Simulation Models - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

be rapidly replaced with e-mail and videoconferencing, forcing businesses to adopt an entirely new model of work within a matter of days. For companies that could not shift their workforce online, the challenge was to adapt production... View Details

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

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

a software company that encourages households to reduce their energy consumption. From Opower's earliest days, its managers utilized experiments to amplify their environmental impact and enhance customer value. We will revisit some of their most consequential... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech

Investing in HBS Great Expectations Model Teamwork Donor Spotlight FIELD 2: Global Intelligence FAQ For one day last November, it was every hand on deck and every eye on screen inside the war room set up by HBS’s Educational Technology... View Details

Keywords: Professor V.G. Narayanan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2015
News

The Next Big Swing

Oscar-nominated 2011 adaption of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball. But well before baseball stats went Hollywood, Tippett was quietly turning industry heads with something decidedly less flashy: a graphics-light, stat-heavy computer baseball View Details

Keywords: Andrew Clark; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

16 Dec 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

sociology. So we're far removed from the basics. Human behavior doesn't change that much, whereas business models change if you blink. So, I think the place for simulation also is closest to where the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Teams | New Venture Competition

David Bunn (MBA 2026) Toritse David Joshua Ivie (MDE 2026) Tobi Onigbogi Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up & Crowd Favorite Pioneering Bridging gaps in medical equipment access by enabling sharing and redistribution through an asset-light View Details

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Alex Slusky

started the program.” The best simulation of business experience Alex pursued the MBA because he had an interest in venture capital and wanted “to find a way to combine technology and strategy – how do we go up a level in business? Where... View Details

08 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

easy to conjure up a glowing vision of how the efforts of NGOs could focus on problem solving without getting bogged down in corruption or bureaucracy. But the strengths of the NGO model have some corresponding weaknesses—in agenda... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

firms in the past, and also by reviewing more theoretical approaches developed by academia. The framework works in two parts. In part one, the manager estimates a model of demand. In part two, the estimates are plugged into an... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2014
News

Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds

business owners in need of strategic planning and competitive analysis. When the team pitched the HourlyNerd model to classmates at FIELD 3’s simulated stock market, which allows peer “investors” to evaluate... View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 20

Publications August 2013 Marketing Science Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans By: Chung, Doug J., Thomas Steenburgh, and K. Sudhir Abstract—We estimate a dynamic structural View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

ranging from minor modifications to major new innovations. The user-friendly tools, often integrated into a package we call a "tool kit for customer innovation," deploy new technologies like computer simulation and rapid... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

12 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs among efficiency, stability, and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. We analyze a model with indifferences—ties—in school preferences. View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation

experimentation and are triggering fundamental changes in R&D processes and performance in such fields as integrated circuit design, automotive development, and pharmaceutical drug discovery. Computer modeling and simulation, rapid... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

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Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online

course requirements, including the Adobe Data Driven Operating Model Simulation (one of the assignments), will be communicated at the start of the course. No grades are assigned for Digital Marketing... View Details

31 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

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

findings, the researchers suggest that adjusting GSE guidelines in concert with Fed mortgage-backed security purchases could have increased the effectiveness of QE for disenfranchised households in the wake of the financial crisis. For instance, the authors use their... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

forthcoming American Economic Review Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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