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  • 11 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”

technology to problems. At Harvard, there are enormous opportunities to collaborate with students and faculty across many schools, like the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Few schools have that kind of breadth and depth.” Through his View Details
Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship
  • Program

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

champions" Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group... View Details
  • 20 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 20

Working Papers Commodity Chains: What Can We Learn from a Business History of the Rubber Chain? (1870-1910) Author: Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract The literature on the rubber boom applied a dependendist view of rubber production in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Teaching Interest

Negotiation

By: Kevin P. Mohan

Managerial success requires the ability to negotiate. Whether you are forging an agreement with your suppliers, trying to ink a deal with potential customers, raising money from investors, managing a conflict inside your firm, or resolving a dispute that is headed... View Details

  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study of Organizational Learning in Hospital Intensive Care Units

Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker, Ingrid M. Nembhard & Amy C. Edmondson; Health
  • Winter 2016
  • Article

Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization

By: Kris J. Ferreira, Bin Hong Alex Lee and David Simchi-Levi
We present our work with an online retailer, Rue La La, as an example of how a retailer can use its wealth of data to optimize pricing decisions on a daily basis. Rue La La is in the online fashion sample sales industry, where they offer extremely limited-time... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Price; Forecasting and Prediction; Revenue; Sales; Retail Industry
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  • 18 Oct 2013
  • HBS Seminar

George Borjas, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

    The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card

    What Color Is Your Parachute? meets Out of Office in this inspiring, practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance while optimizing your happiness, personal growth, and bank accounts.

    Pouring yourself into a single... View Details
    • 22 Jun 2011
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation

    into the most effective way to design a compensation plan, concentrating on whether bonuses boost sales productivity and whether they should be awarded quarterly or annually. Research, focusing on the sales force of a large office supply... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
    • September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
    • Case

    pymetrics: Early Days

    By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
    In 2013, CEO Frida Polli was contemplating the next steps for her start-up business, pymetrics. After receiving her PhD in neuropsychology and MBA from HBS, she was determined to put her scientific and academic knowledge to work to build a business solving real world... View Details
    Keywords: BrainTech; Psychology; Hiring; Games; Entrepreneur; Start-up; Start-up Growth; Strategic Change; Strategy Formulation; Recruiting; Corporate Culture; Hiring Of Employees; Start-ups; Startup; Startups; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Business Startups; Strategy; Competition; Organizational Culture
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    • 06 Apr 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: April 6

    activities increase the monitoring costs and the credit risk faced by banks and, in turn, raise the cost of debt for the borrower. Working Papers A New Model of Integrity: The Missing Factor of Production (PDF file of Keynote and... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • October 2000 (Revised January 2001)
    • Case

    Polycom, Inc.: Visualizing Culture

    By: Clayton M. Christensen
    Polycom is a rapidly growing maker of video conferencing and teleconferencing equipment. Management is attempting to use "natural work groups" as an organizing mechanism, and to build into the culture implicit rules that will cause desired behaviors to be... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Technology; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Manufacturing Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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    • 05 Feb 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    In Praise of Marketing

    Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Many dismiss marketing as manipulative,... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising
    • 22 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

    underpin this technology typically subsume the information that users enter, helping the software provide better answers over time. Working Knowledge spoke with Seth Neel, an expert on machine “unlearning” who is an assistant professor at... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
    • Article

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Financial Regulation for the Twenty-First Century

    By: Leonard J. Kennedy, Patricia A. McCoy and Ethan S. Bernstein
    After existing regulatory systems failed to prevent the recent financial crisis, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a sweeping reform designed to alleviate the crisis and prevent its recurrence. Out of this Act, the Consumer... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Dodd-Frank; CFPB; Financial Crisis; Reform; New Agency; Market-based Approach; Evidence-based Analysis; Innovative Technologies And Transparency Policies; BEST Practices; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Finance; Financial History; Law; Markets; Organizations; Organizational Design; Business and Government Relations; Balance and Stability; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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    • 19 Dec 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

    platforms. “How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers” was the most-read story on Working Knowledge in 2016. Other popular topics among our readers included workplace communication, negotiation, white-collar crime,... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 12 Nov 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: November 12

    link: http://francescagino.com/#/judgment_research   Working Papers When 3+1>4: Gift Structure and Reciprocity in the Field By: Gilchrist, Duncan, Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra Abstract—Do higher wages elicit reciprocity and hence... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Feb 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

    We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important to that development are the particular companies we work for? For Harvard Business School... View Details
    Keywords: by Mallory Stark
    • 27 Sep 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

    a baker whose religious beliefs compelled him to refuse to design a cake for a gay couple’s wedding reception. “My guess is that most companies don’t have a written policy that articulates how to handle religion in the workplace in a way... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories
    • 30 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Entering the Age of Alliances

    donor and grateful recipient, toward deeper, strategic alliances. These changes are already under way, and the changing alliance landscape is rich in variety, with businesses and nonprofits from Boston to Seattle finding new ways to work... View Details
    Keywords: by James Austin