Recommender Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

beginning. We have founded a nonprofit think tank, Innosight Institute, to promote the ideas from our work to the stakeholders in the system so that we can help create meaningful change. We also are employing the think tank to continue... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

not been well served by the financial sector's boom. First, the shift from deposit-based banking to a market-based "shadow banking" system, without adequate regulatory adjustments, has left the financial system vulnerable to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

companies, and the gender pay gap persists. While young women are aware of these systemic problems, the more nuanced forms of sexism that persist today often take them by surprise, say Ammerman and co-author Boris Groysberg, the Richard... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

the higher quality firm reacts, the lower quality firm may "leapfrog" the higher quality firm. It's a good recommendation for the low quality firms and a cautionary note for high quality firms. If a low quality firm is quick enough to act... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

24 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business

Staley, and the company has developed effective Non-Family Insiders ever since (CEOs Greg Page and David MacLennan). These executives really understand the company’s internal systems and respect its culture. But Non-Family Insiders can... View Details

Keywords: Retail; Auto

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

systems of adherence. Case 1: Learn and deploy new information Geographic diversification is often seen by managers as a useful way to tap into new sources of growth. In case of a pandemic, a specific form of geographic... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

31 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

millions of homeowners who lived in areas where the steep crash in house prices left them underwater, unemployed, or with damaged credit,” he explains. “Borrowers in distressed areas tended not to qualify for the strict guidelines of conforming loans.” View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Apr 2020
Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

Regular Checkup if you want to be sure your mechanical system is operating in a way that protects your health, the single best recommendation we can give you is to commission your mechanical system. Our... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

concern for a wide range of constituencies—has been pushed aside and has been replaced by a technical definition of what is acceptable. So there's also no question that we need to strengthen the internal systems that guide conduct within... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

important. We recommend that the IT governance group be made up of independent directors, as is the case with audit and compensation committees. Chairmanship is also critical. For firms in support, factory, or turnaround modes, the... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

03 Nov 2011
What Do You Think?

The Ultimate Question in Management

that "fundamental to trust is integrity so I would build the foundation on integrity." Other favorites included "the extent to which I feel my manager or my organization is being real with me ( doing what it says on the tin)" (from Jackie Le Fevre),... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?

recommendation systems to suggest to each individual user products or content which might interest him/her, as inferred from their past behavior or the behavior of users with similar profiles. How much... View Details

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien

16 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

little progress has been made in reducing cost overruns even though more than 20 reform proposals were launched during this time. "Despite the focus and effort dedicated towards reform in the past fifty years, important systemic... View Details

Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

01 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 1

Evolution as a System of Governance, due for publication November 2009. The purpose of this monograph is to put forth an original concept of capitalism as a system of governance, including a theory of how it... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Nov 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?

Legislation is therefore a problematic way to achieve the golden mean in normative behavior." Edward Hare agrees, pointing out that "Corporate governance is a system that continues to fail us ... and joins the ranks of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

The American economy is a mess, and our broken political system is largely to blame, according to a Harvard Business School US Competitiveness Project report released today. Harvard’s Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, and Mihir A. Desai... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

disaster, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Some research reports estimate that the cost of the CrowdStrike event could exceed $1 billion. Preparation for a crisis is just as crucial as the response. We View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

this effect drives advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and interpersonally distance... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

recognized as a result of the bubble—have been those of the analysts who worked in the investment banks. The banks employ two kinds of analysts: Those who issue recommendations about individual firms, and those who try to get investors to... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

18 Jun 2007
Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

appear before you today to discuss the accounting and tax treatment of incentive compensation. I am an associate professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. “The dual-reporting View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

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