Learning Logic - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey

it over there and jump on it." Now, she said, thanks to expert coaching, the kids have learned to communicate, coordinate, pass the ball off to their teammates and get it back. Good businesses that want to grow know how to do a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2024
HBS Case

If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

system doesn’t absolve leaders of responsibility, either. “Be vigilant,” Badaracco says. “Try to control the uses of what you produce, and develop a value, or a culture, of aggressive responsibility.” Learn a little from monks and... View Details

Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

Lalocracio In thinking about the current contested state of global capitalism, and what to do about it, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Seeking the Unconventional in Forging... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

28 May 2012
Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

to find a profit linkage, that's a hard test on CSR. It might not lead to that” "You have to have a rationale and logic for why you're doing a particular program. Somebody should be able to articulate what the benefits are because if you... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

activity the CEOs undertake during one workweek and (ii) a machine learning algorithm that projects these data onto scalar CEO behavior indices. Low values of the index are associated with plant visits and one-on-one meetings with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

short-term profits and returns to shareholders at the expense of worker safety and health, the environment, and society in general. In this article, I argue that a very different logic informs the practices of most high-performing and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

365 learn from consumer usage patterns and documents, personalizing their user interfaces by selecting which quick-access functions to display and incorporating new words and expressions into their correction dictionaries. Moreover, some... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

20 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

research. Learning and Equilibrium as Useful Approximations: Accuracy of Prediction on Randomly Selected Constant Sum Games Authors:Ido Erev, Alvin E. Roth, R. Slonim, and Greg Barron Periodical:Economic Theory (forthcoming). Special... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

simulation program that enables a classroom full of students to participate in situations that demand the sort of real-time decisions made in real-world markets. Simulations mirror historical (but disguised) examples, such as Apple Computer's stock market performance... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

17 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

what should you be doing with this information?” Testing companies use a rash of custom-designed assessments, including personality tests, skills assessments, math and logic problems, and judgment tests, on hypothetical work situations.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

practitioners and academicians alike. As I started doing further studies with countries and states, the cluster component became a significant stream in my research. In this new chapter, I try to draw together almost a decade of further View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

idea with the San Francisco SPCA, she learned that somebody else had approached the organization with a similar thought. This was Elena Battles, a Stanford MBA graduate and the former COO of the Humane Society Silicon Valley. Exley and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

the doctor did a bad job. But with evidence on outcomes and true risks, the burden of proof to sue a doctor will rise. Doctors will learn to be happier in a world where they are measuring results more than they are today. We take the... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

Departments. "The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft," says Light. "So... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part One]

next logical stage of development in terms of how we manage, how we lead. It also means evolving ourselves so that we are better suited for a world of networked communications. Q: What inspired you to begin exploring this kind of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

international order, and so on. Time equations handle complexity by simply adding terms with Boolean logic that test for the presence of a particular feature that adds or subtracts time to overall processing time, a simple and elegant... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

feedback logically and 'toned down' my comments to show respect, while still providing constructive ideas. Initially, he seemed to take the feedback well. But then I gradually noticed a distancing in our relationship. Eventually, I... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

For many multinational firms doing business in unfamiliar countries, it made sense to create joint ventures with local firms. After all, that local knowledge of customs, suppliers, and markets could save the newcomer months—maybe even years—of riding a painful View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

lower the better, with the logic being that more money can then go to actual programs. So an organization might report, "We spend 6 percent on fundraising, whereas the industry average is 12 to 14 percent." That's typical, but... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

11 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

own profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the strategy space and the logic of... View Details