Filter Results:
(493)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,238)
- People (2)
- News (310)
- Research (493)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (404)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,238)
- People (2)
- News (310)
- Research (493)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (404)
Sort by
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
research to better understand the drivers and impacts of corporate climate targets. That project is funded by a cluster grant of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard, which seeks to encourage multidisciplinary... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
$1.9 million Pursuing Perfection grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition to funding an improvement-science training program, the grant requires that the hospital undertake improvement... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
(One cure for stock option abuse, say proponents, is to change accounting rules so that option grants are reflected in a company's principal financial statements. High-tech start-ups blister at that idea, saying it would harm their... View Details
- September–October 1995
- Article
Realize Your Customers' Full Profit Potential
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Alan W.H. Grant
Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Alan W.H. Grant. "Realize Your Customers' Full Profit Potential." Harvard Business Review 73, no. 5 (September–October 1995): 59–72.
- Article
Operational Efficiency and Effective Management in the Catheterization Laboratory
By: Grant W. Reed, Michael L. Tushman and Samir R. Kapadia
Operational efficiency is a core business principle in which organizations strive to deliver high-quality goods or services in a cost-effective manner. This concept has become increasingly relevant to cardiac catheterization laboratories, as insurers move away from... View Details
Keywords: Cath Lab; Catheterization Laboratory; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Management; Performance Productivity; Cost Management; Health Industry
Reed, Grant W., Michael L. Tushman, and Samir R. Kapadia. "Operational Efficiency and Effective Management in the Catheterization Laboratory." Journal of the American College of Cardiology 72, no. 20 (November 20, 2018): 2507–2517.
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
internet and the next generation of the World Wide Web. In this management world of the future, “everyone has a voice, the tools of creativity are widely distributed, capability counts for more than credentials and titles, commitment is voluntary, power is View Details
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
The bedrock of this system is the "patent," a legal document that allows its holder exclusive commercialization rights of a part of the "idea space" granted through the patent. Strong legal protection of IP has made... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
candidacy in the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and then applying for and being granted a waiver of medical and psychiatric prerequisites so that I could receive full training in clinical psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
employee elected body) that my intentions were neither destructive nor judgmental. The labor council granted me access to its list of retirees, and, to this day, I cannot thank them enough. Q: What was the reception you got while... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
Grants David F. HawkinsHarvard Business School Case 111-087 Analyst questions the value of accounting measurement of earnings per share and stock option costs for equity valuation purposes. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
revolutionized by bringing in market forces in a way that they never were before. Competition that we take for granted in most sectors of the economy is now driving efficiencies and innovations in the space sector, making it much more of... View Details
- 2019
- Working Paper
The Road Not Taken: Consumption of Unfamiliar Products Increases Feelings of Self-Discovery and Consumer Engagement
By: Dafna Goor, Grant Donnelly and Michael I. Norton
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Situational Samaritan: How and Why Marketplace Conditions Shape Prosocial Consumer Behaviors
By: Julia von Schuckmann, Lucia S.G. Barrios, Grant E. Donnelly and Marco Bertini
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
paper Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers? (forthcoming in The Review of Economics and Statistics). "Planning regulation ended up harming independent retailers," she writes. "According to the results shown in the paper, the decline in... View Details
- Article
Extension Request Avoidance Predicts Greater Time Stress Among Women
By: Ashley V. Whillans, Jaewon Yoon, Aurora Turek and Grant E. Donnelly
In nine studies using archival data, surveys, and experiments, we identify a factor that predicts gender differences in time stress and burnout. Across academic and professional settings, women are less likely to ask for more time when working under adjustable... View Details
Whillans, Ashley V., Jaewon Yoon, Aurora Turek, and Grant E. Donnelly. "Extension Request Avoidance Predicts Greater Time Stress Among Women." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 45 (November 9, 2021).
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
Back-of-the-envelope welfare estimates indicate that the 3.9% increase in patent grants at the USPTO could potentially create $1.16 billion in value for the U.S. economy. Southern Responses to Gold Certification: Cooperate, Compete,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
million to $5 million, with most of that money coming from grants from institutions like the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Funding can be canceled with the stroke of a pen.” The NIH allocates money to researchers whose proposals... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
rising stock market. Another was the use of stock options—because options are so complex, they can obscure the amount of pay actually being given to executives. In most cases where we see big excesses, it has to do with compensation committees not holding the line, as... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
19, 2014). To avoid escalation, diplomats will likely plead for more time. Granting a six-month extension, an option already built into the current process, could easily become a pattern, turning some version of the interim deal into a de... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
activity, using hitherto little studied U.S. Treasury data. The CDFI Fund grants increase lending at credit unions by 3%. For every dollar awarded, 45 additional cents are loaned out to borrowers in the first year, and up to an additional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne