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- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
Ricardo Software Harvard Business School Case 607-019 Engineer John Harrison must determine why motorcycle racer Marco Presto does not feel that his motorcycle is providing enough power as it comes out of corners. Harrison uses engine View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
multiple categories would be better served by offering online product discounts to their most frequent customers. "Our results suggest that that's a safer and in the end more profitable way for the firm to reward loyal shoppers." Ngwe and Chen also used the... View Details
- 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
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
2.5 weeks). Count the petals, are there really 60? Image source: The authors. Five years ago, the brothers started to test the optimal intensity and spectrum of LED lighting on rose cultivation in an experimental site, recognizing that yellow light View Details
- 31 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water
customers like his product. In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade The Strategic Brew computer simulation puts MBAs in charge of their own breweries, rising or sinking based on the popularity of their pseudo suds. Ramon... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019
substantial growth in online course sales. In addition, the group experimented with new product/editorial formats, including podcasts, the HBR Visual Library, and website content focused on teaching, while also launching a simulation... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
simulate a risk management workshop based on the description of an innovative capital project in the energy sector. Students will discuss, assess, and vote on the riskiness of the Smart Meters project and experience the dynamics of a risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
suddenly erupt in a full-blown crisis. The CCA approach is well-suited to capturing such "non-linearities" and to quantifying the effects of asset-liability mismatches within and across institutions. Risk adjusted CCA balance sheets facilitate View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
using simulated reinforcement learning agents, we find that both in settings where subjects are given complete information about auction payoff rules and in settings where they are given no information about auction payoff rules, subjects... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
negotiators interact to influence cooperative behavior of low-power negotiators. Managers from four different cultural groups (Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, and the United States) negotiated face-to-face in a simulated power-asymmetric... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
3 Projects, 1 Priceless Picture
the Women’s Training team better understand Nike’s position against global competitors and identify gaps or opportunities to consider in their business plan. Working with the group’s Strategic Planner, I also developed a ‘War Games’ activity to provide a View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- Profile
Sara Roedner
Director of Operations of the 2011 Retail & Luxury Goods Club conference and will be one of the conference vice presidents next year. "Managing panelists, speakers, and vendors simulates the situations I'll meet in various... View Details
- Profile
Lindsay Hyde
in a simulated climb of Mt. Everest,” she says. “It was a great way to start the year, to begin thinking about how we want to develop as leaders.” In FIELD 2, Lindsay and her team helped an Indian retailer, Nalli Silk Sarees, develop a... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
a series of falsification checks that use information from unaffected portions of the income distribution to improve RD estimates. This strategy improves balance on observables between treatment and control groups, and Monte Carlo View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
computer simulation highlighting the work performed by the government of an archetypal American town—from building roads to ensuring food safety—increased trust in government and support for government services. In Study 2 (N=125), Boston... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
(from the case); analyzing preliminary estimated costs per building trade (from the discussion questions); playing the multiparty real time competitive bid simulation to receive and process market costs; and debriefing on which bids... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
needs to be, and whether it matters. Negotiations: We tried running a simulation with BATNA’s and everything (just like we do at HBS) but unsurprisingly it didn’t go smoothly. Now as I look back on my own Asian American identity, I... View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
Greek companies to simulate growth in the economy, another mechanism to do this could have been foreign direct investment (FDI). Again, the news was not good, with no positive trends shown. Only the Greek government is to blame for this... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim