Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (262) Arrow Down

Show Results For

← Page 4 of 262 Results →

    Gabe Weinreb

    I am a second-year PhD student in the Health Policy and Management program at Harvard Business School where my advisor is Dr. Rob Huckman. I live in Brookline with my fiance Natalie and our two cats, Joe and Huey. Before grad school I was a research assistant in the... View Details
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Human-Computer Interactions in Demand Forecasting and Labor Scheduling Decisions

    By: Caleb Kwon, Ananth Raman and Jorge Tamayo
    We empirically analyze how managerial overrides to a commercial algorithm that forecasts demand and schedules labor affect store performance. We analyze administrative data from a large grocery retailer that utilizes a commercial algorithm to forecast demand and... View Details
    Keywords: Employees; Human Capital; Performance; Applications and Software; Management Skills; Management Practices and Processes; Retail Industry
    Related
    • May 2022
    • Case

    Executive Decision-Making at Zola

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Michael Roberto
    In April 2020, Rachel Jarrett, President and COO of wedding technology company Zola, called a meeting with the organization’s key decision-makers. The company had previously launched three business expansions: a vendor marketplace, a wedding apparel division, and a... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Voting; Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Skills; Management; Management Style; Organizations; Organizational Culture; Technology Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
    Related
    • December 2019 (Revised August 2022)
    • Exercise

    Janet Ames (A)

    By: Brian Trelstad and Brian Trelstad
    The series of Janet Ames cases follow a fictional alumna of Harvard Business School into her consulting career in Boston. Over the series of cases, Ames is first offered the opportunity to join the board of a Boston-based non-profit organization, which offers students... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy; Board; Non-profit Management; Career Changes And Transitions; Evaluation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Management; Personal Development and Career; United States
    Related
    • December 2019 (Revised August 2022)
    • Exercise

    Janet Ames (C)

    By: Brian Trelstad and Brian Trelstad
    The series of Janet Ames cases follow a fictional alumna of Harvard Business School into her consulting career in Boston. Over the series of cases, Ames is first offered the opportunity to join the board of a Boston-based non-profit organization, which offers students... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy; Board; Non-profit Management; Career Changes And Transitions; Evaluation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Management; Personal Development and Career; United States
    Related
    • August 2022
    • Teaching Plan

    Janet Ames (A), (B), (C), (D)

    By: Brian Trelstad
    Teaching Plan for HBS Case Nos. 320-076, 320-077, 320-078, and 322-051. The series of Janet Ames cases follow a fictional alumna of Harvard Business School into her consulting career in Boston. Over the series of cases, Ames is first offered the opportunity to join... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy; Board; Non-profit Management; Career Changes And Transitions; Evaluation; Personal Development and Career; Opportunities; Decision Choices and Conditions; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Management; United States
    Related
    • 03 Dec 2024
    • HBS Seminar

    Jing Dong, Columbia

    • 19 Feb 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55439 Compensation Interdependence and Performance Consequences of Managerial Discretion By: Cai, Wei, Susanna Gallani, and Jee-Eun Shin Abstract— We examine the performance consequences of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • June 29, 2022
    • Other Article

    Strategic Complexity? Using Experiments to Understand and Overcome Obfuscation

    By: Michael Luca, Ginger Zhe Jin and Daniel Martin
    Credit card companies must decide what product features to disclose to consumers, such as payment schedules, penalties, and fees--and also whether to present them clearly or bury them in the fine print. Firms face similar choices in settings ranging from privacy... View Details
    Keywords: Obfuscation; Credit Cards; Strategic Incentives; Complexity; Agreements and Arrangements; Customers; Consumer Behavior; Financial Services Industry
    Related
    • 2014
    • Article

    Attentional Rhythm: A Temporal Analogue of Object-Based Attention

    By: Julian De Freitas, Brandon Liverence and Brian J. Scholl
    The underlying units of attention are often discrete visual objects. Perhaps the clearest form of evidence for this is the same-object advantage: Following a spatial cue, responses are faster to probes occurring on the same object than they are to probes occurring on... View Details
    Keywords: Object-based Attention; Rhythm; Music Perception; Auditory Perception
    Related
    • 20 Jan 2015
    • News

