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Negotiation
By: Kevin P. Mohan
Managerial success requires the ability to negotiate. Whether you are forging an agreement with your suppliers, trying to ink a deal with potential customers, raising money from investors, managing a conflict inside your firm, or resolving a dispute that is headed... View Details
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Overview
I have spent my career studying novel talent management practices and their effect on collaboration and performance. My core research focuses on two interrelated organizational trends that have become salient in the 21st century: workplace transparency (who gets to... View Details
Keywords: Privacy; Transparency; Productivity; Field Experiments; Communication; Design; Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance; Groups and Teams; Networks; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Satisfaction; North America; Europe; Asia; China; Japan; Latin America
- Spring 2016
- Article
The Billion Prices Project: Using Online Prices for Inflation Measurement and Research
By: Alberto Cavallo and Roberto Rigobon
New data-gathering techniques, often referred to as “Big Data” have the potential to improve statistics and empirical research in economics. In this paper we describe our work with online data at the Billion Prices Project at MIT and discuss key lessons for both... View Details
Keywords: Billion Prices Project; Online Scraped Data; Online Price Index; Economics; Research; Price; Analytics and Data Science
Cavallo, Alberto, and Roberto Rigobon. "The Billion Prices Project: Using Online Prices for Inflation Measurement and Research." Journal of Economic Perspectives 30, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 151–178.
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Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment During the Reform Era
The aim of the book is to illustrate the dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China in the 1990s. The topic is important both because China is the world's second largest recipient of FDI and because there are substantial misconceptions about the drivers of... View Details
- Winter 2021
- Editorial
Introduction
This issue of Negotiation Journal is dedicated to the theme of artificial intelligence, technology, and negotiation. It arose from a Program on Negotiation (PON) working conference on that important topic held virtually on May 17–18. The conference was not the... View Details
Wheeler, Michael A. "Introduction." Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and Negotiation. Negotiation Journal 37, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 5–12.
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DENIAL reviews
"A wake-up call to be sure that we dont allow ourselves to confuse our maps with the actual territory."
strategy+business "2010 Best Business Books," Winter 2010
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- 28 May 2020
- Blog Post
How to Fit in at HBS
adult life I felt welcomed in my entirety, with my whole story, not just the education and the jobs I had listed on my resume. It was then that I also understood the depth of value offered by the HBS section experience. The case method is incredible at helping us... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
analyzing that data and designing strategy around it. That’s one reason eight HBS professors pooled resources in June to launch the Competing on Business Analytics and Big Data Executive Education program. “It was unprecedented to engage... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
borrowing to the way preschoolers play. “Put aside your differences, and, like kids, find something that works,” he says. 3. Know when to ignore the data At a time when data analytics seem to be essential for decision-making, McDonald... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Topics Topics Accounting Analytics Business Essentials Business in Society Career Development Communication Community ConneXt Decision-Making Digital Transformation Earning Your MBA Entrepreneurship &... View Details
- 22 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)
Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. Prior to HBS, I worked as a process engineer for Procter & Gamble and then in engineering and business roles at an early-stage manufacturing data analytics company. I graduated from Duke University with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap
minutes, just based on a person’s comments and how they responded to information. But by the end of the week, the distinction was much blurrier. It was fascinating to watch people’s points of view shift, based on the discussions we were having and the View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
from supplying such capabilities as analytic applications and a decision-support infrastructure that is customized to the business units' strategic needs. Differentiation also comes from being the trusted adviser to business units on how... View Details
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For Recruiters - Health Care
outside perspective as well as strong analytic and strategic training. For students, the summer provides a rare opportunity to apply new skills and to experience the rewards and challenges of the health care industry. Both parties have... View Details
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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online
we have a solution for your learning and development needs. Learn More Our Difference Negotiation Mastery emphasizes an understanding of both analytical tools and interpersonal techniques for dealing effectively with different bargaining... View Details
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The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data-Driven World
By: Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman
Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as randomized controlled trials—designed to test the impact of changes to an... View Details
Keywords: Experiments; Randomized Controlled Trials; Organizations; Decision Making; Analytics and Data Science; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
Luca, Michael, and Max H. Bazerman. The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data-Driven World. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020.
- 10 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
Using an MBA for a Career Change
months at each of the following agencies: 1. OMD (media strategy) 2. Annalect (marketing analytics and marketing tech) 3. TBWA (advertising agency) There were times where I felt like my career was soaring... View Details
- 2025
- Working Paper
Enhancing Treatment Effect Prediction on Privacy-Protected Data: An Honest Post-Processing Approach
By: Ta-Wei Huang and Eva Ascarza
As firms increasingly rely on customer data for personalization, concerns over privacy and regulatory compliance have grown. Local Differential Privacy (LDP) offers strong individual-level protection by injecting noise into data before collection. While... View Details
Keywords: Targeted Intervention; Conditional Average Treatment Effect Estimation; Differential Privacy; Honest Estimation; Post-processing; Analytics and Data Science; Consumer Behavior; Marketing
Huang, Ta-Wei, and Eva Ascarza. "Enhancing Treatment Effect Prediction on Privacy-Protected Data: An Honest Post-Processing Approach." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-034, December 2023. (Revised March 2025.)
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
a team of agile, imaginative and analytical individuals.” Ovia’s CEO, Paris Wallace, grew up on government assistance in California’s Marin County, one of the wealthiest areas in the United States. Raised by a mother who was single and... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati