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  • 20 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

Lazonick's theoretical approach to global competition. Lazonick stresses that an innovative enterprise (as differentiated from an optimizing one) becomes successful not just by trying its productive capabilities, but also try creating and... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products
  • 13 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

departments within the firm could query it for answers to questions ranging from optimal pricing to product design. What prevents this from materializing? After all, machine learning is delivering self-driving cars and beating human... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 13 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

director Frank Capra's underdog tales lightened Depression-era despair with irrepressible optimism and laughter. Capra's "fantasies of goodwill" packaged hope for the hopeless. The Cinderella Man, James J. Braddock, was an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

students. Following extensive experimentation, HBS launched the academic year with new hybrid classrooms that could seat up to 25 students in person and the rest remote, optimizing the experience for both groups through the addition of... View Details
  • Teaching Interest

Managing Human Capital: Keeping Hope Alive in Organizations (Not offered 2013-2014)

Managing Human Capital has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the general manager who seeks to manage both other people and his or her own career with optimal effectiveness. Any and all students who believe they will need to effectively manage... View Details

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By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

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The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details
  • TeachingInterests

Managing Human Capital

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal... View Details

  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Every Trick in the Book

Staples before coming to the bookseller, the future of Barnes & Noble lies in brick and mortar, an optimism that he has taken from the recent growth of independent bookstores. “That’s another sign that people do want places to go to buy... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Research Summary

Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

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By: Feng Zhu
Professor Zhu’s research focuses on the design of platform business models and its impact on platform performance. Platforms have become central to our economy. A platform is a product or service that enables two or more customer groups to interact. For example,... View Details
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Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting
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By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

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By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
  • 18 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

Analysts and Research Reports," and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) issued Rule 472, "Communications with the Public." Both were effective in May of 2002, which is subsequent to the data used in our study, but seem to have noticeably affected the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 28 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews

information on sites such as Yelp, eBay, and TripAdvisor. The framework relies on an algorithm set up to tackle bias inherent in reviews by taking into account reviewers who vary in accuracy, stringency, and by reputation. Luca cowrote the paper, View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Food & Beverage
  • 05 Jun 2009
  • Research Event

Business Summit: Niall Ferguson and the Certainty of Uncertainty

Quelch, professor Niall Ferguson offered a historian's view on globalization and the current financial crisis. Neither globalization nor financial crises are new. What may be new is that today's highly efficient global financial system is so View Details
Keywords: Re: John A. Quelch
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

stocking decision, our model is generalizable to other types of capacity investment decisions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-105.pdf Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation Authors:Mikhail Golosov, Maxim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?

Editor's note: This is part of a series of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. Optimism and pessimism are strong, stable traits that reflect our coping strategies. We live in an... View Details