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- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
digitally literate, right? In actuality, our research highlighted that none of these characteristics matter as much as you might think when it comes to leading digital transformation. In fact, 71 percent of 1,500 executives we surveyed in... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Design of Panel Experiments with Spatial and Temporal Interference
By: Tu Ni, Iavor Bojinov and Jinglong Zhao
One of the main practical challenges companies face when running experiments (or A/B tests) over a panel is interference, the setting where one experimental unit's treatment assignment at one time period impacts another's outcomes, possibly at the following time... View Details
Keywords: Research
Ni, Tu, Iavor Bojinov, and Jinglong Zhao. "Design of Panel Experiments with Spatial and Temporal Interference." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-058, March 2024.
- Web
Impact Investments
sector. Recent Research What Do Impact Investors Do Differently? By Shawn Cole, Leslie Jeng, Josh Lerner, Natalia Rigol, Benjamin Roth The Project on Impact Investments’ Impact Investment Database By Burton, M. Diane, Shawn Cole, Abhishek... View Details
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Leadership Initiative - Leadership
cutting-edge research and course development projects about leadership and leadership development, both within Harvard Business School and through collaborations with other organizations. We foster a global conversation that addresses the... View Details
- Web
About the Project - Managing the Future of Work
1955 Professor of Business Administration Joseph B. Fuller Professor of Management Practice Raffaella Sadun Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration Staff Manjari Raman Senior Program Director and Senior View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
Steven wrote over 1,000 pages of blogs to communicate with his team. This provided an incredible wealth of information from which to draw and synthesize what we now believe are some pretty interesting insights. The book combines a selection of Steven's blogs with View Details
- Research Summary
The Toyota Production System: Rules for Activity, Connection, and Pathway Design and Improvement
Researchers have established that Toyota enjoys advantages in cost, quality, lead time, and flexibility when compared to its competitors in automobile assembly. Differences in generating value have been attributed to differences between the Toyota Production System... View Details
- 07 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success
emphasized the need to plan for continual upgrading of technology, organizational capabilities, and talent. With these dueling considerations in mind, we distilled our research findings into seven guiding principles for digital... View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
innovation in which an innovator uses several research inputs to invent a new good. These inputs, in turn, must be invented before they can be used by the final innovator. As a consequence, the degree of patent protection affects the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) is sharing Working Knowledge articles to further educate our recruiting partners about best practices in human resources. Employee orientation programs ought to be less about the company and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 2009
- Working Paper
Altruistic Dynamic Pricing with Customer Regret
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
A model is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of price changes and this can explain why the size of price increases is less... View Details
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
together effectively is the key to developing world class service delivery." The results of their research not only illustrate the relationships among the elements, but also highlight various factors within each element (for example,... View Details
- September 2010 (Revised December 2012)
- Case
Assembling Smartphones: Takt Time ≠ Cycle Time?
By: Willy Shih and Ethan Bernstein
The case was prepared to be used as part of a process review in the first year Technology and Operations Management course at HBS. It offers students an opportunity to discuss the context of a manufacturing process choice, and then examine actual production numbers... View Details
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Research and Development; Design; Six Sigma; Measurement and Metrics; Production
Shih, Willy, and Ethan Bernstein. "Assembling Smartphones: Takt Time ≠ Cycle Time?" Harvard Business School Case 611-012, September 2010. (Revised December 2012.)
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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
organized around medical conditions over the full cycle of care and delivered in integrated practice units (IPUs) . Integrated practice units will achieve scope and scale by growing locally and... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
murders – George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery – are preceded by a nearly unbroken thread of terror and oppression that has been imposed on Black Americans. So, what I want to share with the HBS community is simple. I. If you can’t fathom how this happened,... View Details
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Japan - Global
addition, he managed a corporate governance practice group and oversaw the firm's Japan-based industry sector research team. Prior to Egon Zehnder, Nobuo worked for 15 years in the Tokyo and London offices... View Details
- 03 Sep 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Supply Chain Screening Without Certification: The Critical Role of Stakeholder Pressure
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
framework for understanding the links between manufacturing and innovation that will enable them to make better outsourcing decisions. They also detail how government must change its support of basic and applied scientific research and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
August. The program provides an overview of Harvard Business School and a window into research and research support at the School, the case method, and the classroom experience. Teaching faculty join study... View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
Deterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears
By: Benjamin Edelman
Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud can be well-hidden, and limited reputation systems reduce accountability. But partners are not paid until after their work is complete, and advertisers can... View Details
Keywords: Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Online Advertising; Profit; Corporate Accountability; Partners and Partnerships; Mathematical Methods
Edelman, Benjamin. "Deterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-072, February 2008. (Revised August 2008, October 2008, February 2009.)