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- 08 Jul 2020
- News
We Have an Unemployment Crisis. Now What?
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For Guests - Commencement 2024
students can find more information and the required form on myHBS (password protected). Dress Code May weather in Boston can be variable (hot and humid, cool, or raining), so use your judgment when deciding what to wear. The Harvard and...
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- 29 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely
of clarity from the academic research as well,” Choudhury says. The potential for this new research to help inform discussions about remote work policies excites Choudhury. Giving knowledge workers, particularly those who work solitarily,...
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by Kristen Senz
- February 1990 (Revised July 1990)
- Case
Internal Revenue Service: Automated Collection System
By: Nitin Nohria
Describes how the IRS's collection operations changed from a largely manual system (COF) to an automated system (ACS). A central aspect of ACS was the electronic scheduling and maintaining of work. While with ACS the IRS accomplished significant improvements in the...
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Sovereign Finance;
Revenue;
Information Technology;
Taxation;
Change Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Human Resources;
Public Administration Industry;
United States
Nohria, Nitin. "Internal Revenue Service: Automated Collection System." Harvard Business School Case 490-042, February 1990. (Revised July 1990.)
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
Publications February 2015 Journal of Finance The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Katherine L. Milkman Abstract—Using a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
How Did Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings?
- Article
"Troll" Check? A Proposal for Administrative Review of Patent Litigation
By: Lauren Cohen, John Golden, Umit Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers
The patent system is commonly justified as a way to promote social welfare and, more specifically, technological progress. For years, however, there has been concern that patent litigation is undermining, rather than furthering, these goals. Particularly in the United...
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Cohen, Lauren, John Golden, Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Troll" Check? A Proposal for Administrative Review of Patent Litigation. Boston University Law Review 97, no. 5 (October 2017): 1775–1841.
- January 2010
- Article
The Role of Experience in the Gambler's Fallacy
By: Greg Barron and Stephen Leider
Recent papers have demonstrated that the way people acquire information about a decision problem, by experience or by abstract description, can affect their behavior. We examined the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary...
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Experience and Expertise;
Decision Making;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Outcome or Result;
Game Theory;
Prejudice and Bias
Barron, Greg, and Stephen Leider. "The Role of Experience in the Gambler's Fallacy." Special Issue on Decisions from Experience. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 23, no. 1 (January 2010).
- Web
Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research
records in PhD or DBA programs are encouraged to apply. Learn More Contact Information Entrepreneurial Management Unit Harvard Business School Rock Center Soldiers Field Boston, MA 02163 EM@hbs.edu
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- 26 Mar 2014
- HBS Seminar
Brian Kahin, MIT
- Web
Key Dates - Doctoral
strategies for applying to the programs. Note: This session will focus on information applicable to Harvard College students only. Location: Zoom. Join here. JanTBD Date TBD2025 PRIMO Application Strategy Session TIME TBD Join...
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Program FAQs - Summer Venture in Management
management degree can have on their professional and personal lives, and we want this experience to be used as a personal and career planning tool. If I am employed, how will taking time off to attend SVMP be regarded by my employer? It is the responsibility of the...
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- August 2005 (Revised December 2006)
- Case
Procter & Gamble: Electronic Data Capture and Clinical Trial Management
By: Robert S. Huckman and Mark J. Cotteleer
Considers whether the management of Procter & Gamble (P&G) Pharmaceuticals should adopt Web-based electronic data capture (EDC) as the default standard for the management of its clinical drug trials. Provides a detailed description of the existing paper-based process...
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Health Testing and Trials;
Internet and the Web;
Information Technology;
Adoption;
Business Processes;
Industry Structures;
Technological Innovation;
Service Operations;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States
Huckman, Robert S., and Mark J. Cotteleer. "Procter & Gamble: Electronic Data Capture and Clinical Trial Management." Harvard Business School Case 606-033, August 2005. (Revised December 2006.)
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School Leadership | About
Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean, Business in Global Society; Unit Head, General Management Matthew C. Weinzierl Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean, Chair, MBA Program Administrative Leadership Beth...
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Africa - Global
organizations. The ARC team also highlighted the various cases, roundtables, immersions, and research projects that it had worked with faculty on. In its presentation the ARC also shared information about its support of various HBS...
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Analyst Disagreement, Forecast Bias and Stock Returns
We present evidence of inefficient information processing in
equity markets by documenting that biases in analysts' earnings
forecasts are reflected in stock prices. In particular, investors
fail to account for analysts' tendency to withhold negative views
and to issue...
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- December 2023
- Teaching Note
India: Will the Giant Emerge?
By: Christian Ketels
This teaching note outlines a plan for conducting a discussion of the case "India: Will the Giant Emrge?". The case provides information on the Indian economy, a key driver of future global growth,. It discusses how India's challenges in defining an effective...
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- 2022
- Chapter
Sustainability Science and Corporate Cleanup in Community Fields: The Translation, Resistance and Integration Process Model
By: P. Devereaux Jennings, Maggie Cascadden and Andrew J. Hoffman
Both practically and theoretically, the sustainability science and corporate operation perspectives often diverge. Overcoming this divergence requires some degree of engagement with organizational field members; not just negotiation, but on-the-ground process work to...
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Jennings, P. Devereaux, Maggie Cascadden, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "Sustainability Science and Corporate Cleanup in Community Fields: The Translation, Resistance and Integration Process Model." Chap. 12 in Handbook on the Business of Sustainability: The Organization, Implementation, and Practice of Sustainable Growth, edited by Gerard George, Martine Haas, Havovi Joshi, Anita McGahan, and Paul Tracey, 214–231. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.
- March 2020 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
Board Director Dilemmas—Digging into Detail
By: David G. Fubini, Suraj Srinivasan and Amram Migdal
This case explores a new board director who asks a detailed question about a footnote in the lengthy board packet distributed to directors by management. The case allows for discussion about the amount of information and level of detail provided by management, the...
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Fubini, David G., Suraj Srinivasan, and Amram Migdal. "Board Director Dilemmas—Digging into Detail." Harvard Business School Case 120-100, March 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
- Article
Unhealthy Consumerism: The Challenge of Trading Off Price and Quality in Healthcare
By: Kate Barasz and Peter A. Ubel
Over the last decade, healthcare in many parts of the world has shifted toward a more patient-centric, consumeristic model, marked by an emphasis on choice and a proliferation of typical consumer-facing information (e.g., price and quality data). However, while the...
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Medical Decision-making;
Choice;
Health Care and Treatment;
Quality;
Price;
Consumer Behavior;
Decision Making
Barasz, Kate, and Peter A. Ubel. "Unhealthy Consumerism: The Challenge of Trading Off Price and Quality in Healthcare." Behavioural Public Policy 2, no. 1 (May 2018): 41–55.