Natural Field Experiment - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)

business school to potentially save lives. The role requires an understanding of behavioral economics, strategy, organizational behavior, and operations. Thus far in my career, my experiences have primarily been limited to the classroom... View Details

13 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

The problem is that most of us naturally do notice each other's racial differences, regardless of our employer's policy. “Very early on kids get the message that they are not supposed to acknowledge that they notice people's race—often... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

institutions, and more. Additional themes included artificial intelligence, DEI initiatives, and career journeys. The diverse audience emphasized the universal nature of the challenges and opportunities facing women in business today,... View Details

23 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

When Apple launched its latest iPad, experts and nonexperts alike expected it to be dubbed "iPad 3," a natural follow-on to the second-generation iPad 2. Instead, the company called the new iPad just that: "the new... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

founders or senior partners. Significantly, they are more likely to be penalized than white-owned funds when they underperform, and they are less likely to reach fundraising goals. The opaque, risky nature of private equity—whose American... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

Working PapersProduct Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges Are the Benefits Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard Abstract The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the interdisciplinary View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Aug 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

(Experiment 2), and non-suppression (Experiment 3). However, when firms honor these implicit promises, voting can mitigate the disappointment that arises from receiving an undesired outcome (Experiment 4). Finally, Experiment 5 identifies... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2018
News

Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988

She attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges, majoring in art history, a subject that helped her “look at things from many different angles,” she says. “My father was interested in technology and impressed upon me how important it was to business,” adds Johnson,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

Minneapolis. “It was a big decision to stay in Silicon Valley,” Datar says. “The demand for data-science professionals is through the roof, so you have to go where the experts are. Desai credits the success of data science at Target to this team.” View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Standardization of data elements such as diagnosis, labs, interventions, hospitalizations and all other data fields Standardization of measurements, metrics, and methods of collection to allow for data exchange through the whole system 3.... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

material in the Polaroid corporate archives at Baker Library, bringing into focus the formative years and trajectory of the Polaroid Corporation and the career of Edwin Land, whose life, biographer Victor K. McElheny observes, "is a meditation on the View Details

26 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

less individualism. We provide three short models that help interpret this correlation. One implication of this finding is that societies that depend heavily on oil, and perhaps natural resources more generally, will View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Morgan and other established banks that had a hold on heavy industries like steel and railroads were reluctant to invest in riskier emerging fields such as retail—leaving an opening for smaller family firms like Lehman Brothers. “In an... View Details

26 Apr 2022
Book

What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

sends them into the field to help distribute glasses to children in need. The departing team member went to a school in a tough neighborhood in the Bronx to present a new pair of eyeglasses to an eighth grader with severely impaired... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

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Ahmed Alimi

What's a natural childhood ambition? To be an astronaut? A firefighter? For Ahmed Alimi, the attraction was to number crunching. "My parents tell me that as a child, I said I wanted to be an accountant when I grew up. I loved... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

27 Jun 2019
Blog Post

My Week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)

and Microsoft's Bing - and operations management for Benihana Sushi and OXXO. This exposed me to various fields where business skills can have a profound impact. After our classes we were privileged enough to hear from HBS alumni about... View Details

14 Aug 2006
HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

their own beliefs about human nature and leadership. And they are also contemplating this question: Knight or Krzyzewski, whom would you hire? While the deck seems stacked in favor of Coach K, at least under today's standards of behavior,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

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Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences - Health Care

Blasco, Andrea, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Anup Jonchhe, Max Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Ted Natoli, Jin H. Paik, Bryan Briney, Chunlei Wu, Andrew I. Su, Aravind Subramanian, and Karim R. Lakhani More Health Care Research MBA Courses Lab to Market: View Details

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

worldwide, there is now also a concern that the forms in which such claims were delivered, whether in jars or creams, should be relevant to local consumers in each market. Moreover, as global firms experiment with taking new beauty ideals... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

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