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Faculty & Research Faculty & Research September 2025 Journal of Development Economics Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in... View Details

18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

Business School Case 118-017 Royal Philips: Designing Toward Profound Change This case explores Royal Philips CEO Frans van Houten's bold use of design research to inform a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Apr 2014
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Creating a mathematical method to understand consumer behavior in a digital world

homophily—the “birds-of-a-feather” tendencies of like-minded people? Only by understanding the relative impacts of these factors can companies develop effective marketing strategies. Studying the adoption of a mobile app in Japan, Gupta and colleagues devised a... View Details

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Giving Research in Action Giving Research in Action Power in Practice The inspiration for and impact of faculty research This video series showcases how HBS faculty pursue... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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The Changing Nature of Research

Professor Raffaella Sadun Professor Raffaella Sadun The commitment to advancing thought leadership has been integral to HBS’s identity since the School’s founding more than a century ago. Over the past decade, HBS faculty members have been employing an ever-widening... View Details

16 Jul 2013
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Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case

Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

Layoffs That Don't Break Your Company: Better Approaches to Workforce Transition By: Sucher, Sandra J., and Shalene Gupta Abstract—Today layoffs have become companies’ default response to the challenges created by advances in technology and global competition. Yet... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

difficult to glean from the available data. Our estimates can inform ongoing policy discussions on both sides of the Atlantic about the economic implications of biosimilar policies. Harvard Business School Case 817-100 Deutsche Bank:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

This case, set in the 1920s and 1930s, discusses the contributions of Harvard Business School (HBS) Professors Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger to management research and to the Human Relations Movement in management scholarship. The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53461 2017 Making Research Matter: A Psychologist's Guide to Public Engagement Government and Organizations: Transforming Institutions Using Behavioral Insights By: Dalton,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

they are—unless they can figure out a way to thwart discrimination. That’s the frustrating takeaway of the new research paper “Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay,” written by Matti Keloharju, a visiting... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

2023
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Marketing Through the Machine’s Eyes: Image Analytics and Interpretability

By: Shunyuan Zhang, Flora Feng and Kannan Srinivasan

he growth of social media and the sharing economy is generating abundant unstructured image and video data. Computer vision techniques can derive rich insights from unstructured data and can inform recommendations for increasing profits and consumer utility—if only the... View Details

Keywords: Transparency; Marketing Research; Algorithmic Bias; AI and Machine Learning; Marketing

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January 2021
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Machine Learning for Pattern Discovery in Management Research

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ryan Allen and Michael G. Endres

Supervised machine learning (ML) methods are a powerful toolkit for discovering robust patterns in quantitative data. The patterns identified by ML could be used for exploratory inductive or abductive research, or for post-hoc analysis of regression results to detect... View Details

Keywords: Machine Learning; Supervised Machine Learning; Induction; Abduction; Exploratory Data Analysis; Pattern Discovery; Decision Trees; Random Forests; Neural Networks; ROC Curve; Confusion Matrix; Partial Dependence Plots; AI and Machine Learning

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01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History

on financial history or indeed any kind of history. Finance is often taught as a branch of mathematics in a rather technical way without adequate reference to past experience. I think HBS is actually in the best position here because the View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

firms and shareholders. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51128 Harvard Business School Case 418-019 Sensing (and Monetizing) Happiness at Hitachi Inspired by research... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 2012
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CSIRO: The Light Metals Flagship Decision

By: Willy Shih, Margaret P. Pierson and Dawn Lau

This case explores the challenge of investing in basic research as a public good. CSIRO was Australia's leading science and research agency, and it was chartered to enhance national prosperity through R&D. Its Flagships program was designed to align research interests... View Details

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01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

face, Merton faced rows of reporters, banks of TV cameras, and flurries of firing strobe lights and calmly strove to put his complicated and abstract theory into accessible terms. Merton's research focuses on evaluating the financial risk... View Details

July 2001 (Revised January 2007)
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Lehman Brothers (C): Decline of the Equity Research Department

By: Ashish Nanda and Boris Groysberg

This case tracks the rapid decline of Lehman Brothers' equity research department from August 1992, when, beset by declining ranking, low morale, and high turnover, firm management decides to clean house and reinvest in building the department. View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business or Company Management; Leadership; Human Resources; Financial Services Industry

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