Performance Efficiency - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

strategy. Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation Authors:Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis Publication:Operations Research (forthcoming) Abstract We propose a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1999
News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

it's supposed to." Bower continues: "Theoretically, when an industry has excess capacity, prices fall and the least efficient producers can't survive." But, Bower adds, that doesn't always happen. "In many countries, for all sorts of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top Trading Cycles (TTC) in a real-life allocation problem. Since TTC was originally devised for settings in which agents have endowments, there is no formal rationale for TTC in school choice. In particular,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

Wal-Mart's and Microsoft's dominance in modern business has been attributed to any number of factors, ranging from the vision and drive of their founders to the companies' aggressive competitive practices. But the performance of these two... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

22 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

Investors and market watchers noted Amazon’s less-than-stellar forays into health care, while privacy advocates raised concerns about Amazon’s access to patient medical data. Still others have voiced hopes Amazon will bring much-needed View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

inequities resulted in team members being unable to bring their whole selves to work, which meant that organizations were operating with sub-optimal contributions. Also, excessive hierarchy that sought to drive efficiencies actually... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

time-varying, regularized parameters, and multiplicative errors can make its quantile forecasts more accurate than leading diffusion models, such as the Bass, gamma/shifted-Gompertz, and trapezoid models. Fifth, the model's estimation procedure is based on an View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

compensation plan. Substantively, the paper sheds insights on how different elements of the compensation plan enhance productivity. We find evidence that: (1) bonuses enhance productivity across all segments; (2) overachievement commissions help sustain the high... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

performance while ensuring that their limited energy and processing capacity is being spent on truly mission-critical tasks. "It is nearly impossible to plan for the next six months—there simply is not enough data and information to do... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Work-from-Anywhere Future” (November–December 2020). Prithwiraj Choudhury : Winner of the 2020 Strategic Management Society (SMS) Conference Best PhD Student Paper for “Algorithm-Augmented Work Performance and Domain Experience: The... View Details

21 May 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

Integration on Stock Valuations. One example of this was when I was asked to evaluate a large OEM company based in Asia. I evaluated the company’s ESG performance by applying the Sustainability Accounting Board’s (SASB) ESG Integration... View Details

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

expected, an actor's past box-office performance is positively related to the magnitude of his or her impact on revenues. However, the number and, particularly, the average box-office record of other cast members also play a role. In... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

they reach specific performance goals, two things inevitably happen. First, they attempt to set low targets that are easily achievable. Then, once the targets are in place, they do whatever it takes to see that they hit them, even if the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

Setting up a home-base-augmenting site—one designed to gather new knowledge for a company—involves certain skills. And launching a home-base-exploiting site—one established to help a company efficiently commercialize its R&D in... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

different industry. Like I wasn't an aerospace engineer, I was just a physicist, right? And I had an MBA from Harvard. And so, I'd be like, okay, what is the most efficient way for me to learn everything about the space industry? And so,... View Details

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Some of these barriers are related to inefficiencies in the domestic business environment, for example those captured in the World Bank's Logistical Performance Index (Arvis et al., 2010). Others are related to market access abroad, for... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

06 Jun 2008
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

rises to the top levels are very productive and very diligent individuals who tend not to reflect and are extremely efficient at deploying other people's ideas," implying that this type of leader is not likely to understand,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

publicly announced their intention to sell their 76.7% stake in Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A., an iconic Italian producer of sport performance motorcycles. The decision followed a six-year turnaround during which Ducati returned to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

problem of demand planning as a coordination problem across functions, the behavioral approach to the motivation and incentives component of coordination seems a common foil. Natural or more directly instituted functional incentives play havoc with motivating higher... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

Compute Cluster Scaling Work 43ms There are numerous ways to scale up your work on the HBSGrid, including parallel processing and GPUs . Parallel Processing Also commonly called parallel computing or multicore processing, using multiple cores (CPUs) to analyze data is... View Details

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