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  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

profitability, cash flow, and capital investment. But this information is enough to enable managers to focus on long-term issues that are fundamental to the business's success—for example, why customers are leaving or what's wrong with a... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 8, 2016

global information and communication technology company. The case ends with the location decision between Tokyo, Japan, downtown San Francisco or Sunnyvale, California, regarding establishing a small unit for the purpose of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

board performance even more difficult. Effective boards are those that take the initiative to design clear and focused forward-looking agendas, concentrating board energy on a company's specific value drivers, and then employing tools and View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
  • Web

Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn and Robin J. Ely This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. organizations and to inform an approach for disrupting it. We treat... View Details
  • 03 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

the 2018-19 shutdown) organizations. Some firms with seasonal business, such as landscaping companies, use furloughs regularly. Furloughed workers generally keep their benefits, such as health insurance, but are still eligible to file for... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • Blog

Leading Successful Digital Transformation

information exchange. Growth can also come by leveraging existing capabilities to enter completely new businesses. Alibaba started Taoboa, where buyers and sellers exchanged goods. However, to solve the... View Details
  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract The U.S. has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that intensively use View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

anthropological database of more than 1,200 pre-industrial societies, and links these historic conditions to modern data, such as the Standard Demographic and Health Surveys, which offer large-scale household survey data worldwide. These... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 27 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

relationships with the right people. This crisis presents an opportunity for the CEO to communicate to all employees, including new hires, that the company cares about them and is prioritizing their health and safety during the pandemic.... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg
  • 13 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

These industries include investment banking, consulting, and high technology. In high-ambiguity industries, such as telecommunications, real estate, health services, and media, standards for starting salaries were less evident.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn
  • 16 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

the ad and be taken to a Web site where she can learn more about the product and purchase it. The entire process—from ad to purchase—might take less than five minutes. In addition to streamlining the flow of information and transactions,... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 04 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

Care Units. I came to school passionate about access and equity in health care, and curious about systemic barriers to resources that allow communities to live healthy lives. As soon as I got to campus though, I realized I had no idea how... View Details
  • Web

2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Celebration Dean Srikant Datar: Welcome Address Video Recording + More Info – Less Info Hear an update on the Dean’s key priorities, which will strengthen and accelerate the School’s impact in the world. Faculty Presentations Can Evidence-Based View Details
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

that decays over time, similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

ICIC - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated Organizations & Institutions ICHOM VBHCD... View Details
  • 18 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!

Marketers can make a bottle of sugar water look like golden elixir. Can health advocates sour the taste for consumers? (SteveDF) San Francisco is in a three-year battle with the American Beverage Industry over whether soda companies can... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Public Relations
  • 06 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

Remember the old saying: "It is not the size of the dog in the fight. It is the size of the fight in the dog." Gauging asymmetries is so essential to predicting outcomes because the availability of information about a threat or... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth
  • April 12, 2022
  • Article

Evaluation of Individual and Ensemble Probabilistic Forecasts of COVID-19 Mortality in the United States

By: Estee Y. Cramer, Evan L. Ray, Velma K. Lopez, Johannes Bracher, Andrea Brennen, Alvaro J. Castro Rivadeneira, Michael Lingzhi Li and et al.
Short-term probabilistic forecasts of the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States have served as a visible and important communication channel between the scientific modeling community and both the general public and decision-makers. Forecasting models... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Forecasting and Prediction; Health Pandemics; Mathematical Methods; Partners and Partnerships
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  • 21 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54887 forthcoming Production and Operations Management The Operational Value of Social Media Information By: Cui, Ruomeng, Santiago Gallino, Antonio Moreno, and Dennis J. Zhang... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman