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  • 11 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

percent. For much of the past decade, H-1B visas have run out within a single week (see Figure 4). Despite even the COVID-19 pandemic, the government received 275,000 applications in March of this year for the 85,000 slots in fiscal year... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
  • 18 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717430-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-033 A Note on Healthcare IT and Applications to the Healthcare Industry This note provides an overview of three key healthcare IT areas: electronic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

decision of a portfolio manager, Andrew Fisher of LXE Capital, who is considering investing based on insights drawn from Recorded Future's software interface. The case asks students to grapple with a new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 7, 2016

practical application by managers or pedagogical application by instructors of MBAs and executive MBAs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51126 The Mirroring Hypothesis:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2016
  • News

Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

visibility, to a network of peers. Many of them felt isolated.” Amadio sensed these challenges were not unique to neuroscience startups, and he began looking at the consumer software sector to see how innovation there seemed to happen so... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

Business Review, Merton, a Nobel laureate, urges senior corporate executives and boards to view derivative applications not just as tactical measures but as strategic tools that convey competitive advantage. A first step is distinguishing... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

  Working PapersTaxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

itself, can obscure meaningful variation in individual use patterns, we investigate how the concentration of use within a team (the extent to which use is limited to a few members versus more evenly distributed within the team) affects performance. Using archival data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

1926–2014 and international sector returns 1985–2014, we present four findings: (1) Fama is correct in that a sharp price increase of an industry portfolio does not, on average, predict unusually low returns going forward; (2) such sharp... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Mar 2016
  • Lessons from the Classroom

When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)

of the challenges they would be encountering,” Elberse says. “People facing these portfolio decisions do what feels right to them. But when you analyze their strategies, you often see mistakes. We’re trying to prevent participants from... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports; Media & Broadcasting; Education
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation

Capital Tech Opportunities who invests in B2B software companies in the late-stage growth phase. Hopkins cites an example that was brought to life in a case discussion attended by the protagonist, a founder of a company who had placed his... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 20 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

track where your order is in the assembly process, even before it is ready for shipment. What we have learned from a host of these new applications is indeed important. When we first did the research study, our focus was on customer... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

approximately welfare neutral. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-011.pdf Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity: Evidence from Software Development (revised) Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2002 (Revised January 2013)
  • Case

Siebel Systems: Organizing for the Customer

By: Robert Simons and Antonio Davila
Siebel Systems is one of the fastest growing companies in America. Tom Siebel, the company's founder, has organized the business to accommodate growth and focus on the customer. Innovative information technology systems and clear accountability prove to be essential to... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Applications and Software; Business Growth and Maturation; Information Technology; Performance Evaluation; Performance Expectations; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Management Teams; Information Technology Industry; North and Central America
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  • 24 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

more in this Q&A, as well as the motivation behind his working paper "Optimal Deterrence When Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid in Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud." Martha Lagace: How prevalent is fraud... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services
  • Web

SAS/CONNECT - Research Computing Services

Software Tools SAS/CONNECT 2ms SAS/CONNECT is an application that allows you to connect a SAS session running on your desktop to SAS on the HBSGrid. SAS/CONNECT offers two types of services, which both use... View Details
  • Web

HBSGrid Terms of Service - Research Computing Services

accepted the statements in this agreement and that you agree to comply with applicable policies and laws governing the use of Harvard Business School’s technology resources and the protection of data privacy. Account Creation Requirements... View Details
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2270579   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 314-114 The Park Hotels: Revitalizing an Iconic Indian Brand Priya Paul, chairperson of The Park Hotels, an award-winning View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

you to raise money, and that would be a big deal." In modern terms, you can observe the same phenomenon in the basement programmer who designs open-source software as a calling card or the blogger who wants to establish herself as an... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

essential research tools—Markov decision process, game theory and information economics, queueing games, econometric methods, and data science—by illustrating their uses and applicability on examples from diverse healthcare settings, thus... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman