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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
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure

By: Nuno Gil and Carliss Y. Baldwin
This study empirically investigates the relationship between design structure and organization structure in the context of new infrastructure development projects. Our research setting is a capital program to develop new school buildings in the city of Manchester, UK.... View Details
Keywords: Design; Buildings and Facilities; Education
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    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
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    C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

    into “a learning community with shared values and common goals." In the classroom, Christensen was a true artist, like the conductor of a symphony orchestra, as he posed questions to students, listened carefully to their replies, and then responded — all within the... View Details
    • January 2023
    • Teaching Note

    The Opioid Settlement and Executive Pay at AmerisourceBergen

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No 122-014. In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices that critics alleged... View Details
    Keywords: Opioids; Shareholder Activism; Investment Activism; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Executive Compensation; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Distribution Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; West Virginia; Tennessee; Ohio; Pennsylvania
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    • October 2021
    • Article

    Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry

    By: Hong Luo, Jeffrey T. Macher and Michael Wahlen
    We study a novel, low-cost approach to aggregating judgment from a large number of industry experts on ideas that they encounter in their normal course of business. Our context is the movie industry, in which customer appeal is difficult to predict and investment costs... View Details
    Keywords: Judgment Aggregation; Quality Uncertainty; Creative Industry; Project Evaluation And Selection; Creativity; Film Entertainment; Judgments; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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    • October 2009 (Revised December 2010)
    • Case

    GE Money Bank: The M-Budget Card Initiative

    By: Michael L. Tushman, Sebastian Raisch and Christian Welling
    The M-Budget Card case study is about mastering the challenges of an exploratory strategic initiative in a context marked by time pressure and frequent change. M-Budget was the first of a series of highly successful projects that established GE Money Bank as a leader... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Credit Cards; Leading Change; Product Launch; Product Development; Groups and Teams; Banking Industry; Switzerland
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    • August 2007 (Revised November 2010)
    • Case

    Grand Central Publishing

    By: Anita Elberse
    In April 2007, Grand Central's publisher Jamie Raab and editor Karen Kosztolnyik were involved in a frantic bidding war for a proposed book on the life of cat Dewey, billed as the feline answer to the best-selling "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Product Launch; Bids and Bidding; Product Development; Publishing Industry
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    • 17 Jan 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Being the Boss

    now-classic book is popular not just among newbies but also among leaders with decades of experience. “Unless you manage the context in which your team resides, there's no way that your team can be successful.” "I've always been... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 09 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

    different value proposition to a new market context that did not need all of the raw performance offered by the incumbent. They all created massive growth; to flip Joseph Schumpeter's famous phrase, creative destruction, on its head, this... View Details
    Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony
    • 04 Apr 2011
    • HBS Case

    Reinventing the National Geographic Society

    out, in a different organization, perhaps their natural tendency when faced with problem X again is to do Y, but maybe problem X is a little different in this organization and this context than the other one. So maybe this time you don't... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing
    • 30 May 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

    items like toothpaste, yogurt, and wine as well as laptops. More research is needed to understand how GPT might provide useful insight for market researchers working with unique or multifaceted products or services, since language models may require more training and... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 02 Aug 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    J. Richard Hackman (1940-2013)

    Keywords: by Ruth Wageman & Teresa M. Amabile
    • Research Summary

    Customer-Centricity as a Vehicle for Organic Growth

    By: Ranjay Gulati
    This body of work examines the mechanics of how firms grow profitably in commoditizing markets. Underlying the "customer-centricity" that many firms embrace today is a factor that will determine their success with this effort: enabling collaboration across... View Details
    • Working Paper

    The Returns to Skills During the Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

    By: Livia Alfonsi, Vittorio Bassi, Imran Rasul and Elena Spadini
    The Covid-19 pandemic represents one of the most significant labor market shocks to the world economy in recent times. We present evidence from a field experiment to understand whether and why skilled and unskilled workers were differentially impacted by the shock, in... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; System Shocks; Labor; Competency and Skills; Development Economics; Uganda
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    • January–February 2024
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    Shared Service Delivery Can Increase Client Engagement: A Study of Shared Medical Appointments

    By: Ryan W. Buell, Kamalini Ramdas, Nazlı Sönmez, Kavitha Srinivasan and Rengaraj Venkatesh
    Problem Definition: Clients and service providers alike often consider one-on-one service delivery to be ideal, assuming – perhaps unquestioningly – that devoting individualized attention best improves client outcomes. In contrast, in shared service delivery, clients... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Customer Satisfaction; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement
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    • April 2012
    • Case

    Renesas Electronics and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A)

    By: Willy Shih and Margaret Pierson
    The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011 caused extensive damage to Renesas Electronics wafer fabrication facility, a critical link in the global automotive supply chain. Many OEMs sole-sourced customized microprocessors from the fab, so its... View Details
    Keywords: Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Supply Chain Management; Production; Strategy; Semiconductor Industry; Auto Industry; Japan
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    • 18 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

    Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
    Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing
    • 25 Nov 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    When Your Passion Works Against You

    being persistent, he says. But that behavior worked against Jachimowicz when he moved to the United States, where his quiet determination prompted American colleagues to question whether he had enough passion for the work. “That made me realize that the View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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    Courses - Private Capital Project

    firm's effectiveness throughout the deal process in the context of tax reforms, regulatory uncertainties, and global market volatility. The curriculum addresses issues pertaining to industry infrastructure, portfolio management, and... View Details