    Corporate Conspiracy Charges for the Financial Crisis

    • December 2019 (Revised August 2022)
    • Exercise

    Janet Ames (B)

    By: Brian Trelstad and Brian Trelstad
    The series of Janet Ames cases follow a fictional alumna of Harvard Business School into her consulting career in Boston. Over the series of cases, Ames is first offered the opportunity to join the board of a Boston-based non-profit organization, which offers students... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy; Board; Non-profit Management; Career Changes And Transitions; Evaluation; Personal Development and Career; Opportunities; Decision Choices and Conditions; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Management; United States
    Related
    • 2010
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Modeling Passenger Travel and Delays in the National Air Transportation System

    Many of the existing methods for evaluating an airline's on-time performance are based on flight-centric measures of delay. However, recent research has demonstrated that passenger delays depend on many factors in addition to flight delays. For instance,... View Details
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Performance Evaluation; Air Transportation Industry; United States
    Related
    • 15 Dec 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    John-Paul Ferguson, Stanford Graduate School of Business

    • April 2013
    • Supplement

    AIG and the American Taxpayers (B)

    By: Karthik Ramanna and Matthew Shaffer
    Explores the decision faced by AIG's board on whether to join shareholder and ex-CEO Maurice Greenberg's lawsuit against the U.S. government. The suit, argued by super-lawyer David Boies (of Bush v. Gore and California Gay Marriage fame), claims that in September 2008... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Markets; Financial Policy; Property Rights; Financial Institutions; Financial Crisis; Financial Management; Insurance Industry; United States
    Related
    • March 2021 (Revised August 2022)
    • Case

    Seeding and Selling Asana

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Susie Ma and Amram Migdal
    In December 2019, Oliver Jay, Asana’s Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), was reconsidering his go-to-market (GTM) strategy. Asana was cloud-based work management software that enabled users to break up projects into discrete tasks that could be assigned, scheduled, and... View Details
    Keywords: SaaS; Customer Journey; Business Model; Business Organization; Change Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Technology Industry; United States
    Related
    • 2009
    • Article

    Silenced by Fear: The Nature, Sources, and Consequences of Fear at Work

    By: Jennifer Kish Gephart, James R. Detert, Linda K. Trevino and Amy C. Edmondson
    In every organization, individual members have the potential to speak up about important issues, but a growing body of research suggests that they often remain silent instead, out of fear of negative personal and professional consequences. In this chapter, we draw on... View Details
    Keywords: Organizations; Working Conditions; Research; Emotions; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Theory; Behavior
    Related
    • Article

    Formal Measures in Informal Management: Can a Balanced Scorecard Change a Culture?

    By: Robert Gibbons and Robert S. Kaplan
    Agency theorists, historically, have analyzed what kinds of performance measures should be used in formal incentive contracts. For example, after Kaplan-Norton proposed a balanced scorecard of both financial and non-financial measures, some envisioned its role only in... View Details
    Keywords: Relational Contracts; Performance Measurement; Informal Management; Balanced Scorecard; Economics; Mathematical Methods
    Related
    • 28 Sep 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Digital Interactivity: Unanticipated Consequences for Markets, Marketing, and Consumers

    Keywords: by John A. Deighton & Leora Kornfeld
    • September 6, 2022
    • Article

    Creating a Platform for Costless Personalization in Clothing

    By: Shane Greenstein
    This study analyzes the role of co-invention in the creation of a platform for print-on-demand-clothing, or PODC. Co-invention is the invention of a new business process to complement new technology, and turn it into a valuable commercial service. PODC copies a design... View Details
    Keywords: Print-on-demand-clothing; Customization and Personalization; Digital Platforms; Apparel and Accessories Industry
    Related