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- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
minutes or increase wait times to five minutes in the six newly launched cities. The decision is complicated by the fact that Uber’s data science team normally places a five-week moratorium on changes to any new product, to allow robust... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
predict the health care needs of patients, continually enhance patient outcomes, and drive transformative solutions to import community access to health care. For example, using patient data including emergency department visits and sodium levels, the analytics group... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
perspectives might the wealthy businessman draw on as he transitions from CEO to commander in chief? To get a better sense of the months ahead, The Gazette asked Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty members how Trump’s nearly 50 years of... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
category lines (e.g., recipients are American and French). Studies 1 - 2 predicted and found that individuals tended to maximize such joint gains only when the allocation was within social category lines but not across them. Study 3 further showed that even outside... View Details
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
entrepreneurs. In January, for instance, students met with the Anzai family, whose orchard produces apples, pears, and peaches in Fukushima. The students listened to a family member explain how the business was rebuilt, and provided their... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?
different ways by the time they get into junior high school. For girls, it's especially important to emphasize the importance of team skills, mathematics, science—"which are often not viewed as feminine pursuits and somehow get off... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
supporting a culture that enables all team members to bring their full selves to the table. This theme is also personally important as in the 1990s, growing up in South Africa, the work of Judith Shklar was... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
two very different alternatives as to which direction to take Bausch & Lomb. Essentially, she can either stay the course or terminate the management team she originally selected to run Bausch & Lomb only two years beforehand. At... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
But in most scenarios, distribution channels, taken as a whole, seem more like a repository of lost opportunities than an effective delivery system that appropriately serves and rewards all participants. Powerful channel members routinely... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
is building his current team and are questioning whether he should remain CEO. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809046 Gordon Williams: Clinical Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
response." Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard and is a member of the General Management and Strategy units at HBS. Many HBS students hope to land with companies dedicated to this dual focus, said... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
the ground there, and became interested in a start-up called New Schools for New Orleans (NSNO) through the work that our student teams have done every January since the storm as part of the HBS New Orleans Service Immersion. This year... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
from a UK prison, significantly reducing the rate of recidivism. The book is the result of four years of research, including a survey of 13 MBA classes, more than 200 interviews, and extensive archival and secondary research. Stevenson says the research View Details
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
to deal with the big risks introduced by that decision; and Jim Triandiflou, founder and CEO of Ockham Technologies, who worries about losing control of the company as he and his cofounder consider various financing offers. By engaging in a real-life exercise as View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
members of their own gender/ethnic group. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53407 Complex Disclosure By: Jin, Ginger Zhe, Michael Luca, and Daniel Martin Abstract—We present evidence that complex... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Participants had higher (i.e., more stringent) thresholds for perceiving minds behind out-group faces, both in minimal (Experiment 1) and real-world groups (Experiment 2). In other words, out-group members required more humanness than... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
casually dressed person is a big shot and why do we do it? What's going on psychologically?" Bellezza says. Keinan and Bellezza, teaming with HBS Associate Professor Francesca Gino, conducted a series of studies to gauge how people react... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
our corporate parents will willingly continue to make the investments required to fuel our profitable growth. Now, as the second step, let's apply McCall's theory. List the courses that we would want members of Pandesic's management View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53786 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Scope versus Speed: Team Diversity, Leader Experience, and Patenting Outcomes for Firms By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Martine R. Haas... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
discriminate in hiring on the basis of sexual orientation. The veiled methodology also produces larger estimates of the fraction of the population that identifies as LGBT or has had a sexual experience with a member of the same sex.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne