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  • 24 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 24

Change Authors:Chonnikarn Fern Jira and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Suppliers are increasingly being asked to share information about their vulnerability to climate change and their strategies to reduce... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence

By: Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
Dominant platform businesses often develop products in adjacent markets to complement their core business. One common approach used to gain traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer... View Details
Keywords: Tying; Platform Strategy; Google; Product; Quality; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Market Entry and Exit
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  • 2022
  • Article

Which Explanation Should I Choose? A Function Approximation Perspective to Characterizing Post hoc Explanations

By: Tessa Han, Suraj Srinivas and Himabindu Lakkaraju
A critical problem in the field of post hoc explainability is the lack of a common foundational goal among methods. For example, some methods are motivated by function approximation, some by game theoretic notions, and some by obtaining clean visualizations. This... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Decision Choices and Conditions; Analytics and Data Science
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  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

future others will share their view than to believe that future others will have an opposing view (e.g., opposition to President Trump). Six studies demonstrated this belief in a favorable future (BFF) for political views, scientific... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Ikenna Okezie

company that would give patients online access to their medical records. "Physicians don't always share enough information about a patient's status and treatment, which makes many patients anxious at a time... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 17 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

of subduing individuality and ensuring conformity. Culture offers an inexpensive and informal way of regulating behavior that is all the more effective because it occurs inside the minds of employees and relies on peer pressure as a... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

PRIMO: Private Regression in Multiple Outcomes

By: Seth Neel
We introduce a new differentially private regression setting we call Private Regression in Multiple Outcomes (PRIMO), inspired the common situation where a data analyst wants to perform a set of l regressions while preserving privacy, where the covariates... View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods
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  • 18 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

was charged with learning from these experiences as well. Today, CALL observation teams are among the first troops on the ground in any Army operation. They collect on-the-spot information about new practices and techniques, identify... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
  • 28 Mar 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

new employment, given the need for significant productivity improvement necessary to reverse the outflow of manufacturing activity from a developed economy. Peter Hogan reminded us that "manufacturers' share of GDP (in the US) has been... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

hierarchy." The two systems work as one constant flow of information and activity. The approach succeeds partly because the people who volunteer for the network are already working within the hierarchy. The five principles are only part... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 24 May 2017
  • News

David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

and support each other. While the outcomes have often been devastating, the families remain close. “It is a shared experience,” says Bradley, noting that one mother called him “our Schindler,” a compliment that still brings tears to his... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • Web

Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

your funding decisions on your future. Personal support Exploring and resolving all the above issues can be an exhausting and even lonely process. Take care of yourself by taking pains to create and sustain a network of support, including an View Details
  • 26 Jun 2013
  • News

How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case

partnerships, collaborations, and sharing pieces of the pie." Moving quickly in a short-opportunity window is another lesson of the case, says Reiss, who also cites the critical importance of the sales function, something seldom taught at... View Details
Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 24 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

distance in some ways, it has grown it in others. As the authors observe, “For example, while information technology may be an effective means of coordinating ongoing projects and collaborations, it may be less effective as a means of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
  • Web

A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details
  • 16 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

After providing information about its business and goals, a company sponsors a tournament of successive rounds where designers submit proposals to capture the winner-take-all award. Following each round, designers can modify their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 31 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

policies that amount to a “fragmented insurance system” that leaves 10 percent of the population uninsured, according to research by Harvard Business School Professor Amitabh Chandra. “The United States spends substantially more on health care than most developed... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health
  • 07 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

and how likely each outcome is, conveying richer information related to business decisions. Its use is on the rise, but businesses are still learning how best to leverage it. Examples of this technique are everywhere. When meteorologists... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

being a modest market for British textiles into an expanding market not only for textiles, but for British iron and steel, machinery and coal. 1 However the transport and communication improvements also threatened merchant intermediaries by reducing uncertainty and... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 11 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

expect to deal, to feel like they are getting the best price possible. “The dealers argue that they set the price, that Lexus is just the manufacturer,” Schlesinger says. In reality, in the current arrangement, dealers enjoy an View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto