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  • 11 May 2022
  • Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

Internship: Entrepreneurship / Rock Summer Fellowship What’s the best part of being pregnant at HBS? The incredibly supportive environment from both professors and section mates and the predictable schedules. What’s the hardest part about... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Named 2020 Valkhof Chair by the Radboud University Medical Center. Himabindu Lakkaraju : Recipient of a 2020 Google Research Award. Michael Lingzhi Li : Winner of the 2020 Pierskalla Award from INFORMS Health Applications Society for “From View Details
  • 18 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

makes us more likely to misbehave in the future. ©iStockphoto/Brian Jackson In a follow-up laboratory study, participants played a game in which they could make money by successfully predicting the outcome of a computerized coin toss.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

researchers Johnathan Dingel and Brent Neiman of the University of Chicago. They found that the index is strikingly reliable when it comes to predicting the scale of the transition to remote work within a given industry as well as in... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 11 Oct 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

economic success to the dependency ratio, something that can be predicted years in advance based on what we know now about demographic trends. For example, they credit Ireland's economic success in part to a greatly-improved dependency... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 16 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

questions," predict Lerner and Tirole, "is likely to increase as the open source movement itself grows and evolves." In the meantime, the two professors venture their hope that such puzzles will inspire and stimulate other... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Faculty & Research Research June 2025 Accounting, Organizations and Society Gender Diversity Performance and Voluntary Disclosure: Mind the (Gender Pay) Gap By: June Huang and Shirley Lu We study whether voluntary gender diversity disclosure is View Details
  • 24 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

us,” Hussam says. But while it appeared that handwashing was indeed a habitual behavior, were people “rational” about it? Indeed they were, based on the results of the monitoring experiment. “Our results are consistent with the key View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • December 2023
  • Other Article

Introduction to the Special Section on Business and Climate Change

By: Rajesh Chandy, Glen Dowell, Colin Mayer, Erica Plambeck, George Serafeim, Michael W. Toffel, L. Beril Toktay and Elke Weber
Keywords: Climate Change; Adaptation; Policy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Innovation and Invention; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 30 Jul 2001
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

and loyalty—that help predict future performance? Should they be responsible for the regular auditing of such measures? Should the measures be made available to investors on a regular basis? In fact, should the SEC or another organization... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Overcoming the Cold Start Problem of CRM Using a Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach

By: Eva Ascarza
The success of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) programs ultimately depends on the firm's ability to understand consumers' preferences and precisely capture how these preferences may differ across customers. Only by understanding customer heterogeneity, firms can... View Details
Keywords: Customer Management; Targeting; Deep Exponential Families; Probabilistic Machine Learning; Cold Start Problem; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Consumer Behavior; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods; Retail Industry
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

entrepreneurship. 2009 Lauren H. Cohen : Received a 2009 Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence Award for his paper with Andrea Frazzini, “Economic Links and Predictable Returns” ( Journal of Finance , August 2008). Lauren H.... View Details
  • 12 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

shrinking human services than the long-term benefits of research spending, whose outcomes might be years away. “Voters don’t get as angered about such cuts.” The research can’t predict what would happen if the US government slashed... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 12 Sep 2018
  • Blog Post

Optimizing the Coaching Experience for Midcareer Professionals

midcareer professionals. "The triggers are different," says Timothy Butler, Senior Fellow and Faculty Advisor to HBS CPD. "Students are inspired by a predictable crisis – graduation. For alumni, the crises are often... View Details
  • March 2024 (Revised January 2025)
  • Case

Hippo: Weathering the Storm of the Home Insurance Crisis

By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan
Rick McCathron, CEO of Hippo, considered how the firm’s underwriting model could account for the effects of climate change. Along with providing smart home packages, targeting risk-friendly customers, and using data-driven pricing, the Insurtech used technologically... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Underwriters; Big Data; Insurance Companies; Business Model Design; Weather Insurance; Business Model; Forecasting and Prediction; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Technological Innovation; Natural Environment; Natural Disasters; Weather; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Business Earnings; Insurance; Social Issues; Insurance Industry; United States; California
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  • 03 Jul 2013
  • What Do You Think?

What Are the Limits of Transparency?

Snowden affair. They assume that much of what they do will become public knowledge regardless of any efforts to keep it secret. The late Harlan Cleveland predicted much of this more than 30 years ago when he noted that information is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

larger global strategy." Hoai and Hoa agree that short-term investments - over the next three or four years - will not realize substantial profits. But they are encouraged by the outlook five to seven years in the future. Hoa predicts... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

This results in an overstatement of earnings and cash flows for many companies and an exaggeration of the extent of the good times. Conversely, during the early stages of an economic slowdown, as demand falls below predicted levels and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 03 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 03 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

in your research? Does the HSX accurately reflect a movie's predicted and actual profitability? A: The Hollywood Stock Exchange is an online market simulation that revolves around movies and movie stars. It is a game—no real money is... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video