Filter Results:
(11,594)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(11,594)
- People (96)
- News (4,029)
- Research (4,288)
- Events (75)
- Multimedia (225)
- Faculty Publications (2,681)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(11,594)
- People (96)
- News (4,029)
- Research (4,288)
- Events (75)
- Multimedia (225)
- Faculty Publications (2,681)
- 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
Ferreira, Kris J., Bin Hong Alex Lee, and David Simchi-Levi. "Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 18, no. 1 (Winter 2016): 69–88.
- Web
Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
focuses on the care of all of these children with cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, intensivists all of whom are supported by specialized nurses, perfusionists, respiratory therapists, social workers and others who have... View Details
- TeachingInterests
Developing Yourself as a Leader
This course is an online leadership development program for the next generation of leaders (high-potential emerging leaders with rougly 7-15 years of work experience). Over 12 dynamic, high-impact weeks, a cohort of emerging leaders from around the globe engages... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
saddest thing. It sent me into depression. And what I learned from that experience is what we talk about in the book, is you take the the thing that was the worst thing for you, the thing that was the... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 22 Jul 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality?
- 2015
- Working Paper
Service Quality, Inventory and Competition: An Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa
By: Karthik Balasubramanian and David F. Drake
The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the developing world. The resulting electronic currency ecosystem could improve the lives of the estimated 2 billion people who live on less than $2 a day by... View Details
Keywords: Operations Strategy; Base Of The Pyramid; Mobile Money; Inventory Management; Competition; Currency; Service Operations; Mobile and Wireless Technology
Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake. "Service Quality, Inventory and Competition: An Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-059, January 2015. (Revised October 2015.)
- 28 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)
statistical anomaly but also as a source of hope and encouragement for others pursuing similar goals. This experience is both a burden and an inspiration, a struggle View Details
- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
other people who went to the University of Chicago (where Chris and I received our Ph.D.'s ), we seemed to have a topic of conversation with our shared experiences there. We suspected this was likely to be... View Details
- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
their relationships, relatives struggle between openness and caution in their statements to one another. Family members also tend to have difficulty listening to one another without judging what they hear in the context of countless prior... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
platforms and influencer status to more meaningfully help those most in need. Surveyed consumers deem celebrities and social media macro-influencers to be less credible spokespeople for brands during a... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- October 2017
- Article
The Size of the LGBT Population and the Magnitude of Anti-Gay Sentiment Are Substantially Underestimated
By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Lucas C. Coffman and Keith M. Marzilli Ericson
We demonstrate that widely used measures of anti-gay sentiment and the size of the LGBT population are misestimated, likely substantially. In a series of online experiments using a large and diverse but non-representative sample, we compare estimates from the standard... View Details
Keywords: LGBTQ; Social Trends ＆ Culture; Economic Theory; Prejudice; Prejudice and Bias; Diversity; Economics; Demographics
Coffman, Katherine Baldiga, Lucas C. Coffman, and Keith M. Marzilli Ericson. "The Size of the LGBT Population and the Magnitude of Anti-Gay Sentiment Are Substantially Underestimated." Management Science 63, no. 10 (October 2017): 3168–3186.
- 2022
- Working Paper
Passing the Mic: Career and Firm Outcomes of Executive Interactions
By: Wei Cai, Ethan Rouen and Yuan Zou
We exploit a unique feature of conference calls to study one type of interaction among executives—directly inviting colleagues to respond to analysts’ questions. We find that the frequency of initiating interaction is positively associated with an executive’s ability,... View Details
Keywords: Conference Calls; CEO Succession; Executive Interactions; Promotion; Interpersonal Communication; Personal Development and Career; Retention
Cai, Wei, Ethan Rouen, and Yuan Zou. "Passing the Mic: Career and Firm Outcomes of Executive Interactions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-069, May 2022.
Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions
The hospital industry has consolidated substantially during the past two decades and at an accelerated pace since 2010. Multiple studies have shown that hospital mergers have led to higher prices for commercially insured patients, but research about effects on... View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges Between Education and Business
COPPEAD/UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro, who spoke for the Brazilian group, suggested plugging into the extensive network of Harvard and HBS alumni. "There are about 600 Harvard alumni in Brazil who could be a useful resource for case writing,"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 20 Jan 2022
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic
feedback is meaningful, consider asking employees these three questions: What was your experience with COVID? What grade would you give us for managing COVID, and why? What is the most important challenge we... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
The starting five: This year's Alumni Achievement Award winners included (clockwise, from lower left) Judy Haberkorn, Lou Gerstner, Joe O'Donnell, Rahul Bajaj, and Nancy Barry. The group visited HBS in September View Details
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
attempts to avoid bed shortages by sharing capacity have generally failed, in part, because of the persistence of an independent hospital culture. As COVID-19 surged in 2020, capacity varied widely even among hospitals in the same city, according to data from 189... View Details
- July 2010
- Article
Board Interlocks and the Propensity to Be Targeted in Private Equity Transactions
By: Toby E. Stuart and Soojin Yim
In this paper, we examine the propensity for U.S. public companies to become targets for private equity-backed, take-private transactions. We consider the characteristics of 483 private equity-backed deals in the 2000-2007 period relative to public companies, and find... View Details
Keywords: Board Interlocks; Board Networks; Social Networks; Private Equity; Corporate Governance; Public Ownership; Market Transactions; Governing and Advisory Boards; United States
Stuart, Toby E., and Soojin Yim. "Board Interlocks and the Propensity to Be Targeted in Private Equity Transactions." Journal of Financial Economics 97, no. 1 (July 2010): 174–189.
- Article
Inaccurate Group Meta-Perceptions Drive Negative Out-Group Attributions in Competitive Contexts
By: J. Lees and M. Cikara
Across seven experiments and one survey (n = 4,282), people consistently overestimated out-group negativity towards the collective behaviour of their in-group. This negativity bias in group meta-perception was present across multiple competitive (but not cooperative)... View Details
Lees, J., and M. Cikara. "Inaccurate Group Meta-Perceptions Drive Negative Out-Group Attributions in Competitive Contexts." Nature Human Behaviour 4, no. 3 (March 2020): 279–286.