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Philippe Taieb
impact and on using hybrid business models to generate social and environmental value. Work Experience: Social Impact Consulting & Coaching - Principal; City Year (youth development) -Director of... View Details
- 04 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley
Building on a Legacy Decades in the Making For decades, WesTrek has been a flagship professional trek at Harvard Business School, giving students direct access to the heart of the tech industry. This year’s trek came at an especially exciting time, with breakthroughs... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 16 May 2018
- HBS Seminar
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Duke University, Economics
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
patients during visits, plus more accurate visit notes. However, clinicians’ well-being is unfortunately not always the top priority for hospital executives. Currently, most US hospitals generate revenue based on “fee-for-service" payment... View Details
- Program
Investment Management Workshop
endowments, and investment consulting firms Individuals involved in areas related to capital markets, such as corporate finance, brokerage, and mergers and acquisitions General managers or specialists—such as chief investment officers,... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
investor and managerial costs. It affects job creation and innovation throughout society. Once a venture reaches a critical size, its complexity greatly increases. The original business model must deal with new market and organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
with our younger talent about ideas they are proposing for our company’s strategic direction? Personally, should I be making use of one or more of these apps that I don’t understand? Twenty-five years ago, there was a sense at General... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Sep 2024
- HBS Seminar
Jose Vasquez, London School of Economics
- Program
Strategic Marketing for Driving Growth
Summary Strategic agility and an unyielding focus on growth are essential for the success of any organization, especially when new technologies such as generative AI are profoundly changing how businesses acquire, engage, and retain... View Details
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
Leslie Feinzaig (MBA 2007) , Founder and General Partner, Graham and Walker Venture Fund; Michelle Zatlyn (MBA 2009) , Co-Founder and COO, Cloudflare Video Recording Challenging Conventional Wisdom: What and How HBS Alumnae are Doing... View Details
- December 2018
- Case
Bata versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance
By: Suraj Srinivasan, Iris Leung and Quinn Pitcher
Set in 2016, “Bata India versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance” compares the strategies and financial performance of two Indian footwear companies. Bata India had long been the market leader in footwear in India, but its leading market position was being challenged by... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Strategy; Operations; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Analysis; Apparel and Accessories Industry
Srinivasan, Suraj, Iris Leung, and Quinn Pitcher. "Bata versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance." Harvard Business School Case 119-050, December 2018.
- Spring 2019
- Article
Fluid Teams and Knowledge Retrieval: Scaling Service Operations
By: Melissa A. Valentine, Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats and Amy C. Edmondson
To scale service operations requires retrieving knowledge across the organization. However, prior work highlights that individuals on the periphery of organizational knowledge networks may struggle to access useful knowledge at work. A knowledge repository has the... View Details
Keywords: Teaming; Teams; Groups and Teams; Knowledge Management; Service Delivery; Knowledge Use and Leverage
Valentine, Melissa A., Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Fluid Teams and Knowledge Retrieval: Scaling Service Operations." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 21, no. 2 (Spring 2019): 346–360.
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
M.D. MS/MBA Program Faculty Co-Chair for MS Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University, Chief of Pathways Consult Service at Massachusetts General Hospital Douglas Melton, Ph.D. MS/MBA Program Faculty Co-Chair... View Details
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Resumes & Cover Letters - Alumni
up to 10 times to track improvement Resumes: Sections, Templates & Examples + – Expected Sections Contact details - Let others know who you are and how to get in touch with you. In addition to your name, you should list your mailing... View Details
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Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt (with Fabio Kanczuk)
By: Laura Alfaro
Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. Some of the implications of this analysis, however, may not be generalized once one considers the joint decision to hold debt and reserves by a... View Details
- 2017
- Working Paper
A Welfarist Role for Nonwelfarist Rules: An Example with Envy
I propose and formalize an argument for why economists working in the welfarist normative tradition should include nonwelfarist principles in how they judge economic policy. The key idea behind this argument is that the world is too complex, and our ability to model it... View Details
Weinzierl, Matthew. "A Welfarist Role for Nonwelfarist Rules: An Example with Envy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-021, September 2016. (Revised July 2017.)
- 2015
- Working Paper
Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment
By: Doug J. Chung and Das Narayandas
We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme at an Asian enterprise that sells consumer durable goods. With variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of... View Details
Keywords: Sales Force Compensation; Field Experiment; Heterogeneity; Loss Aversion; Reciprocity; Motivation and Incentives; Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits
Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas. "Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-084, April 2015. (Revised November 2015.)
- 2007
- Working Paper
Choice, Rationality and Welfare Measurement
By: Jerry R. Green and Daniel A. Hojman
We present a method for evaluating the welfare of a decision maker, based on observed choice data. Unlike the standard economic theory of revealed preference, our method can be used whether or not the observed choices are rational. Paralleling the standard theory we... View Details
Green, Jerry R., and Daniel A. Hojman. "Choice, Rationality and Welfare Measurement." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series, No. 2144, November 2007.
Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia
Organizations today can use both crowds and experts to produce knowledge. While prior work compares the accuracy of crowd-produced and expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective,... View Details