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  • October 2024
  • Teaching Plan

Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble

By: Lou Shipley and Stacy Straaberg
In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina
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  • 10 Oct 2023
  • Research & Ideas

In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

nobody was aware that they existed in such a systematic way.” The authors also digitized official voter registration rolls held by the Atlanta-based Southern Regional Council’s Voter Education Project. Other information came from the US View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 05 Jul 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    How Are Middle Managers Falling Down Most Often on Employee Inclusion?

    diversity aren’t occupying jobs in human resources. Instead, they are department managers and team leaders on the front line who are responsible for inclusion. But how much attention is being given to the development View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 18 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 18

    500 boards as an empirical context, this study shows that the presence of directors who lack top-level experience but own large shareholdings is negatively associated with firm value, an effect that increases in the number View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • June 2022
    • Article

    A New Initiative to Track HIV Resource Allocation and Costs

    By: Ryan McBain, AK Nandakumar, Michael Ruffner, Carlyn Mann, Mai Hijazi, Susanna Baker, Linden Morrison, Kalipso Chalkidou, Shufang Zhang, Iris Semini, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Steven Forsythe, Sarah Byakika, Joshua Musinguzi and Robert S. Kaplan
    In early 2020, several global health institutions – including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS); United States Agency for International Development; and Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator at... View Details
    Keywords: Activity Based Costing; HIV; Cost; Health Care; Healthcare; Health Care and Treatment; Activity Based Costing and Management; Resource Allocation; Health Industry; Africa
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    • 09 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing

    departments and disciplines. He began to wonder: “What’s the effect of all this on our ability to be influenced by one another?” At the time, Duede was already studying intellectual influence and how... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 07 Jul 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

    partnerships. Within weeks, Enron collapsed into bankruptcy as its trading partners quickly lost faith—proving, once again, that even a hint of negligence or misconduct can be devastating to a company. In the end, the View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
    • 14 Jun 2023
    • Op-Ed

    Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't

    We’ve long known that organizations require so-called flexible leaders to respond to rapid market fluctuations; the last couple of years have only emphasized that necessity. The environment we operate in—shaped by the pandemic, social... View Details
    Keywords: by Hise Gibson
    • 14 May 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: May 14

    U.S. State Department As U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton acted on a long-standing interest in public-private partnerships to elevate and activate an Office of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    The Buy-In Effect: When Increasing Initial Effort Motivates Behavioral Follow-Through

    By: Holly Dykstra, Shibeal O'Flaherty and A.V. Whillans
    Behavioral interventions often focus on reducing friction to encourage behavior change. In contrast, we provide evidence that adding friction can promote long-term behavior change when behaviors involve repeated costly efforts over longer time horizons. In... View Details
    Keywords: Friction; Behavior; Environmental Sustainability; Transportation; Outcome or Result
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    • March 2008
    • Course Overview Note

    Dynamic Markets

    By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
    The Dynamic Markets course at Harvard Business School is organized around the hands-on application of financial decision making in a wide variety of capital market settings. The course relies heavily on in-class simulations of a range of market settings where students... View Details
    Keywords: Value Creation; Decision Making; Capital Markets; Competitive Strategy; Profit; Applications and Software; Information; Strategy; Price; Outcome or Result; Curriculum and Courses; Theory
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    Hiring Organizations

    Capital Tucker's Farm Corporation Tulip Interfaces Turner Contemporary Two Sigma Typeface U U.S. Department of Commerce U.S. Department of the... View Details
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    Program Requirements - Doctoral

    members of the Harvard faculty; one of whom must be in the Department of Economics and one of whom must be from... View Details
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    Application Requirements - Doctoral

    of the application. Institution Codes for PhD Programs GRE: 3451 GMAT: HRL-X8-30 A department code is not required for score submission. International Applications Adequate command View Details
    • Teaching

    Overview

    Laura taught undergraduate Military Leadership and Intro to Sociology for 6 and 4 semesters, respectively, at the United States Military Academy (West Point) from 2013-2016 (see course descriptions and links below). She was promoted from instructor to Assistant... View Details
    • 2016
    • Article

    Penalized Fast Subset Scanning

    By: Skyler Speakman, Sriram Somanchi, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
    We present the penalized fast subset scan (PFSS), a new and general framework for scalable and accurate pattern detection. PFSS enables exact and efficient identification of the most anomalous subsets of the data, as measured by a likelihood ratio scan statistic.... View Details
    Keywords: Disease Surveillance; Likelihood Ratio Statistic; Pattern Detection; Scan Statistic; Mathematical Methods
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    Curriculum - Case Method Project

    wish to use it.] Coverage: 1877 – 1880; post-bellum South; rise of segregated public schools; jury system; race and racism in the criminal justice system; federalism; U.S. Supreme Court; Rives v. Virginia;... View Details
    • 14 Feb 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing

    fast-food restaurant chain that wanted to improve its milkshake sales. The company started by segmenting its market both by product (milkshakes) and by demographics (a marketer's profile of a typical milkshake drinker). Next, the... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Service; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage
    • 26 Jan 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    John Helveston, Boston University