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  • May 2021
  • Article

Choice Architecture in Physician–patient Communication: A Mixed-methods Assessment of Physicians' Competency

By: J. Hart, K. Yadav, S. Szymanski, A. Summer, A. Tannenbaum, J. Zlatev, D. Daniels and S.D. Halpern
Background: Clinicians’ use of choice architecture, or how they present options, systematically influences the choices made by patients and their surrogate decision makers. However, clinicians may incompletely understand this influence.... View Details
Keywords: Choice Architecture; Health Care and Treatment; Interpersonal Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competency and Skills
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  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

needs to accomplish to perform well. In particular, marketplaces work well when they provide thickness to the market, help it deal with the congestion that thickness can bring, and make it safe for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 1, 2016

successfully completed by thousands of students worldwide. It explains concepts in simple language with illustrative examples, provides review questions and quizzes after each chapter and section, contains... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2003
  • Conference Paper

Follow the Money: What Really Drives Technology Innovation in Construction

By: John D. Macomber
Technology enthusiasts, academics, and software companies remain concerned about the slow pace of innovation in the construction industry. Tools are widely available that seem to provide eminently sensible and clearly apparent improvement to the process of design and... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Technological Innovation; Construction; Design; Performance Improvement; Motivation and Incentives; Knowledge Management; Adoption; Business Model; Capital Structure; Supply Chain
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  • June 2001
  • Teaching Note

Coordinating + Managing Supply Chains: Course Overview Note TN

By: Ananth Raman
Describes the MBA elective course on supply chain management at HBS. Coordinating and Managing Supply Chains focuses on the managerial aspects of supply chains. Acquaints students with practical issues in a variety of supply chains and then identifies barriers to, and... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Framework; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Marketing; Supply Chain Management; Performance Improvement; Planning; Behavior; Integration
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    The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation

    Artificial intelligence promises to greatly increase the efficiency of the economy. But it may have an even larger impact on the economy by serving as a new general-purpose “method of invention” that can reshape the nature of the... View Details

    • 21 Apr 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: April 21, 2009

    firms headquartered in the United States have performed well since 1980 when compared to firms in Europe or Asia (measured both by sales and by numbers of new product introductions), this essay explores the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • January–February 2023
    • Article

    Data-Driven COVID-19 Vaccine Development for Janssen

    By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Michael Lingzhi Li, Xinggang Liu, Jennings Xu and Najat Khan
    The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred extensive vaccine research worldwide. One crucial part of vaccine development is the phase III clinical trial that assesses the vaccine for safety and efficacy in the prevention of COVID-19. In this work, we enumerate the first... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Health Testing and Trials; Forecasting and Prediction; AI and Machine Learning; Research; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 09 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary

    personal losses, divorces, health challenges, lost jobs, failures, and criticisms endured over the years. Baroness Dido Harding (MBA 1992) offers a notable example. Throughout her career she faced intense... View Details
    • 01 Feb 2022
    • Book

    Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

    a consensus seeker who wants to remain popular with colleagues that cling to a model that the explorer is committed to breaking. Kovac and her team needed to role model a new way of working for the firm. In her case, that meant hiring... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • 26 Aug 2024
    • Blog Post

    HBS Lingo 101

    choose from, as well as opportunities to cross-register with other Harvard schools, MIT’s School of Management, and Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts. Additionally, ECs can enroll in an Immersive Field... View Details
    • January 2005
    • Tutorial

    Buying Time

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    Managers must frequently make decisions involving trade-offs between cash flows to be paid or received at different points in time. Accountants, in turn, must describe transactions that involve the payment and/or receipt of cash far in the future. This interactive... View Details
    Keywords: Cash Flow; Value; Interest Rates; Financial Statements
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    • January 2025
    • Case

    U.S. Steel: Proposed Acquisition by Nippon Steel

    By: Willy C. Shih
    The case setting is the proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel, which elicited a great deal of controversy. The real purpose of the case is to look at the history of the American steel industry since World War II and understand how the steel minimill... View Details
    Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; United States
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Going Beyond the ‘Self’ in Self-Control: Interpersonal Consequences of Commitment Strategy Use

    By: Ariella Kristal and Julian Zlatev
    Commitment strategies are effective mechanisms individuals can use to overcome self-control problems. Across seven studies (and three supplemental studies), we explore the negative interpersonal consequences of commitment strategy use. In Study 1, using an incentivized... View Details
    Keywords: Self-control; Willpower; Commitment Strategies; Goals and Objectives; Behavior; Strategy; Perception
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    • December 2017 (Revised June 2021)
    • Case

    Tesla's Bid for SolarCity

    By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Raaj Zutshi
    In October 2016, Tesla asked its shareholders to ratify their $2.4 billion bid for SolarCity. Tesla had announced a series of large projects in the preceding months including the unveiling of the Model 3, the new Solar Roof, and pushing forward the opening of the... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business and Shareholder Relations; Project Finance
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    • Web

    Leadership - Faculty & Research

    Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was devastated by three reactor explosions and two core meltdowns in the days following a 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami that produced waves as high as 17 meters. The... View Details
    • December 2014 (Revised May 2019)
    • Case

    Bhutan: Governing for Happiness

    By: Sophus A. Reinert, Thomas Humphrey and Benjamin Safran
    Unique among the world’s countries, the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan had abandoned the traditional policy goal of increasing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in favor of pursuing Gross National Happiness (GNH). Famously, Bhutan ranked highly on lists of the happiest... View Details
    Keywords: Happiness; Economic Growth; Governance; Cost vs Benefits; Bhutan
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    • 14 Sep 2021
    • Blog Post

    Top 5 Myths About HBS

    admission. We're evaluating you for admission. And what's most important with these recommendations is that they know you well and that they've seen you in a professional work... View Details
    • October 1995 (Revised January 1998)
    • Case

    Cybersmith

    Cybersmith is a new company that has created a new retailing concept. This particular store has been reported in over 250 newspapers, and by every major American television network. Some would classify it as an on-line cafe, but management has positioned the store as... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Joint Ventures; Consumer Behavior; Product Marketing; Innovation and Invention; Retail Industry; Cambridge
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    • 04 Feb 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

    Islamic finance and an emeritus professor of investment banking at Harvard Business School. Hayes, who continues to travel regularly to Islamic countries for research and consulting, offered advice to HBS... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace