Qualitative Methods (General) - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader

resonated across the MBA and Executive Education curriculum, in 1999 Dean Clark launched the HBS Global Leadership Initiative in order to broaden the School's outreach in this area. Headed by Kotter and Director Alan Price, the initiative uses traditional and... View Details

Keywords: Management

25 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

leveraged the formula in Egypt and in more than 100 other countries. In fact, Gilead generated substantial revenues through this hybrid approach for viral hepatitis and HIV. In doing so, this method helped... View Details

Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health

09 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

press Compensation & Benefits Review Winning the War for Talent: Modern Motivational Methods for Attracting and Retaining Employees By: Thibault-Landry, Anais, Allan Schweyer, and Ashley V. Whillans Abstract—Given the struggle that... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

November–December 2018
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Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling

By: Kris J. Ferreira, David Simchi-Levi and He Wang

We consider a network revenue management problem where an online retailer aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory constraints. As common in practice, the retailer does not know the consumer's purchase probability at each price and must... View Details

Keywords: Online Marketing; Revenue Management; Revenue; Management; Marketing; Internet and the Web; Price; Mathematical Methods

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Business History - Faculty & Research

quantitative and qualitative evidence highlights how inventors and intermediaries in Japan interacted to create a market for new ideas. Article The Way to Wealth Around the World: Benjamin Franklin and the Globalization of American... View Details

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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

reliably study creativity in surgery, a surgery-specific definition is required. We aim to develop a consensus definition of creativity in surgery, utilizing the existing creativity literature and surgeon input. Methods and analysis The... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

country’s nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. The researchers studied employee emails and attachments before and during a nine-week period using machine learning and textual analysis. They supplemented their email analysis with qualitative... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

11 Apr 2023
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Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

health care, utilities, energy, real estate, and technology by as much as 2.5 percentage points on an annualized basis. The TOPICS method uses sophisticated financial models to spot hidden similarities in risk and return profiles among... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail

December 2019
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Costly Concessions: An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfectly Transferable Utility

By: Alfred Galichon, Scott Duke Kominers and Simon Weber

We introduce an empirical framework for models of matching with imperfectly transferable utility and unobserved heterogeneity in tastes. Our framework allows us to characterize matching equilibrium in a flexible way that includes as special cases the classic fully- and... View Details

Keywords: Sorting; Matching; Marriage Market; Intrahousehold Allocation; Imperfectly Transferable Utility; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods

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01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

create a method of sales management that encompassed all aspects of selling, from the calculation of quotas and commission rates to the motivation of discouraged salesmen. This excerpt looks at one aspect of the Patterson method: the... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

attributes of a decision problem. The hierarchy of new conditions varies in the degree to which it specifies the functional form, ranging from more general solutions with weaker constraints, to more specific solutions with stronger... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Stagnation (12) Economic Systems (14) Economics (393) Economy (16) Education (118) Emerging Markets (14) Emotions (21) Employee Ownership (1) Employee Relationship Management (61) Employees (83) Employment (15) Energy Conservation (7) Energy View Details

30 Aug 2023
Blog Post

I’m From the South and Going Back: Why HBS Was the Best School for Me

Nowhere have I felt as celebrated or heard as I have here at HBS - my background that generated the sources of self-doubt early on has actually led to my greatest contributions. I've introduced peers to the fanaticism of SEC sports, the... View Details

06 Apr 2023
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Bringing Music to the HBS Classroom: My Journey as a Nontraditional Student in the Summer Venture in Management Program

Business School in general to better grasp what the program would entail. During this process, I found a video that would change my life forever: the illustrious “Take A Seat in the Harvard MBA Classroom.” Witnessing students from a... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

confront the bigger decision of whether or not to invest in solar panels to generate electricity for her home. Although pre-disposed to pursue environmentally friendly alternatives, the project entailed significant up-front expenses and... View Details

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Hiring International Students

requires at least a bachelor’s degree Annual quota of 85,000 new H-1B visas with 20,000 reserved for individuals who hold advanced degrees from US universities Individuals who previously held H-1B status not subject to cap A total of 6 years is View Details

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Planning a Class Session - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching by the Case Method Planning a Class Session Preparing to Teach Getting Started Developing Instructor Style Shaping the Learning Environment Knowing Your Students Planning a Class Session Leading in the Classroom Providing... View Details

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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

the intersection of accounting, strategy, and finance, and learn how to evaluate a business’s performance, prospects, and value to make strategic investment decisions that generate financial success. 8 weeks, 5–6 hrs/week Enroll by April... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

on sabbatical from MIT. As a general manager, he was responsible for organizations ranging from start-ups to international, multi-plant businesses. As an individual contributor, he was best known for his work on product development/ sales... View Details

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