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- September 2015
- Technical Note
FIELD 2: Situation Analysis
By: Jill Avery
In this note, we present a method, the 5 C's Analysis, for collecting and analyzing information about the internal and external environments that firms face. This analysis will enable you to develop design ideas for a new product or service for your Global Partner that...
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- 2008
- Chapter
Matching and Market Design
By: Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sonmez
Matching is the part of economics concerned with who transacts with whom and how. Models of matching, starting with the Gale-Shapley deferred acceptance algorithm, have been particularly useful in studying labour markets and in helping design clearinghouses to fix...
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- Research Summary
Current Research
Professor Gardner’s research investigates two primary research questions, both particularly relevant to the management of professional service firms: (1) How are project teams able to most effectively use their members’ expertise in order...
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- March 1998
- Article
The Nature of Diversified Business Groups: A Research Design and Two Case Studies
By: P. Ghemawat and Tarun Khanna
Ghemawat, P., and Tarun Khanna. "The Nature of Diversified Business Groups: A Research Design and Two Case Studies." Journal of Industrial Economics 46, no. 1 (March 1998): 35–61.
- January 2009 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
Design Thinking and Innovation at Apple
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Barbara Feinberg
Describes Apple's approach to innovation, management, and design thinking. For several years, Apple has been ranked as the most innovative company in the world, but how it has achieved such success remains mysterious because of the company's obsession with secrecy....
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Keywords:
Design;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Management;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Research and Development;
Creativity;
Technology Industry
Thomke, Stefan H., and Barbara Feinberg. "Design Thinking and Innovation at Apple." Harvard Business School Case 609-066, January 2009. (Revised May 2012.)
- Winter 2015
- Article
When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Evolving Directions in the Research and Practice of Enterprise Risk Management
By: Anette Mikes and Robert S. Kaplan
Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become a crucial component of contemporary corporate governance reforms, with an abundance of principles, guidelines, and standards. This paper portrays ERM as an evolving discipline and presents empirical findings on its current...
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Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan. "When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Evolving Directions in the Research and Practice of Enterprise Risk Management." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 27, no. 1 (Winter 2015): 37–40.
- 1996
- Working Paper
The Nature of Diversified Business Groups: A Research Design and Two Case Studies
By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Tarun Khanna
- Research Summary
The Design of Mechanisms and Institutions
Professor Coughlan's research also investigates the design of public policy and collective choice institutions. His research publications have applied game theory, mechanism design, and laboratory experiments to explore incentives and outcomes under alternative legal,...
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- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 19 May 2016
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving
In their book, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads, Professors Srikant Datar and David Garvin and researcher Patrick Cullen identified creative and innovative thinking as an essential skill for managers operating in a world of rapidly evolving...
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- June 2020
- Article
Parallel Play: Startups, Nascent Markets, and the Effective Design of a Business Model
By: Rory McDonald and Kathleen Eisenhardt
Prior research advances several explanations for entrepreneurial success in nascent markets but leaves a key imperative unexplored: the business model. By studying five ventures in the same nascent market, we develop a novel theoretical framework for understanding how...
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Keywords:
Search;
Legitimacy;
Organizational Innovation;
Organizational Learning;
Mechanisms And Processes;
Institutional Entrepreneurship;
Qualitative Methods;
Business Model Design;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Emerging Markets;
Adaptation;
Competition;
Strategy
McDonald, Rory, and Kathleen Eisenhardt. "Parallel Play: Startups, Nascent Markets, and the Effective Design of a Business Model." Administrative Science Quarterly 65, no. 2 (June 2020): 483–523.
- 06 Oct 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments
- Awards
Nobel
By: Alvin E. Roth
Awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics with Lloyd Shapley for their research on market design and matching theory.
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- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
Click HereHarvard Business School Professor Stefan Thomke describes how his Executive Education students use LEGO blocks to design customer experiences. (Video by Executive Education) Why do some product or service experiences have enough...
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Research Services - Faculty & Research
Research Services 4ms Harvard Business School (HBS) provides unparalleled faculty support to facilitate the creation of enduring knowledge that shapes both business practice and pedagogy. HBS is distinct in that it funds almost all its...
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- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
less expensive for cities to maintain in the long-term. Macomber is putting his commitment to joining the fields of finance and design into practice through his research and HBS case studies, including...
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- July 2023
- Article
Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments
By: Iavor I Bojinov, David Simchi-Levi and Jinglong Zhao
In switchback experiments, a firm sequentially exposes an experimental unit to a random treatment, measures its response, and repeats the procedure for several periods to determine which treatment leads to the best outcome. Although practitioners have widely adopted...
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Bojinov, Iavor I., David Simchi-Levi, and Jinglong Zhao. "Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments." Management Science 69, no. 7 (July 2023): 3759–3777.
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Research Summaries
Sameer's research examines the dynamics of social networks inside organizations and their consequences for individual attainment and organizational success. His research encompasses three broad streams of activity.
Social Capital... View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments
By: Iavor I Bojinov, David Simchi-Levi and Jinglong Zhao
In switchback experiments, a firm sequentially exposes an experimental unit to a random treatment, measures its response, and repeats the procedure for several periods to determine which treatment leads to the best outcome. Although practitioners have widely adopted...
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Bojinov, Iavor I., David Simchi-Levi, and Jinglong Zhao. "Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-034, September 2020.
- Research Summary
Designing Productive Zones of Privacy
A common theme that integrates my research and course development is how increasingly transparent workplaces can improve productivity and performance by putting up certain boundaries to observation. While the research above empirically and theoretically explores the... View Details
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
Introduction to Design Thinking and Innovation Design Thinking and Innovation $1,850 Next 7-week session starts August 7th Apply Uncover innovative solutions to your most challenging business problems. 7...
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