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  • 28 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

means to be politically correct. They used the responses to help create the definition employed in their research: “using language (or behavior) to seem sensitive to others’ feelings, especially those others who seem socially... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Web

Transferring Data - Research Computing Services

Data Practices Transferring Data 14ms Transferring data to and from your analysis environments is now a more challenging endeavor due to a number of factors, including increases in dataset sizes, increases in confidential information and... View Details
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Teaching Quantitative Material - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

awareness: What data would help us solve this problem? How would you analyze it? What would you expect to find? What analysis did you run—why? What assumptions did you make? How did you set up the calculation? How did you account for x... View Details
  • 10 Sep 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

Summing Up Summing up the unusually large number of responses to the piece on street smarts, the consensus is that they represent skills taught by experience, role models, and experiential learning techniques such as case analysis and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Associates (chemical analysis instruments); and Ionics (water purification). Doriot did not believe in turning companies around for an instant profit but rather staying with them for the long term and through challenging periods. William... View Details
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details
  • 16 Apr 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

colleague of Christensen's at this time, once observed that this tendency "led to much closer study of company situations. The strong appeal of [his] cases and of his writing about them is embodied and reflected in his own View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

May 2017 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We build on the analysis in Akcigit, Grigsby, and Nicholas (2017) by using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between service capacity costs and customer View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

global pharmaceutical firms. Discussions with industry executives indicate that large firms search globally for in-licensing opportunities and that licensing transactions should not be sensitive to the geographic locations of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

superior performance and competitive advantage at the individual, organizational, and social levels and 2) empowers the three virtue phenomena of morality, ethics, and legality. We also demonstrate that applying cost-benefit analysis to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?

customers,” MacKay says. ‘Shoppers’ are extremely sensitive to price and compare prices every time they go to buy gasoline, MacKay says. ‘Affiliated’ customers, by contrast, are more locked in to repeating a previous purchase and are much... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy
  • 02 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

indication of a change in levels of CEO pay after the adoption of say on pay in the UK, they did discover an increase in the sensitivity of CEO pay to poor performance and a reduction in severance packages. The effect was more pronounced... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
  • 07 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 7, 2015

assumptions, quantitatively estimating likely revenue and profitability, testing out sensitivity to assumptions using scenarios, and assessing the main risks of entry and of staying out. The analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

What is Field Foundations?

100th anniversary, several faculty participated in an analysis of the MBA Program. They took a closer look at what was working and what we could improve upon. Feedback from companies and alumni indicated that the school should provide... View Details
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

analysis of the organization so that significant changes can be made based on what comes to light." Organizational fitness is based on the premise that an organization is a system. "You can't change all its elements... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 18 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of individual banks by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

Prevention-focused and older individuals—who engage in processing that shifts reference points to less extreme instances—show a decreased sensitivity to variance. We discuss the marketing implications of preferences for variance. Adding... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon

price remains a primary determinant of whether a consumer will buy a product, free shipping provides an added enhancement for online merchants to consider. Shoppers are only one-tenth as sensitive to increases in shipping fees as they are... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail
  • 15 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 15, 2016

will be critical to their success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51813 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne