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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
Information or Wing It? A Model of Dynamic Pricing with Seller Learning By: Huang, Guofang, Hong Luo, and Jing Xia Abstract—Pricing idiosyncratic products is often challenging because the seller, ex ante, lacks information about the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
thought that would be a fun data set to collect—as I go from single, to engaged, to married, to father, to retired, how does my lifestyle change? Morrell: Paul, this is now sort of like an eight-year long longitudinal study, right? What have you View Details
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Commencement 2016 Address | About
despair that logic would lead them to feel. He did not allow them to give up, either emotionally or physically. This is what great leaders do—they not only spark hope in themselves, they instill hope in others. As someone who has taught... View Details
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
For many multinational firms doing business in unfamiliar countries, it made sense to create joint ventures with local firms. After all, that local knowledge of customs, suppliers, and markets could save the newcomer months—maybe even years—of riding a painful View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
logically and ‘toned down’ my comments to show respect, while still providing constructive ideas. Initially, he seemed to take the feedback well. But then I gradually noticed a distancing in our relationship. Eventually, I realized that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
extremely tight coordination and the transfer of learning between those who design and those who manufacture. If you do not understand the production environment, you have a harder time designing the product. In these settings, there are... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
the doctor did a bad job. But with evidence on outcomes and true risks, the burden of proof to sue a doctor will rise. Doctors will learn to be happier in a world where they are measuring results more than they are today. We take the... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
from an aggregate perspective) and framed the issues surrounding non-zero-sum games (most business ones). Also, the concept of "learning curves" became an increasingly important tool for planning. The learning curve was first... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
Black’s original conjectures, and the author highlights refinements and additions to the original list. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50338 November 2015 Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Influence of Experience and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
Departments. "The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft," says Light. "So... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
sectors beyond the original bath soap category. The development causes the brand team to take a fresh look at the clichés of the beauty industry. The result is the controversial Real Beauty campaign. As the campaign unfolds, Unilever View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Austin, the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, as the main curriculum anchor for the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise. In ESS, case studies on nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid entities are the foundation for View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
to apply what they have learned in the classroom is a logical extension of the School’s vaunted case method, says Moon. “The case method is so powerful because it is such a close proxy for decision-making in... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
international order, and so on. Time equations handle complexity by simply adding terms with Boolean logic that test for the presence of a particular feature that adds or subtracts time to overall processing time, a simple and elegant... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
feedback logically and 'toned down' my comments to show respect, while still providing constructive ideas. Initially, he seemed to take the feedback well. But then I gradually noticed a distancing in our relationship. Eventually, I... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
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Case Method - Research Resources | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
a Seat in the Harvard MBA Case Classroom (May 28, 2020) “ Discover the Case Method ,” MBA Voices (May 8, 2019) In this video, students discuss their experiences learning via the case method. Celebrating the General Shoe Company, the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
idea with the San Francisco SPCA, she learned that somebody else had approached the organization with a similar thought. This was Elena Battles, a Stanford MBA graduate and the former COO of the Humane Society Silicon Valley. Exley and... View Details
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
This same logic applies to other retailers, such as department stores. If you look at your data, the best customers are probably the customers who end up shopping for china or silverware—departments that some of your worst shoppers may... View Details