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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
and reports the station and approximate time she heard a song, she receives information about the song and how to purchase the CD on which it appears. With the troubled Salt Lake City Winter Olympics Organizing Committee sorely in need...
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Nancy O. Perry
- July 2021
- Article
Electronic Trace Data and Legal Outcomes: The Effect of Electronic Medical Records on Malpractice Claim Resolution Time
By: Sam Ransbotham, Eric Overby and Michael C. Jernigan
Information systems generate copious trace data about what individuals do and when they do it. Trace data may affect the resolution of lawsuits by, for example, changing the time needed for legal discovery. Trace data might speed resolution by clarifying what events...
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Analytics and Data Science;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Digital Transformation;
Welfare;
Health Industry
Ransbotham, Sam, Eric Overby, and Michael C. Jernigan. "Electronic Trace Data and Legal Outcomes: The Effect of Electronic Medical Records on Malpractice Claim Resolution Time." Management Science 67, no. 7 (July 2021): 4341–4361.
- February 2016
- Article
Positive and Normative Judgments Implicit in U.S. Tax Policy, and the Costs of Unequal Growth and Recessions
By: Benjamin B. Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl
Calculating the welfare implications of changes to economic policy or shocks to the economy requires economists to decide on a normative criterion. One way to make that decision is to elicit the relevant moral criteria from real-world policy choices, converting a...
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Lockwood, Benjamin B., and Matthew Weinzierl. "Positive and Normative Judgments Implicit in U.S. Tax Policy, and the Costs of Unequal Growth and Recessions." Journal of Monetary Economics 77 (February 2016): 30–47. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-119, June 2014.)
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
focus on the educational side because that’s what’s needed immediately?” she asked. “The crisis emphasizes the necessity of agility.” Within days, the Mayor’s Office redirected their efforts to help schools...
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- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
focus on the educational side because that’s what’s needed immediately?” she asked. “The crisis emphasizes the necessity of agility.” Within days, the Mayor’s Office redirected their efforts to help schools...
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- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
internal data with government to gain understanding into their employees—providing insight, for example, into health behavior of workers in different neighborhoods. “There is so much data now, it’s exhilarating—and frightening,” says...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
Lawrence S. Kramer (MBA '74), who spent twenty years as a newspaper reporter and editor for publications such as the Washington Post and the San Francisco Examiner, was himself in the news last January. Kramer's financial information company, CBS MarketWatch.com,...
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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog
working with a board of directors. Others will be entrepreneurs needing to build a board for your company as a private entity and later as a public company. Still others will be investors or investment...
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- 21 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
My Fear of Student Debt: Funding the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
How do you decide whether taking on student debt outweighs the professional and personal benefits of graduate school? This decision was hard for me. I spent four years after my undergraduate studies working for low pay at non-profits...
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Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance
By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
In this paper, we consider how the structures of tasks and teams interact to affect team performance. We study the effects of diversity in experience on a team's ability to respond to task changes by separately examining interpersonal team diversity (i.e., differences...
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Management;
Groups and Teams;
Performance;
Problems and Challenges;
Projects;
Experience and Expertise;
Change;
Diversity;
Information Technology Industry;
India
Huckman, Robert S., and Bradley R. Staats. "Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 13, no. 3 (Summer 2011): 310–328.
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
disease are likely to multiply. If the Midwest is able to maintain its high standards for agriculture, it has an opportunity to supply the needs of growing populations in other parts View Details
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Agriculture
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
no longer being used as just a tactical resource, it's now fundamentally influencing business strategy and competition," says Richard L. Nolan, MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration, who...
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Elaine Gottlieb
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
responsible for the accuracy of financial reports. Others might include directors among those held responsible, with at least the confiscation of all incentive pay gained as a result View Details
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by James Heskett
- 2009
- Working Paper
Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance
By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
In this paper, we consider how the structures of tasks and teams interact to affect team performance. We study the effects of diversity in experience on a team's ability to respond to task changes, by separately examining interpersonal team diversity (i.e., differences...
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Familiarity;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Groups and Teams;
Projects;
Experience and Expertise;
Diversity;
India
Huckman, Robert S., and Bradley R. Staats. "Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-145, June 2009. (Revised August 2009, November 2009, April 2010, August 2010; revise and resubmit, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.)
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
companies and their shareholders. It’s no secret that companies with similar financials often pay very dissimilar amounts of tax in a given year. The same is true of individuals. One View Details
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by Roberta Holland
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
implementation is now under a review initiated by the White House. The regulation requires financial advisors who handle retirement investments to operate in the best interests of their clients. Proponents say the rule is View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
and more HBS students to take a long-term, professional interest in the space since US higher education is in such need of innovation.” In Opportunities in the Plant-Based Economy, students from HBS joined...
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- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
credit than it was at the height of the housing boom. Now you need—surprise, surprise—documentation. Now you need to be employed. Now you need to have a down payment. All those...
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- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
Buyers are more apt to use a product right after they purchase it, a fact you need to ponder as you consider how to keep customers coming back for more. In this e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Manda Mahoney, Harvard Business...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 16 Dec 2014
- News
Laying the foundation for a better understanding of Japan
Nobuo Sato (MBA 1982) appreciates the importance of cultivating a global awareness in HBS students. As executive director of the HBS Japan Research Center (JRC), he especially wants them to have a better...
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