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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship | Baker Library
Buying Power Good for finding granular data on income, purchasing power, and lifestyle of American consumers. Suggested Resources Books American Incomes: Demographics of Who Has Money Who we are: Blacks... View Details
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
team. And these findings hold value in the world of corporate hiring, as well. In 1996, Jeff Borland and Jeanette Ngaire Lye studied data on Australian football coaches to... View Details
Leslie A. Perlow
Leslie A. Perlow is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. She leads the LIFE Special Project, dedicated to helping individuals make purposeful life choices while gathering insights that will... View Details
- August 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Driving Sustainability at Bloomberg L.P.
By: Christopher Marquis, Daniel Beunza, Fabrizio Ferraro and Bobbi Thomason
Describes the addition of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance indicators to the Bloomberg terminal. The initiative grew out of Bloomberg's broader sustainability initiatives and is an example of how committed employees can create positive social... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Knowledge Dissemination; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Publishing Industry; New York (city, NY)
Marquis, Christopher, Daniel Beunza, Fabrizio Ferraro, and Bobbi Thomason. "Driving Sustainability at Bloomberg L.P." Harvard Business School Case 411-025, August 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
not fully understand the importance of complying with all aspects of their recommended treatments, which eventually leads to deteriorating health and higher treatment costs. In this study, the authors analyze historical View Details
- Web
MOC Network reaches 20 year milestone - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses MOC Network reaches 20 y... MOC Network 20 th Anniversary Workshop The December 2022 workshop was the 20th annual gathering of... View Details
- July 1986 (Revised May 1993)
- Supplement
Mason Instrument, Inc.--1986 (B): Electronics Guidance System for the Cherokee Missile
Provides additional data concerning the bid. View Details
Corey, E. Raymond. "Mason Instrument, Inc.--1986 (B): Electronics Guidance System for the Cherokee Missile." Harvard Business School Supplement 587-041, July 1986. (Revised May 1993.)
- 2020
- Working Paper
Engineering Serendipity: When Does Knowledge Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production?
By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan and Karim R. Lakhani
We investigate how knowledge similarity between two individuals is systematically related to the likelihood that a serendipitous encounter results in knowledge production. We conduct a natural field experiment at a medical research symposium, where we exogenously... View Details
Keywords: Cognitive Similarity; Knowledge Creation; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Dissemination; Relationships
Lane, Jacqueline N., Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Engineering Serendipity: When Does Knowledge Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-058, November 2019. (Revised July 2020.)
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Responsibilities and Acceptable Use - Research Computing Services
your data is not considered HRCI Level 3 or higher, or you might consider purchasing an external hard drive from your local electronics vendor. Attend to any automated messages concerning "Out of Space" or "Over Quota" problems. These are... View Details
- February 2024
- Article
Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry
By: Dominika Kinga Randle and Gary P. Pisano
An enduring trait of modern corporations is their propensity to diversify into multiple lines of business. Penrosian theories conceptualize diversification as a strategy to exploit a firm’s fungible, yet “untradeable”, resources and point to redeployment of... View Details
Randle, Dominika Kinga, and Gary P. Pisano. "Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry." Special Issue on Knowledge Resources and Heterogeneity of Entrants within and across Industries. Industrial and Corporate Change 33, no. 1 (February 2024): 238–252.
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
compensation does not result in improved performance in American companies, they conclude, corporations abroad should resist pressures to tie incentives to individual and unit performance. Two Best Ways? When HBS assistant professor... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 17 Nov 2015
- HBS Seminar
Kevin Boudreau, Harvard Business School, London Business School
- October 1994 (Revised April 1995)
- Case
Reyem Affiar
Reyem Affiar is interested in buying a condominium in Cambridge, Mass. Can data on previous condominium sales inform him on how to bid for the condo? The case includes 1990--1994 data on Cambridge condominium sales (nearly 500 records). View Details
Wu, George. "Reyem Affiar." Harvard Business School Case 895-009, October 1994. (Revised April 1995.)
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
big hype. As is usually the case, the truth is somewhere between these two extremes. This article highlights the potential impact of big data on business practices in three broad areas: applications, methods, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2009
- Journal Article
Testing the Commitment Hypothesis in Contractual Settings: Evidence from Soccer
By: Oriol Carbonell and Diego A. Comin
This paper designs and implements an empirical test to discern whether the parties to a contract are able to commit not to renegotiate their agreement. We study optimal contracts with and without commitment and derive an exclusion restriction that is useful to identify... View Details
Carbonell, Oriol, and Diego A. Comin. "Testing the Commitment Hypothesis in Contractual Settings: Evidence from Soccer." Art. 1. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 5, no. 4 (October 2009).
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
life, and low cost Prussian Blue Sodium Ion battery solutions for critical power and industrial applications, including data center UPS systems View Details
Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Greenstein, and Catherine Tucker (University of Chicago Press) As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing data has decreased, economic activity has become increasingly... View Details
- September–October 2024
- Article
Where Data-Driven Decision-Making Can Go Wrong
By: Michael Luca and Amy C. Edmondson
When considering internal data or the results of a study, often business leaders either take the evidence presented as gospel or dismiss it altogether. Both approaches are misguided. What leaders need to do instead is conduct rigorous discussions that assess any... View Details
Luca, Michael, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Where Data-Driven Decision-Making Can Go Wrong." Harvard Business Review 102, no. 5 (September–October 2024): 80–89.
- January 1995 (Revised November 1996)
- Case
Avalon Information Services, Inc.
By: Lynn S. Paine and Wilda White
The Privacy Review Committee of Avalon Information Services must decide how to deal with concerns voiced by its retail supermarket customers about the privacy of consumer data collected through Avalon's point-of-sale data collection program. One customer is proposing... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Safety; Demand and Consumers; Rights; Analytics and Data Science; Information Technology; Ethics; Information Industry
Paine, Lynn S., and Wilda White. "Avalon Information Services, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 395-036, January 1995. (Revised November 1996.)