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- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
cost of evacuations or be wider to ensure every possible scenario is taken into account. In business, that could mean weighing the cost of not having enough stock to meet demand versus carrying excess stock.... View Details
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
the ability to help clients navigate and implement in this relatively new marketplace is valuable. However, working at scale means less ability to do client-specific work on small accounts. Morgan Stanley: Building Long-Term... View Details
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
leading research universities, low cost or highly trained labor, and geographic bounty. Understanding how clusters work can help governments develop effective policies for creating them, as well as direct entrepreneurs to the best... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
help senior leaders achieve their goals. Too often, they’re done for short-term gain, but the cost savings are overshadowed by bad publicity, loss of knowledge, weakened engagement, higher voluntary turnover, and lower innovation, which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
of price differentials. But the world is not so homogeneous as to have removed arbitrage from a company's strategic tool kit. In fact, many forms of arbitrage offer relatively sustainable sources of competitive advantage, and as some... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
executive compensation. Yet while laws, regulations, and policies have a clear role to play here, they are a relatively expensive and inefficient way for a society to promote responsible conduct and trustworthy business leadership. In the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
expect an equal contribution from your citizens, all citizens must be treated equally,” says Tabellini. “It reveals the costs for society as a whole if you don’t.” Despite the national reckoning in the United States after the killing of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End
the 2028 Games as well. Despite the cost involved, competition to host the Olympics will no doubt continue. Political and financial risks aside, it’s hard to think of a more visible branding opportunity for a city or country, Greyser... View Details
- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
finance." For example, when investors hold onto stock they've received in an acquisition—taking the path of least resistance—it keeps those shares off the open market and makes the price relatively higher than it would have been... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
slave labor; and (2) analysis on the ways in which the legacies of slavery in institutions of higher education continued in the post-Civil War era to the present day. The collection features broadly themed essays on issues of religion,... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
acute and chronic stress). Both hormones are found in men and women. Men naturally have more testosterone than women do, but the researchers were measuring the levels relative to gender norms. The normal level of cortisol is the same for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
contradictory to sound judgment. It only emphasizes it . Judgment is an encapsulation of all those elements data, facts, processes, etc that go into decisions from which we have learned in the past." Joe Schmid said: "Our education and work environments are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
spatial analysis and compare similar white communities to communities of color, communities of color are more likely to be near noxious facilities.[14] While there is a class dimension to this, she says that “race is by far the strongest... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
States, and one deceased donor can save numerous lives by providing multiple organs. Nevertheless, most Americans are not registered organ donors despite the relative ease of becoming one. We study in the laboratory an experimental game... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
expressions of chief executives to see if leadership style can be correlated with a firm’s performance. The researchers believe their work could open new directions in big data analysis, combining image and textual analysis to create a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Improving Health Care Delivery
through big data by offsetting the cost of collection and analysis and by tapping into the tremendous amount of existing medical information available. “I think HBS can be a leader in making use of that... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
such as violation history or financial leverage. In fact, those indicators rose and fell with remarkable consistency as violations occurred. “When we looked at Wells Fargo relative to the average in the banking industry, we could see it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
the UN's own analysis and remarks by diplomats over the decades have indicated nations really do act in their own national interest." By looking at the national composition of Secretariat staffing over the years, Werker hypothesized... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 May 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
similar companies in their industry and recommended areas of expense adjustments that would be of help. I also quantified the environmental impact on the company’s supply chain with a proposal that they make certain adjustments that would positively affect their... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
athletes, the decisions taken by other riders to both support Armstrong and his scheme and ultimately to admit to cheating, and the costs borne by those associated with Armstrong. It allows for discussion of the responsibilities that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne