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  • 15 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Exploring the World of Electric Adventure Vehicles

As a former consultant at EY-Parthenon, part of Chicago native and Northwestern University graduate Tayler Danziger’s (MBA 2020) job included travelling all over the U.S. and Europe, advising clients on growth strategy. Little did she know then, this View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; Consumer Products / Retail
  • Web

Tuition & Financial Support - Doctoral

Provide Fellowship : If you have dependents and a total household income (THI) of less than $120,000, the Provide Fellowship is designed to meet your needs. It offers financial assistance based on the number of dependents and your THI.... View Details
  • Program

Managing Innovation

intradepartmental teams of four to six managers are encouraged to apply. Learning and Living at HBS When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the... View Details

    Michael Beer

    MICHAEL BEER

    Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

    • Winter 2016
    • Article

    Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization

    By: Kris J. Ferreira, Bin Hong Alex Lee and David Simchi-Levi
    We present our work with an online retailer, Rue La La, as an example of how a retailer can use its wealth of data to optimize pricing decisions on a daily basis. Rue La La is in the online fashion sample sales industry, where they offer extremely limited-time... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Price; Forecasting and Prediction; Revenue; Sales; Retail Industry
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    • 2015
    • Book

    What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms

    By: James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser and Leonard A. Schlesinger
    Based on decades of collective field experiences, the authors present anecdotal evidence in support of eight things that great service leaders know and do. Great service leaders know that (1) leading a breakthrough service is different, and they take steps to ensure... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Leadership; Service Operations; Service Delivery
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    • April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
    • Supplement

    Fleet Oil Company: An Exercise

    The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details
    Keywords: Business Headquarters; Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Non-Renewable Energy; Cost; Production; Performance Productivity; Research and Development; Energy Industry; Atlanta; Houston
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game

    By: Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen

    Putting an end to the "earnings game" requires that CEOs reclaim the initiative by avoiding earnings guidance and managing expectations in such a way that their stocks trade reasonably close to their intrinsic value. In place of earnings forecasts, management should... View Details

    Keywords: Stocks; Performance Expectations; Goals and Objectives; Risk and Uncertainty; Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Risk Management; Budgets and Budgeting; Earnings Management; Value; Projects
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      The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card

      What Color Is Your Parachute? meets Out of Office in this inspiring, practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance while optimizing your happiness, personal growth, and bank accounts.

      Pouring yourself into a single... View Details
      • Program

      Driving Corporate Performance

      in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take... View Details
      • Program

      Finance for Senior Executives

      core skills in a broad strategic context Blended Learning and Living at HBS When you participate in a blended Executive Education program at Harvard Business School, you get the best of both worlds—a powerful learning experience that... View Details
      • April 1993
      • Background Note

      Note on High-Commitment Work Systems

      By: David A. Garvin and Norman Klein
      Describes the history, theory, and practice of high-commitment work systems. The history reviews classical approaches (i.e. Frederick Taylor), the human relations movement, the human resources approach, quality of work life, and empowerment. The theory examines the... View Details
      Keywords: Design; Human Resources; Innovation and Invention; Managerial Roles; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges; Strategy
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      • 05 Jul 2023
      • HBS Case

      What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment

      based on their past experience ... and then the context shifts, and they try to apply the same recipe, and it fails.” The analysis stems from one of Raffaelli’s core research interests: the qualities of leaders who successfully reinvent... View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand
      • March 2021
      • Article

      Last Place Aversion in Queues

      By: Ryan W. Buell
      This paper documents the effects of last place aversion in queues and its implications for customer experiences and behaviors as well as for operating performance. An observational analysis of customers queuing at a grocery store, and four online studies in which... View Details
      Keywords: Behavioral Operations; Queues; Reference Effects; Last Place Aversion; Transparency; Customers; Behavior; Satisfaction; Service Operations
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      • November 2017
      • Case

      Poppy: A Modern Village for Childcare

      By: Thomas Eisenmann and Jeff Huizinga
      In 2017, management at Poppy, which matched families that required occasional childcare with thoroughly vetted caregivers, was formulating plans for the Seattle-based seed-stage startup’s next phase of expansion. One option was to grow using the same business model... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Market Design; Multi-Sided Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Expansion; United States
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      • 15 Aug 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy

      feel good for the actor.” Their review, published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, examines 15 published, pre-registered experiments on prosocial spending and reveals insights about when giving is likely to increase... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • Program

      Driving Digital Strategy

      you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your... View Details
      • Article

      The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Financial Regulation for the Twenty-First Century

      By: Leonard J. Kennedy, Patricia A. McCoy and Ethan S. Bernstein
      After existing regulatory systems failed to prevent the recent financial crisis, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a sweeping reform designed to alleviate the crisis and prevent its recurrence. Out of this Act, the Consumer... View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Dodd-Frank; CFPB; Financial Crisis; Reform; New Agency; Market-based Approach; Evidence-based Analysis; Innovative Technologies And Transparency Policies; BEST Practices; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Finance; Financial History; Law; Markets; Organizations; Organizational Design; Business and Government Relations; Balance and Stability; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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      • 12 Sep 2024
      • Blog Post

      4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS

      second-year MBA students who were eager to lend their support to those affected in the region spearheaded the first “immersive,” off-campus field experience to New Orleans. Not only were these students driven by the opportunity to help,... View Details
      • 26 Jun 2015
      • Blog Post

      7 Things International Applicants Should Know About HBS

      Applying to business school isn’t an easy process, and neither is uprooting your life to move to a new city once you’ve been accepted. Navigating this major life change can feel especially challenging for international students – who can View Details