Qualitative Methods (General) - Publications - Faculty & Research

2025
Working Paper

Incentive-Compatible Recovery from Manipulated Signals, with Applications to Decentralized Physical Infrastructure

By: Jason Milionis, Jens Ernstberger, Joseph Bonneau, Scott Duke Kominers and Tim Roughgarden

We introduce the first formal model capturing the elicitation of unverifiable information from a party (the "source") with implicit signals derived by other players (the "observers"). Our model is motivated in part by applications in decentralized physical... View Details

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Infrastructure; Information Infrastructure

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04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

drawbacks of alternative methods of liquidity. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812070-PDF-ENG Note on Neuromarketing faculty namesHarvard Business School Note 512-031 This note provides some View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Openings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Feedback Sample Class The opening of a case method class can exert a powerful influence on the success of the session as a whole but there is significant interrelatedness and interdependency among class openings, transitions, and... View Details

09 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

customers, and with richer data, companies could learn even more. For example, companies that use cookies to collect browsing data could incorporate the type of device and search engine a person used to shop online, or the number of products they searched before... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

1977) MORE A century after the introduction of the first case to Harvard Business School, the case method remains the cornerstone of the educational experience. But it is also clear, from the scores of stories submitted here, that certain... View Details

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

01 Jun 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?

feedback to last month’s column Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years? The column generated profound comments but little debate. Responses, taken as a whole, represented a love fest for the case... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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By: Vincent Pons

Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details

08 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

most unique components of the educational experience at HBS is the case method. This collaborative approach to learning has exposed me to new ways of thinking and has provided creative methods of structuring solutions to problems. It has... View Details

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Demonstration Policy | About

advancing learning. At Harvard Business School, this occurs most frequently in the classroom, where the case method pedagogy relies on the ability of students to express even sharply different views so as to build understanding and deepen... View Details

13 Nov 2017
Blog Post

5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS

wouldn’t be able to afford an MBA How would I pay for the MBA? What would I do about fees and living expenses? I learned more about financial aid at HBS and realized it’s hard to find anyone who gets in and doesn’t attend because they cannot afford it. HBS offers very... View Details

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Cait Haught

for nonprofit leaders Cait did not want an MBA to serve as "career changer:" "I like finance, and I know I want to work with organizations doing good." Instead, she wanted a general management degree that would... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

reason that the issue of trust arises is that these individuals are expected to exercise judgment—based on specialized knowledge and methods of analysis that they alone are thought to possess—in areas in which their decisions affect the... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

the right times. They'd done it by implementing techniques and technologies at an unprecedented pace; among them, the lean production method introduced by W. Edwards Deming, just-in-time manufacturing, single-source suppliers, and global... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

School clubs he had joined, he decided to apply. “It was just curiosity,” Goble says. The program, now known as Nucleate, which is dedicated to empowering the next generation of biotech leaders, hosted what Goble remembers as a kind of... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

Participant Prepare for a managerial role and position yourself for advancement by learning how to effectively implement strategy. "What I found most valuable were the methods and tools, which were useful and practical. I’ve already... View Details

25 Aug 2014
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Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

engineering, and eventually, management. Dahod describes HBS’s case method as “a shock to my system,” and remembers a dark day in Aldrich Hall during his first year when he was called to open all three case discussions. Earning his MBA,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

100,000 to 4 million in the course of 15 months. Aardvark, which enables users to garner answers to questions via an extended network of friends' friends, used a Wizard-of-Oz-inspired method in its early days. Rather than building out the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

service level, an outcome that is consistent with retailers learning about and reacting to changes in supplier service level. Our study not only provides the first empirical evidence of the impact of changes in service level on demand from retailers but also... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

marketing paper based on a Ph.D. thesis published in an INFORMS journal. Shunyuan Zhang : Winner of the 2020 Emerald Literati Award for Highly Commended Papers for "From Words to Pixels: Text and Image Mining Methods for Service Research"... View Details

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

biggest problems in innovation is that it can generate uncertainty, says Thomke. Even in an age of Big Data, companies are stymied by the fact that they don’t know what they don’t know. “If something is very novel, there is little data... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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