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    The Power of Experiments

    Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as randomized controlled trials—designed to test the impact of... View Details

    • April 2017
    • Article

    The Responsibilities and Role of Business in Relation to Society: Back to Basics?

    By: Nien-he Hsieh
    In this address, I outline a back-to-basics approach to specifying the responsibilities and role of business in relation to society. Three “basics” comprise the approach. The first is arguing that basic principles of ordinary morality, such as a duty not to harm,... View Details
    Keywords: Business And Society; Corporate Responsibility; Harm; Human Rights; Institutions; Pareto Efficiency; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Moral Sensibility; Society; Rights
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    AMP 170 - General Management: Processes and Action

    The Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program (AMP) helps drive corporate performance by honing individual capabilities to the highest level of performance. The result is a... View Details

    • Dec 01 2020
    • Testimonial

    Participants Share the Experience of a Virtual GMP

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    By: Jorge Tamayo
    Professor Tamayo’s research focuses on theoretical modeling and structural estimation of firm decision-making and productivity.

    Professor Tamayo studies dynamic competition for customer membership. Generally, firms that implement a membership model charge a... View Details

      David E. Bell

      David E. Bell is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS. He has taught marketing many times in the MBA program including as course head.

      During his career at HBS, David has taught a variety of other courses to both MBAs and executives, including risk... View Details

      Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; apparel; e-commerce industry; fashion; food; food processing; grocery; insurance industry; marketing industry; retailing
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      Course Development

      General Management: Processes and Action (GMPA) focuses on implementation and the way that general managers get things done.  Typically, they work through processes—sequences of tasks and activities that unfold over time, like strategic planning,... View Details
      • November 2007
      • Article

      Measuring Consumer and Competitive Impact with Elasticity Decompositions

      Marketing investments are designed to change consumer behavior in ways that help goods compete in the marketplace. Previous research has focused on using elasticity decompositions to measure how these investments affect either consumer decision making or competing... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Return; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods; Competitive Advantage
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      Supply Chain Inventory Planning

      My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions.  I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details

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      Managing Processes

      David A. Garvin is examining the nature and use of managerial and organizational processes—the means by which work is accomplished—including strategic processes that chart corporate direction, resource allocation processes that distribute funds,... View Details

        Elon Kohlberg

        Elon Kohlberg is the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research is mainly in Game Theory, in particular the study of non-cooperative equilibrium.

        Professor Kohlberg has taught many courses in the MBA,... View Details

        Keywords: asset management; education industry; energy; pharmaceuticals; real estate
        • July–August 2018
        • Article

        How CEOs Manage Time

        By: Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria
        In 2006 Harvard Business School’s Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria launched a study tracking how large companies’ CEOs spent their time, 24/7, for 13 weeks: where they were, with whom, what they did, and what they were focusing on. To date, Porter and Nohria have... View Details
        Keywords: CEOs; Executives; Time Management; Attitudes; Managerial Roles; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Strategy; Decision Making; Organizational Culture
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          Max H. Bazerman

          Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His recent books... View Details
          Keywords: accounting industry; management consulting; pharmaceuticals

            Eric J. Van den Steen

            Eric Van den Steen is a Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he teaches strategy. He holds the Roy Little chair, established in honor of the founder of Textron. 

            Professor Van den Steen's research studies the fundamentals of strategy and... View Details

            • 01 Aug 2017
            • First Look

            First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

            structure the background against which business operates. The aim is to develop a plausible framework for managerial decision-making that respects the fact of value pluralism in a global economy and that... View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
            • 2009
            • Working Paper

            Does Competition Favor Delegation?

            By: Christian Alejandro Ruzzier
            This paper studies the consequences of product-market competition on firms' decisions to delegate more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the choice of both competitive actions and organizational design, the paper makes... View Details
            Keywords: Business or Company Management; Competition; Decision Making
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            • 19 Mar 2019
            • First Look

            New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

            confidence in their mastery of what they had already learned. We conclude by discussing the implications of these findings, such as encouraging further learning or harming teaching evaluations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55850... View Details
            Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

              Jan W. Rivkin

              Jan W. Rivkin is a Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. In the past, he has served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and head of the Strategy Unit. His research, course development, and teaching focus on... View Details

              Keywords: airline; computer; internet; music; transportation
              • 2008
              • Working Paper

              From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

              By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
              As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
              Keywords: Economics; Business Education; Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Chicago
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              • 2018
              • Working Paper

              Forecasting Airport Transfer Passenger Flow Using Real-Time Data and Machine Learning

              By: Xiaojia Guo, Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Bert De Reyck
              Problem definition: In collaboration with Heathrow Airport, we develop a predictive system that generates quantile forecasts of transfer passengers’ connection times. Sampling from the distribution of individual passengers’ connection times, the system also produces... View Details
              Keywords: Quantile Forecasts; Regression Tree; Copula; Passenger Flow Management; Data-driven Operations; Forecasting and Prediction; Data and Data Sets
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