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- 2015
- Case
Fine Harvest Restaurant Group (cases A and B)
By: Clara (Xiaoling) Chen, Kenneth A. Merchant, Tatiana Sandino and Wim A. Van der Stede
The Fine Harvest Restaurant Group cases A and B examine a company's design of a new system to evaluate the performance (and determine the bonuses) for its restaurant managers. Fine Harvest had traditionally evaluated restaurant managers based on store margins and had...
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A Multicountry Perspective on Gender Differences in Time Use During COVID-19
By: Laura M. Giurge, Ashley V. Whillans and Ayse Yemiscigil (shared authorship)
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered how people spend time, with possible consequences for subjective well-being. Using diverse samples of remote workers from the United States, Canada, Denmark, Brazil, and Spain (n = 31,141), following a preregistered...
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Keywords:
Time;
Subjective Well-being;
COVID-19;
Health Pandemics;
Gender;
Time Management;
Well-being;
Work-Life Balance;
Global Range
Giurge, Laura M., Ashley V. Whillans, and Ayse Yemiscigil (shared authorship). "A Multicountry Perspective on Gender Differences in Time Use During COVID-19." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 12 (March 23, 2021).
- March 2008 (Revised December 2008)
- Case
KIPP 2007: Implementing a Smart Growth Strategy
By: Stacey M. Childress and Maura Lynn Marino
After opening 60 schools in 8 years through opportunistic growth, the national office of the KIPP schools network has designed a strategy dubbed "smart growth." Each KIPP school is a separately incorporated entity led by a principal who was selected and trained by the...
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Keywords:
Education;
Organizational Culture;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Education Industry;
United States
Childress, Stacey M., and Maura Lynn Marino. "KIPP 2007: Implementing a Smart Growth Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 308-073, March 2008. (Revised December 2008.)
- 17 Oct 2013
- News
An Obstacle to Patient-Centered Care: Poor Supply Systems
- Web
Strategy - Faculty & Research
strategy: They focus too much on the makeup of their portfolios and too little on enhancing the businesses in them. Strategies for adding value to a corporation’s businesses fall on a continuum. On one end the businesses in the portfolio...
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The Inpatient Discharge Lounge as a Potential Mechanism to Mitigate Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding
By: Brian Franklin, Sharif Vakili, Robert S. Huckman, Sarah Hosein, Nicholas Falk, Katherine Cheng, Maria Murray, Sheila Harris, Charles A. Morris and Eric Goralnick
Delayed access to inpatient beds for admitted patients contributes significantly to emergency department (ED) boarding and crowding, which have been associated with deleterious patient safety effects. To expedite inpatient bed availability, some hospitals have...
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Health Care Delivery;
Emergency Room;
Operations Improvement;
Operations Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
Service Delivery;
Operations;
Management;
Performance Improvement;
Service Operations
Franklin, Brian, Sharif Vakili, Robert S. Huckman, Sarah Hosein, Nicholas Falk, Katherine Cheng, Maria Murray, Sheila Harris, Charles A. Morris, and Eric Goralnick. "The Inpatient Discharge Lounge as a Potential Mechanism to Mitigate Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding." Annals of Emergency Medicine 75, no. 6 (June 2020): 704–714.
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407062 Liz Claiborne and the New Working Woman Harvard Business School Case 407-060 At age 47, with two decades of experience as a lead designer...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Research Brief: Staying in the Game
Illustration by Peter Hoey In Monopoly, declaring bankruptcy has a very permanent consequence. Game over; you lose. In the paper “Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy,” HBS professor Shai Bernstein...
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Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual
Design and implement a bundled payment system to reduce health care spending and increase quality of care Explore strategy transformation, geographic expansion, and the process View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
spread such efforts, YALP is slowly but surely beginning to see on-the-ground results of the partnerships and innovation it’s designed to foster. In the aftermath of the 2016...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
To Infinity and Beyond: Scaling Economic Theories via Logical Compactness
By: Yannai A. Gonczarowski, Scott Duke Kominers and Ran I. Shorrer
Many economic-theoretic models incorporate finiteness assumptions that, while introduced for simplicity, play a real role in the analysis. Such assumptions introduce a conceptual problem, as results that rely on finiteness are often implicitly nonrobust; for example,...
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Gonczarowski, Yannai A., Scott Duke Kominers, and Ran I. Shorrer. "To Infinity and Beyond: Scaling Economic Theories via Logical Compactness." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-127, June 2019. (Revised November 2020.)
Why Criticism Is Good for Creativity
One of the most popular mantras for innovation is “avoid criticism.” The underlying assumption is that criticism kills the flow of creativity and the enthusiasm of a team. Aversion to criticism has significantly spread in the last 20 years, especially through the... View Details
- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
In The Strategy-Focused Organization, HBS professor Robert Kaplan and David Norton, president of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, share the results of ten years of...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- April 2009 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
Buro Happold
By: Robert G. Eccles and Kerry Herman
Padraic Kelly became Managing Director (MD) of the engineering services firm Buro Happold in 1996. One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size where it was constrained by a structure of having each...
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Keywords:
Training;
Entrepreneurship;
Leadership Development;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Skills;
Organizational Culture;
Programs
Eccles, