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Tufano’s research has focused on financial innovation and financial engineering—and for more than two decades, household finance. While he continues to study these topics, his current primary research is on the role of business in addressing climate change. With... View Details

September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
Case

Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!

By: Willy Shih

This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Standards; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Information Technology

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19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

greatest cofounding teams have war stories about stressful situations in their relationships and what they learned from these experiences. Using insights from the listening tour, along with your personal preferences, write a cofounder job... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

22 Jun 2022
Book

Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

individuals, and my writing on this topic, is my model of implicit and symbolic intelligence. Each of us, at any given moment, has the capacity to experience the whole of our life. Right now, as you sit here, you have what psychologist... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

others. We believe that partial solutions to these problems are surprisingly clear. The Psychology Of Flawed Decisions We write from the perspective of psychologists who study imperfections in the way people make decisions. Since the... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk

19 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

South Asia Institute and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, has been studying and writing about India’s space program for many years and is part of a space research working group led Professor Matt Weinzierl at the... View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace

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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

were worth. “Lehman had broken two basic investment rules: it bought at the top of the market and it failed to diversify its bets,” Mark T. Williams writes in Uncontrolled Risk . “Commercial real estate became a millstone around Lehman’s... View Details

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

writes about VUCA and its application in the business world, says red teamers “don’t simply shoot holes in a plan [they require] leaders to move beyond ‘that won’t happen’ to ‘what if this occurs.” Red team membership should be rotated,... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

16 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

“birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement.” “And only 2 percent of the poorest residents ever managed to get out of poverty,” Hill recalled discussing in her conversations with Delta employees when researching and writing the cases. At the... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation

26 May 2022
HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

they can trust the company, say the authors. Hsieh wrote the original case and its 2021 revision and expansion with Henry McGee, senior lecturer of business administration at HBS; Christian Godwin, a researcher in the HBS case writing... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

all the benefits of the register, Patterson gave them scripts to memorize. The practice of writing out sales arguments was rare, but not as new as some of Patterson's biographers claim. Booksellers and other canvassers had used scripts... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

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Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp - Research Computing Services

Technical How-To’s & Notes Technical How-To’s & Notes Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp The Problem: On not-so-rare occasions, Stata creates problems on our cluster due its usage of temporary files. When launching Stata, when running do/ado files, and when opening... View Details

25 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!

success, and constantly strives to enhance the suite of programs and workshops designed to facilitate the transition back to being a student and to the case method used at HBS. These programs include free tutoring, writing coaches, and... View Details

25 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

engage in active inquiry and observations, and be mindful that your assumptions or interpretation of a given culture might not be accurate or applicable in a given context. One way to do this is by keeping a journal and writing down... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review GE's Global Growth Experiment: The Company Pushed Cross-Business Collaboration By: Gulati, Ranjay Abstract—Like many other companies, GE under Immelt had to figure out how to balance serving local needs with the economies... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Nov 2016
First Look

November 8, 2016

forthcoming European Competition Journal Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Damien Geradin Abstract—Since its launch in 2007, Android has become the dominant mobile device operating system... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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People - Advancing Racial Equity

Management Brian Kenny Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Marketing and Communications Carin Knoop Executive Director of Case Research and Writing Group, Division of Research and Faculty Development Chad Losee Managing Director... View Details

10 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?

be particularly sympathetic to #MeToo’s call to empower women and are the main driver of the shift to hire more women following the scandal, write Hong Luo and Laurina Zhang, the paper's authors. Luo is the James Dinan and Elizabeth... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Media & Broadcasting

04 Apr 2023
Book

Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology

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Research Resources - Doctoral

sources, designing your study, deciding which statistical methods to employ, interpreting results, and writing a statistical program. Behavioral Research Services Harvard Business School’s Behavioral Research Services team supports... View Details

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