Filter Results
:
(1,188)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (1,188)
- Faculty Publications (155)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (1,188)
- Faculty Publications (155)
- 2020
- Working Paper
Capital Regulation and Product Market Outcomes
By: Ishita Sen and David Humphry
We present evidence of product market adjustments and asset reorganizations from the largest ever shift in risk regulation in a developed insurance market. Using proprietary data on insurance risk exposures from the Bank of England, we develop a measure of regulatory...
View Details
Keywords:
Non-traditional-non-insurance;
Risk Regulation;
Product Market Concentration;
Small Vs. Large Insurers;
Insurance Risk Exposure;
Insurance;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Sen, Ishita, and David Humphry. "Capital Regulation and Product Market Outcomes." Working Paper, January 2020.
- August 2016
- Teaching Note
Reworking Office Space: Industry City, Brooklyn
By: Arthur I Segel and Alexander W. Schultz
Jamestown is contemplating how to best lease a portion of their new development along the Brooklyn waterfront: Industry City. The 6-million-square-foot, mixed-use development is meant to accommodate Brooklyn’s growing innovation, creative, and “maker” communities....
View Details
- November 2012 (Revised June 2013)
- Case
The Facebook IPO Litigation
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Annelena Loeb
Despite its success in the social-networking space, Facebook Inc.'s May 2012 IPO was largely considered a failure. Facebook faced multiple lawsuits and its share price had dropped significantly. Adversaries contended that Facebook had misled investors and violated...
View Details
Keywords:
Social Networking;
IPO;
Litigation Risk;
Initial Public Offering;
Ethics;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Failure;
Consumer Products Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
United States
Goldberg, Lena G., and Annelena Loeb. "The Facebook IPO Litigation." Harvard Business School Case 313-080, November 2012. (Revised June 2013.)
- June 2016 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Reworking Office Space: Industry City, Brooklyn
By: Arthur I Segel, Andrew Baum, Nori Gerardo Lietz, Charles F. Wu and Sid Yog
Jamestown is contemplating how to best lease a portion of their new development along the Brooklyn waterfront, Industry City. The 6 million square foot, mixed-use development is meant to accommodate Brooklyn’s growing innovation, creative, and “maker” communities....
View Details
Keywords:
WeWork;
Office Space;
Real Estate;
Jamestown;
Level39;
Shared Office Space;
Information Technology;
Leasing;
Property;
Strategy;
Real Estate Industry;
United States
Segel, Arthur I., Andrew Baum, Nori Gerardo Lietz, Charles F. Wu, and Sid Yog. "Reworking Office Space: Industry City, Brooklyn." Harvard Business School Case 216-075, June 2016. (Revised March 2017.)
- 2020
- Working Paper
Reverse Information Sharing: Reducing Costs in Supply Chains with Yield Uncertainty
By: Pavithra Harsha, Ashish Jagmohan, Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson and Georgia Perakis
Supply uncertainty in produce supply chains presents major challenges to retailers. Supply shortages create frequent disruptions in terms of promised delivery times, quantity and quality delivered. To alleviate these challenges, dual sourcing--a strategy in which...
View Details
Keywords:
Information Sharing;
Yield Uncertainty;
Ration Gaming;
Blockchain;
Supply Chain;
Risk and Uncertainty
Harsha, Pavithra, Ashish Jagmohan, Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson, and Georgia Perakis. "Reverse Information Sharing: Reducing Costs in Supply Chains with Yield Uncertainty." MIT Sloan Research Paper, No. 6172-20, October 2020.
- May 2011
- Article
Nonsimultaneous Chains and Dominos in Kidney Paired Donation—Revisited
By: Itai Ashlagi, Duncan S. Gilchrist, Alvin E. Roth and Michael A. Rees
Since 2008 kidney exchange in America has grown in part from the incorporation of non-directed donors in transplant chains rather than simple exchanges. It is controversial whether these chains should be performed simultaneously ("domino paired donation," DPD) or...
