Choice Sets - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

companies that managed the restructuring process successfully, despite facing huge obstacles, to highlight "best practice" (although in several cases I did not know what the outcome would be when I first contacted the companies.) Some of my View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

individual pieces. My critical decisions at the earliest stage were thus to focus on themes such as Wall Street, leadership, consumption, the workplace, communications, and transportation that added up to a credible (and relevant) set of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

01 Sep 2006
News

Redefining Health Care

deliver value for patients, and a set of recommendations for getting there.” After two more years of research, Porter and Teisberg produced Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results. The book describes a path to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

Economic Forum in Davos recently, according to a report in The New York Times, “He championed free trade and open markets, setting the tone for the week.” The facts on the ground seem to support that position. China is overtaking the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 24

assumptions, so that correcting for the former-a primary focus of the ICC literature-is insufficient by itself. From these findings, I argue that the choice between ICCs and realized returns involves a tradeoff between bias and efficiency... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Work & Life - Race, Gender & Equity

Care Tech. / Social Assistance 49 55 Software Publishers / Technology 52 54 “My career has been fulfilling and I achieved most of the goals that I had set for myself. I’m still young but feeling a bit burnt out and would like to work... View Details

30 May 2024
News

Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears

Alumnae to Celebrate Official Launch of HBS Women’s Association The Harvard Business School Women’s Association (HBSWA) will host a Virtual Launch Celebration on Wednesday, June 12, to mark its official expansion as a nationwide HBS alumnae Shared Interest Group (SIG).... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Feb 2002
News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

rewarding and valuable to society. HBS professor Myra M. Hart, who conducted the survey, met many of its respondents at Charting Your Course: Alumnae Career Choices and Transitions, a prereunion program she launched last spring. Hart... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

28 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

vulnerable to serial correlation in the error structure. We discuss the associated biases and present a robust set of moment conditions for both lagged dependent and predetermined explanatory variables. Furthermore, we show that... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 May 2023
Blog Post

Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change

Until recently, people looked to the United Nations to set the climate policy agenda. No longer, according to Trumbull. As the cost for renewables has declined, governments now see renewable energy and decarbonization technologies as... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

to last-mile business from FedEx, UPS, and Amazon. Unfortunately, the online retailer is piloting its own delivery service that would put it in direct competition with the Postal Service. And Amazon isn’t alone in the search for last-mile innovation: As e-commerce... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Feb 1997
News

HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology

colleagues to the e-mail address they already have at their company or home. Alumni - if they haven't done so already - will need to provide us with that address, and we will set it up so their HBS e-mail is forwarded to them." One... View Details

16 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Delivering Solutions During a Crisis: an Interview with Hans Kristian Furuseth

at Zalando would both come into play in a major way for Furuseth later in this career. The HBS Advantage As Furuseth made plans to continue building his career, HBS was the right choice for many reasons including his desire to focus on... View Details

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management group... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Sep 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

they bring a difficult choice to life: "This new business requires completely different marketing and manufacturing skills, even though the exact same customers will purchase the product. Do you want to View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

01 Sep 2003
News

These Are the Good Old Days

Presented with thirteen job offers in 1978, Ann S. Moore accepted the one in the industry she knew she wanted to be in — magazine publishing. It also happened to be the one offering the lowest salary. “People were astounded with the View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jan 2003
News

Greylock

University, 1964 A.B. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Economics) Columbia Law School (International Fellows Program), 1967, J.D. "Pick a career that you will really enjoy. If your choice is based on just... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

M.I.A. Boards

company; evaluate the performance of senior managers; set executive compensation; approve key strategic and financial decisions; nominate candidates for shareholders to elect as directors; and ensure the company’s integrity,... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

18 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

within the task network and serve to separate one set of tasks from another. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of this work... View Details