Automated Driving - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

looking to hire. Holding contests to seek advice from the crowd may help companies fill the need for innovative answers more cheaply and quickly. “Contests create incentives and drive parallel search,” Lakhani said. “What you want when... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

managers substantial benefits that would be difficult to realize without the ERP IT infrastructure. Q: Must a company have an ERP system in place to use time-driven activity-based costing? A: Clearly, having an automated data feed... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

sensitive to the solicited person’s gender, with women responding more than men. These results shed light on the factors that drive employees’ engagement in organizational tasks, beyond regular duties, and provide insights on how to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

beyond West Wind, he passes the high-tunnel greenhouses that Pine Mountain provides to local farmers. “In many ways, it’s like running a small town,” says Marietta, casting his eye across the potato fields and chicken coop that help supply the school’s kitchen. And... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

23 Aug 2016
First Look

August 23, 2016

over time. Two lab studies replicate our main findings and show that behavioral biases due to differences in perceptions of expertise drive the effect. Our research contributes not only to operations research, but also to the practice of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

Competition drives the supply of services with a low level of disclosure, since some customers will choose to pay more for a service in exchange for keeping their personal information under wraps. Competition ensures that services that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

scholars who focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task-enhancing port security across the United States. This title considers the challenge of driving change in a complex system involving hundreds of private... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Nov 2020
News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

Automation in Zurich, Switzerland. More importantly, I love my work every day. It turns out that committing myself to serve others was more important than an impressive ceremony I missed, and somehow, what looked like a detour in my... View Details

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

putting an automated pollution meter at a factory’s fence line—compares to actual inspections in gaining compliance. Toffel agrees: “The question of which approach is more effective is a perfect one for scholars to pursue. I hope someone... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Forsythe stories feature a talented African American man, wrongfully imprisoned, who becomes a successful drug lord. The Carmichael stories feature two generations of Swedish immigrants in upstate New York, facing—or avoiding—the challenges that industrialization and... View Details

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

some of the interest rate risk. In the 1990s a couple of things happened that set the stage for where we are today: There emerged automated underwriting and credit scoring. All of a sudden the world of the deposit-taking institution, your... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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is driving unprecedented levels of investment in IT. Globally, IT investments exceed $2.5 trillion, while in the United States, over 50% of capital expenditures are related to IT. These technologies are transforming organizations,... View Details

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), Chairman of 5F World, Lighthouse Communities Foundation, and Honeywell Automation India. Navaldi’s highlighted contributions include “delivering medicines, oxygen concentrators, and medical supplies to... View Details

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