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By: Marlous van Waijenburg

Professor van Waijenburg’s research focuses on the historical roots of relative African poverty and state fragility. Where sufficiently reliable and comparable records exist, she creates new datasets from a range of qualitative and quantitative archival sources. The... View Details

  • 15 Apr 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Raymond Fisman, Columbia Business School

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Program Requirements - Doctoral

behavior courses: Micro Topics in Organizational Behavior (HBS 4882) Macro Topics in Organizational Behavior (HBS 4880) Completion of four term-length courses in research methods: Two term-length courses in quantitative methods (FAS... View Details
  • October 1, 2021
  • Article

An Evaluation of Cross-efficiency Methods: With an Application to Warehouse Performance.

By: B.M. Balk, M.R. De Koster, Christian Kaps and J.L. Zofio
Cross-efficiency measurement is an extension of Data Envelopment Analysis that allows for tie-breaking ranking of the Decision Making Units (DMUs) using all the peer evaluations. In this article we examine the theory of cross-efficiency measurement by comparing a... View Details
Keywords: Efficiency Analysis; Performance Benchmarking; Warehousing; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods
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By: Andy Wu
How can technology entrepreneurs build competitive advantage from the ground up? Professor Andy Wu conducts scholarly research and develops course materials that document how technology entrepreneurs can (1) organize for innovation to create new market opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Technology Platform; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Video Game Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; China; Southeast Asia; South Asia
  • 18 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

toward heroic entrepreneurs.” "A big weakness of the existing qualitative studies is that they're very biased toward heroic entrepreneurs," says Matthew Lee, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School whose View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

historians in recent years, academic research on business groups has, to date, remained within the boundary of emerging markets. The major aim of this volume is to explore the long-term evolution of different varieties of large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Andy Zelleke

    Andy Zelleke is the MBA Class of 1962 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. A member of the General Management unit, he is the Faculty Chair of HBS’ Middle East & North Africa Research Center.

    Since Spring 2021, Dr. Zelleke has taught “Unpacking... View Details

    Keywords: federal government; professional services; defense; financial services
    • 2017
    • Article

    Natural Environmental Responsibility in Indian Corporations: A Mixed Method Study

    By: Shashank Shah
    The world is going through unprecedented environmental crisis. The type of destruction and dissolution of natural resources and elements by individuals and institutions that has been witnessed in the last century is much more than that witnessed in the previous... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Natural Environment; Management Practices and Processes; Research; Framework; India
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    • 23 Jun 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together

    Unfortunately, that tendency turns out to be bad for business. “At the early stage of a company, you want the people around the table to challenge each other.” In the paper The Cost of Friendship, three Harvard researchers show that the... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
    • 21 Jan 2014
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    First Look: January 21

    address several key concerns. The president has extensive quantitative and qualitative data about the process to guide him as he and the senior team attempt to make improvements. Purchase this case: View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 31 Oct 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

    of the insights and talents of employees from historically marginalized groups. Research identifies “principle-practice gap” In her qualitative research on what she and her... View Details
    Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis
    • 09 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

    depth in a focus group.—Gerald Zaltman Underhill shuns academic market research as being too theoretical. Yet some of this research supports Underhill's commonsense findings. Such is the case with the work... View Details
    Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail
    • 07 Jul 2023
    • Blog Post

    Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

    Harvard Business School. People are more likely to recall information over a longer period when it’s wrapped in an anecdote as opposed to statistics, according to the study, "Stories, Statistics and Memory.” Graeber’s research validates... View Details
    • 16 Sep 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

    reaction on capital markets. It was written by Harvard Business School assistant professors Gwen Yu and Francois Brochet, with MIT Sloan of Management doctoral student Patricia Naranjo. Although targeted at foreign executives, the View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 12 Apr 2016
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    April 12, 2016

    link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50897 forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Repairing the Damage: The Effect of Gender and Price Knowledge on Auto-Repair Price Quotes By: Busse, Meghan, Ayelet Israeli, and Florian... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Feb 2016
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    February 2, 2016

    forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Causal Inference in Accounting Research By: Gow, Ian D., David F. Larcker, and Peter C. Reiss Abstract—This paper examines the approaches accounting View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Jul 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    The Truth About Authentic Leaders

    authentic, research and leadership development programs should focus on how leaders develop their authenticity. Being authentic as a leader is hard work and takes years of experience in leadership roles. No one can be authentic without... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George
    • 23 Jan 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?

    analysts put their initial opinions through additional levels of scrutiny, in which they evaluate more qualitative information from sources such as interviews with management, suppliers, and partners, and an in-depth review of underlying... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    What Is Your Problem? The Importance of ‘Problem Storming’ for Crossing Knowledge Boundaries

    By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf
    In this study, I focus on the emergent processes and practices enacted when using crowdsourcing to solve R&D problems that experts are challenged with. While the literature on crowdsourcing focuses on the online process, this study looks at the full process that takes... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Nasa; Problem Solving; Problem Formulation; Knowledge Boundaries; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Problems and Challenges
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