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  • February 26, 2024
  • Article

Making Workplaces Safer Through Machine Learning

By: Matthew S. Johnson, David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel
Machine learning algorithms can dramatically improve regulatory effectiveness. This short article describes the authors' scholarly work that shows how the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) could have reduced nearly twice as many occupational... View Details
Keywords: Government Experimentation; Auditing; Inspection; Evaluation; Process Improvement; Government Administration; AI and Machine Learning; Safety; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 24 Nov 2021
  • Interview

Best Buy: Hubert Joly

By: Guy Raz and Hubert Joly
In 2012, to say there was a crisis at Best Buy—is an understatement. In January, Forbes published an article with the headline: WHY BEST BUY IS GOING OUT OF BUSINESS.
Then, in March, the company reported a loss of $1.7 billion dollars, and in April, the CEO... View Details
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  • 5 Nov 2013
  • Other Presentation

The New Competitive Advantage: Creating Shared Value

By: Michael E. Porter
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report (World Economic... View Details
Keywords: Society; Brazil
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  • March 1999
  • Article

Practices for Managing Information Flows Within Organizations

By: Joel Demski, Tracy Lewis, Dennis Yao and Huseyin Yildirim
Firm organization determines how coworkers communicate and how information flows within the firm. Banking, accounting, consulting, and legal firms process proprietary information which their clients wish to protect. The firm's ability to safeguard and manage... View Details
Keywords: Information Management; Management Practices and Processes; Safety; Governance Controls; Customer Focus and Relationships
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  • 20 Jan 2012
  • News

LRQA talks to world’s leading management systems expert

    Making the Right Technical Hire

    For many CEOs, particularly those running startups, hiring the right people is the single biggest determinant of whether a new business survives. And so it makes sense that the chief executive should be View Details

    • May 2003
    • Other Presentation

    Asia Competitiveness Institute Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    2003This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations(The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2002, (World... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Thailand
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    • 19 Sep 2013
    • News

    Schumpeter: The future of the Firm

    • 23 May 2011
    • News

    Winning in Emerging Markets: Spotting and Responding to Institutional Voids

    • 2021
    • Article

    Public Health Risks Arising from Food Supply Chains: Challenges and Opportunities

    By: Lu Chen, Donovan Guittieres, Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson, Georgia Perakis, Nicholas Renegar and Stacy Springs
    Safe, healthy, and resilient food supply chains are essential to ensuring the livelihood and well-being of humans and societies, as well as local and global economies. However, the ability to provide and sustain access to nutritious and safe food continues to be a... View Details
    Keywords: Food Safety; Adulteration; Malnutrition; Supply Chain; Health; Government Administration; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • November 2010
    • Article

    Beyond the Deal: Wage a 'Negotiation Campaign'

    By: James K. Sebenius
    While negotiation scholars primarily take the individual transaction as the "unit of analysis," this article characterizes the (new) concept of a "negotiation campaign" in which a number of individual deals must be put together, often on multiple "fronts," to realize a... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Management Practices and Processes; Value; Problems and Challenges; Business Startups; Sales; Partners and Partnerships; Venture Capital
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    • September 2016
    • Article

    Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research

    By: Michael W. Toffel
    This article seeks to encourage scholars to conduct research that is more relevant to the decisions faced by managers and policymakers and addresses why research relevance matters, what relevance means in terms of a journal article, and how scholars can increase the... View Details
    Keywords: Research Questions; Relevance; Rigor; Practice-based Research; Research; Communication; Media; Education Industry
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      Michael W. Toffel

      Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply... View Details

      • 12 Oct 1999
      • Research & Ideas

      The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management

      What are the roots of entrepreneurship as an academic field of interest? The term entrepreneur—literally, "undertaker"—has been around for over two centuries, having been introduced in the early eighteenth century by the Parisian banker Richard Cantillon.... View Details
      Keywords: by Howard H. Stevenson & Teresa M. Amabile
      • Research Summary

      Workplace Ethics and Global Business Standards

      By: Rohit Deshpande
      This research grows out of initial collaborative research with Joshua Margolis and Lynn Paine on the relationship between codes of conduct and corporate performance. This work was reported in Harvard Business Review articles in 2005 and 2011. More recent research... View Details

        8 Questions About Using AI Responsibly, Answered

        Generative AI tools are poised to change the way every business operates. As your own organization begins strategizing which to use, and how, operational and ethical considerations are inevitable. This article delves into eight of them, including how your... View Details

          Luis M. Viceira

          Luis M. Viceira is the George E. Bates Professor in the Finance Unit  and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research, course development, and teaching focus on the areas of investment management... View Details

          Keywords: banking; education industry; financial services; nonprofit industry; retail financial services
          • 05 Jul 2016
          • Working Paper Summaries

          The Impact of Campus Scandals on College Applications

          Keywords: by Michael Luca, Patrick Rooney, and Jonathan Smith; Education
          • 21 Mar 2016
          • Working Paper Summaries

          Risk Management―The Revealing Hand

          Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes; Financial Services; Banking
          • Research Summary

          Practical Wisdom

          I am writing a book with Ikujiro Nonaka that will build on "The Wise Leader" article we published in the May 2011 issue of Harvard Business Review.  It will be a sequel to "The Knowledge - Creating Company" book we wrote in 1995.  We... View Details