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- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
years. Companies need a way to unlock the process of innovation and create innovation-driven growth businesses again and again. How can managers increase the probability that their decisions will lead to success? Now more than ever,...
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
2011 Stan Hardy Award for Outstanding Paper published in the field of Operations Management from the Decision Sciences Institute for his paper with Ryan W. Buell and Frances X. Frei, “Are Self-Service Customers Satisfied or Stuck?”...
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- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
opportunity, while other people have a higher bar based on their identity,” she says. “So, it’s important to be race conscious when evaluating people’s potential to make sure these decisions aren’t biased.” [Read an excerpt from Race,...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?
our old ways of thinking with COVID.” Decision to adopt the model is a matter of equity Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, grew up in India where he says the travails of the extreme poor were always in sight. “Rich and...
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- February 2016 (Revised July 2017)
- Case
An Australian Ballot for California?
By: David Moss, Marc Campasano and Dean Grodzins
In early 1891, California lawmakers were considering a plan to reform the state's elections through the introduction of an “Australian” ballot. Under this new system, candidates from all qualifying parties would appear on official ballots, which would be printed by...
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Moss, David, Marc Campasano, and Dean Grodzins. "An Australian Ballot for California?" Harvard Business School Case 716-054, February 2016. (Revised July 2017.)
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
her career in new directions and add greater value to the company, she wanted to broaden her insights, skills, and network, which prompted her to enroll in HBS’s General Management Program (GMP) in 2021, a decision made more feasible...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
determine the platforms' ability to create viable ecosystems by getting the relevant sides on board, generating interactions among them, and extracting profits. Vertical scope has to do with the decision of whether or not to integrate...
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- Portrait Project
Katie Rowe
quickly readmitted—“grrr.” The hospital is over capacity, so our postoperative patient spends a night in the post-procedure unit and becomes delirious—“grrr.” A family agonizes over decisions about their father’s care because no one is...
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About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
doctoral students to design and implement experiments and surveys to study negotiation and decision making, with an emphasis on how biases affect decisions. Tara earned her B.A. cum laude in Psychology (Psi Chi) from Boston University....
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- 09 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
decisions that had them poised over an abyss of uncertainty. Without exception, they all had to confront their fears and use courage to take a leap of faith toward what they believed was the right decision...
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- April 2011 (Revised January 2013)
- Supplement
Felipe Calderón: Leading with Light and Power (C)
By: J. Bruce Harreld and David Lane
This sequence of cases explores how leaders get their team focused on framing, analyzing, and ultimately acting upon complex decisions. The A case provides an inside look as President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, works with his cabinet ministers to decide how to...
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Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Cases;
Leadership Style;
Crime and Corruption;
State Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Economics;
Finance;
Performance;
Management Teams;
Energy Industry;
Mexico City
Harreld, J. Bruce, and David Lane. "Felipe Calderón: Leading with Light and Power (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 811-094, April 2011. (Revised January 2013.)
- December 2003 (Revised October 2014)
- Case
Alusaf Hillside Project
By: Kenneth S. Corts and John R. Wells
The aluminum industry has suffered from long periods of depressed prices and profits interspersed with relatively short-lived price and profit peaks. The case investigates why this has occured, focusing on the decision Alusaf must make on whether to invest in a major...
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Decision Making;
Business Cycles;
Financial Crisis;
Metals and Minerals;
Financial Strategy;
Investment;
Price;
Profit;
Demand and Consumers;
Industry Structures
Corts, Kenneth S., and John R. Wells. "Alusaf Hillside Project." Harvard Business School Case 704-458, December 2003. (Revised October 2014.)
- September 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Supplement
SUN Brewing (A) (CW)
The Khemka family of India--founders, managers, and majority owners of Russia-based SUN Brewing--faces a difficult decision in 1998. Following the ruble's massive devaluation in August 1998, the stock price of SUN brewing, which is publicly listed on the Luxemburg...
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- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
- Article
Towards Robust and Reliable Algorithmic Recourse
By: Sohini Upadhyay, Shalmali Joshi and Himabindu Lakkaraju
As predictive models are increasingly being deployed in high-stakes decision making (e.g., loan
approvals), there has been growing interest in post-hoc techniques which provide recourse to affected
individuals. These techniques generate recourses under the assumption...
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Machine Learning Models;
Algorithmic Recourse;
Decision Making;
Forecasting and Prediction
Upadhyay, Sohini, Shalmali Joshi, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Towards Robust and Reliable Algorithmic Recourse." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 34 (2021).
- April 2011
- Case
Felipe Calderón: Leading with Light and Power (A)
By: J. Bruce Harreld and David Lane
This sequence of cases explores how leaders get their team focused on framing, analyzing, and ultimately acting upon complex decisions. The A case provides an inside look as President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, works with his cabinet ministers to decide how to...
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Crime and Corruption;
Decisions;
Public Sector;
Leadership;
Conflict and Resolution;
Power and Influence;
Urban Development;
Welfare or Wellbeing
Harreld, J. Bruce, and David Lane. "Felipe Calderón: Leading with Light and Power (A)." Harvard Business School Case 811-024, April 2011.
- January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
THE YES: Reimagining the Future of E-Commerce with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
By: Jill Avery, Ayelet Israeli and Emma von Maur
THE YES, a multi-brand shopping app launched in May 2020 offered a new type of buying experience for women’s fashion, driven by a sophisticated algorithm that used data science and machine learning to create and deliver a personalized store for every shopper, based on...
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Data;
Data Analytics;
Artificial Intelligence;
AI;
AI Algorithms;
AI Creativity;
Fashion;
Retail;
Retail Analytics;
E-Commerce Strategy;
Platform;
Platforms;
Big Data;
Preference Elicitation;
Preference Prediction;
Predictive Analytics;
App Development;
"Marketing Analytics";
Advertising;
Mobile App;
Mobile Marketing;
Apparel;
Online Advertising;
Referral Rewards;
Referrals;
Female Ceo;
Female Entrepreneur;
Female Protagonist;
Analytics and Data Science;
Analysis;
Creativity;
Marketing Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Consumer Behavior;
Demand and Consumers;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Marketing Channels;
Digital Marketing;
Internet and the Web;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
AI and Machine Learning;
E-commerce;
Digital Platforms;
Fashion Industry;
Retail Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
Avery, Jill, Ayelet Israeli, and Emma von Maur. "THE YES: Reimagining the Future of E-Commerce with Artificial Intelligence (AI)." Harvard Business School Case 521-070, January 2021. (Revised March 2021.)
- 2020
- Working Paper
Topic Preference Detection: A Novel Approach to Understand Perspective Taking in Conversation
By: Michael Yeomans and Alison Wood Brooks
Although most humans engage in conversations constantly throughout their lives, conversational mistakes are commonplace— interacting with others is difficult, and conversation re-quires quick, relentless perspective-taking and decision making. For example: during every...
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Natural Language Processing;
Interpersonal Communication;
Perspective;
Decision Making;
Perception
Yeomans, Michael, and Alison Wood Brooks. "Topic Preference Detection: A Novel Approach to Understand Perspective Taking in Conversation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-077, February 2020.
- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
In recent years, polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton has been celebrated through books, memoirs, several films, and a major museum exhibit. His achievements on the ice have much to teach business students and executives, says Harvard Business School professor Nancy F....
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
conduct an analysis to determine how companies were responding to the crisis. Were they retaining their staff and providing essential workers with extra pay, or were they cutting expenses through layoffs and furloughs? "It gave us a rare opportunity. Every View Details
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by Lane Lambert