Michael - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 2021
Tutorial

T-tests: Theory and Practice

By: Michael Parzen, Natalie Epstein, Chiara Farronato and Michael Toffel

This video provides an introduction to hypothesis testing, sampling, t-tests, and p-values. It provides examples of A/B testing and t-testing to assess whether difference between two groups are statistically significant. This video can be assigned in conjunction with... View Details

Keywords: Data Analysis; Data Analytics; Experiment Design; Experimentation; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis

Citation

Purchase

September 2005 (Revised March 2009)
Background Note

Developing an Effective Living Group

By: Michael Beer, John J. Gabarro and Michael L. Tushman

Discusses the importance of living room groups (eight participants who share a living room) in Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program developing into effective learning groups. The diversity of the groups is a strength, but only a conscious and concerted... View Details

Keywords: Executive Education; Groups and Teams; Competency and Skills; Learning; Diversity; Growth and Development

Citation

Educators

Purchase

2002
Working Paper

A Dynamic Model of Top Management Team Effectiveness: Managing Unstructured Task Streams

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Michael A. Roberto and Michael Watkins

Citation

Read Now

August 2023 (Revised March 2024)
Case

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal

The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details

Citation

Educators

Purchase

17 Sep 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills

indicators of negotiators' social motives. Francesca Gino, Michael I. Norton, and colleagues. Picking Up An Opponent's 'tell' How to Spot a Liar Key linguistic cues can help reveal dishonesty during business negotiations, whether it's a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2016
News

3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)

(photo by Michael Hanson) I had a psychotic break in late fall of my second year at HBS. I thought I was Jesus, that I could walk on the Charles and baptize people. I was at McLean over winter break, and the same day that I got out I... View Details

Web

Faculty Mentors | Research Associates

Associate Professor Negotiations, Organizations & Markets Unit Katherine B. Coffman Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration Leslie K. John James E. Burke Professor of Business Administration Jillian J. Jordan Assistant Professor of Business... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

New Venture Winner an Undercover Success

contest were judged by a panel of alumni from a wide range of fields. “The contest is a showcase for the terrific start-ups that so many of our alumni are working on,” said Senior Lecturer Michael Roberts, Executive Director of the Arthur... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians

the development of young people through great music.” The students, Michiel Kotting, Hillary Hedges, and Sara Olsen (all MBA 1999), came to FtT at the suggestion of Slavet’s nephew, James Slavet (MBA 1999). Not long after that, Michael... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

12 Aug 2010
News

You Can’t Take It with You

and friends to date: Michael Bloomberg (MBA ’66); John Doerr (MBA ’76) and his wife, Ann; George Kaiser (MBA ’66); David Rubenstein (husband of Alice Rogoff, MBA ’78); Marion Sandler (HRPBA ’53) and her husband, Herb; and Roger Sant (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

18–20 May 2018
Reunions

MBA 2017 ONE-YEAR REUNION

Aldrich 2:45-3:45 p.m.: Faculty Sessions & HBR Interview, Aldrich Classrooms & Spangler Auditorium PROFESSION & PURPOSE: Leadership, the threat of success and paths to making a difference Michael Chu, Senior Lecturer of... View Details

01 Jun 2016
What Do You Think?

When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

Yet a third view is that the odds of success in achieving important change are enhanced by coordinated efforts to alter, as Michael Beer puts it, “the organization model” (including culture) and the “economic model” (actions producing... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

02 Jul 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

Rewards and recognition—whether based on the performance of the entire company, teams, or individuals—reflect this philosophy. The idea is to create what my colleague, Michael Beer, calls a "high commitment, high performance"... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Sep 2005
News

Predictable Surprises

completely off guard. Drawing on social science theory, he developed a tentative notion that “there are negative events out there waiting to happen, which people have sufficient information to predict or prevent, but for various reasons fail to.” When Bazerman later... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Apr 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

organizations large and small; Professor Michael E. Porter will offer his latest thinking on strategy and the need to move beyond simple "best practice" improvement to actually establishing a unique competitive position; Professor William... View Details

22 Feb 2016
News

Cooking Up America’s Food Culture

Photography by Michael Paras Doug Duda (MBA 1985) cooked his way through his undergraduate degree in Miami. He cooked his way through his law degree in Boston and through his MBA at HBS. When he graduated, Duda says, “my family thought,... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2013
News

Revitalizing America

"near-peers," helping kids to stay in school and on track. City Year was founded by Harvard Law School graduates Alan Khazei and Michael Brown with Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990). Similarly, health care could use paraprofessionals to... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

March 2021
Article

International Trade and Social Connectedness

By: Michael Bailey, Abhinav Gupta, Sebastian Hillenbrand, Theresa Kuchler, Robert J. Richmond and Johannes Stroebel

We use de-identified data from Facebook to construct a new and publicly available measure of the pairwise social connectedness between 170 countries and 332 European regions. We find that two countries trade more when they are more socially connected, especially for... View Details

Keywords: Social Connections; International Trade; Trade; Social Media

Citation

SSRN

Find at Harvard

October 19, 2015
Article

Getting Bundled Payments Right in Health Care

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Derek A. Haas, Dereesa Reid, Jonathan Warsh and Michael E. West

Bundled payments—single payments that cover all the care for a patient’s medical condition or treatment over a specified timeframe—are increasingly being deployed to motivate the delivery of better patient outcomes at lower costs. Hoag Orthopedic Institute (HOI), a... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Marketing; Health Industry

Citation

Register to Read

September 1999 (Revised February 2004)
Case

WebSpective Software, Inc. (A)

By: Michael J. Roberts, Joseph B. Lassiter III, John T. Gourville and Sun Ming Wong

Describes the situation at WebSpective, a software company that develops products to help companies manage the network of servers that support their Websites. Describes the use of "concept engineering" tools to interview customers, determine their needs and the... View Details