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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
Keywords: STEM; Selection and Staffing; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Training; Equality and Inequality; Competency and Skills
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  • June 2020 (Revised August 2020)
  • Case

Majid Al Futtaim Retail Geographic Expansion: Brick or Click?

By: Juan Alcácer and Alpana Thapar
This case illustrates the challenges that retailers face when they aggressively pursue geographical growth by expanding both their physical store network and their online presence. It features Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) Retail, a franchisee of Carrefour hypermarkets in the... View Details
Keywords: Stores; Ecommerce; Strategy; Expansion; Geographic Location; Decision Making; Internet and the Web; Digital Transformation; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Middle East
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

How Major League Baseball Clubs Have Commercialized Their Investment in Japanese Top Stars

By: Isao Okada and Stephen A. Greyser

When a Major League Baseball club signs a Japanese star player, it obviously tries to commercialize its investment in the player. The initial focus is on home attendance (ticket sales) and television audiences, plus merchandise sales. These elements are similar to... View Details

Keywords: Commercialization; Sports; Revenue; Sports Industry; Japan; United States
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Overview

The Information Age has introduced well-received opportunities to track performance. Fitbits and Fuelbands allow individuals to track their own performance; companies like Uber and leading hospitals help you choose a driver or a doctor based on how others rated... View Details

Keywords: Management Accounting; Disclosure; Performance Measurement; Incentives; Control; Education; Education Industry; Health Industry; Transportation Industry; Energy Industry; Auto Industry; United States; Japan; India

    Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World

    In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very... View Details

    • 02 Jun 2016
    • Blog Post

    Applying to the JD/MBA Program

    years of school which comes with its own opportunity costs. So far, it's been worth it for me. How did you navigate the application process at each school? Joanna: HLS and HBS have separate admissions processes and different timelines. I... View Details
    • 09 Dec 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

    standards). But the corporate auditing arena is a particularly fertile ground for self-serving biases. Three structural aspects of accounting create substantial opportunities for bias to influence judgment. Ambiguity. Bias thrives... View Details
    Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services
    • 14 Jun 2023
    • News

    Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia

    Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS), which he described as an interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical issues and opportunities of our times—from climate... View Details
    • Web

    Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade

    in China. “American boys of college age came to China to seek their fortunes, and they expected opportunities there to equal, if not surpass, those available to the enterprising in a rapidly expanding America,” historian Stephen Lockwood... View Details
    • Web

    Get Involved - Entrepreneurship

    business. Start-up Job Opportunities for MBAs Developed by our Student Advisory Board, The R.O.C.K. Board (Rock Opportunities Come Knocking) is our job, internship, and project View Details
    • 30 Jun 2021
    • In Practice

    The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

    What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
    Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
    • 18 Jul 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

    and want to get started on a path to success. Once you become a more senior professional, the nature of your job is likely to change. Among other things, you gain the opportunity to delegate key tasks. Invariably, as a more senior leader,... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Web

    Harvard Business School

    Herald . The previous publications are both dedicated to the African American community. Bert H. King MBA 1970 Former HBS assistant director of Admissions, Bert H. King worked as president and executive director of the Council for View Details
    • 19 Sep 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

    one’s pre-tenure years when the opportunity cost of time seems especially high,” he writes. Colleague David A. Moss concurs. “The first priority should always be to identify truly important problems to work on,” says Moss, the Paul Whiton... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
    • 23 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

    great depth, there was only "pure speculation" about whether the suppliers benefited from a relationship, Narayandas said. Even in long-term relationships, opportunism is always shown.— Narakesari Narayandas In their study,... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 13 Sep 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

    opportunity for the investment pendulum to swing from fast-money ventures to slower, potentially more rewarding endeavors. “If you are willing dive into the frontier of scientific journal articles, the rewards of science-based innovation... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 14 Mar 2024
    • Blog Post

    IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

    Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an View Details
    • 29 Jul 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

    opportunity that are essential to legitimizing that deployment of self-interest." In other words, capitalism earns its legitimacy through the idea that the pursuit of self-interest explicitly delivers on certain moral goods for... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 04 Jun 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Business of Life

    sets out to follow. An emergent strategy involves the decision to follow a new path when opportunity knocks unexpectedly, or when an unexpected roadblock arises. In work and in life, the question is always which path to take. To help... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Web

    Join the MOC Affiliate Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    and veteran faculty alike. It offers a unique opportunity for all MOC faculty to gain exposure to the latest learning and research related to competitiveness and cluster development. MOC affiliate activities extend beyond classroom... View Details