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  • January 2010
  • Journal Article

A Choice Prediction Competition: Choices from Experience and from Description

By: Ido Erev, Eyal Ert, Alvin E. Roth, Ernan E. Haruvy, Stefan Herzog, Robin Hau, Ralph Hertwig, Terrence Steward, Robert West and Christian Lebiere
Erev, Ert, and Roth organized three choice prediction competitions focused on three related choice tasks: one-shot decisions from description (decisions under risk), one-shot decisions from experience, and repeated decisions from experience. Each competition was based... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Mathematical Methods; Risk and Uncertainty; Competition
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  • March 2001 (Revised April 2002)
  • Case

Rent-Way, Inc. (A)

By: David F. Hawkins
The company uses the units of activity method to account for its rental inventory. A prominent hedge fund advisor recommends the company's stock be sold short. View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Stock Shares; Fair Value Accounting; Quality; Investment Funds; Service Industry
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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules

By: Pierre Azoulay, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, Danielle Li and Bhaven N. Sampat
We quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our paper makes two contributions. First, we use newly constructed bibliometric data to develop a method for flexibly... View Details
Keywords: Economics Of Science; Patenting; Academic Reserach; NIH; Knowledge Spillovers; Patents; Research; Government and Politics
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  • 20 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

models—logit, nested logit, and probit, for example—are flawed because they make it appear as if all marketing activities produce the same results, the researchers contend. In reality, differences between various marketing instruments are... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

    David Ager

    David Ager is a Senior Lecturer in Executive Education.  He engages CEOs, CHROs, and their teams to design and deliver customized executive development experiences for executive, senior and high potential leaders.  The companies hail from diverse sectors including... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Professor Myers studies the ways people learn from their own—and others’—experiences at work, with a particular emphasis on learning in health care organizations and emergency medical contexts. Though his interest is in individual-level learning, he focuses in... View Details
    Keywords: Learning And Development; Learning Organizations; Learning By Doing; Health Care Industry; Innovation; Identity Construction; Medical Error; Knowledge Development; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Work; Learning; Leadership Development; Knowledge Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; United States; Singapore; Asia

      Summer R. Jackson

      Summer Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.

      Professor Jackson is an organizational ethnographer and field researcher... View Details

      • June 2023
      • Case

      Investing in the Climate Transition at Neuberger Berman

      By: George Serafeim and Benjamin Maletta
      By mid-2023, Neuberger Berman (NB), an active asset manager, had grown its assets under management to about half a trillion dollars and took pride in its client centricity and innovative spirit. Responding to client demand for investment products that integrated... View Details
      Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Sustainability; Decarbonization; Performance; Risk Assessment; Opportunities; Environmental Sustainability; Carbon Footprint; Business Analysis; Investing; Regulation; Asset Management; Investment Strategy; Climate Change; Transition; Analysis; Product Positioning; Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry
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        James E. Austin

        Dr. Austin holds the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. Previously he held the John G. McLean Professorship and the Richard P. Chapman Professorship. He has been a member of the Harvard... View Details

        Keywords: agribusiness
        • 2009
        • Working Paper

        Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior

        By: Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn
        While lay intuitions and pop psychology suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: Research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has... View Details
        Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Research; Behavior; Happiness; Motivation and Incentives
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        • 07 Mar 2019
        • HBS Seminar

        Petra Moser, NYU Stern School of Business

        • 2008
        • Article

        Linking Crisis Management and Leadership Competencies: The Role of Human Resources Development

        The problem and the solution. Most executives are aware of the negative consequences associated with an organizational crisis and focus on communications and public relations as a reactive strategy. However, many neglect the other leadership responsibilities... View Details
        Keywords: Leadership Development; Crisis Management; Human Resources; Experience and Expertise
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          David A. Moss

          David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale.  In 1992-1993, he served as a... View Details

          Keywords: banking; credit card; federal government; financial services; health care; insurance industry; state government
          • 2013
          • Book

          The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World

          By: Michael Wheeler
          A member of the world-renowned Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School introduces the powerful next-generation approach to negotiation. For many years, two approaches to negotiation have prevailed: the "win-win" method exemplified in Getting to Yes by Roger... View Details
          Keywords: Negotiation
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          • 17 Apr 2017
          • HBS Case

          This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

          of both their consumers and regulators. “Usually, with debt collection, the object is to dial for dollars—collect as much as you can in the first phone call, and then outsource the work to the legal system,” says Campbell, whose research... View Details
          Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
          • 13 Apr 2012
          • HBS Seminar

          Drazen Prelec, Professor of Management Science and Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management

          • 23 May 2023
          • Research & Ideas

          Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?

          not even be aware of how much someone’s facial attributes are driving interpersonal judgments,” Zhang says. An empirical method for capturing charisma Traditionally, people assess charisma based on personality. However, the View Details
          Keywords: by Kara Baskin
          • Research Summary

          Developing Organizational Capabilities to Compete

          By: Michael Beer

          Michael Beer’s current research focuses on the question of what makes an Effective Organization. Based on his extensive research and practice about this question Beer has identified six highly interrelated core capabilities:

          1. Capacity of the... View Details
          • November 2016
          • Case

          QuintilesIMS: Biosimilar Marketing in England

          By: John A. Quelch and Emily C. Boudreau
          QuintilesIMS was a leading healthcare consulting firm best known for its data and information offerings as well as its market research and management consulting services for life science companies. By 2015, the company was expanding beyond the biopharmaceutical... View Details
          Keywords: Health; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotech; Marketing; Health Care and Treatment; Biotechnology Industry; England
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          • 2012
          • Chapter

          Knowledge-based Innovation: Emergence and Embedding of New Practice Areas in Management Consulting Firms

          By: Heidi K. Gardner, N. Anand and Tim Morris
          How do innovative knowledge-based structures emerge and become embedded in organizations? We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management... View Details
          Keywords: Competency and Skills; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge; Organizations; Practice; Mathematical Methods; Consulting Industry
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