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Making a Difference: Developing Actionable Knowledge for Practice and Theory

By: Michael Beer
There is a widely acknowledged gap between academic research and practice. While the field of organizational studies and development has had an impact on management practice in some organizations, it has had only a modest impact on widely accepted management practice... View Details
Keywords: Actionable Knowledge; Actionable Practice; Normal Science; Scholar-consultant; Management Practices and Processes; Theory; Innovation Leadership; Organizations; Performance Effectiveness
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  • 13 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

Science could be suffering and business certainly is suffering. If you try to take something that is science, and then jam it into normal business institutions, it just doesn't work that well for either... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology
  • 10 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Novelty Paradox & Bias for Normal Science: Evidence from Randomized Medical Grant Proposal Evaluations

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau, Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani & Christoph Riedl; Health
  • 12 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance By Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman How will rocket science retailing be different in the new normal than it was in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
  • 2000
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Research That Will Break the Code of Change: The Role of Useful Normal Science and Usable Action Science, A Commentary on Van de Ven and Argyris

By: Michael Beer
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  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Better Hiring Through Brain Science

like to give is, ‘Would you get a better read out of someone’s weight if you asked them how much they weigh, or if you just put them on the scale?’ ” says Polli. The online game interactions are precisely timed, so they also offer greater depth of data. The difference... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 26 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

Sciences (SEAS) and Harvard Business School, will soon head to SpaceX, where she’ll work in the direct-to-cell connectivity department. Along with enabling normal cell phone features such as text messaging... View Details
  • February 2021
  • Technical Note

Probability Distributions

By: Michael Parzen and Paul Hamilton
This technical note introduces students to the concept of random variables, and from there the normal and binomial distributions. After a brief introduction to random variables, the note describes the standard properties of the normal distribution: a single peak, and a... View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Risk and Uncertainty; Theory; Analytics and Data Science
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    Vincent Pons is... View Details

    • October 2018 (Revised July 2023)
    • Case

    Innovation at Uber: The Launch of Express POOL

    By: Chiara Farronato, Alan MacCormack and Sarah Mehta
    Set in March 2018, the case follows ride-sharing company Uber as it develops and launches a new product called Express POOL. This product offers a reduced price to riders willing to carpool, walk a short distance to/from their pick-up and drop-off points, and wait a... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Decision Making; Technology Industry; California; San Francisco
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    • 15 Dec 2015
    • First Look

    December 15, 2015

    Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50235 forthcoming Organization Science Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing By: Marquis, Christopher, Michael W. Toffel, and Yanhua Zhou... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 26 Jan 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    John Helveston, Boston University

    • August 2021
    • Article

    Multiple Imputation Using Gaussian Copulas

    By: F.M. Hollenbach, I. Bojinov, S. Minhas, N.W. Metternich, M.D. Ward and A. Volfovsky
    Missing observations are pervasive throughout empirical research, especially in the social sciences. Despite multiple approaches to dealing adequately with missing data, many scholars still fail to address this vital issue. In this paper, we present a simple-to-use... View Details
    Keywords: Missing Data; Bayesian Statistics; Imputation; Categorical Data; Estimation
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    • 18 Apr 2023
    • HBS Seminar

    Daron Acemoglu, MIT

    • September 2006 (Revised March 2012)
    • Case

    Fritidsresor Under Pressure (A): The First 10 Hours

    By: Joshua D. Margolis, Vincent Marie Dessain and Anders Sjoman
    When a tsunami hit Southeast Asia on December 26, 2004, the leadership team at a Swedish tour company must manage a devastating crisis affecting thousands of its customers and employees in Thailand. Documents the challenges the company faced in the first ten hours of... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Crisis Management; Natural Disasters; Tourism Industry; Thailand; Sweden
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    • 11 Oct 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER

    • Web

    Capstone | MBA

    Capstone MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Each student develops a capstone project in their second year of studies that challenges them to perform an in-depth structured scientific and business analysis of a biotechnology opportunity.... View Details
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    Program Requirements - Doctoral

    Organizational Behavior Program Requirements Each candidate’s program of study will be developed in consultation with faculty advisors and the chair of the Policy and Admissions Committee. The normal program is outlined below. Advising... View Details
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    Faculty & Advisors | MBA

    Faculty & Advisors MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Faculty Amitabh Chandra, Ph.D. Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration at HBS, Ethel Zimmerman Winer Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy... View Details
    • 08 Dec 2015
    • First Look

    December 8, 2015

    Argentina and Chile over recent decades. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50182 forthcoming Management Science Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency By: Buell, Ryan W., Tami Kim, and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne