Observability - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

little hesitant about opening their doors to researchers, but when [we] called up the CEO without ever having met him, he was extremely open to learning from the research and to our spending a great deal of time at the company—sitting in on meetings, View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2011
News

The Innovation Imperative

of a major research project that addresses whether rapidly growing Chinese universities will set the world standard for excellence in the 21st century. When I talked with Nohria recently about the year ahead for HBS, I asked him to assess Kirby’s View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

18 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

systematic variation in inventory record inaccuracy (IRI) observed both within and across stores. Traditional inventory models, with a few exceptions, do not account for the existence of IRI and those that do treat record inaccuracy as... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog

that shape business environments in China and elsewhere. Leading China observers and CEOs of major Chinese firms will visit the class. Through cases, notes, discussion, and research, students explore the opportunities and risks of... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Book Review: The Old West

Pinto calls on his experience as a financial advisor to governments, corporations, and entrepreneurs in the East and the West to explain why. It's not a result of globalization, he says, or even the 2008 economic implosion. Instead, Pinto offers a simple View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Aug 2002
News

For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts

on Network Associates' efforts to market its encryption software algorithms globally, despite national security concerns raised by the U.S. government. By Tuesday afternoon, participants seemed to have settled back into the classroom quite comfortably, as Professor... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton

01 Dec 2002
News

Teaching Teachers

of the same techniques that I observed at the CPCL, such as role-playing and getting students to speak and listen to one another in one-on-one discussions at the beginning of class,” she remarks. “It's simply fantastic to watch students... View Details

22 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 22

Journal of International Business Studies Language as a Lightning Rod: Power Contests, Emotion Regulation, and Subgroup Dynamics in Global Teams By: Hinds, Pamela J., Tsedal Neeley, and Catherine Durnell Cramton Abstract—Through an ethnographic study comprised of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Aug 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent This Summer Coding

implementing the techniques myself that I grasped how biases can get trained into a neural network unintentionally. Being able to recognize these biases and observe how they take form helps to not only understand the problem but also... View Details

Keywords: Technology

29 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark

generator. We were also able to climb the inner staircase to reach the roof of the nacelle for a view of the helipad used for operations, maintenance, and servicing. The sheer scale and complexity of the manufacturing process left us in awe. The nacelle we View Details

15 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg

to be able to pass through easily, a testament to the port's adaptability. We observed the storage of wind turbine nacelles, where meticulous care is taken to rotate the hubs weekly to prevent alignment issues, and the use of drones for... View Details

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Teaching & The Case Method | Baker Library

“Hints for Case Teaching,” HBS Professor Benson P. Shapiro observed that, “The case discussion process depends upon a delicate set of relationships: teacher-to-student, student-to-student, and class-to-material. . . . Because of the... View Details

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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog

motivation, the economic approach provides many useful insights for getting things done. The key observation is that it is impossible to perfectly measure and therefore impossible to directly reward the value that is created by an... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle

relationship management or ‘customer loyalty' execution," observes Brierley. A board member of numerous organizations, including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, KERA-TV, The Dallas Opera, and... View Details

Keywords: Charles M. Williams; Epsilon Data Management; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

several key features of intermediated supply chains. We complement the model's insights with observations from a numerical study. Results: In the absence of an e-intermediary, auctions cause farmers to either overproduce or underproduce... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary

comparatively in the dark, creating an “information friction” that the freelancers can exploit. In a March 2015 working paper, Information Frictions and Observable Experience, Stanton, along with Catherine Thomas (PhDBE 2006) of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment; Technology; Computer

02 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News

executives a question. That's the procedure that HBS Associate Professor Lauren H. Cohen followed to find out more about the odd dealings he'd observed at a company that was the subject of one of his case studies. But he wasn't given the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

06 Oct 2011
What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

more analytics won't change their skill set. You have to be a player first." Pete DeLisi added, "We also need to counterbalance analytics with the ability to see the big picture analytics can't be divorced from an understanding of the respective priorities of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

indication of a change in levels of CEO pay after the adoption of say on pay in the UK, they did discover an increase in the sensitivity of CEO pay to poor performance and a reduction in severance packages. The effect was more pronounced in firms with high voting... View Details