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Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architecture: A Power Utility Case
By: Robert Lagerström, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Alan MacCormack
In this paper, we test a Design Structure Matrix (DSM) based method for visualizing and
measuring software portfolio architectures. Our data is drawn from a power utility company, comprising 192 software applications with 614 dependencies between them. We
show that the... View Details
Lagerström, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Alan MacCormack. "Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architecture: A Power Utility Case." Special Issue on DSM Conference 2014. Journal of Modern Project Management 3, no. 2 (September–December 2015): 114–121.
- 2007
- Working Paper
Fair (and Not So Fair) Division
By: John W. Pratt
Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities, each item is priced at the geometric mean (or some other function) of its two highest valuations. The... View Details
Pratt, John W. "Fair (and Not So Fair) Division." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-016, September 2007.
- February 1996
- Case
Indianopolis: Implementing Competition in City Services
By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Roger Atherton
Mayor Stephen Goldsmith of Indianapolis introduces competition to provide city services and implementation of new bidding procedures and work practices in the Department of Transportation. Exhibits show how work methods changed and work control procedures control work... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Business Strategy; Welfare; Transportation; Change; Cost Management; Service Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr., and Roger Atherton. "Indianopolis: Implementing Competition in City Services." Harvard Business School Case 196-099, February 1996.
- 08 Dec 2016
- News
A Simple Way to Measure Health Care Outcomes
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Professor Israeli utilizes econometric methods and field experiments to study pricing and channel management. Her current research examines how the prevalence of the online channel affects both the interactions between manufacturers and their downstream channel... View Details
- 20 Nov 2011
- News
Housing market still in recovery
Mitchell Tang
Mitchell Tang graduated in 2016 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed dual-degrees in computational biology and economics as part of the Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management (LSM). While at Penn, Mitchell was involved in research at the... View Details
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Environments Through case method courses, FIELD projects, tech simulations, introspective exercises, and more, you will discover your potential and leave a more inspiring leader than you ever thought possible. Take a Seat in the Harvard... View Details
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Professor Israeli utilizes econometric methods and field experiments to study pricing and channel management. Her current research examines how the prevalence of the online channel affects both the interactions between manufacturers and their downstream channel... View Details
- 16 Feb 2012
- News
An artful perspective
- 12 Mar 2015
- News
Maine retailer L.L. Bean plans to triple its stores
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Professor Sherman's research has long focused on financial reporting, performance measurement/management, and financial literacy issues facing corporate management and Boards of Directors in global businesses. He also actively studies methods to improve productivity in... View Details
Tiona W. Zuzul
Tiona Zuzul is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit. She teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Zuzul studies how leaders and organizations learn and adapt in response to environmental shifts and periods of discontinuous change. Her... View Details
- 21 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
issues—in just eight days. That’s the concept behind FGI, a required course for first-year MBA students. Since 2011, it has become an important learning-in-the-field complement to the case method used in the classroom. This past May, more... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
When Congress passed President Obama's JOBS Act in March 2012, one of the most intriguing provisions would enable crowdfunding—the ability for large groups of anonymous investors to fund startups. More than a year after the law was passed, however, the provision... View Details
- 2009
- Casebook
Managing Crises: Responses to Large-Scale Emergencies
By: Arnold M. Howitt and Herman B. Leonard
This casebook provides an organized treatment of the major challenges associated with managing large scale disaster events, including discussion of systematic methods of organizing disaster response, preparing in advance for disaster situations, and distinguishing... View Details
Howitt, Arnold M. and Herman B. Leonard, eds. Managing Crises: Responses to Large-Scale Emergencies. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2009.
- 2022
- Article
Fairness via Explanation Quality: Evaluating Disparities in the Quality of Post hoc Explanations
By: Jessica Dai, Sohini Upadhyay, Ulrich Aivodji, Stephen Bach and Himabindu Lakkaraju
As post hoc explanation methods are increasingly being leveraged to explain complex models in high-stakes settings, it becomes critical to ensure that the quality of the resulting explanations is consistently high across all subgroups of a population. For instance, it... View Details
Dai, Jessica, Sohini Upadhyay, Ulrich Aivodji, Stephen Bach, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Fairness via Explanation Quality: Evaluating Disparities in the Quality of Post hoc Explanations." Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (2022): 203–214.
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The Importance of Being Causal
By: Iavor I Bojinov, Albert Chen and Min Liu
Causal inference is the study of how actions, interventions, or treatments affect outcomes of interest. The methods that have received the lion’s share of attention in the data science literature for establishing causation are variations of randomized experiments.... View Details
Keywords: Causal Inference; Observational Studies; Cross-sectional Studies; Panel Studies; Interrupted Time-series; Instrumental Variables
Bojinov, Iavor I., Albert Chen, and Min Liu. "The Importance of Being Causal." Harvard Data Science Review 2.3 (July 30, 2020).
- April 1973 (Revised April 1983)
- Case
Mirassou Vineyards (A)
Examines the decision by Mirassou to test a mechanical grape harvester that requires a major change in growing methods and operations. The machine is unproven and the investor has asked this vineyard to test it for him and commit to use it. View Details
Keywords: Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Production; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Wyckoff, Daryl D. "Mirassou Vineyards (A)." Harvard Business School Case 673-105, April 1973. (Revised April 1983.)