the most productive person instead—should evaluate job candidates as a group, rather than one at a time. “The three of us have produced one of... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
Eugene W. Rhodes
Having spent his summers in college working at the Tribune, Rhodes was selected to run the paper in 1922, following the unexpected deaths of both the Tribune’s founder and its managing editor. Despite his youth and lack of experience,... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
economist herself, delve into the phenomenon in their paper Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies, forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. “Inside tech firms there’s a huge competition for talent right now,” Athey... View Details
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
prevention of being unethical. (The paper will be published in the academic journal, "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.") "Since the Enron scandal, there has been a lot of research across disciplines on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Joanna Barsh
see past my mother's recent death and into my future. We began a creative expression exercise; in a fit of emotion, I ripped up a sheath of colored papers and pasted the torn pieces on black background to create an explosion of power.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
IT Management from 1960 to 2000 "Today¹s managers are grappling with the turbulent dynamics of the Information Age," says Richard L. Nolan, the School's William Barclay Harding Professor of Management of Technology. The author of a new working View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
Our most popular stories are those that help readers become better managers and outstanding leaders. Here are our most-read stories and faculty research papers in 2019. Tell us in the comment section below what you thought were the most... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
crisis in the health–care system Originally From: Chicago Hopes: to build a health–care enterprise Hobbies: chess, crossword puzzles, scuba diving Paper Currently Working On: analyzing disruptive innovations in invasive medicine Volunteer... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance