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  • 21 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

CEOs are communicators. Studies show that CEOs spend 85 percent of their time in communication-related activities, including speeches, meetings, and phone calls with people both inside and outside the firm. Now, new research using machine... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

purposes. This rate applies to HBS and all schools at Harvard. Endowment Distribution (in millions) 162 FY19 173 FY20 184 FY21 191 FY22 208 FY23 Endowment Distribution Components 33% Professorships 24% Financial Aid 17% Unrestricted 8% Other 7% Special Initiatives 6%... View Details
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

A New Paradigm of Individual, Group and Organizational Performance

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and The Barbados Group
"The committee is therefore unable to draw conclusions, based on scientific evidence, on what does or does not work to enhance organizational performance" —Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance of the U.S. National Research Council Commission... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Performance Improvement; Research; Opportunities
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  • 30 May 2023
  • News

Finding PRIDE

develop the curriculum for this Executive Education program. It will feature new cases, as well as in-person visits by US Senator Tammy Baldwin, actress Anna Deavere Smith, and designer Debbie Millman, with a focus on authentic storytelling and the latest View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

people when a part or system is about to fail. Often, only the senior management team's imagination limits new IT-based opportunities. Our research suggests the following: New technologies will continue to give companies the chance to... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
  • 19 Oct 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Luís Cabral, NYU Stern School of Business

  • 13 Jan 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

German Soccer League over a season. Our research results show that leaders can reinvigorate a failing business using team members already in charge, and without large-scale change of direction. We observed that Small C retooling can... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports
  • 06 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit

Focusing on retaining higher-spending customers, even if they aren’t as likely to leave, can increase the total profit a company can reap. As their research evolved, Gupta and Lemmens expanded this idea with another factor: which... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Financial Services
  • 2009
  • Article

Modeling Expert Opinions on Food Healthfulness: A Nutrition Metric

By: Jolie M. Martin, John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman, Max H. Bazerman and Lisa Sutherland

Research over the last several decades indicates the failure of existing nutritional labels to substantially improve the healthiness of consumers' food and beverage choices. The difficulty for policy-makers is to encapsulate a wide body of scientific knowledge in a... View Details

Keywords: Judgments; Food; Nutrition; Labels; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Demand and Consumers; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods
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  • 23 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 23

note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711087-PDF-ENG Oddo Securities—ESG Integration George Serafeim, Paul M. Healy, and Aldo SesiaHarvard Business School Case 111-085 The case describes the process of integrating environmental, social, and governance issues into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

contracting structure has important strategic implications. Preferring Balanced vs. Advantageous Peace Agreements: A Study of Israeli Attitudes Towards a Two-State Solution Authors:Deepak Malhotra and Jeremy Ginges Publication:Judgment and Decision Making (in press)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

only on paper.” There were several criticisms of the fact that the research identified correlations, not causes. Norman Toy made the point by stressing the especially mischievous nature of the use of correlation in this case. In his... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

Keywords: by Thomas F. Hellmann & Noam Wasserman
  • 11 Mar 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya

Keywords: by Nava Ashraf, Xavier Giné & Dean Karlan; Food & Beverage
  • Teaching Interest

Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)

Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details

  • Article

Large-Scale Field Experiment Shows Null Effects of Team Demographic Diversity on Outsiders' Willingness to Support the Team

By: Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios and Rosanna K. Smith
Demographic diversity in the United States is rising, and increasingly, work is conducted in teams. These co-occurring phenomena suggest that it might be increasingly common for work to be conducted by demographically diverse teams. But to date, in spite of copious... View Details
Keywords: Field Experiment; Groups and Teams; Demographics; Diversity; Attitudes
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  • Article

Medium-term Business Cycles

By: Diego Comin and Mark Gertler
Over the postwar period, many industrialized countries have experienced significant medium-frequency oscillations between periods of robust growth versus relative stagnation. Conventional business cycle filters, however, tend to sweep these oscillations into the trend.... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Fluctuation; Information Technology; Research and Development; Resource Allocation; Framework; Trends; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity
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  • Web

William R. Kerr | About

faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures program. Bill served as Unit Head of the Entrepreneurial Management unit from 2020-2023. Bill is a recipient of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in... View Details
  • 07 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

To err is human, but most research on supply chain management doesn't take psychological, functional, incentive-related, and other biases into account. HBS professors Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson have devised their latest View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston