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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Human-Computer Interactions in Demand Forecasting and Labor Scheduling Decisions

By: Caleb Kwon, Ananth Raman and Jorge Tamayo
We investigate whether corporate officers should grant managers discretion to override AI-driven demand forecasts and labor scheduling tools. Analyzing five years of administrative data from a large grocery retailer using such an AI tool, encompassing over 500 stores,... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Working Conditions; Performance Productivity
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  • November 2017
  • Article

A Retrospective Analysis of Hypertension Screening at a Mass Gathering in India: Implications for Non-communicable Disease Control Strategies

By: S. Balsari, P. Vemulapalli, M. Gofine, K. Oswal, R. Merchant, S. Saunik, G. Greenough and T. Khanna
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality from noncommunicable diseases (NCD) in India. The government’s National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke seeks to increase capacity building, screening,... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Problems and Challenges; India
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  • 29 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

Keywords: by Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr & Stephen O'Connell
  • Research Summary

Current Research

By: Leslie K. John

Professor John is a behavioral scientist who uses both laboratory and field experiments to investigate questions that are at the intersection of marketing, organizational behavior, and public policy.

Professor John’s work has been published in leading... View Details

  • 16 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
  • 07 Jul 2021
  • Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

satisfied. Good intentions could not erase the impact of past damage in our minds. In part, this is why some industries are judged more harshly than others—it’s hard to trust someone from an oil and gas company when they talk about saving the environment, or someone... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 25 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51704 Harvard Business School Case 902-412 Tobacco and the Future of Rural Kentucky Governor Patton decides how to use settlement funds to develop a long-term plan for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

http://hbr.org/search/113055-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-044 A Brief History of the U.S. Tobacco Industry Controversy By: Sucher, Sandra J., and Henry McGee This history of the U.S. tobacco... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

above are numerous in a channel that includes, in your comments, food and tobacco producers of unhealthy products (Christy Hitchens, Tom Dolembo); lifestyle equipment and service providers; developers and manufacturers of high-cost... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 20 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

last story deals with the Department of Justice's (DOJ) civil lawsuit against the tobacco industry, arguably the largest civil litigation in history. In each story, I will highlight the insights that I see behavioral decision research... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

negotiator who helped reach a $350 billion settlement of health claims with the tobacco industry. Discussing his experience in Wheeler's MBA class, Green said the secret of his success was "making chaos my friend in negotiation." Whether... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

collectively, they need to work harder to expose and shut down the charlatans. At the same time, critics of marketing conflate their objection to harmful products such as tobacco with hostility towards the marketing toolkit harnessed to... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising
  • 22 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

CEO Succession: The Case at Ford

been at a tobacco company. But in fact, at American Express, where he had a significant run, he was running the largest customer for computers perhaps in the world, the American Express travel business. And it was based on that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Auto; Employment
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

were compliant (that is, 52.8% under treatment). Fifty-five (18%) had normal blood pressure readings (BP under control). The data also demonstrated higher prevalence (39%) of hypertension among tobacco users compared to non-users (28%)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

ratings? How can KBRA compete with Fitch, Moody's, and S&P? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212034-PDF-ENG A New Financial Policy at Swedish Match Bo Becker and Michael NorrisHarvard Business School Case 212-017 Swedish Match is a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

Howard, Sara J. Singer, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract— For too long, the worlds of business and health have been mired in a checkered, sometimes contentious, history. Millions of deaths worldwide can be attributed to risk factors including View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 1

target market, but laws regulating e-cigarettes were far less stringent than those governing tobacco products. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/E-Cigarettes--Marketing-V/an/514059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-533... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

stated goal was to provide tobacco smokers with a less harmful e-cigarette alternative, JUUL Labs’s products had proven widely popular with teenage high school students who had never smoked. Some advocacy groups and public policy makers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

telecommunications to tobacco and soft drinks. The dangers of excessive market concentration are greater in finance, however, because of the systemic importance of credit to the economy and the now widely held belief that governments must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the collapse of Enron and corruption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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