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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
B. Donham offered Doriot a position as assistant dean. 3 Doriot's career as an educator started when he began teaching Factory Problems and the Taylor System course. 4 In 1926, the Dean appointed Doriot Associate Professor of Industrial... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
leads to a 14% increase in the likelihood of exit for a 3.5-star restaurant (which is the median rating on Yelp) but has no discernible impact for a 5-star restaurant (on a 1 to 5 star scale). Our analysis also highlights how digital data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
for the company. It was about keeping the business unit alive and not jeopardizing thousands of jobs overnight." A financial analysis of the return on such contracts called those beliefs into question. "After completing a thorough audit... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
your classmates’ experiences. That’s part of the value of HBS. It’s huge.” At Morgan Stanley, which she joined right out of HBS, Harris leads the equity private placements effort in global capital markets and covers the retail and consumer View Details
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
and the RAND Corporation, offering big-picture insight and analysis to a range of clients in the US government. Satisfying as that work was, he knew he wanted to pursue a more hands-on role in the clean tech space. Here, he describes his... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
managers’ contest, but the SEC does not allow exclusion, 21% go on to win shareholder or firm support suggesting that managers often seek to exclude legitimate shareholder interests from their proxy statements. Our analysis illuminates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
Evidence from the Hospital Industry By: Dafny, Leemore S., Katherine Ho, and Robin S. Lee Abstract—We consider the effect of mergers between firms whose products are not viewed as direct substitutes for the same good or service but are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a small monetary margin on each pack sold, a large margin, and a non-financial reward. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Vayanos Abstract We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which clienteles with strong preferences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 17, 2008
a digital download and available only from the band's own website. The pricing plan represented a significant break from the industry standard of fixed prices for music, typically 99 cents for individual songs and upward of $9.99 for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
entirely new industries is another course focus. In a new case about Linear Air, founded by William Herp (MBA ’89), Tripsas explores the emergence of “air taxis,” a novel service based on a new class of light, economical jet aircraft that... View Details
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Expansion of the Case Method | Baker Library
personnel for the war effort. HBS faculty wrote hundreds of new case studies that addressed issues specific to wartime production and analysis of statistical information. Dean Donham remarked on the flexibility of the case method that... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
framework for IT baselining and planning, is examining how the new information economy is transforming the traditional management principles of the industrial economy. Nolan is studying, for example, how IT is changing the traditional... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
and overly restricting access to credit and consumer choice. Nicolas Retsinas, Eric Belsky, and their colleagues aim to stimulate debate based on analysis of the opportunities and challenges presented by the various components of global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
(such as going to a museum), an online intervention that led to greater liking after offline meetings (Study 3). How to Capture Value from Innovation: Shaping Intellectual Property and Industry Architecture. 50th Anniversary Special Issue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
research plus their own wealth of practical and academic experience to examine the unique challenges of leadership in professional service firms. The result of what may be the first-ever collaboration between an HBS faculty author and a CEO alumnus, Aligning the Stars... View Details
- November 2021 (Revised December 2021)
- Supplement
PittaRosso (B): Human and Machine Learning
By: Ayelet Israeli
This case supplements the "PittaRosso: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Pricing and Promotion" case, and provides major highlights on what happened at the company since the first case. View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Pricing; Pricing Algorithm; Pricing Decisions; Pricing Strategy; Pricing Structure; Promotion; Promotions; Online Marketing; Data-driven Decision-making; Data-driven Management; Retail; Retail Analytics; Price; Advertising Campaigns; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Digital Marketing; Budgets and Budgeting; Marketing Strategy; Marketing; Transformation; Decision Making; AI and Machine Learning; Retail Industry; Italy
Israeli, Ayelet. "PittaRosso (B): Human and Machine Learning." Harvard Business School Supplement 522-047, November 2021. (Revised December 2021.)
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
modularized. Instead these areas should be located in transaction-free zones so that the costs of transacting do not overburden the system. The boundaries of transaction-free zones constitute breakpoints where firms and industries may... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
could lead to substantial bias in understanding the nature of productivity gains from multinational production. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42615 Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6
patterns and determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. Our analysis presents new stylized facts that suggest the emerging offshore clusters of multinationals are not a simple reflection of domestic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne