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  • 13 Jun 2017
  • Blog Post

7 Reasons Why the New MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program at Harvard is Next Level

citation]  E.g. Professors VC’s The Rock Center and iLab Classmates: in your program sure, but also pure MBA’s, pure engineers, HKS, HLS, and HMS - and they’re the best of the best Other top schools (I c u, MIT 👀) Space to work on... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

The Operational Impact of Customer Location in On-Demand Services

By: Natalie Epstein, Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno
The rapid growth of on-demand delivery services, particularly in the food and grocery sectors, has driven the expansion of hyperlocal fulfillment centers (FCs). This paper uses data from an on-demand grocery delivery platform in Latin America to assess how customer... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Logistics; Geographic Location; Service Delivery; Quality; Retail Industry; Latin America
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  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

affected when the choice of contract is misaligned with the scope and objectives of the partnering relationship? Our study addresses these questions using data from 172 R&D projects that involve partners. We find that i) greater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard Graduate School of Design

    Jeffrey F. Rayport

    Jeffrey F Rayport is a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the School’s MBA and Executive Education Programs and on HBS Online. His primary focus in teaching and research is growth-stage technology... View Details

    • 29 Jun 2015
    • HBS Case

    Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

    Your patient health care data is most likely scattered throughout the medical universe, in everything from notes scribbled by various doctors to test results resting in far-flung computer systems. So when medical professionals need to... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology
    • July 2016
    • Article

    Taxation, Corruption, and Growth

    By: Philippe Aghion, Ufuk Akcigit, Julia Cagé and William R. Kerr
    We build an endogenous growth model to analyze the relationships between taxation, corruption, and economic growth. Entrepreneurs lie at the center of the model and face disincentive effects from taxation but acquire positive benefits from public infrastructure.... View Details
    Keywords: Endogenous Growth; Public Goods; Corruption; Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Taxation; Economic Growth
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    • 20 Jul 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: July 20

    data. The third section also provides recent data on infrastructure investments and public-private partnerships. The final section discusses current and likely future trends. Purchase this... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • March 2014
    • Teaching Note

    The Weather Company

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
    New CEO David Kenny transformed The Weather Company in less than two years from a primary identity as a cable television channel to a multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Strategic Change; Technology; Digital; Weather; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Platforms; Change Management; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Industry; Service Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    • January 2014
    • Case

    The Weather Company

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    New CEO David Kenny transformed The Weather Company in less than two years from a primary identity as a cable television channel to a multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Strategy; Strategic Change; Change Management; Expansion; Weather; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Technology Industry
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    • Summer 2014
    • Article

    Delegation in Multi‐Establishment Firms: Adaptation vs. Coordination in I.T. Purchasing Authority

    By: Kristina Steffenson McElheran
    This paper conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining... View Details
    Keywords: Integration; Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Adaptation
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Capital Market Integration and Growth across the United States

    By: Leonardo D'Amico and Maxim Alekseev
    What drives the integration of national financial markets and what are its consequences for regional growth? We digitize and collect US state-level banking data from 1953 to 1983 and document a tight link between high nominal short rates and financial integration,... View Details
    Keywords: Interest Rates; Financial Markets; Economic Growth; Banks and Banking; Analytics and Data Science
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Biased Beliefs About Random Samples: Evidence from Two Integrated Experiments

    By: Daniel J. Benjamin, Don A. Moore and Matthew Rabin
    This paper describes results of a pair of incentivized experiments on biases in judgments about random samples. Consistent with the Law of Small Numbers (LSN), participants exaggerated the likelihood that short sequences and random subsets of coin flips would be... View Details
    Keywords: Probability; Economic Theory; Analysis; Incentives
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    • January 2013 (Revised October 2013)
    • Case

    Chef Davide Oldani and Ristorante D'O

    By: Gary Pisano, Alessandro Di Fiore, Elena Corsi and Elisa Farri
    This case examines the unique business model of Ristorante D'O, a high end gourmand restaurant located near Milan, Italy. Founded by Chef Davide Oldani, D'O offers meals at approximately one-third the price of other Michelin starred restaurants. Oldani has made this... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Expansion; Creativity; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Milan
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    • 21 Aug 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: August 21

    novel dataset on algorithmic programming contests that contains data on individual effort, risk taking, and cognitive errors that may underlie tournament performance outcomes. We find that competitors on average react negatively to an... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Faculty & Advisors | MBA

    advisor to over thirty transformational Health & Bio companies including Parsley Health, Tia, Sollis, CertifyOS, Cofertility and Nanite Bio. Enke serves on the Board of Directors of the Tisch MS Research Center of New York, and is a... View Details
    • 06 Aug 2024
    • Op-Ed

    What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

    immigrants with that of more recent, non-European immigrants to the US, they conclude that the pace of immigrant assimilation today is similar to what prevailed 100 years ago. When interpreting evidence from the past, it is important to note that historical View Details
    Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
    • 26 Mar 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

    In the early 1950s, two scientists at McGill University inadvertently discovered an area of the rodent brain dubbed "the pleasure center," located deep in the nucleus accumbens. When a group of lab rats had the opportunity to stimulate their own pleasure... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
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    • 17 Jun 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: June 17

    paper discusses five trends in technology-enabled transportation innovation: connected vehicles; connected roads; big data analytics in air transportation; Intelligent Transportation Systems; and innovation in information infrastructure.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne