Simulations - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

to crucial functional systems is not just a one-time task, but an ongoing process. This approach fosters a culture of continuous improvement and preparedness, ensuring that the company is always ready to respond to potential disruptions. Technology: View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

01 Apr 1996
News

"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs

and teaching assistant-led problem sessions to multiple team projects and classic problem sets. Crimson Greetings One of the more memorable aspects of Foun-dations may have been Crimson Greetings, a large-scale behavioral simulation... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

The Next Lessons

on the eve of graduation. “Khan Academy started, for the most part, with me producing content. As it grew—our whole team working with others to write exercises and simulation software—we started to realize, hey, this is a pretty good... View Details

Keywords: William Weber

04 Dec 2014
News

Hacking Health Care

way: a project leader pinpoints problem areas and organizes a hackathon that is attended by an audience of 200 to 300 participants. Doctors and nurses on the front line engage with software developers who are eager to break through the industry morass—resulting, for... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2001
News

Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction

exercise, administered in the computer lab. A software program simulates a supply chain from retailer through wholesaler and distributor up to the beer factory. Students take roles as a participant in the chain, seeing only the orders... View Details

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

22 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 22

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510032-PDF-ENG Carbon Trading Simulation: Black Cement Inc. Peter A. ColesHarvard Business School Supplement 911-053 This simulation presents students the opportunity to experience firsthand the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

their optimal strategy faster than the standard second price auction mechanism. Contrary to earlier results within computer science using simulated reinforcement learning agents, we find that both in settings where subjects are given... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 1996
News

Reinventing Marketing

Professor V. Kasturi Rangan, the required Marketing course has been revamped to include new initiatives such as a marketing-strategy computer simulation (called "Pharmasim") and a module on new product development, developed and taught... View Details

Keywords: Mary Jane Higgins; Illustration by Peter Hoey

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

running lab experiments is that we can simulate many different types of inequality and look at many different types of decisions.” "You'd think that with such a large change in our society, you'd see a definitive impact... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Sep 2003
News

Books

Technologies for Innovation, Thomke argues that many companies are not yet making the best use of breakthrough technologies for experimentation — including simulation and computer modeling — to generate and test new product possibilities.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

26 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

918-044 Stoy Foods: Role Information for Danijela Stoyanovic In this simulation exercise, four family members must negotiate over the future of the family business. Should the business be sold to a strategic buyer, or should the family... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2014
News

Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds

business owners in need of strategic planning and competitive analysis. When the team pitched the HourlyNerd model to classmates at FIELD 3’s simulated stock market, which allows peer “investors” to evaluate the business plans, the stock... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

at least ten years for the accumulation of sufficient experience), simulations (speeding up the process a bit), and formal education. But most importantly of all, they involve the employment of "knowledge coaches" capable of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2019
News

Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot

McAllister (MBA 1965) KAPOOR: We think these fleets will be a game-changer for people with disabilities. The question is really when that will happen. The challenge is that the vehicles have to learn all the possible scenarios they’ll encounter on the roads, and they... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Scott C. Bolick

twice the 67 days usually needed to complete the arduous battery of simulated combat missions. The ordeal left Bolick 36 pounds lighter than when he started and further weakened by viral infections that required two overnight... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

Web

Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog

other remarkable negotiators). The emerging findings of this ongoing project will heavily inform this course. By way of highly interactive case discussions, frequently interspersed with video clips of the protagonists, and a few negotiation exercises—although... View Details

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Rohan Gopaldas

professor is listening. Ninety students are listening. And you have to make an impact in thirty to forty seconds. It's an electric environment, eighty minutes of pure engagement. And a great simulation of what we'll face in the working... View Details

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Michael Son

classes on making change at the community level; on the causes of poverty and how to address them." But in his senior year, the promise of a "free week's vacation" gave him entrée to his first real-world business experience. "Shell sponsored a... View Details

19 Nov 2015
Blog Post

What to Expect During Your Second Year at HBS

Chairman of Goldman Sachs and Professor at HBS who recently became the President of the Dallas Federal Reserve, offered to teach a group of students about the stock market. We participated in a simulation throughout the semester –... View Details

23 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 23

people to mentally simulate events more extensively. People who considered situations with their eyes closed rather than open judged immoral behaviors as more unethical and moral behaviors as more ethical. In addition, considering... View Details