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  • Research Summary

Overview

The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details
  • 12 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

and sales advice. He changed the structure of his company and figured out the manufacturing challenges (all in the midst of the pandemic – no small feat). Now Harvard is looking to install one of his chargers on the HBS campus. Here’s how... View Details
  • 18 Nov 2022
  • HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

Mehta in the HBS case study “Brown Capital Management.” At a time when many companies are seeking to address deep structural racism, Brown’s methods may provide an important blueprint. “An important question for organizations is how to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

state lasts, we may see a shift away from static organizational structures toward dynamic team forms. This only works well under conditions of psychological safety, when leaders have made it crystal clear that every team member is welcome... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 3

field and other business fields complements the contributions from industrial organization economics (IO). These business fields also offer theoretical and empirical challenges to the IO paradigm, which dominates antitrust analysis. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Winter 2016
  • Article

Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization

By: Kris J. Ferreira, Bin Hong Alex Lee and David Simchi-Levi
We present our work with an online retailer, Rue La La, as an example of how a retailer can use its wealth of data to optimize pricing decisions on a daily basis. Rue La La is in the online fashion sample sales industry, where they offer extremely limited-time... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Price; Forecasting and Prediction; Revenue; Sales; Retail Industry
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    Myra M. Hart

    Myra Hart's research focus is high potential entrepreneurship.  She has taught MBA and executive programs, co-chaired the entrepreneurship unit, and led several HBS initiatives. As a founding memberView Details

    Keywords: e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry
    • July 2011 (Revised August 2011)
    • Supplement

    Renewing GE: The Africa Project (B)

    By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary
    This case continues the story of the evolution of GE's business initiatives Africa. Between November 2010 and March 2011 several significant structural changes and leadership appointments were announced at GE, which reflected the company's commitment to global growth... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Restructuring; Multinational Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Consumer Products Industry; Hong Kong; Africa; Republic of Ireland
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services

    By: Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton
    Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the number of projects completed by, a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership... View Details
    Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Performance Improvement; Projects; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Information Technology Industry; India
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    • 15 Jul 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: July 15

    (Search-Based Peers or SBPs) are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In direct tests, SBPs dominate GICS6 industry peers in explaining cross-sectional variations in base firms' out-of-sample (a) stock returns, (b) valuation... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 06 Sep 2022
    • Blog Post

    Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

    alternatives to factory-farmed meat. They are recreating muscle fiber structure using plant ingredients and building a food and material science innovation platform that will create step-change improvement in meat alternative product... View Details
    • 2023
    • Article

    Dynamic HTA for Digital Health Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges for Patient-Centered Evaluation

    By: Jan B. Brönneke, Annika Herr, Simon Reif and Ariel D. Stern
    Germany’s 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (Digitale-Versorgung-Gesetz, or DVG) created a number of opportunities for the digital transformation of the health care delivery system. Key among these was the creation of a reimbursement pathway for patient-centered digital... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Transformation; Applications and Software; Product Development; Insurance; Policy; Health Industry; Germany
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study in Two Financial Institutions

    By: Matthew Hall, Anette Mikes and Yuval Millo
    This paper, based on a five-year longitudinal study at two UK-based banks, documents and analyzes the practices used by risk managers as they aim to gather and establish influence in their organizations. Specifically, we examine how influence-seeking risk managers (1)... View Details
    Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Risk Management; Strategic Planning; Power and Influence; Business Strategy; Banking Industry
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    • 22 Oct 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

    data, the algorithm learns to predict the outcome from the input data. Unsupervised learning. In this case, using unlabeled data, the algorithm learns the inherent structure from the input data. Either machine learning approach is only as... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 12 Mar 2021
    • News

    My Favorite Case

    oil industry. I came full circle with both of those cases, having spent my career in the oil industry and as CEO of a company involved in the Macondo well disaster in 2010. Going through the Macondo crisis and looking back on the... View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • April 2020
    • Case

    The Board's Role in Refocusing Bahrain Development Bank

    By: Paul M. Healy and Alpana Thapar
    In March 2016, Bahrain Development Bank’s (BDB) existing board term came to an end and Khalid Al Rumaihi was appointed the new chairman. Determining a need for change, he immediately overhauled the board and replaced BDB’s long-standing CEO. The new board quickly... View Details
    Keywords: Board Of Directors; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Banking Industry; Bahrain
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    • Web

    Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    Hanson , Jeremy C. Stein & Adi Sunderam JULY 2020 The authors provide a framework for understanding how the detailed structure of financial intermediation impacts foreign exchange rates. They develop a model in which specialized bond... View Details
    • 21 Feb 2005
    • Op-Ed

    Is Business Management a Profession?

    empirical analysis to be more than sketched in this paper. It is also a field that has not yet taken management as a central subject of empirical study. We shall therefore deal only with some of the central problems of the structure of... View Details
    Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
    • 11 Mar 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    pioneered new industries, from jute manufacture in India and cotton textile manufacture in China, to the oil industry in California."The improvements in transport and communications from the 1870s resulted in opportunities and... View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
    • Blog

    Is AI Coming for Your Job?

    experts perform their work. Yes, certain tasks can be completed correctly and completely by AI, but for those types of tasks we will see something like the Industrial Revolution, where people's jobs changed, and they were able to use new... View Details