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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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  • 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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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
  • 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
  • Web

Employment | Harvard Business School

Employment Join our diverse team of inspiring professionals whose work is centered around our commitment to educate future leaders. View Jobs 1,761 Staff Positions 233 Faculty Positions (Full-Time Equivalent) Staff Positions Over 15 View Details
  • 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
  • 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
  • Web

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
  • 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
  • 01 Nov 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?

(iStockphoto/skynesher) Most CEOs recognize the power of organizational culture and the impact that it can have on the bottom line. They acknowledge the importance of shared values and behaviors that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

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
  • 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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  • 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
  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

had both Dutch and British members, and directors and functional departments were based in both countries and had managerial responsibilities without regard for the formality of N.V. or Ltd./PLC ownership.... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
  • Web

Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

a monopoly, yet a 2024 Department of Justice decision determined that they had violated it. Live Nation Entertainment CEO faces the decision to reverse its merger with... View Details
  • 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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    U.S. Digital Service

    Mikey Dickerson and Haley Van Dyck found themselves far from home and far from certain about where to take the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) next. In the summer of 2015, they had landed in London to meet with Mike Bracken, director of the United Kingdom’s... View Details
    • 29 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

    lost critical people in the background who make this whole thing work. Gazette: Twitter has been under a consent decree for over a decade over data privacy and security violations. Back in May, the company had to pay the Department View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
    • 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
    • Article

    Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Team Structures Enable Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups

    By: Melissa A. Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson
    This paper shows how mesolevel structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We... View Details
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Health Care and Treatment; Cooperation; Health Industry
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