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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
management and digital marketing tools for entertainment venues and sports teams (largely unused during the pandemic), switched to targeting small- and medium-sized traditional businesses struggling to survive. Fourth Quadrant: Firms... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
recent years, a number of new and exciting tools enabled by advances in telework, machine learning, and other approaches had emerged. Hirshfeld hoped to maximize these tools’ utility in order to enhance patent examiners’ work and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis
public and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people. Provides sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools to create numerous reports. Individual account required. Please see the More... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary
based on their answers over their lives provides a powerful tool for the viewer’s own self-reflection. Resilience in the Face of Adversity The mindset theme was further reiterated by participant’s stories of handling change in their own... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- Web
Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
through-line to the conversation, with anchors and prompts to support discussions, and tools to support next steps Participant experience “I loved the opportunity to engage with other socially minded classmates and alums (with the amazing... View Details
- Web
Your Alumni Community - Alumni
– both personally and professionally. Reunions Reconnect with classmates, participate in faculty sessions and socialize with friends. Explore upcoming Reunion programming and see how you can get involved. From the Career Blog “ Your network is the most valuable job... View Details
- Web
Women at HBS - Alumni
HBS alumni with tools to enhance their professional skills. Baker for Business – This three-tiered service (self-service; assisted search; and fee-based research services) combines the talent and expertise of Baker Library researchers... View Details
- November 26, 2019
- Article
Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good
By: Karen Huang, Joshua D. Greene and Max Bazerman
The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision-making by denying decision-makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was... View Details
Huang, Karen, Joshua D. Greene, and Max Bazerman. "Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 48 (November 26, 2019).
- 2017
- Working Paper
A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies
By: Valeria Giacomin
Clusters are defined as geographically concentrated agglomerations of specialized firms in a particular domain. The cluster concept in its broader meaning of industrial agglomeration has been the focus of longstanding debates in the social sciences. This working paper... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Research; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; History; Analysis; Globalization
Giacomin, Valeria. "A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-018, August 2017.
Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good
The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision-making by denying decision-makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Applied Business Analytics
Course Overview:
Business Analytics has become a core function in many firms today and is driving innovation in the form of new business and operating models. Data-driven decision-making requires understanding of statistics, computer... View Details
- Summer 2012
- Article
Epistemic Contests and the Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: The Brazil–USA Cotton Dispute and the Incremental Balancing of Interests
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
The World Trade Organization (WTO) features prominently in studies of international institutions, often cast either as a tool of rich-world domination over the poorer South or as a neutral mediator facilitating a tariff-free world of economic prosperity. This article... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Trade; Conflict and Resolution; Consumer Products Industry; Brazil; United States
Daemmrich, Arthur A. "Epistemic Contests and the Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: The Brazil–USA Cotton Dispute and the Incremental Balancing of Interests." Special Issue on Dispute Settlement at the WTO. Trade, Law and Development 4, no. 1 (Summer 2012): 200–240.
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
overlook our most powerful tool for effecting change: our own thoughts. Through a variety of exercises called Think Keys, Zaltman guides the reader through the mind’s most important unconscious and conscious dynamics. Zaltman has used... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Understanding the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard
design and software engineering capabilities to enable faculty research, and administrative services to launch and run labs efficiently and to coordinate relationships with external partners. REINVENTING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS Harnessing the View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
platforms, in contrast to most other firms who focused on stand-alone applications. It was an approach that permeated both their tools business—the software they provided to other programmers for developing applications; and the operating... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2022
- What Do You Think?
Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?
its usual ugly head as an analytic tool here, but there are other efforts in this relatively careful study to associate cause with effect. Putting those concerns aside, the value of this research, like other serious efforts, is most often... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
book Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game. In fact, venture-minded managers in big corporations often have the tools and infrastructure to become more successful than their peers at startups, say... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
use standardized color, achieved by synthetic dyes, as part of their marketing strategies. Food manufacturers along with dye makers and regulators co-created the food-coloring business. Synthetic food dyes provided the food manufacturers with new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne