Simulations - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

cheap and rapid iteration as cheap and rapid experimentation. The ability to run experiments cheaply and quickly is an important benefit when the cost of iteration is low. Simulation technologies, for example, allow automakers to run... View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

07 Sep 2021
News

One Degree of Difference

which means that all employees are “really focused on efficiency,” Wallace says. They developed a multilayered interview process to match the right person for each job, as the wrong hire can be extremely costly. It culminates with a two- or three-hour exercise that... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

new ventures, and investors. Students will develop their strategy through simulated negotiation exercises, experience from guest speakers, and practice in the field along-side experts. Learning Objectives: To get a sense for the... View Details

04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

housing policy. Our counterfactual simulations estimate that relaxing GSE eligibility requirements would have significantly increased refinancing activity in response to QE1, including a 20% increase in equity extraction by households.... View Details

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

provide software developers in sectors ranging from video games to engineering simulation with training, tools, and support for application development tailored to exploit the unique capabilities of NVIDIA graphics processors.21 NVIDIA... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

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

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

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Finalists | New Venture Competition

kids in Kazakhstan with an AI-driven simulation game that makes learning English fun Remarcation Hannah Wong (MArch 2025) Jia Wen Goh Fostering the autonomy of disabled users in public space through information justice Business Track,... View Details

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Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library

real estate listings still feature videos and interactive tools that simulate the experience of walking through properties. But do they help homes sell faster? Research by Isamar Troncoso probes the post-pandemic value of virtual home... View Details

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

mentors and offering girls information about the returns to education), suggesting that negotiation skills themselves drive the effect. Further evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment, which simulates parents’ educational investment... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Nov 2006
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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

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

at least ten years for the accumulation of sufficient experience), simulations (speeding up the process a bit), and formal education. But most importantly of all, they involve the employment of "knowledge coaches" capable of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Feb 2008
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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

13 Mar 2012
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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
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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

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Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog

simulations relative to many introductory negotiation courses—Advanced Negotiation will develop valuable lessons and skills for dealmaking and dispute resolution that go well beyond those offered in basic courses. Career Focus This course... View Details

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Field Course: Ideation and Prototyping for Innovation - Course Catalog

clones developed for HBS Foundry. For example, in problem definition, AI tools can be used to: 1) help generate questions for customer discovery interviews; 2) play the domain expert role to provide practice in a simulated interview; and... View Details

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Demo Day | New Venture Competition

market. Playlish Assel Amangeldi (EdM 2025), Luis Gaitan (EdM 2025) For billions of English learners, who lack access to real-life practice and meaningful feedback, Playlish offers an AI-powered voice tutor inside a pocket-sized English environment. Through real-life... View Details

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

10 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

“Supercomputing has opened up massive innovations in nuclear startups by allowing us to simulate the inside of a nuclear reactor for a mere $200 million instead of $6 billion!” As new technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology

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