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Accepting Risk and Rejecting the Status Quo: Fostering an Innovative Higher Ed Culture

By: David J. Collis
Corporations across the globe have been focused on the question of innovation for decades and longer. The desire to become leaner, better, and more efficient has driven innovative leaders for years. In higher education, however, this innovative mindset is a relatively... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Innovation Leadership
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  • 26 Nov 2018
  • News

New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change

climate change and its impact on their industries. They want to talk about it.” Alumni explored investment risks and opportunities in climate change at HBS Club of New York panel discussion. To get the conversation started, Lassiter sent... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; clubs; alumni clubs
  • Web

2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey 2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey 1. Survey Background In October of 2018, Harvard Business School hosted The Global Financial Crisis: What We Learned, Where... View Details
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Capital Regulation and Product Market Outcomes

By: Ishita Sen and David Humphry
We present evidence of product market adjustments and asset reorganizations from the largest ever shift in risk regulation in a developed insurance market. Using proprietary data on insurance risk exposures from the Bank of England, we develop a measure of regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Non-traditional-non-insurance; Risk Regulation; Product Market Concentration; Small Vs. Large Insurers; Insurance Risk Exposure; Insurance; Risk and Uncertainty; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • August 2016
  • Teaching Note

Reworking Office Space: Industry City, Brooklyn

By: Arthur I Segel and Alexander W. Schultz
Jamestown is contemplating how to best lease a portion of their new development along the Brooklyn waterfront: Industry City. The 6-million-square-foot, mixed-use development is meant to accommodate Brooklyn’s growing innovation, creative, and “maker” communities.... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Development; Shared Office Space; Coworking; Business Model; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Business Offices; Leasing; Real Estate Industry
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  • November 2012 (Revised June 2013)
  • Case

The Facebook IPO Litigation

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Annelena Loeb
Despite its success in the social-networking space, Facebook Inc.'s May 2012 IPO was largely considered a failure. Facebook faced multiple lawsuits and its share price had dropped significantly. Adversaries contended that Facebook had misled investors and violated... View Details
Keywords: Social Networking; IPO; Litigation Risk; Initial Public Offering; Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation; Failure; Consumer Products Industry; Information Technology Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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  • October 7, 2021
  • Article

Carbon Might Be Your Company’s Biggest Financial Liability

By: Robert G. Eccles and John Mulliken
The price of carbon may be zero in many places today, but it’s unlikely to remain zero for long. That means that many companies have hidden liabilities on their books. To cover their carbon short position, executives can take several steps: Measure the position in... View Details
Keywords: Climate Risk; Climate Finance; Risk Management; Governance; Environmental Accounting; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability
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  • June 2016 (Revised March 2017)
  • Case

Reworking Office Space: Industry City, Brooklyn

By: Arthur I Segel, Andrew Baum, Nori Gerardo Lietz, Charles F. Wu and Sid Yog
Jamestown is contemplating how to best lease a portion of their new development along the Brooklyn waterfront, Industry City. The 6 million square foot, mixed-use development is meant to accommodate Brooklyn’s growing innovation, creative, and “maker” communities.... View Details
Keywords: WeWork; Office Space; Real Estate; Jamestown; Level39; Shared Office Space; Information Technology; Leasing; Property; Strategy; Real Estate Industry; United States
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Reverse Information Sharing: Reducing Costs in Supply Chains with Yield Uncertainty

By: Pavithra Harsha, Ashish Jagmohan, Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson and Georgia Perakis
Supply uncertainty in produce supply chains presents major challenges to retailers. Supply shortages create frequent disruptions in terms of promised delivery times, quantity and quality delivered. To alleviate these challenges, dual sourcing--a strategy in which... View Details
Keywords: Information Sharing; Yield Uncertainty; Ration Gaming; Blockchain; Supply Chain; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Who Values Democracy?

By: Max Miller
This paper examines the conventional view that redistribution is central to the democratization process using data from stock markets. Consistent with this view, democratizations have a large, negative impact on asset valuations driven by a rise in redistribution risk.... View Details
Keywords: Government And Politics; Risk And Uncertainty; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Financial Markets; Valuation
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  • May 2011
  • Article

Nonsimultaneous Chains and Dominos in Kidney Paired Donation—Revisited

By: Itai Ashlagi, Duncan S. Gilchrist, Alvin E. Roth and Michael A. Rees
Since 2008 kidney exchange in America has grown in part from the incorporation of non-directed donors in transplant chains rather than simple exchanges. It is controversial whether these chains should be performed simultaneously ("domino paired donation," DPD) or... View Details
Keywords: ABO Incompatibility; Allosensitization; Paired Kidney Exchange; Regional Sharing; Simulation Models; Transplantation Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Supply Chain; Risk and Uncertainty; Logistics; United States
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  • 22 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

Trustworthy AI Lab at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard. Neel shared insights on the nascent field that focuses on wiping the powerful technology’s virtual memory. “Increasingly, these models are trained on very large datasets... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • 21 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

SVMP Gave Me the Courage to Fail

Clicking the submit button on my Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) application felt like an act of courage, one that left me feeling vulnerable and open to rejection, a sentiment likely shared by many of my peers. As we each... View Details
  • Research Summary

Overview

Selected current projects: Shared Decision Making and Patient Engagement in Orthopaedic Surgery Identification of Risk Factors for Revision Surgery Following Primary THA and TKA Integrated Care Delivery and Episode of Care Payments in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty The... View Details

    John W. Pratt

    John W. Pratt is a professor of business administration, emeritus, at Harvard Business School. He was educated at Princeton and Stanford, specializing in mathematics and statistics. Except for two years at the University of Chicago, and a sabbatical in Kyoto on a... View Details

    • 28 Apr 2020
    • News

    The business of saving the world

    • 09 May 2019
    • News

    The Most Anxious Generation Goes to Work

    • 03 Dec 2018
    • News

    Young Americans need to be taught skills, not handed credentials

    • 26 Sep 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism

    Keywords: by Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona

      Disruption and Credit Markets

      When innovation and entry are high in an industry, is this good or bad news for incumbents? We show that recently the answer has been bad news.  Industries with elevated venture capital activity and returns, and with a larger presence of newly listed firms, show a... View Details