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- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
Lawrence noted years ago, is "the vehicle by which a chunk of reality is brought into the classroom to be worked over by the class and the instructor." Most cases require students to assume the... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
Coca-Cola put its collective mind to something, it got it done. Apparently, not so fast. Current and former Coca-Cola executives cited several factors that in 2010 began to erode the once-expanding proportion View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
simple to complex, the present paper builds on that work. It illustrates several classes of practical measures that negotiators can use to advance their own interests by focusing on the other side's Level II... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408003 Offshoring Day in BGIE and Strategy Harvard Business School Note 708-492 Describes a set of activities in which students will participate before and during a day View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
customer-to-customer communications promote different types of usage? We study these questions using two data sets and by developing a multivariate hierarchical Poisson hidden Markov model (HMM), which fits the data significantly better... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
securitization of other asset classes because securitized loans are fractions of syndicated loans. Therefore, mechanisms used to align incentives in a lending syndicate are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
2014 report from Boston Consulting Group, some two-thirds of total growth in the grocery sector has come from "responsible consumption" products. For example, organic grocer Whole Foods' annual revenues have increased steadily in the past... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
forecast less extreme)? To answer these questions, we introduce a class of optimal aggregators. These aggregators are Bayesian ensembles because they follow from a Bayesian model View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
Field Research Out of the classroom, Ashraf has been walking the talk by incorporating co-production into her own field research. In 2010 Ashraf was part of a research team... View Details
- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
everyone in the class is calculating what each minute of class time is costing them? One study found that between 2015 and 2017, only 16 percent View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
before it turned profitable." The HBS Class of 1979 produced a raft of high-profile executives, including Meg Whitman, president and CEO of... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
of the American Marketing Association's 2010 Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award. The power of "The Rings"—the brand power of... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
We all know how political influence works: company X donates money to politician Y, and then that pol leans on regulator Z to go easy on his new best friend. In economic parlance, that circle of back-scratching is known as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
direction. The only reason LAYC knew this was because it collected information on participants' attitudes both before and after the program. It was very transparent of LAYC to admit this, and it was able to make changes (in this case,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
has encountered several hiccups in recent years that have put the timing of its implementation in question, leading Rebecca M. Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, to get students thinking during a View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
panel discussion held at Harvard Business School, where several experts talked about how to treat the troubled industry at a time when the year-old Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 is... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
conducted a series of experiments in cooperation with her PhD advisor at Dartmouth College, psychology professor Thalia Wheatley. (They detail their findings in The Tipping Point of Animacy: How, When, and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
both companies had to learn how to cope with the increasing interest in their business—not only by their traditional shareholders but also by new classes of share- and stakeholders. Total, for example, is... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
at the US Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The pandemic has made it clear that this must change. Richard Hamermesh (@RHamermesh) is a Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost