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Incorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting.
Forecasting firm-level sales is a key activity in top-down planning in most organizations. In the retailing industry, firms can use inventory and price to stimulate demand. Hence, standard time series methods for sales forecasting can be improved by incorporating...
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Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday
By: Jasmina Chauvin, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tommy Pan Fang
This paper examines the effects of temporal distance generated by time zone separation on communication in geographically distributed organizations. We build on prior research, which highlights time zone separation as a significant challenge, but argue that employees...
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Chauvin, Jasmina, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Tommy Pan Fang. "Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday." Organization Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online May 30, 2024.)
- 22 Oct 2018
- HBS Seminar
Abhinav Gupta, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
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Highlights APRIL 2024 ALUMNI EVENT Dean Datar Visits Houston and Dallas In late April, over 200 alumni gathered for “An Evening with Dean Datar” in Houston, hosted in partnership with the HBS Club of Houston, and “An Afternoon with Dean...
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Tools & Training - Alumni
Career Coaches. CareerLeader is available to HBS alumni free of charge. Access is typically provided within 48 hours during normal business hours. Request Access Wall Street Prep Wall Street Prep ’s Student Passport provides HBS alumni...
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
critics warn that buybacks starve firms of capital necessary for securing their long-term prospects, impairing firms' ability to invest, innovate, and provide good wages. These concerns have led to several View Details
- May 21, 2020
- Editorial
Primary Care Is Hurting: Why Aren't Private Insurers Pitching In?
By: Leemore S. Dafny and J. Michael McWilliams
Primary care clinicians are the front line for patients with suspected infection. We rely on them to diagnose, triage, and manage patients with potential or confirmed COVID infections. They are also responsible for keeping non-COVID medical conditions under control...
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COVID-19;
Primary Care;
Health Pandemics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Financial Condition;
Insurance
Dafny, Leemore S., and J. Michael McWilliams. "Primary Care Is Hurting: Why Aren't Private Insurers Pitching In?" Health Affairs Blog (May 21, 2020).
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Policies - MBA
re-applicants are required to submit a complete application. Once an application is submitted, the Board reserves the right to request additional information from the applicant, including, but not limited to, an interview. All applicants...
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- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
Alternatively, the group may designate "intellectual watchdogs" who are assigned the task of scrutinizing the process for unchecked assumptions and challenging them on the spot. Well-Defined Criteria. Without crisp, clear goals,...
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by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
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Data - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Data The BFFS Project maintains and disseminates datasets produced by active faculty affiliated with the project. Select your area of interest by topic area below for visualizations and access to excel downloads. If you have any questions...
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- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
that Clocky wouldn't even hit the market until 2007. “I would kill Clocky in about two days." —Diane Sawyer At that point, the device was just a project that Gauri Nanda, a graduate student at MIT's Media Lab, had developed for an...
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- 2010
- Working Paper
Course Materials For: 'Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership - An Ontological Model'
By: Werner H. Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger
This course is designed to leave students being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression - rather than attempting to learn the characteristics, styles, and skills of noteworthy leaders, and then trying to remember and apply them...
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Erhard, Werner H., Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, and Kari L. Granger. "Course Materials For: 'Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership - An Ontological Model'." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-038, October 2010.
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?
Since Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, purchased Twitter for $44 billion last month, the company has undergone a series of abrupt shifts. Some changes, like Musk’s firing of 50 percent of the firm’s 7,000 employees, were deliberate....
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- June 2023
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Can Purpose Foster Stakeholder Trust in Corporations
By: Ranjay Gulati and Franz Wohlgezogen
As part of institutional changes toward more responsible capitalism, firms increasingly articulate a purpose beyond simply profit as a central tenet of their governance. Management scholarship has noted the potential advantages of such purpose-focus for stakeholder...
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Stakeholder Management;
Moral Identity;
Mission and Purpose;
Trust;
Corporate Governance;
Business and Stakeholder Relations
Gulati, Ranjay, and Franz Wohlgezogen. "Can Purpose Foster Stakeholder Trust in Corporations." Strategy Science 8, no. 2 (June 2023): 270–287.
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First-Generation Students - MBA
First-Generation Students First-Generation Students First Gen+ Webinar for prospective students. First Gen+ Infographic Logo Text Students who are the first in their family to attend college. Students who are the first in their family to...
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1.11 Leaves of Absence - MBA
their studies at any time before graduation may request a leave of absence. Requests for a leave of absence may be granted by the Registrar in consultation with other officers...
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- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
modern organization is less and less about looking inward and creating strong teams inside the company and more about teaming across boundaries—that often are in flux. Extreme Teaming is a must-read book for all courses related to leading...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
new ideas. Case in point: At Bing, a small headline change an employee proposed was deemed a low priority and shelved for months until one engineer decided to do a quick online controlled experiment—an A/B...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
almost microscopic way," Joe Badaracco notes. "There might be a situation where people are polarized around two choices, for example, and a leader might propose a third path. Sometimes creativity just means...
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1.4.3 Required Curriculum (RC) - MBA
Curriculum (RC) 1.4.4 Elective Curriculum (EC) 1.4.5 Required Summer Work Experience & Internship Courses 1.5 Attendance 1.6 Degree Requirements 1.7 Grading 1.8 Academic Honors 1.9 Course Registration 1.10 Cross-Registration 1.11 Leaves of Absence 1.12 Clearance View Details