View Details
Keywords:
ABO Incompatibility;
Allosensitization;
Paired Kidney Exchange;
Regional Sharing;
Simulation Models;
Transplantation Policy;
Health Care and Treatment;
Supply Chain;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Logistics;
United States
Ashlagi, Itai, Duncan S. Gilchrist, Alvin E. Roth, and Michael A. Rees. "Nonsimultaneous Chains and Dominos in Kidney Paired Donation—Revisited." American Journal of Transplantation 11, no. 5 (May 2011): 984–994.
- 22 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have
Trustworthy AI Lab at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard. Neel shared insights on the nascent field that focuses on wiping the powerful technology’s virtual memory. “Increasingly, these models are trained on very large datasets...
View Details
- 21 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
SVMP Gave Me the Courage to Fail
Clicking the submit button on my Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) application felt like an act of courage, one that left me feeling vulnerable and open to rejection, a sentiment likely shared by many of my peers. As we each...
View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
Selected current projects:
Shared Decision Making and Patient Engagement in Orthopaedic Surgery
Identification of Risk Factors for Revision Surgery Following Primary THA and TKA
Integrated Care Delivery and Episode of Care Payments in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
The...
View Details
John W. Pratt
John W. Pratt is a professor of business administration, emeritus, at Harvard Business School. He was educated at Princeton and Stanford, specializing in mathematics and statistics. Except for two years at the University of Chicago, and a sabbatical in Kyoto on a... View Details
- 02 May 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?
players, often with unorthodox moves. Sure, at the moment AI causes machines to do dumb things and say things that aren’t true. And yes, AI could spread damaging information even more rapidly and convincingly than social media. Some pioneer developers even believe...
View Details
- 09 May 2019
- News
The Most Anxious Generation Goes to Work
- 28 Apr 2020
- News
The business of saving the world
- 03 Dec 2018
- News
Young Americans need to be taught skills, not handed credentials
- 26 Sep 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism
Keywords:
by Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
Disruption and Credit Markets
When innovation and entry are high in an industry, is this good or bad news for incumbents? We show that recently the answer has been bad news. Industries with elevated venture capital activity and returns, and with a larger presence of newly listed firms, show a... View Details
- Research Summary
Performance Management Systems
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan's research on performance management systems includes further applications of strategy maps and The Balanced Scorecard for effective strategy execution. His recent research...
View Details
- October 2022 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Century Bank: Closing Time?
By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Bill Kwon
Barry Sloane, second-generation Chairman, President, and CEO of his family’s bank, Century Bank, weighed whether to sell to Eastern Bank. As a small regional bank, Century faced a number of challenging trends, such as digitization and market share decline in the coming...
View Details
Keywords:
Family Office;
Business Exit;
Banking;
Family;
Massachusetts;
Boston;
United States;
Acquisition;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Family Business;
Family and Family Relationships;
Interpersonal Communication;
Decision Making;
Finance;
Banks and Banking;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Emotions;
Banking Industry;
Boston;
Massachusetts;
United States
Cohen, Lauren, Grace Headinger, and Bill Kwon. "Century Bank: Closing Time?" Harvard Business School Case 223-040, October 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
- April 2023
- Case
Elliott Management: Capital Allocation in Biopharma
By: Amitabh Chandra, Paul Clancy and Lauren Gunasti
The case explores the intersection of capital allocation and shareholder activism in the biopharmaceutical industry. As many biopharma companies face looming patent expirations for key medicines, the case asks the question of whether investing in R&D and M&A is an...
View Details
Keywords:
Finance;
Strategy;
Capital Allocation;
Biopharmaceutical Industry;
Shareholder Activism;
Investment Activism;
Resource Allocation;
Research and Development;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Corporate Strategy;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Chandra, Amitabh, Paul Clancy, and Lauren Gunasti. "Elliott Management: Capital Allocation in Biopharma." Harvard Business School Case 623-045, April 2023.
- 27 Jan 2011
- Working Paper Summaries