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- 25 May 2010
- News
Commencement and the Winds of Change
To give peace a chance, unleash the power of business. That’s Sir Ronald Cohen’s (MBA ’69) idea for one of the world’s toughest neighborhoods: the Middle East. At an event hosted by the HBS Jewish Students Association on April 9, Cohen,... View Details
- Web
CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
address lack of health-seeking behavior Packaging of OTC medicines to reflect consumers’ limited spending power A dense network of local distributors to reduce stock-outs Frequent health camps for physicians in rural areas Microfinance... View Details
- May 2014
- Article
Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior
By: Nils Rudi and David Drake
In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: level behavior—the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior—the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities; and observation bias—the tendency to... View Details
Rudi, Nils, and David Drake. "Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior." Management Science 60, no. 5 (May 2014): 1334–1345.
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
were outraged and went to the streets in protest. These blackouts were specifically due to the increased power usage for air conditioning in the summer months but were more generally caused by the removal of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2023
- Book
HBS Faculty Books of 2023: Find Happiness, Fix Things, and Fail Well
Regimes? The efficiency of one-party governments might seem appealing, but leaders need a deep understanding of a country's power structure and "moral economy," says Meg Rithmire. Her book Precarious Ties:... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- August 2001 (Revised July 2008)
- Technical Note
A Technical Note and Discussion on Real Estate Valuation (IBET): Back of the Envelope (BOE) on Bonhomme Place: A Case within a Case
By: Arthur I Segel
Discusses real estate valuation. Reviews "back of the envelope" valuation; real estate appraisal methods, including the income method; market comparables and replacement costs; and more complex computer modeling. Also discusses other variables that could influence... View Details
Segel, Arthur I. "A Technical Note and Discussion on Real Estate Valuation (IBET): Back of the Envelope (BOE) on Bonhomme Place: A Case within a Case." Harvard Business School Technical Note 802-025, August 2001. (Revised July 2008.)
- November–December 2022
- Article
Number One in Formula One: Leadership Lessons from Toto Wolff and Mercedes, the Team behind One of the Greatest Winning Streaks in All of Sports
By: Anita Elberse
Toto Wolff, the team principal for Mercedes-AMG Petronas—arguably the most impressive team in F1 racing history—has led his organization to unparalleled success. Mercedes earned the Constructors’ Championship (for best overall team performance) every year from 2014... View Details
Elberse, Anita. "Number One in Formula One: Leadership Lessons from Toto Wolff and Mercedes, the Team behind One of the Greatest Winning Streaks in All of Sports." Harvard Business Review (November–December 2022): 70–78.
- 16 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal?
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Andrew Charlton
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
consumers were that deregulation: (1) unleashes the power of a self-correcting free market (Jeff Struck), giving customers services at prices they are willing to pay and quality levels that they are willing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Sep 2022
- News
Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time to Lead. Are You Ready?
- 21 May 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
The Role of the Corporation in Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities for Future Research
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- August 2021 (Revised February 2023)
- Supplement
Fair Park Covid-19 Mass Vaccination Site (B)
By: Willy Shih
This case is an opportunity to apply the methods of the Toyota Production System (TPS) to the analysis of an everyday service application: administering Covid-19 vaccines. It describes the start-up of a drive-up Covid-19 mass vaccination site at the Texas State Fair... View Details
Keywords: Operations Management; Operations Improvement; Operations And Processes; Toyota Production System; COVID-19 Pandemic; Operations; Service Operations; Health Pandemics; Service Delivery; Problems and Challenges; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Health Industry; United States
Shih, Willy. "Fair Park Covid-19 Mass Vaccination Site (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 622-004, August 2021. (Revised February 2023.)
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
business owners to understand their own cash flow and prospects. Now the fintech innovation cycle is at an inflection point—new streams of data have the power to illuminate the opaque nature of a small... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Breaks in Interaction Improve Collective Intelligence By: Bernstein, Ethan, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer Abstract— People influence each other when they interact to solve problems. Such social View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Reunited and It Feels So Good
During several days of engaging academic programs and lively social events held in October both on and off campus, more than fifteen hundred alumni and guests from the MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
but also ensures that the rules of the game are such that prosperity is widely shared and that problems like climate change are adequately addressed. How does democracy affect the power balance that enables... View Details
- February 2015
- Article
On the Ethnic Origins of African Development: Traditional Chiefs and Pre-Colonial Political Centralization
By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
We report on recent findings of a fruitful research agenda that explores the importance of ethnic-specific traits in shaping African development. First, using recent surveys from Sub-Saharan African countries, we document that individuals identify with their ethnic... View Details
Michalopoulos, Stelios, and Elias Papaioannou. "On the Ethnic Origins of African Development: Traditional Chiefs and Pre-Colonial Political Centralization." Academy of Management Perspectives 29, no. 1 (February 2015): 32–71.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Learning Processes in Environmental Policy Making and Implementation
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
This paper explores how "learning" occurs in the context of environmental policy formulation and implementation. Rather than viewing policy learning as a rational and technocratic process, the emphasis here is on the political and institutional contexts within which... View Details
- October 2009
- Article
A Decision-making Perspective to Negotiation: A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future
By: Chia-Jung Tsay and Max Bazerman
Through the decision-analytic approach to negotiations, the past quarter century has seen the development of a better dialog between the descriptive and the prescriptive, as well as a burgeoning interest in the field for both academics and practitioners. Researchers... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Negotiation; Perspective; Ethics; Emotions; Perception; Relationships; Management Practices and Processes; Training; Behavior
Tsay, Chia-Jung, and Max Bazerman. "A Decision-making Perspective to Negotiation: A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future." Negotiation Journal 25, no. 4 (October 2009): 467–480.
American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890-1940
American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal meanings of the term fair trade from the late nineteenth century through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with... View Details