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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

profits and losses, tracking pricing, assessing standardized procedures, and improving technology. Henry Varnum Poor, author of A History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States (1860), editor of the American Railroad Journal... View Details
  • 23 May 2018
  • News

Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987

struck a chord with Harris, who has spent much of her life exemplifying his advice. During her three decades at Morgan Stanley, for example, she has led numerous initiatives focused on women and minorities and mentored hundreds of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 20 Jan 2023
  • Blog Post

The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang

collecting data and writing papers), and I simply could not have gotten through the process without the support of my family and the many grad students and faculty who supported me along the way. I’m in this field and study mentorship... View Details
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Mollie Breen

mathematician," she says. "But the days I was most energized were not the ones I spent entirely on research. Instead, my favorite days were the ones in which I worked with others – I became interested in exploring... View Details
Keywords: Tech; Nonprofit/Government/Education
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time

however, motorized trucks and passenger cars found a market among small businessmen who recognized their value for deliveries and short-distance transport of heavy goods, but could not put up the entire... View Details
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By: Ayelet Israeli
Professor Israeli utilizes econometric methods and field experiments to study data driven decision making in marketing context. Her research focuses on data-driven marketing, with an emphasis on how businesses can leverage their own data, customer data, and market data... View Details
Keywords: Channel Management; Pricing; Pricing Policies; Online Marketing; E-commerce; Analytics; Econometrics; Field Experiments; Data Analytics; Artificial Intelligence; Value Of Data
  • 31 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

tell you that the world of business is not so different. “It really was all about the recognition of and comparison with their peers, and many of them were willing to pay for it.” "This is why MBA programs... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 2022
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Fairness via Explanation Quality: Evaluating Disparities in the Quality of Post hoc Explanations

By: Jessica Dai, Sohini Upadhyay, Ulrich Aivodji, Stephen Bach and Himabindu Lakkaraju
As post hoc explanation methods are increasingly being leveraged to explain complex models in high-stakes settings, it becomes critical to ensure that the quality of the resulting explanations is consistently high across all subgroups of a population. For instance, it... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Mathematical Methods; Research; Analytics and Data Science
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  • February 2022
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Sugar-sweetened Beverage Purchases and Intake at Event Arenas with and without a Portion Size Cap

By: Sheri Volger, James Scott Parrott, Brian Elbel, Leslie K. John, Jason P. Block, Pamela Rothpletz-Puglia and Christina A. Roberto
This is the first real-world study to examine the association between a voluntary 16-ounce (oz.) portion-size cap on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) at a sporting arena on volume of SSBs and food calories purchased and consumed during basketball games. Cross-sectional... View Details
Keywords: Sugar-sweetened Beverages; Nutrition Policy; Obesity Prevention; Portion Sizes; Nutrition; Policy; Health; Behavior
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  • 2019
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When Gender Diversity Makes Firms More Productive

By: Stephen Turban, Dan Wu and Letian Zhang
Does diversity make a company more productive? Many say yes—some researchers argue that gender diversity leads to more innovative thinking and signals to investors that a company is competently run. Others say no—conflicting research indicates that gender diversity can... View Details
Keywords: Gender; Diversity; Performance; Performance Productivity
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  • June 2015 (Revised January 2017)
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Greece's Debt: Sustainable?

By: George Serafeim
The case "Greece's Debt: Sustainable?" describes the Greek economic crisis, bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the debt restructuring that followed. Because of a lack of trust in Greece's ability to repay its debt, two... View Details
Keywords: Debt Crisis; Accounting; Debt Sustainability; Austerity; Solvency Opinions; Borrowing and Debt; Restructuring; Valuation; Accrual Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Economy; Greece
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  • February 2015
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Location Choices under Strategic Interactions

By: Juan Alcacer, Cristian Dezso and Minyuan Zhao
The literature on location choices has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics. However, most industries with a significant presence of multi-location firms are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that strategic interaction among firms... View Details
Keywords: Location Strategies; Multinational Strategy; Oligopolistic Competition; Firm Heterogeneity; Geographic Location; Multinational Firms and Management; Balance and Stability; Decision Choices and Conditions; Game Theory
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Inequality in Knowledge Repository Use in Scaling Service Operations

By: Melissa A. Valentine, Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats and Amy C. Edmondson
To scale service operations requires sharing knowledge across the organization. However, prior work highlights that individuals on the periphery of organizational knowledge sharing networks may struggle to access useful knowledge at work. A knowledge repository (KR)... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Repository; Scaling Service Operations; Fluid Teams; Groups and Teams; Knowledge Management; Performance
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  • June 2005 (Revised October 2005)
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Coach Roy Williams: What Next? (A)

By: Thomas J. DeLong, Christoper Chang and Scott Schweitzer
Roy Williams, head coach of the Kansas University Men's Basketball Team, was facing a major decision. The recent resignation of the coach at the University of North Carolina (UNC) had lead to speculation that Williams, a UNC alumnus, would be named as its new coach.... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Resignation and Termination; Job Offer; Leading Change; Management Succession; Performance Improvement; Personal Development and Career; Sports; Kansas; North Carolina
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services

By: Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton
Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the number of projects completed by, a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Performance Improvement; Projects; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Information Technology Industry; India
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  • September 2007
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(Noisy) Communication

By: Bharat Anand and Ron Shachar
Communication is central to many settings in marketing and economics. A focal attribute of communication is miscommunication. We model this key characteristic as a noise in the messages communicated, so that the sender of a message is uncertain about its perception by... View Details
Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Marketing Communications; Performance Improvement; Mathematical Methods
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  • 10 Dec 2018
  • HBS Seminar

Julianna Pillemer, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Why Does Business Invest in Education in Emerging Markets? Why Does It Matter?

By: Valeria Giacomin, G. Jones and Erica Salvaj
This working paper examines why a significant number of businesses have made non-profit investments in education in emerging markets between the 1960s and the present day. Using a sample of 110 interviews with business leaders from an oral history database at the... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy; CSR; Oral History; Emerging Markets; Education; Reputation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business History
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Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

the voices, actions, and experiences of individuals who played a role in precipitating a crisis, those who suffered its ill effects, and those who seized an opportunity to profit from it. Historical material can also yield quantitative... View Details
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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

Careers Becoming an Entrepreneur Careers Becoming an Entrepreneur Considering starting your own venture or thinking about joining a start-up? Explore our resources to determine if a career in entrepreneurship is right for you, and learn... View Details