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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
of this ratchet effect, we simulate the U.S. housing market with and without equity extractions, and estimate the losses absorbed by mortgage lenders by valuing the embedded put-option in non-recourse mortgages. Our View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
simulated whether DPD or NEAD chains would produce more transplants when chain segment length was limited to three transplants and reported that DPD performed at least as well as NEAD chains. As this contrasts with the experience of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
statistical simulations to analyze drivers’ work patterns and pay. Their findings suggest that the ability to set one’s own work schedule has a significant impact on quality of life—not just for gig workers, but for everyone—and that that... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
statistical simulations to analyze drivers’ work patterns and pay. Their findings suggest that the ability to set one’s own work schedule has a significant impact on quality of life—not just for gig workers, but for everyone—and that that... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
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 simulations or group exercises.... 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
- 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
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Last Look
photo in the early 1980s, noting that the simulated exercise played out on a mainframe, resulting in “these massive team-performance printouts that we pasted on the wall to plan our next moves.” While they can’t name the man with the... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
The educational power of video games and simulations to teach everyone from fighter pilots to senior managers is well documented. Games, after all, are fun. Our competitive instinct kicks in, and before we know it we’ve lost an hour to... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
defaults during a market drop. To measure the systemic impact of this ratchet effect, we simulate the U.S. housing market with and without equity extractions and estimate the losses absorbed by mortgage lenders by valuing the embedded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
more advantageous." This trend is so well established that a simulated long-short stock portfolio created by the researchers to take advantage of this fact earned abnormally high returns of up to 101 basis points per month. (In part, the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
Article Two years ago I participated in a disaster drill at Southwest Airlines. It was a simulation of a Southwest plane crash at the New Orleans airport. As part of the exercise, I boarded a plane in Dallas with Southwest employees... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
being. In higher education, historically we’ve been really good at the first aspect, and we’re starting to develop simulations and external activities to take some of this into practice. Where we haven’t been so great is being — having a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
and its subsequent market performance. The project revolves around data from the Hollywood Stock Exchange, a popular online market simulation where tens of thousands of people trade movie stocks every day. In another project, with Josh... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
real-life scenarios. These simulations build from the simple - two parties negotiating a one-shot price deal for headlamps - to the complex-- many parties in a long-term relationship seeking agreement on the myriad issues involved in a... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross