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  • 01 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 1

centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level residual income measures. The use of the latter measure would lead... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2021 (Revised February 2024)
  • Teaching Note

THE YES: Reimagining the Future of E-Commerce with Artificial Intelligence (AI)

By: Ayelet Israeli and Jill Avery
THE YES, a multi-brand shopping app launched in May 2020 offered a new type of buying experience for women’s fashion, driven by a sophisticated algorithm that used data science and machine learning to create and deliver a personalized store for every shopper, based on... View Details
Keywords: Data; Data Analytics; Artificial Intelligence; AI; AI Algorithms; AI Creativity; Fashion; Retail; Retail Analytics; E-Commerce Strategy; Platform; Platforms; Big Data; Preference Elicitation; Predictive Analytics; App Development; ＂Marketing Analytics＂; Advertising; Mobile App; Mobile Marketing; Apparel; Online Advertising; Referral Rewards; Referrals; Female Ceo; Female Entrepreneur; Female Protagonist; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Creativity; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Forecasting and Prediction; Marketing Channels; Digital Marketing; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; AI and Machine Learning; E-commerce; Digital Platforms; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

income exogenously allocated—complementary decisions should be more colocated, whereas substitute decisions should be more distributed. Confident people with a lot at stake should—in a wide range of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jun 2007
  • Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

treatment of corporate income appears to make the United States somewhat anomalous by international standards. By itself, this international experience is informative but hardly decisive as the United States may choose quite different... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
  • 12 Sep 2017
  • First Look

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

2017 Harvard Business Review The Real Reason Uber Is Giving Up in China By: Kirby, William C. Abstract—The article examines the role of the Chinese government in transport firm Uber's decision to sell its China operation to a rival... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

retained its talent; and how Chinese private enterprise can go global. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/415050-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-032 American Well: The DTC Decision In late 2013,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 19

  PublicationsSetting Health Priorities: Strategy versus Tactics Authors:Chu, Michael, David E. Bloom, and Elizabeth Cafiero Publication:Impact: The Magazine of PSI Abstract Health decision makers throughout the world are faced with a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

The Transformers

doubled to approximately $275 billion annually. But the Golden Age of Philanthropy, as some began to call it, risked spending much of that money unproductively. Of the nation’s more than 1.2 million nonprofits, most operated on shoestring budgets. Donors largely based... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

shareholders as a category are not well positioned to guide corporate decisions or to discipline management. They also discuss problems in two other roles shareholders play with respect to corporations, as a source of funds and as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

contemporary circumstances so as to be relevant for managers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52977 Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 17

http://www.whartonsp.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137044852 Institutions and Inequality in Single Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China Authors:Edmund Malesky, Regina M. Abrami, and Yu Zheng Publication:Comparative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jan 2022
  • Blog Post

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

Behavior and Human Decision Processes. The benefits of talking it out Zlatev and colleagues conducted six studies involving a total of about 2,500 participants between 2018 and 2020. The results indicated that: Workers trust colleagues... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 23 Apr 2018
  • News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

which fired Condo’s imagination. He was also excited by the concepts in HBS professor Michael Porter’s watershed 1990 book The Competitive Advantage of Nations. “My decision to study at Harvard was inspired by the idea of teaching and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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financial reporting implications of business decisions and identify key control fault-lines in companies that can lead to fraud. The course is also relevant for students seeking to develop sophisticated financial View Details
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (iii) a coordination problem (lacking perfect foresight, it is unlikely that users will end up buying the same set of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

Capabilities: A Meso Model of Sustained Innovation and Superior Firm Performance By: Harvey, Jean-François, Henrik Bresman, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—This paper complements the manager-centered analysis of dynamic capabilities with a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

Behavior and Human Decision Processes When and Why Randomized Response Techniques (Fail to) Elicit the Truth By: John, Leslie K., George Loewenstein, Alessandro Acquisti, and Joachim Vosgerau Abstract—By adding random noise to individual... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

tax rates at high incomes are lower than in standard analysis and closer to those observed in policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-064.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsHome Depot and Interconnected Retail José... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

backdated stock options, insufficiently independent corporate board members, poor responsiveness to shareholders concerns, and a lack of transparency in the activities and decisions of boards. The AFL-CIO believes that such problems were... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jul 2019
  • News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

to compete with Sprite. So why don't we come up with something called Crystal Pepsi?" And that happened. So it's these decisions to launch products that you think will achieve something but you really don't know why you're doing it. It's... View Details