Tradeoffs Between Process- And Performance Standards - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

(Porter et al., 2008). Empirical work has confirmed the high correlation between strong performance on these conditions and prosperity levels across countries (Porter et al.,... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

next? Key Themes: As a public pension plan, CalSTRS operates in the context of a complex array of stakeholders, who from time to time push for divestment or other values-driven investment decisions. And yet, as a fiduciary, CalSTRS must... View Details

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

probably not how you would do it,” Luo says. Rather, you’d take a (sizable) number of people, allocate the scripts to them, ask them to rate and rank the scripts based on a standard set of criteria, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

are deliberately using a network strategy and discovering its potential to serve more people more effectively. "I'm interested in high performance networks and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

Delicate Balance For nearly 80 years, the FDA has performed a delicate balancing act between getting life-saving drugs to market, and ensuring that those drugs will be safe... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

my approach to various planning-related problems I tackle each day. My ability to identify details related to business efficiency and performance that I may have missed in the past was fine-tuned in the... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Named as one of the Rising Stars in Computer Science . Alan D. MacCormack : Winner of the 2016 Wickham Skinner Award for the best paper published in Production and Operations Management for “Managing the View Details

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

performing costly medical procedures. And that’s a problem, argues Senior Fellow Robert S. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. “It becomes... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

urgent systemic changes needed to address climate change. By doing what’s right for people and the planet, pep+ will help position our company as a consistent top market performer by generating stronger,... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

with a minimum recommended bandwidth of 2 Mbps download speed. Your browser performance will also affect your experience on the platform. To avoid browser-based issues and to ensure the best experience, we... View Details

25 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 25

concerning whether patents are a creative or a destructive influence on the process of technological development. In this paper I examine the basic patent tradeoff between incentives View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

study participant. "There's a [perception] that there's a tradeoff between serving the needs of the organizations and doing rigorous research," Beshears said. "But the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Equity through the Economic Cycles Professor Victoria Ivashina No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info This talk is based on a draft of a book that explores the interplay between the evolution of the private equity... View Details

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?

tradeoffs implying deprivation or loss. Women struggle just as men do, she said, in figuring out what they want to create and what their platinum standards are. "We have... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

ability of a firm to transfer its capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

fixing easy-to-solve problems had greater improvement in safety climate than those focused on identifying a bunch of hard-to-solve ones. "To our knowledge, this tradeoff between analysis View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

elements of the firm's accounting if they believe that reported data do not capture the economic performance of the company. The model then provides standardized financial statements View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School who studies the curious relationship between managerial incentives and motivation. “Family CEOs are a very interesting group” "Family CEOs are a very interesting... View Details