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  • 2015
  • Chapter

Negotiations: Statistical Aspects

By: James K. Sebenius
'Negotiation analysis' seeks to develop prescriptive theory and useful advice for negotiators and third parties. It generally emphasizes the parties' underlying interests, alternatives to negotiated agreement, approaches to productively manage the inherent tension... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Participants
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  • Article

Total Cost Control in Project Management via Satisficing

By: Joel Goh and Nicholas G. Hall
We consider projects with uncertain activity times and the possibility of expediting, or crashing, them. Activity times come from a partially specified distribution within a family of distributions. This family is described by one or more of the following details about... View Details
Keywords: Project Management; Time And Cost Control; Robust Optimization; Satisficing; Linear Decision Rule; PERT; Management; Cost Management; Projects
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  • 1 Mar 2013 - 2 Mar 2013
  • Conference Presentation

The Value of Flexibility in Baseball Roster Construction

By: Timothy Chan and Douglas S. Fearing
Drawing inspiration from the theory of production flexibility in manufacturing networks, we provide the first optimization-based analysis of the value of positional flexibility (the ability of a player to play multiple positions) for a major league baseball team in the... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Design; Production; Resource Allocation; Groups and Teams; Adaptation; Sports
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  • 29 Sep 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Kira Fabrizio, Boston University

  • 11 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

lot of people are feeling apprehension,” says Yu, who’s now a scientist at Humu, a Palo Alto company that develops productivity tools for workplaces. “Maybe they want to go back to work but there's a lot of social anxiety because they're... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • July 2022 (Revised August 2022)
  • Case

Athletic Brewing Company: Crafting the U.S. Non-Alcoholic Beer Category

By: Ayelet Israeli and Anne V. Wilson
Athletic Brewing Company (“Athletic,” for short) was founded by Bill Shufelt and John Walker in 2017. In creating Athletic, Shufelt and Walker opened the first U.S. brewery and taproom fully devoted to the production of non-alcoholic (NA) craft beer. By 2021, Athletic... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Product Marketing; Product Positioning; Product Launch; Product Design; Product; Competition; Marketing; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Culture; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    Richard F. Meyer

    Richard F. Meyer is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Professor Meyer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent the first ten years of his career in the Management Services Division of Arthur D. Little, Inc., serving as a... View Details
    • Web

    Kraft Accelerator

    Curing could be your business But first, build an effective plan Develop a Plan If you’ve got the passion, we’ve got the playbook Today, there are more than 20,000 different cure-seeking organizations, each one operating under their own... View Details
    • 05 Apr 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Power of Political Voice: Women’s Political Representation and Crime in India

    Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra & Petia Topalova
    • Research Summary

    Airline Schedule Disruptions

    Increasing congestion and frequent schedule disruptions throughout the National Air Transportation System, both at airports and en route, have led to significant flight and passenger delays. Professor Fearing's primary research focus is on measuring and reducing... View Details

    Keywords: Performance Measurement; Air Transportation; Traffic Flow Management; Air Transportation Industry
    • Research Summary

    International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship (joint with Andrew Charlton)

    By: Laura Alfaro
    We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Researchers have stressed the role of new firm activity and economic dynamism on growth. Yet, the empirical effects of international capital... View Details
    • 2012
    • Teaching Note

    Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao and Hong Zhang
    Founded in 2004, TGOOD is now the largest specialized developer and producer of cubicle-type transformation and distribution equipment in China, with the main products of outdoor cubicle-type power equipment supplemented by indoor switchgear cabinets, offered mainly to... View Details
    Keywords: Human Resource Management; China; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Strategy; China
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    • 01 Nov 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Eric Olson, Chief Scientific Officer at Syros Pharmaceuticals

      Riding the Passion Wave or Fighting to Stay Afloat? A Theory of Differentiated Passion Contagion

      Prior research suggests employees benefit from highly passionate teammates because passion spreads easily from one employee to the next. We develop theory to propose that life in high-passion teams may not be as uniformly advantageous as previously assumed. More... View Details

      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System, 1997-2007

      By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio
      What is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the Mexican government radically changed the laws governing the... View Details
      Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Credit; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Foreign Direct Investment; Market Entry and Exit; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Mexico
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      • August 2021
      • Case

      Yummy: Delivering Value to Venezuela

      By: Ayelet Israeli, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Carla Larangeira
      By June 2021, Yummy had become Venezuela’s first and largest food delivery app and last-mile logistics company. In Caracas, the nation’s capital, Yummy held a 55% market share, while operations in other cities had already started to take place, including in three of... View Details
      Keywords: Internet and the Web; Health Pandemics; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion
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      • November 2023 (Revised March 2024)
      • Case

      Infarm: Betting the (Indoor) Farm on Food Security

      By: Elie Ofek
      In the summer of 2023, the co-founders of Infarm, a controlled environment agriculture (CEA) company, were contemplating a major pivot going forward. While Infarm had successfully shown it could grow over 75 products—mainly herbs, leafy greens and mushrooms—in modular... View Details
      Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Model; Market Entry and Exit; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Transition; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; North America; Toronto; Northeastern United States
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      • 18 Jan 2023
      • Blog Post

      Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)

      HBS career coaches are committed to helping MBA students and alumni realize their unique career visions. They are trained to assist with all aspects of the career development process including self-assessment and career vision, View Details
      • 01 Jun 2023
      • News

      Bridging the ESG Data Gap

      Megan Murday The idea for a digital platform to help venture capitalists calculate, benchmark, and improve portfolio ESG performance crystallized while Megan Murday (MBA 2021) was studying at HBS. Now the CEO of the software startup Metric, she says that “investors... View Details
      Keywords: Deborah Blagg
      • 15 Dec 2023
      • News

      The Musts of 2023

      Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details