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Decision Making Under Uncertainty

Many of the decisions we face are made complicated by having uncertain consequences: how should I set my inventory when I don’t know what demand will be, should I refinance my mortgage when rates might go lower, how big a bet shall I make in a new business, and so... View Details

27 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?

gender or racial minority might feel pressure to fill stereotypical roles or represent their entire group. “It was unexpected to us that people would even be willing to put themselves in these situations,” says Chang, noting the vast research showing that people View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

04 Jun 2018
Blog Post

Reapplying to HBS

admitted to HBSmore than two years prior to matriculating? It's difficult enough figuring out life for the next six months, let alone two or three years in the future. In fact, while still in undergrad, I would have preferred to pursue an... View Details

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

beliefs about Covid we collected in 2020, we build a model based on the psychology of selective memory. When a person thinks about an event,... April 2025 Management Science Gender and Preferences for Performance Feedback By: Katherine... View Details

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

applicants are required to take either the GMAT or the GRE. HLS applicants are required to take either the GRE or the LSAT. It is a matter of personal preference in deciding which to take but would also make sense just to take the GRE.... View Details

02 May 2025
Blog Post

How to Work with Search Firms

likely the search firm will be to advocate for you. How Executive Recruiters Build Candidate Pools Recruiters build a pool of candidates for their clients. The size and nature of the pool can vary based on the role, and the client’s View Details

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee

questions so you don’t feel stuck. Questions to Ask Your Manager: What is the preferred mode of communication for certain topics – Slack, Zoom, WhatsApp, phone call, instant message, email? How, and how often, would you like to be kept up... View Details

17 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups

that coaches demonstrate less racial preference when their team is on a losing streak or in playoff games. More than any other American sport, basketball is dominated by African American players. Three-quarters of athletes running up and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

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Enrico Ferrari

learning methodology, Enrico believes, perfectly fits both his experience and his ambitions. "I prefer not to learn exclusively from books. Here, it's cases. You're surrounded by lots of brilliant people; you're learning from the... View Details

Keywords: Tech

31 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do

much more time than they needed, they intentionally slowed their work to fill it, preferring the tedious task to the prospect of doing nothing. Their performance, however, did not improve, no matter how much time they took. They simply... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Architectural Knowledge, and Preferences for Existing Technologies” with J. Lane, Z. Szajnfarber, J. Crusan, and M. Menietti. Himabindu Lakkaraju : Named a 2023 Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences. Jacqueline Ng Lane : Winner... View Details

29 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

declined by about a third at a time when the general market had seen large increases. Factors contributing to these declines were lower-priced competition and a younger customer segment that could afford only used Harleys or that View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

“If I increase your bargaining power over the share of household income you benefit from, I strengthen your position in the household,” she explains. “And, because you’re now in a position to assert your preferences more, traditional... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 May 2020
What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

coverage from Working Knowledge Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Critical Mass for some months was in the process of implementing a new program for remote work called Liquid. Nearly 10 percent of its talent now works from home. The intent is to accommodate those... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Considering Retirement - Alumni

like to have? Are you attracted to stability – or adventure? Some people prefer time for family and hobbies; others want an encore career (perhaps in nonprofit service) that applies the skills they acquired in their previous careers to... View Details

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By: Ayelet Israeli

Professor Israeli utilizes econometric methods and field experiments to study data driven decision making in marketing context. Her research focuses on data-driven marketing, with an emphasis on how businesses can leverage their own data, customer data, and market data... View Details

Keywords: Channel Management; Pricing; Pricing Policies; Online Marketing; E-commerce; Analytics; Econometrics; Field Experiments; Data Analytics; Artificial Intelligence; Value Of Data

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

“shots-in-arms” problem. In the United States, polls suggest that about 40 percent of adults prefer to not take the vaccine. In France, Russia, South Africa, Japan, Italy, Spain, and Germany, between a third and half of adults do not plan... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

24 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

HBS. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/NaY2NjI9Ny4EI4XXDoN7][/div] “There can be important barriers to switching to remote work, even if an employer allows it,” says Luca. Some employees worry that working from home means being passed over for promotions. Other... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

in West Bengal, India, uses a wall-mounted soap dispenser provided by the research team. (Source: Reshmann Hussam) The researchers were also mindful about which type of soap to use in the dispensers. Through pilot tests, they found that people View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 May 2011
What Do You Think?

How Ethical Can We Be?

Tenbrunsel, a professor of business ethics at the University of Notre Dame, argue that something they call bounded ethicality leads "even good people to engage in ethically questionable behavior that contradicts their own preferred... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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