Tragedy Of The Commons - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 May 2019
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Ask the Expert: In Security

Illustration by Taylor Callery Remember a decade ago, when the main cybersecurity worry was a retail breach of credit card information? “Obviously that still happens,” says Chris Young (MBA 2003), CEO View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

Millions of Americans, from hourly retail staffers to corporate vice presidents, wrestle with the demands of work while parenting young children, caring for a sick spouse or... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

11 Apr 2023
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Harvard Business Review Announces 2022 HBR Prize Winner

17 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

When is a company not a company? A modern-day Zen koan, maybe, but the evidence is all around us—Airbnb, Elance-oDesk, Handy, HourlyNerd, TaskRabbit, Uber. These businesses seem much more like conglomerations View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Technology

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

grand vision for the unified metaverse, the developers of the proto-metaverses will need to agree on a common set... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

October–December 2022
Article

Achieving Reliable Causal Inference with Data-Mined Variables: A Random Forest Approach to the Measurement Error Problem

By: Mochen Yang, Edward McFowland III, Gordon Burtch and Gediminas Adomavicius

Combining machine learning with econometric analysis is becoming increasingly prevalent in both research and practice. A common empirical strategy involves the application of predictive modeling techniques to "mine" variables of interest from available data, followed... View Details

Keywords: Machine Learning; Econometric Analysis; Instrumental Variable; Random Forest; Causal Inference; AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction

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06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

police to protect the citizens. Olstrom dubbed the phenomenon "co-production." Since then, it has become common for organizations to treat consumers as production partners.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

01 Mar 2008
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Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

TUMULTY: “Rather than challenge voters, politicians look for the lowest common denominator.” In the following article, the first in a series... View Details

Keywords: Government

01 Sep 2011
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The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS

discipline,” says Henderson. “Here at HBS, it’s designed to support faculty working together across disciplines and across the University, and to make sure we’re all aware of each other’s activities and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

28 Jul 2015
Blog Post

Recruiting in the U.S. for International Students: 101

Starting business school meant a lot of “first time” experiences to me: First time living abroad (not to mention moving out of my parents’ house), first time going to school in English, and, View Details

Keywords: All Industries

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

be careful not to prompt the interviewees into saying what they want to hear—a common error that wreaks havoc with the results of customer... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail

11 Dec 2017
News

Leadership Lessons from the Basketball Court

translate well to the business world because, when you strip out the ball and the rules, you're talking about people. You're talking about people coming together as one towards... View Details

14 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing

It is part of the same family of impairments as classic autism and Asperger syndrome. While psychological and medical experts do not agree on its precise contours, nor on how... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services; Computer

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The Inpatient Discharge Lounge as a Potential Mechanism to Mitigate Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding

By: Brian Franklin, Sharif Vakili, Robert S. Huckman, Sarah Hosein, Nicholas Falk, Katherine Cheng, Maria Murray, Sheila Harris, Charles A. Morris and Eric Goralnick

Delayed access to inpatient beds for admitted patients contributes significantly to emergency department (ED) boarding and crowding, which have been associated with deleterious patient safety effects. To expedite inpatient bed availability, some hospitals have... View Details

Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Emergency Room; Operations Improvement; Operations Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Operations; Management; Performance Improvement; Service Operations

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The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog

Take This Course? The course provides a strong conceptual foundation and practical tools for addressing common situations in entrepreneurship. In particular, this course should appeal to anyone interested in... View Details

23 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?

a common misconception that people who buy niche products will have greater loyalty to them," Elberse says. "But I bet that the average viewer who likes to purchase classic black-and-white movies... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation

26 Aug 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

Thanks to the Internet, entrepreneurs are no longer confined to a local geography when building a new business—the world can be their market from day one. But building a startup as a global business requires managers with skills and... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education

28 Feb 2025
News

Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank

This Friday night, Remento enters the Shark Tank. The startup, cofounded by CEO Charlie Greene (MBA 2021) in 2021, will be featured on this week’s episode of the long-running business show, pitching its “no-write life story book” vision to Sharks at 8/7c on ABC. We... View Details

18 Mar 2022
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Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

direction. That's one part of the job that I’ve enjoyed quite a bit, which is reinforcing the message that climate change is something that spans View Details

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

Why would a business school professor want to write a case study about a string quartet? The answer was easy for Robert Austin, a scholar with research expertise in the management View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

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