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- 2019
- Article
Can Big Data Improve Firm Decision Quality? The Role of Data Quality and Data Diagnosticity
By: Maryam Ghasemaghaei and Goran Calic
Anecdotal evidence suggests that, despite the large variety of data, the huge volume of generated data, and the fast velocity of obtaining data (i.e., big data), quality of big data is far from perfect. Therefore, many firms defer collecting and integrating big data as... View Details
Ghasemaghaei, Maryam, and Goran Calic. "Can Big Data Improve Firm Decision Quality? The Role of Data Quality and Data Diagnosticity." Decision Support Systems 120 (2019): 38–49.
- May 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Together for Sustainability
This case documents the origin and development of Together for Sustainability (TfS), a chemical industry initiative dedicated to raising sustainability standards throughout the industry’s supply chains. In 2011, six Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) from some of the... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Standards; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Accountability; Chemical Industry
Gulati, Ranjay, David Shin, and Emily Tedards. "Together for Sustainability." Harvard Business School Case 424-062, May 2024. (Revised June 2024.)
- September 30, 2019
- Article
Climate Change and Our Emerging Cultural Shift
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Today, we have made climate change trivial by making its solutions easy, looking for simple answers that are palatable, generally framing it in the language of commerce. In the long run, it won’t work. There is no technological or political silver bullet to solving our... View Details
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Climate Change and Our Emerging Cultural Shift." Behavioral Scientist (September 30, 2019).
- September 2021 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Bühler: Mobilizing Industry around a Common Purpose
By: Ranjay Gulati, Franz Wohlgezogen and Malini Sen
Bühler Group, a Swiss multinational processing technology provider, started by selling machines for processing grains and later transitioned into selling food processing solutions. A family-owned business in the fifth generation, Bühler’s high-end milling, grinding,... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Customer Focus and Relationships; Machinery and Machining; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Innovation Leadership; Switzerland
Gulati, Ranjay, Franz Wohlgezogen, and Malini Sen. "Bühler: Mobilizing Industry around a Common Purpose." Harvard Business School Case 822-001, September 2021. (Revised March 2024.)
- Research Summary
Overview
Navid has worked with different organizations across various industries, from the Federal Reserve to medical device manufacturers, heavy construction equipment sellers, and B2B software providers, to assemble proprietary datasets in studying organizational buying.... View Details
- June 2024
- Case
Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project
By: Richard S. Ruback, Matthew Preble, Ruth Page and Dave Habeeb
Vinalhaven is an island community located approximately 12 miles off the coast of Maine. The island has a year-round population of about 1,300 people as of 2022, with an additional 3,000 people who reside on the island in the summer months. The two largest industries... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Natural Resources; Natural Environment; Weather; Sustainable Cities; Forecasting and Prediction; Construction; Property; Infrastructure; Capital Budgeting; Projects; Project Finance; Negotiation; United States; Maine
Ruback, Richard S., Matthew Preble, Ruth Page, and Dave Habeeb. "Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 224-735, June 2024.
- 04 Jan 2024
- News
Great Heights
of women who can make “summit attempts” together. So far, her clients have secured multiple promotions and a collective $1.6 million in salary increases. CareerClimb’s own next step is to use artificial intelligence to reverse-engineer... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
October 2017 Management Science The Size of the LGBT Population and the Magnitude of Anti-Gay Sentiment Are Substantially Underestimated By: Coffman, Katherine Baldiga, Lucas C. Coffman, and Keith M. Marzilli Ericson Abstract—We demonstrate that widely used measures of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industry
- March 2022
- Case
The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program: 2009-2021
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Julia Kelley
In December 2021, more than a decade after its founding, Goldman Sachs’s 10,000 Small Businesses program was still going strong — and the firm now needed to evaluate potential program modifications to reach a wider group of small business owners. Launched in the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Small Business; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Government and Politics; Knowledge; Knowledge Dissemination; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Programs; Networks; Social Enterprise; Society; Strategy; Demographics; Diversity; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Julia Kelley. "The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program: 2009-2021." Harvard Business School Case 322-052, March 2022.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Mobilizing Culture for Public Action: Community Participation and Child Rights in Rural Uttar Pradesh
By: Akshay Mangla
Community-based initiatives that work to empower the poor and promote their participation have gained strong support among scholars and practitioners of development. Yet the questionable assumptions about culture and development that inform these initiatives render it... View Details
Mangla, Akshay. "Mobilizing Culture for Public Action: Community Participation and Child Rights in Rural Uttar Pradesh." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-100, April 2014.
- April 2009 (Revised July 2009)
- Module Note
Delivering Personally on Responsibility
How can individuals equip themselves to exercise leadership in the face of moral adversity? This six-session module aims to prepare students to meet moral responsibility when it is simultaneously most essential and most difficult. Moral adversity refers to situations... View Details
Margolis, Joshua D. "Delivering Personally on Responsibility." Harvard Business School Module Note 409-093, April 2009. (Revised July 2009.)
- June 2008
- Article
The Multiunit Enterprise
By: David A. Garvin and Lynne C. Levesque
A multiunit enterprise is a geographically dispersed organization built from standard units (stores, restaurants, or branches) that are aggregated into larger geographic groupings (districts, regions, and divisions). Although this organizational structure has become... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Global Range; Research; Business Ventures; Problems and Challenges; Business or Company Management; Business Headquarters; Organizational Design; Talent and Talent Management; Goals and Objectives
Garvin, David A., and Lynne C. Levesque. "The Multiunit Enterprise." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 6 (June 2008).
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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
School (A resource center for negotiation and alternative dispute resolution) INSEAD Kellogg Case Collection Northwestern University Ivey Publishing Richard Ivey School of Business Stanford Entrepreneurship Case Studies Stanford Graduate... View Details
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Generative AI - Alumni
Intelligence Guidelines Baker Library Generative AI Newsletter Career Masterclass Collection The Career Masterclass Collection is a a suite of online courses to help you master the most important job search... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
How Can I Prepare to Apply for Financial Aid at HBS?
at Shad (our gym) - the Cost of Attendance covers only modest entertainment/social costs and does not have an allowance for significant leisure travel. 5. Collect the forms you’ll need to submitDomestic students will be asked to submit... View Details
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
members from unknowingly conducting duplicative searches. "By being in a cluster, individuals tended to contribute more to the collective exploration through information space—not from more search but rather by being more coordinated... View Details
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For Alumni - Health Care
build your venture in the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship. Since 2013, Blavatnik Fellows started 45 companies and collectively raised more than $530M in funding. Fellows receive salary and benefits, access to an... View Details
- 21 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life
you spend your life doing activities most people find senseless—such as copying the dictionary or collecting rubber bands? Do people still think your life is meaningful? “Impact can be subjective,” De Freitas points out. “You may feel... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 26 May 2022
- HBS Case
Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?
championing privacy as controversy was swirling around an extensive US government surveillance program that had been disclosed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Snowden had leaked information indicating that the government was View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman