Simulations - Publications - Faculty & Research

2013
Working Paper

Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases

This working paper reports on a major Harvard Business School project designed to enhance MBA and practicing executives in case learning. The work is built on the foundation of HBS field cases employing the monomyth "hero's journey" classic story structure along... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; CIO; CEO; Hero's Journey; Monomyth; Management; Practice; Cases; Theory; Innovation and Invention

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30 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

commercially available version of GPT-3 to elicit thousands of simulated customer responses and found that AI can produce demand patterns that resemble those of human studies. “Utilizing this tool, which is in some ways a consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

11 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Reflections on My First Semester Teaching at HBS

teachers try to prepare our lesson and board plans, there’s nothing you can do to truly simulate the unexpected/chaotic/living conversation in advance. I’m truly grateful for my section’s willingness to support my growth as a teacher over... View Details

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements

augmented private security. The best plans are worthless if they exist only on paper. There needs to be regular, at least biannual, exercises.— Michael Watkins 9. Regular simulation exercises. The best plans are worthless if they exist... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

path from dirty to clean technology. We then estimate the model using a combination of regression analysis on the relationship between R&D and patents, and simulated method of moments using microdata on employment, production, R&D, firm... View Details

07 Jul 2019
HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

first year. “There’s so much to unpack in the choices that Walmart is making,” Kerr says, remarking that management has also introduced virtual reality goggles to train employees as well as an app, Spark City, that uses a game-type View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

08 Feb 2017
HBS Seminar

Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research

04 Apr 2023
What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

OK, so they could just as easily have seen a post from Larry Page online if they had still been working after 5 p.m. on a Friday afternoon. Working from their homes and seeing a post that simulated the bulletin board at the office, would... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?

we explain this finding is through social influences,” Farronato says. “I can now go around and show off an item that is recognizable to my friends, but also hard to get.” Paying a premium to be trendy The researchers ran simulations to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

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Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online

featuring courses created by renowned faculty Yes No Collaboration with fellow online learners through unique simulations and interactive activities Yes Some Discount for repeat participants Yes Some Certificate awarded upon completion of... View Details

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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

learners* Yes No The preferred brand among prospective online learners* Yes No Reimagined the case study method through a proprietary platform featuring courses created by renowned faculty Yes No Collaboration with fellow online learners through unique View Details

18 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

pandemic- and Ukraine-related supplier disruptions. They followed the frequency and daily price changes on almost 585,000 products from 58 companies in Western Europe and the United States. Using that data, researchers simulated what... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

walkaway, manage the exchange of offers, and close the deal. Highlights Bridport Onboarding - Brims First Offers Tactical Choices Show Hide Details Concepts BATNA Analysis Psychological Factors Offer Analysis Bargaining Tactics Featured Exercises Negotiation View Details

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Health-care Applications

Active postmarketing drug surveillance. There is substantial interest within the U.S. health community and among health policymakers in developing a surveillance system that scans public health databases in order to proactively detect potential drug safety... View Details

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Online Management Course | HBS Online

The Bay of Pigs Trouble at Talk of the Town Designs The Cuban Missile Crisis Featured Exercises Small group decision-making simulation 1-on-1 decision-making simulation Peer feedback exercise 10-12 hrs... View Details

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Partners - Case Method Project

American Propaganda, U.S. Supreme Court Simulation MA 58 of 159 Jonathan Greiner Newton South High School Newton Centre, MA Subjects: AP U.S. Government and Politics MA 59 of 159 Dan Hackett Boston Latin Academy Boston, MA Subjects: AP... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2023
News

A More Accommodating Approach

Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

07 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

Biologically-inspired Multi-agent Systems class I was taking at SEAS, I began developing a swarm intelligence to simulate the life of a small village. This simulation evolved into Regent: a cooperative,... View Details

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

placing blame after the fact. The US military uses after-action reviews (AARs) to gather and record lessons to apply in the future. The Army’s Opposing Force (OPFOR) is a brigade whose function is to prepare troops for combat, in part by engaging them in View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

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