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Ta-Wei "David" Huang

management and using causal inference / machine learning tools to solve marketing problems.” It was this motivation that led him to pursue a Ph.D. Initially, David’s familiarity with HBS was limited to the MBA program but he quickly... View Details

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

political agenda. Such objective information helps to gain the trust of the people. And trust in a country’s leadership is vital because any agenda to prevent the spread of the virus—such as social distancing measures—requires the cooperation of the public. The... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

17 Apr 2017
News

Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE

transformation that is as radical as it is methodical, as essential to the company’s survival as Steve Jobs’s iPhone was to Apple’s.” In overseeing the company’s transition to a lean operation more akin to a tech innovator, Immelt has View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

the importance of the relationship between a firm and the government of the country in which it is based, particularly in the context of the WTO, where the unflagging support of the government is essential to success. A third issue is for View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

06 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

Staffing, risks, benefits, and regulatory compliance are all increasingly externalized, most often to parts of the world where need routinely trumps prudence. Rather than manage their own corporate assets, CEOs and other top executives of... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

in top-tier academic journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and... View Details

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The Global Health Delivery Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Dr. Paul Farmer from Partners in Health, and Professor Michael Porter. Coordinated Knowledge Sharing The Global Health Delivery Project is focused on systematizing the study of global health delivery and rapidly disseminating knowledge... View Details

23 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55097 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We examine whether and to what extent View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

2017 Advances in Strategic Management Geography, Location, and Strategy By: Alcácer, Juan, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas, and Bernard Yin Yeung, eds. Abstract—Changes in both technology and global political economy have vastly accelerated... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

employ to successfully return to the Red Planet. The case, "Mission to Mars," looks at changes the space agency has made not only recently but also over several decades as it followed a faster, simpler approach to program design. MacCormack's findings may... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2020
News

How To Make Diversity a Reality

nonprofit focused on improving urban economies, and ICV Partners, a Black-owned private equity firm focused on companies in the lower middle market. Willie Woods is cofounder, president, and managing director of ICV Partners, and in this... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

The School that Donham Built

government, became his mentor and continued to support his studies through law school. Donham specialized in corporate restructuring as a vice president at Boston’s Old Colony Trust Company and won wide praise from both labor and View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

choice, according to a team of behavioral scientists who studied the systematic harm that can result from overeager goal-setting at work. “We identify specific side effects associated with goal setting, including a narrow focus that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

27 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Taking the LEAP into the Case Method

cross-registered the course of Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) for MBA students at Harvard Business School out of curiosity because he has great interest in the Harvard case method and its related knowledge. Dr. Su holds a Ph.D. in View Details

13 Sep 2016
First Look

September 13, 2016

misbehavior, yet failed to notice it. To explain such inaction, management scholars have been developing the area of behavioral ethics and the more specific topic of bounded ethicality—the systematic and... View Details

17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)

management diagnostic, an assessment tool designed to help national malaria control programs and ministries of health assess their managerial challenges in a more systematic way. I am also supporting the... View Details

11 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

exception: So-called quick flips, such as the upcoming Hertz deal, have underperformed the market. In a new study, Lerner and Boston College's Jerry Cao studied 496 private-equity-led IPOs in the United States between 1980 and 2002. "There had been no View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

that leaders matter. Certainly, many leaders (especially the successful ones) make this claim—just have a look at the business section of your local bookstore. But social scientists who systematically study leadership generally agree with... View Details

25 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 25

in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of... View Details