Filter Results:
(1,612)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,612)
- News (280)
- Research (1,024)
- Events (18)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (293)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,612)
- News (280)
- Research (1,024)
- Events (18)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (293)
- Web
Online Management Course | HBS Online
his new role as Manager of Diversity Pipeline Programs for Boston Public Schools. Raymond Porch Manager of Diversity Pipeline Programs, Boston Public Schools What You Earn Certificate of Completion Boost... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
Energize works in partnership with their portfolio companies to realize their full potential, scaling from early commercialization to growth stage and into the public markets. Jeremy's role prior to HBS was a Customer Success Manager at... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Publications November 2014 Harvard Business Review Cooks Make Tastier Food When They Can See Their Customers By: Buell, Ryan W., Tami Kim, and Chia-Jung Tsay Abstract—While existing theory suggests that increased contact between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September–October 2015
- Article
Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces
By: Jesse Shore, Ethan Bernstein and David Lazer
Using data from a novel laboratory experiment on complex problem solving in which we varied the structure of 16-person networks, we investigate how an organization's network structure shapes performance of problem-solving tasks. Problem solving, we argue, involves both... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Experiments; Clustering; Problem Solving; Exploration And Exploitation; Knowledge; Search; Collaboration; Collaboration Structures; Transparency; Communication; Communication Technology; Information; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Theory; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry
Shore, Jesse, Ethan Bernstein, and David Lazer. "Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces." Organization Science 26, no. 5 (September–October 2015): 1432–1446. (Won 2014 INGRoup Outstanding Paper Award.)
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
product variety and inventory levels on store sales. Using four years of data from stores of a large retailer, we show that increases in product variety and inventory levels are both associated with higher sales. We also show that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, was largely unnoticed outside the expert community. However more recently public and professional sensitivity towards managing risks has increased.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
countries at different stages of development and institutional capacity is needed to surface the role of local conditions and absorptive capacities; micro-level work, that is firm-level data in developed as well as developing nations, to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
the pass-through of both gas prices and nominal exchange rate fluctuations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54935 forthcoming Consumption, Markets & Culture Big Data By: Deighton, John A. Abstract—Big... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
Ramaswany's customer co-creation process might prove most relevant. If the company has distinctive capabilities in important business processes— operations management, customer data mining, or product features and innovation—that are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
Ten years before Harvard Business School published its first case study, activists across Europe celebrated the first International Women’s Day. They demanded, among other things, the right for women to hold public office and an end to... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
Abstract—Using U.S. data from 1929 to 2013, we show that elevated credit-market sentiment in year t – 2 is associated with a decline in economic activity in years t and t + 1. Underlying this result is the existence of predictable mean... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
effect that job-hopping had on salaries, Healy and colleagues studied data based on 2,000 senior-level job switches from executive placement firms, LinkedIn career information, and interviewing search professionals. Overall, the research... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest public sector workers union in the U.S., was responsible for protecting the pensions of its members. Because pensions were invested for decades, Ferlauto wanted the companies in which the union... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
and Climate Justice Block Grants ($3 billion) fund community-led projects in DACs, aiming to address the “disproportionate environmental and public health harms related to pollution and climate change.”[37] $33 million funded... View Details
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
potential source of disease, drugs, gangs, crime, you name it. The crimes they do commit are given extra publicity. And yet common sense and the data that we have don’t support the allegations. Think about it: These are the best of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
international institutions, a bank and a museum, adds value to both in terms of interaction with customers and breadth of audiences. The paper further points to key aspects of resource integration in a co-marketing partnership. Design / methodology: The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
different fields,” says Grushka-Cockayne, whose research is on data science, forecasting, project management, and behavioral decision-making. “Our work is focused on using crowds for prediction and for forecasting something that is... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
in common? Why do their extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In delivering the answers to those questions, I offer a remarkable template by which to judge those in our own time to whom the public has given its trust. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
practice related to AI in developing countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52296 December 2017 Journal of Advertising Research Rethinking the Profession Formerly Known as Advertising: How Data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging - Recruiting
employers committed to diversity and inclusion assess their progress to date. What does the staff compositional data look like when broken out by race, ethnicity, gender, and other personal and cultural identifiers? “Think about the... View Details