Filter Results
:
(2,217)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,217)
- People (5)
- News (413)
- Research (1,447)
- Events (15)
- Multimedia (21)
- Faculty Publications (854)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,217)
- People (5)
- News (413)
- Research (1,447)
- Events (15)
- Multimedia (21)
- Faculty Publications (854)
- 24 May 2017
- News
One Trick for Getting Bosses to Buy In to Your Idea
- 2016
- Working Paper
Market Design for Altruistic Supply: Evidence from the Lab
By: Robert Slonim and Carmen Wang
Volunteer supply is widespread. Yet without a price, inefficiencies occur due to suppliers’ inability to coordinate with each other and with demand. In these contexts, we propose a market clearinghouse mechanism that improves efficiency if supply is altruistically...
View Details
Keywords:
Laboratory Experiments;
Volunteering;
Public Goods Provision;
Market Design;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Economics
Slonim, Robert, and Carmen Wang. "Market Design for Altruistic Supply: Evidence from the Lab." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-112, March 2016.
- 09 Dec 2019
- News
The Power of Biometric Identification for Development
- February 2008
- Case
Monitor's Opportunities in India (A)
By: Juan Alcacer and Jan W. Rivkin
The CEO of a strategy consulting firm must decide which of the firm's functions, if any, to move to India. In particular, he wonders whether business research--currently conducted by highly paid consultants in developed countries--can be conducted more efficiently and...
View Details
Keywords:
Developing Countries and Economies;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Consulting Industry;
India
Alcacer, Juan, and Jan W. Rivkin. "Monitor's Opportunities in India (A)." Harvard Business School Case 708-482, February 2008.
- June 2008 (Revised May 2017)
- Case
Cook Composites and Polymers Co.
By: Deishin Lee, Michael W. Toffel and Rachel Gordon
This case describes how a company improves resource efficiency and process quality in its manufacturing process by developing a waste by-product into a new product. The case describes how CCP cleans production equipment between batches using styrene, which becomes a...
View Details
Keywords:
Innovation and Invention;
Product Development;
Business Processes;
Performance Efficiency;
Natural Environment;
Wastes and Waste Processing;
Pollutants;
Environmental Sustainability;
Chemical Industry;
Manufacturing Industry
Lee, Deishin, Michael W. Toffel, and Rachel Gordon. "Cook Composites and Polymers Co." Harvard Business School Case 608-055, June 2008. (Revised May 2017.)
- June 2018
- Case
Feeding America (A)
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Alan Lam
This case describes how Feeding America, the third-largest nonprofit organization in the U.S., designed a marketplace for allocating donated food across its network of food banks. It considers the promises and pitfalls of using market-based allocation in the context of...
View Details
Keywords:
Social Enterprise;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Food;
Resource Allocation;
Fairness;
Performance Efficiency;
United States
Kominers, Scott Duke, and Alan Lam. "Feeding America (A)." Harvard Business School Case 818-130, June 2018.
Joshua D. Coval
Joshua Coval, Professor of Business Administration in the Finance Area, joined HBS in July 2001. Prior to joining HBS, Joshua was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Michigan Business School where he was on the faculty since 1996.... View Details
Keywords:
banking;
biotechnology;
defense;
e-commerce industry;
education industry;
electronics;
energy;
federal government;
financial services;
high technology;
home video games;
information technology industry;
internet;
investment banking industry;
management consulting;
real estate;
retail financial services;
software;
venture capital industry;
video games
- October 2004
- Case
DNA Traceability at Maple Leaf Foods
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Joan McRobbie and Matthew L. Reisman
Maple Leaf Foods is concerned about the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease) issue in Canada and the reputation of Canadian meat products in the domestic and global markets. DNA can now trace products from sow and piglets to consumer pork products....
View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
help enforce it." The result is high efficiency in the legislative capacity, particularly in economic areas, he said. Mauritius has what he called "a partnership" between business and government. Business communities can...
View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace
- September 2000 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
National Logistics Management
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Mary Rotelli and Kristin Kohler
National Logistics Management (NLM), a third-party logistics company, is a successful, profitable business that provides a more cost-effective and efficient means to expedite premium freight. With the logistics landscape changing, NLM's market niche is threatened. Can...
View Details
Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business or Company Management;
Logistics;
Industry Structures;
Planning;
Service Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Mary Rotelli, and Kristin Kohler. "National Logistics Management." Harvard Business School Case 801-110, September 2000. (Revised October 2002.)
- 27 Feb 2012
- News
Reviving Entrepreneurship
- 04 Sep 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Wellsprings of Creation: Perturbation and the Paradox of the Highly Disciplined Organization
- March 2018
- Case
EKOL Logistics: Thinking Outside the Box
By: Willy C. Shih and Esel Çekin
This case describes Ekol, an intermodal transportation and logistics company, and how it manages capacity planning. Its busiest routes linked motor vehicle assemblers in Germany and Turkey with many of their parts suppliers, but it had also developed key links in...
View Details
Keywords:
Growth And Development;
Strategy;
Intermodal Transportation;
Short-sea Transportation;
Capacity Management;
Capacity Planning;
Delivery Planning;
Route Optimization;
Car Spare Part;
Auto Manufacturing;
Automotive Supply Chain;
Europe;
Turkey;
Service Design;
Fast Fashion;
Near-shoring;
Supply Chain;
Supply Chain Management;
Operations;
Performance Capacity;
Performance Efficiency;
Logistics;
Transportation Industry;
Auto Industry;
Turkey;
Germany;
Spain;
European Union;
Europe
Shih, Willy C., and Esel Çekin. "EKOL Logistics: Thinking Outside the Box." Harvard Business School Case 618-037, March 2018.
- 06 Jul 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Do All Your Detailing Efforts Pay Off? Dynamic Panel Data Methods Revisited
- August 1994
- Case
Kirin Brewery Company, Ltd.
Describes the introduction of two profit planning and control systems at Kirin as part of its shift from a production-oriented to a consumer-oriented strategy. Specifically, documents Kirin's use of profit centers to increase efficiency and its use of pseudo profit...
View Details
Keywords:
Cost Management;
Organizational Structure;
Management Systems;
Manufacturing Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Japan
Cooper, Robin. "Kirin Brewery Company, Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 195-058, August 1994.
- August 2017 (Revised September 2018)
- Case
Accounting Turbulence at Boeing
By: Jonas Heese, Suraj Srinivasan, David Lane and James Barnett
Unlike its rival Airbus, Boeing had used a practice called program accounting to record its commercial aircraft expenses since the 1980s. Program accounting allowed Boeing to expense estimated average costs instead of the actual production costs of an aircraft. This...
View Details
Keywords:
Asset Recognition;
Program Accounting;
Airline Industry;
Accounting;
Production;
Cost;
Air Transportation Industry
Heese, Jonas, Suraj Srinivasan, David Lane, and James Barnett. "Accounting Turbulence at Boeing." Harvard Business School Case 118-020, August 2017. (Revised September 2018.)
Elisabeth C. Paulson
Elisabeth Paulson is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches the first year course on Technology and Operations Management in the required curriculum.
View Details
- 25 Apr 2011
- News
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
- August 2023
- Supplement
Reimagining Hindustan Unilever (B)
By: Sunil Gupta and Rachna Tahilyani
In April 2023, as the CEO and MD of Hindustan Unilever (HUL), India’s largest fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) firm, prepared to hand over the firm’s reins to his successor, he proudly reflected on the last decade. His quest to digitally transform HUL into an...
View Details