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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
COO but also runs the company’s engineering efforts as the former CTO. The company expects secondhand clothing to develop into a $90 billion market in the next decade and grow faster than any other channel. Part of that may also be fueled... View Details
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Eduardo Avalos
would run through the grape fields, ride the tractors, and eat strawberries from the fields in which they were grown. Having grown up in a city, I developed a fond love for the countryside, for the beauty of farming communities, and for... View Details
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Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp - Research Computing Services
Technical How-To’s & Notes Technical How-To’s & Notes Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp The Problem: On not-so-rare occasions, Stata creates problems on our cluster due its usage of temporary files. When launching Stata, when running... View Details
- 16 May 2023
- In Practice
After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?
investments and triggered a run on deposits, gave pause to startup investors and also holds lessons for founders going forward. Harvard Business School faculty suggest some key takeaways for the startup ecosystem as the dust settles and... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
the long run had not been built. Equally ineffective was Champion's pure Theory O strategy: A more effective organization that still does not create economic wealth for its shareholders will not long survive. Indeed, Champion was acquired... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
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A Prescriptive Analytics Framework for Optimal Policy Deployment Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
By: Edward McFowland III, Sandeep Gangarapu, Ravi Bapna and Tianshu Sun
We define a prescriptive analytics framework that addresses the needs of a constrained decision-maker facing, ex ante, unknown costs and benefits of multiple policy levers. The framework is general in nature and can be deployed in any utility maximizing context, public... View Details
Keywords: Prescriptive Analytics; Heterogeneous Treatment Effects; Optimization; Observed Rank Utility Condition (OUR); Between-treatment Heterogeneity; Machine Learning; Decision Making; Analysis; Mathematical Methods
McFowland III, Edward, Sandeep Gangarapu, Ravi Bapna, and Tianshu Sun. "A Prescriptive Analytics Framework for Optimal Policy Deployment Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects." MIS Quarterly 45, no. 4 (December 2021): 1807–1832.
- March 2017
- Case
Cantel Medical
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Cantel Medical Corporation provided infection prevention and control products and services for patients, caregivers, and other healthcare providers. In 2016, Cantel generated sales of $665 million and net profits of $60 million, double the levels of five years earlier.... View Details
Keywords: Cantel; Charles Diker; Furniture Industry; Matrix Organization; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Chemicals; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Business History; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development; Opportunities; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Information Technology; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Health Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; New Jersey
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Cantel Medical." Harvard Business School Case 717-482, March 2017.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Don't Just Survive - Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad
By: Lynda M. Applegate and J. Bruce Harreld
Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global financial crisis provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Risk Management; Leading Change; Innovation and Management; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy
Applegate, Lynda M., and J. Bruce Harreld. "Don't Just Survive - Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-127, April 2009. (Revised May 2009.)
- 23 Sep 2015
- HBS Seminar
Ohad Barzilay, Tel Aviv University
A Prescriptive Analytics Framework for Optimal Policy Deployment Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
We define a prescriptive analytics framework that addresses the needs of a constrained decision-maker facing, ex ante, unknown costs and benefits of multiple policy levers. The framework is general in nature and can be deployed in any utility maximizing... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
we’re planning to run a randomized evaluation to understand the impact of these kinds of loans on livelihoods. But this is not a research-first project; it is a practice-first project. One of our principal motivations is to develop a set... View Details
- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
to leave payment for their hosts' servants at the end of their stay as a way of compensating for the extra work their visit created. Today, most people in Western societies draw a distinct line between tipping and bribery, and the fact that the two are linked View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Financing Risk and Bubbles of Innovation
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
years ago. Most markets are one-sided in nature—customers interested in buying running shoes, for example. But a multi-sided market involves more players—and each has its own interests to be served. Multi-sided markets are also... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
in the South and North would function as end points, delivering and receiving goods at key port cities. The ship would be responsible for the majority of the travel—leaving the trucks to conduct short, mostly intrastate runs generally... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
practical capacity is grossly in error, the process of running the time-driven ABC system will reveal the error over time. The capacity of most resources is measured in terms of time availability. Returning to our example, let's assume... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It
is inevitably beyond our control, that we shouldn't waste our time wondering why things are the way they are, and that we should just put our heads down and keep running around the maze chasing after cheese. Q: Your book seems to be about... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
In Crisp’s era, the Written Analysis of Cases was a biweekly ritual: “That was the most exciting place to be in Boston on a Saturday night, watching people run with their papers to put them in the Baker Library chute by 9 p.m.” Dear sir:... View Details
- 07 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay
involving the Family Dollar chain, a court awarded $35 million to 1,425 employees who missed out on overtime pay due to “fabricated job titles,” the study notes. While many employees had titles like “store manager,” they were actually spending as much as 60 to 90 hours... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis