Simulations - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing

manufacturer can increase profits and reduce inventory risks. To demonstrate that improvement, we ran a computer simulation that tests various inventory policies for three groups of SKUs in the same product line — one group with low... View Details

Keywords: by Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond & David Weil; Consumer Products

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

demand for the various allergy products, which included several brands and package quantities, while modeling algorithmic price competition by the firms. When compared with a simulation in which each firm exhibited traditional (symmetric)... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

02 Jan 2014
News

The Power to Change

a world-travel adventure for a year. They were at a Disney resort in Tokyo—riding through a simulated volcano attraction of all things—when the catastrophic 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck. Wilcox says the terror of the moment, the... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Business and Environment Initiative; Scientific Research and Development Services

21 Dec 2018
Blog Post

LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center

itself. The wind tunnel data forms half of the company’s iterative aerodynamic design cycle. Combined with the use of simulation tools, design engineers get a full picture of the blade design. Finally, the facilities also include a rain... View Details

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Digital Transformation - HBS Online

renowned faculty Yes No Collaboration with fellow online learners through unique simulations and interactive activities Yes Some Discount for repeat participants Yes Some Certificate awarded upon completion of program Yes Some Invitation... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

The Past Informs the Future of Work

roles requiring different skill sets. In comparison, by 2018, Vodafone had installed chatbots—software applications simulating interactions with people—where one bot may replace three workers, but it hadn’t yet significantly altered its... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information

01 Jun 1997
News

MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96

Foundations is organized to build community by allowing each student to meet virtually every other student in the cohort. Foundations begins with a simulation in which students inherit a failing business and must turn it around using... View Details

23 Jun 2015
Blog Post

What is SVMP?

SVMP alumni that I had met raved about the program, and it got me excited about being in a room full of young and motivated leaders who want to learn. What surprised you the most about it? I was most surprised by how much this week at HBS View Details

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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator W hen Doriot retired from HBS, Nathan Pusey, the president of Harvard, reflected on the professor's careers in education, the military, and industry: "I should like to add a personal word of appreciation in Harvard's name for the... View Details

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Staff | Information Technology

Space Catering Hybrid Classrooms Teaching & Learning Applications and technology products to bring teaching and learning experiences to life. Canvas Live Online Classrooms Media Services (Classroom Support) Multimedia Panopto Polling Seat Chart Participation Tracker... View Details

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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

integration. The fifth module looks at the frontiers of this practice including robo-investing and the evolution of large-scale financial institutions. Class Sessions: The course has approximately 14 cases, some of which include View Details

22 Feb 2019
News

Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

World Congress Center in Atlanta for a program called JA BizTown, where students learn business concepts and skills through a simulated economy in which they create and run a company. “We had a very rewarding JA day,” says Tom Mallory... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment

21 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

calculated so that directional recommendations can be made. 'What if' analysis or simulations: A small number of marketing plans are considered by simulating their effects on sales and profit. The best plan can then be chosen from this... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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

27 Apr 2023
News

Life Preserver

Harvard/Mass General Hospital partners' laboratories, they've demonstrated success with human livers, frozen, thawed and, when hooked up to a simulated transplant model, fully functioning. "This could become the new way of doing... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 1996
News

Four Professors to Retire

an integral part of their administrative and educational experience. With advisors from Apple Computer and other software vendors, Crum and his colleagues developed a networked client-server computer environment that produced HBS's first interactive digital video cases... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

11 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

policy, with a Pareto‐efficient objective that trades off this principle and conventional utilitarianism, is simulated using conventional constraints and methods. A wide range of optimal policy outcomes can result, including those that... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Apr 2016
Blog Post

What I Learned at SVMP

educational institutions, then the best is still to come for what I can offer the world. Ava Arroyo I quickly discovered that the case method is engaging, intense and fun. SVMP simulated case method classes for us during our time on... View Details

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Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar - Course Catalog

and a deeper understanding of eco-system of investment management. Students will be expected to present once during the semester. There will be a presentation mid-way through the semester to update the class on the project and their firm. Presentations will View Details

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