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Educators

31 Oct 2019
Blog Post

5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

engineering quite yet. I chose Harvard’s MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program because of its interdisciplinary approach to bridge the gap between engineering and business. I saw that the program consisted of not only engineering and... View Details

2019
Chapter

Poor Mao's Almanack? Empire, Political Economy, and the Transformation of Social Science

By: Sophus A. Reinert

April 1996 (Revised March 1998)
Supplement

Starlite: Confidential Instructions for S. Mason, VP of HR Health Sciences Division

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Julia Morgan

Supplements Starlite Corp.: General Information. View Details

12 Sep 2003
News

Remarks of President Lawrence H. Summers at the Massachusetts Life Sciences Summit

The Value of Descriptive Analytics: Evidence from Online Retailers - Marketing Science

Does the adoption of descriptive analytics impact online retailer performance, and if so, how? We use the synthetic difference-in-differences method to analyze the staggered adoption of a retail analytics dashboard by more than 1,500 e-commerce websites, and we... View Details

1975
Book

Another Voice: Feminist Perspectives on Social Life and Social Science

By: M. Millman and R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Gender; Perspective; Society; Science

2017
Working Paper

The 4 Minds of the Customer: A Framework for Understanding and Applying the Science of Decision Making

By: Ryan Hamilton and Uma R. Karmarkar

Scientists have spent decades creating powerful and detailed descriptions of how people make decisions. Unfortunately, many of these theories make contradictory predictions and are difficult to understand and implement. We introduce the 4 Minds framework as a practical... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Choice; Market Research; Decision Making Process; Decision; Marketing Research; Consumer Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Marketing; Decision Making; Segmentation; Research

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August 2017 (Revised August 2018)
Case

The Oakland Athletics: Strategy & Metrics for a Budget

By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler

This case considers Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane’s data driven and, in baseball circles unconventional, approach to winning games over the duration of the long Major League Baseball season. Beane’s critical approach to crafting strategy within his... View Details

Keywords: Data Analysis; Metrics; Data Science; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Measurement and Metrics; Competitive Strategy; Organizational Culture; Sports Industry

Educators

2016
Working Paper

Innovating in Science and Engineering or 'Cashing In' on Wall Street? Evidence on Elite STEM Talent

By: Pian Shu

Using data on MIT bachelor's graduates from 1994 to 2012, this paper empirically examines the extent to which the inflow of elite talent into the financial industry affects the supply of innovators in science and engineering (S&E). I first show that finance does not... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Engineering; Personal Development and Career; Science; Finance

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03 Aug 2022
News

Can the Chips and Science Act Help the Us Avoid More Shortages?

26 Jul 2021
News

The Science of How You Spend Money & How to Set Boundaries People Will Respect

May 2013
Teaching Plan

China Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research: Building a Sustainable, Globally Integrated Research Enterprise

By: Vicki Sato and Annelena Lobb

Keywords: Life Sciences; Biomedical Research; Global Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; China

Spring 2001
Article

Why Management Research Findings are Unimplementable: An Action Science Perspective

By: Michael Beer

2003
Book

Negotiation Analysis: The Science and Art of Collaborative Decision Making

By: Howard Raiffa, John Richardson and David Metcalfe

Keywords: Negotiation; Theory; Cooperation; Decision Making

1997
Working Paper

Why Management Research Findings Are Unimplementable: An Action Science Perspective

By: Michael Beer