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- December 2014
- Article
The Discipline of Business Experimentation
By: Stefan Thomke and Jim Manzi
The data you already have can't tell you how customers will react to innovations. To discover if a truly novel concept will succeed, you must subject it to a rigorous experiment. In most companies, tests do not adhere to scientific and statistical principles. As a... View Details
Thomke, Stefan, and Jim Manzi. "The Discipline of Business Experimentation." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 12 (December 2014): 70–79.
- April 2014
- Teaching Note
Jiangxi Agribusiness: (TN)
By: David F. Hawkins
[TN for 114-039] Emily Wang, an analyst with Future Securities, a Shanghai-based investment firm, is given the task of making stock purchase recommendations to her supervisor from a number of Chinese common stocks. One stock in particular, Jiangxi Agribusiness... View Details
- Article
The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities
By: John D. Macomber
Three trends will drive urban investment, development, and entrepreneurship in the next two decades. This article provides tools to identify the situations and circumstances that will be most favorable for private sector involvement in consideration of these trends.... View Details
Keywords: Trends; Demographics; Private Sector; Investment; City; Infrastructure; Opportunities; Urban Development
Macomber, John D. "The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 23, no. 3 (Summer 2011): 64–74.
- April 2010 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
The Auction for Travelport (A)
By: Andrei Hagiu and Misha Sanwal
A senior Blackstone director is deciding how aggressively to bid for Travelport, a travel distribution business containing several key services and platforms. Travelport's most important properties were Galileo, one of the top 3 global distribution systems (GDSs),... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Product Positioning; Cost vs Benefits; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Competitive Advantage; Auctions; Industry Structures; Travel Industry
Hagiu, Andrei, and Misha Sanwal. "The Auction for Travelport (A)." Harvard Business School Case 710-474, April 2010. (Revised March 2011.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Artful Dodger: Answering the Wrong Question the Right Way
By: Todd Rogers and Michael I. Norton
What happens when people try to "dodge" a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? In four online studies using paid participants, we show that listeners can fail to detect dodges when speakers answer similar—but objectively... View Details
Rogers, Todd, and Michael I. Norton. "The Artful Dodger: Answering the Wrong Question the Right Way." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-048, September 2008. (Revised September 2010.)
- April 2007 (Revised October 2007)
- Background Note
An Overview of Project Finance & Infrastructure Finance - 2006 Update
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
Provides an introduction to the fields of project finance and infrastructure finance, and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2002 to 2006. Examples of project-financed investments include the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon... View Details
Esty, Benjamin C., and Aldo Sesia. "An Overview of Project Finance & Infrastructure Finance - 2006 Update." Harvard Business School Background Note 207-107, April 2007. (Revised October 2007.)
- TeachingInterests
Strategy and Technology
By: Andy Wu
The Strategy and Technology elective course explores the unique aspects of creating effective strategies for technology-intensive businesses.
- What strategies win in markets with network effects?
- How can technology be... View Details
Making Meritocracy
How do societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the selection of competent and capable leaders are central challenges for any society. These are not new concerns. Scholars, educators, and political and economic... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
three-piece suit kind of guy, and I wasn't. I preferred Boston to New York. And I didn't like working with computers then any more than I do now. Despite the good money, it wasn't the right fit." Instead, O'Donnell remained at HBS as... View Details
- Profile
Madison McIlwain
(LCA) professor wrote the original cases on Enron before the company had been convicted of fraud. As he looked back at the work he did, he reflected on the power of combining data with instinct to trust your own intelligence and pattern matching. Even if you don't feel... View Details
- Web
Dean Nitin Nohria | About
team-based learning, particularly to support MBA field method courses. September 2011 FIELD Course Introduced The Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) year-long field course gave first-year MBA students meaningful opportunities to act View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
tried to prevent customers from showrooming. They considered changing the barcodes on products to make them hard to search for online. The company even tried to use signal jammers, like the ones they use to keep prison inmates from using... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
angel investor in fashion tech; Vanessa Kay, senior vice president at Moët Hennessy USA, who heads up the Veuve Clicquot, Krug, and Ruinart champagne brands; Edda Gudmundsdottir, a fashion designer and style consultant whose clients include companies View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Launching a Career in Clean Energy
myself, this seems like one of the most pressing problems of our generation—if I want to have an impact on the world, this is it. You worked at Ameresco for seven years and served as vice president at Patriot Energy Group. And now you’ve... View Details
- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
needed a tremendous amount of R&D. They erred in launching too soon with a product that impacted people’s health. I’d like to know what did the plan actually look like—what was the plan to make the technology actually work? Business... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
reviews of handbags) with studies conducted in the field and laboratory, we establish the functional alibi effect and show that it is mediated by guilt and more likely to occur when the luxury purchase is perceived as frivolous and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
forces like skill-biased technical change. Exploring movements around these long-term levels, however, this study finds mixed evidence regarding the vicious cycle hypothesis. On one hand, larger compensation differentials are accepted as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
homogeneous Europe.” CJL stated the issue with correlation this way: “Maybe organizations with an edge in their markets are more profitable and therefore can afford to devote more effort to diversifying their workforce.” Another issue is measurement. Nick commented, “I... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
2019 New York: PublicAffairs Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract— Creative Construction tackles the myth that larger enterprises are inherently incapable of transformative innovation and are doomed to be disrupted by... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman