Not For Profit - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Carbon Tariffs: Impacts on Technology Choice, Regional Competitiveness, and Global Emissions

Keywords: by David F. Drake; Manufacturing

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Growing on the Job - Alumni

as a destination; set tangible markers for yourself so that you can see and measure your progress along the way. Ongoing obligations Like growth itself, assessment is not static, but a dynamic process that... View Details

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

closer to what’s found in Europe. In the US, it takes a lot of rewiring to make fast EV chargers work on the local grid. So he started fiddling. Soon enough, Aatish came up with a prototype that allowed fast charging without changing over the grid: the idea View Details

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

confident, lest they seem incompetent. A cry for help—or simply an honest appraisal of the situation—might prompt investors to withhold new funding or employees to flee, hastening a company’s demise. “If you have a spouse or a significant... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27

distribution strategy for Glass, a wearable computer that projected information on a display viewable with an upward glance. Options, which were not mutually exclusive, included 1) continuing to sell Glass... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

to work on the mission at hand. It has not always been fun, and it’s never been easy, but it has honestly been worth every ounce of struggle. All this hardship has made me the person I am today. I gained perspective from all walks of life... View Details

10 Nov 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Crony Capitalism, American Style: What Are We Talking About Here?

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter

February 2025
Article

Variation in Batch Ordering of Imaging Tests in the Emergency Department and the Impact on Care Delivery

By: Jacob C. Jameson, Soroush Saghafian, Robert S. Huckman and Nicole Hodgson

Objectives: To examine heterogeneity in physician batch ordering practices and measure the impact of a physician's tendency to batch order imaging tests on patient outcomes and resource utilization.
Study Setting and Design: In this retrospective study, we used... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Operations Management; Productivity; Health Care and Treatment; Operations; Outcome or Result; Resource Allocation; Health Industry; United States

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01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

The company has acquired Buy.com in the United States, Ikeda in Brazil, Play.com in the United Kingdom, and Kobo in Canada, and it recently made international headlines for spearheading a $100 million investment in Pinterest, the social... View Details

19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016

is “liking” simply a symptom of being fond of a brand? We disentangle these possibilities and find evidence for the latter: brand attitudes and purchasing are predicted by consumers’ preexisting fondness for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

personal and professional changes to foster more positive connections among racial groups—interactions that studies have shown have the potential to reduce biased behaviors. "Awareness alone is not going to change the world. It's about... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Git and GitHub - Research Computing Services

Software Tools Git & Github 20ms What version control systems are available to you? There are many different version control systems available, but one of the most widely used is Git , which is the program that will track changes of your scripts (source code) over... View Details

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Tim Kluska

advice to prospective students, what would it be? It's natural to over-index on that voice inside your head questioning if you'll fit into a new and faraway place. But I assure you, there is a place for you at HBS. Don't be fooled into... View Details

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HBS Fund Council - Alumni

OH To learn more about Investors Society Class Agents, contact Talia Hirsh, Assistant Director, HBS Fund Make a Gift INVEST IN LEADERS & IDEAS GIVE TO HBS INVEST IN LEADERS & IDEAS Give to HBS Learn about Planned Giving Recognition for... View Details

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

policy makers can apply these key lessons, many, if not most, of the sagas of waste and disappointment that we have highlighted could be avoided. Entrepreneurs could find a more hospitable climate, and we would all benefit. Barriers to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

business problem you are solving is at least as important as your algorithms. Even though the technology and data science behind AI is what makes these applications different from conventional software, your business customers are not... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

31 Jan 2007
HBS Case

When Good Teams Go Bad

between the Army crew's difficulties and the problems that business teams experience. "We pursued the idea for the case," he says, "after Scott, who is a West Point grad and former teacher there, told me about his friend,... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

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

to see. Due to the measurability of sporting performance, every manager of a professional team becomes a winner or a loser in the eyes of the public—week after week. So, it is not surprising that the shelf life View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

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Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and Management

The current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details

07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

model for integrating diverse values offers some grounds for thinking about parallel virtues in the business case. Our goal is not to offer any general prescription View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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