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13 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?

Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

24 Oct 2023
Research & Ideas

When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

backfiring,” Luca notes. Customers seek out Black-owned restaurants For the study, Yelp and Wayfair provided data on their platforms and programs. On Yelp, this included... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage

30 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

health care offers a unique set of dynamics, Stern and Tang note that it’s easy to envision situations where similar challenges could arise in other business settings, particularly in customer care. “If I... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health

28 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

we were collecting data as events were happening." As it turns out, the actions companies took during those first 90 days of the pandemic depended not only on their cash on hand, but how committed they were to their workers, according to... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

13 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

experimental field study, the researchers set out to test the efficacy of three distinct incentive schemes for employees in charge of assessing risk and issuing loans: the origination bonus (in which... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

15 Jan 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Redrawing the Lines: Did Political Incumbents Influence Electoral Redistricting in the World’s Largest Democracy?

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer & Maya Reddy

09 Jan 2020
Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

transparent in telling you how and why they’re making decisions. They’re defined by the types of questions you’re asking and the types of data you’re telling them to collect.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Engaging Supply Chains in Climate Change

Keywords: by Chonnikarn Fern Jira & Michael W. Toffel

23 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

Luca, Harvard University Economics Professor Edward L. Glaeser, and HBS doctoral student Hyunjin Kim. The researchers combined data from US Census reports, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Google Street... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Aug 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Channels of Influence

Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun & Christopher J. Malloy

01 Mar 2015
News

The Next Big Swing

players. But as much as the Toronto native loved hockey, baseball offered an even greater data set—perfect for the burgeoning math whiz. “I was interested in sabermetrics before it was even a word,” says Tippett (MBA 1985). Today, it’s a... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Clark; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

Research Summary

Overview of Research

My research examines approaches to improving the performance of our health care delivery system with a primary focus on health information technology. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of my program, my dissertation draws upon theories and insights from... View Details

2022
Article

Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO

By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details

Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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05 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can

says. Rising prices don’t stop consumers To test consumers’ willingness to keep buying higher-priced everyday goods, the researchers examined Kilts Nielsen scanner and consumer panel data for about 14.4... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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About - Business & Environment

leverage HBS resources, promote the initiative's mission, and improve processes. Her duties include project management, event coordination, content development for publications and social media, web... View Details

01 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Opting Out of Good Governance

Keywords: by C. Fritz Foley, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jonathan Greenstein & Eric Zwick

14 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 14

students' self-assessment and to the instructor's assessment of class participation performance, based on five years of data (n=7,025) across ten sections. The article demonstrates that crowdsourced... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

weather that depressed sales of natural gas and home heating oil. As you know, this is also the first quarter we are operating with the Balanced Scorecard, so I can see performance across a broader set of... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

29 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

lost critical people in the background who make this whole thing work. Gazette: Twitter has been under a consent decree for over a decade over data privacy and security violations. Back in May, the company... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology

17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

applications—a process comprising about 600,000 individual data-entry tasks. The research team matched that data to meteorological data in Tokyo during that period. (Tokyo is a city that sees its share of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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