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  • 15 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

the future. Process planning and scenario planning make more sense than fixed projections because they focus on answerable questions. What is required to remain solvent per month? What startup costs will be required to return to “normal?”... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence
  • 25 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 25

Specifically, we test how individuals who have a responsibility to punish transgressions behave when confronted with the social norm of preferential treatment on people's birthdays. We first establish the existence of this social norm using a View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 13 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 13

investigate a puzzling phenomenon in which firms make investment decisions that purposefully do not maximize expected profits. Using an extension to the newsvendor model, we focus on a relatively common scenario in which the firm's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 12

external risks, companies can call on tools such as war gaming and scenario analysis. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/06/managing-risks-a-new-framework/ar/1   Working PapersDid Bank Distress Stifle Innovation During the Great... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

Real Estate Harvard Business School Note 208-041 Demonstrates the accelerating impact of leverage on returns under differing scenarios of property performance. The performance scenarios represent two points... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

progress that the firm is making." 2. Hiring skilled immigrants increased the immigrant share of these workers. This may seem obvious, Kerr points out. However, under the Microsoft scenario of four new hires for every one immigrant, the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

expected profits. Using an extension to the newsvendor model, we focus on a relatively common scenario in which the firm's investor has imperfect information concerning the quality of the firm's investment opportunities. We apply Perfect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2020
  • Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

includes technological innovations and changes in consumer sentiment, both of which affect the value of assets and liabilities. Physical and transition risks will likely introduce new strategic risks as new industries move to the fore as others fade, Stiroh said. Such... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • Web

RCS Policies - Research Computing Services

And other, unforeseen uses. Scratch spaces on compute clusters are usually high-performant (e.g. Lustre or similar) and very large. Typical usage scenarios for scratch storage are: Working space for running jobs (temporary files,... View Details
  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

culture of quantitative enthusiasm and are dedicated to risk measurement, others, with a culture of quantitative skepticism, take a different path, focusing instead on risk envisionment, aiming to provide top management with alternative future View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The State of Customer Service Leadership

everywhere—instead of getting bogged down in long-term planning for scenarios that are not likely to emerge. This article first appeared under the title The Secret Sauce of the Service Sector on the Harvard Business School website. View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail
  • 26 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

more vehicles than they can sell and—unable to make money from new cars—turn to service and trade-ins to eke out margins. And at the bottom of the chain are customers trapped in high-pressure negotiations for a car that isn't the exact model they want. That's the grim... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

alternative in a given choice set range between 17% and 83% depending on how the alternatives are displayed both in the data used for estimation and in the counterfactual scenario under consideration. This occurs even though the market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

scenario that seemed unlikely just a few decades ago — affect what we teach and how we carry out our research. We must test our ideas against a broader range of experience and bring work informed by this understanding back into our... View Details
  • 03 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 3

had done in tolerance stacking. Or should they "go broad" and continue to lobby headquarters for more complex assignments that might ultimately lead to program ownership for an entire vehicle? Each scenario had different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 5

firms' geographic expansion across time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for profit. The model is solved using game theory under three learning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

with pro-organizational suggestions, is pervasive and is driven by a set of common implicit theories about speaking up in organizations. Our second study used scenarios about speaking up to validate and extend these findings through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report

She urges directors to talk much more about risk and cybersecurity and be nimble in response to rapid change. “We have to make decisions now based on solid assumptions and do serious scenario planning for the future.” The Personal Side of... View Details
  • 18 Apr 2022
  • News

Home Grown

started InMobi? Naveen Tewari: I always felt that the country has had the ability, the technological prowess, the entrepreneurial spirit to be able to build something. And we have had scenarios of, you know, a few companies getting built... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

oDesk for fulfilling work. In fact, multiple pieces of evidence suggest that diaspora use of oDesk increases with familiarity of the platform, rather than a scenario where diaspora connections serve to navigate uncertain environments. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne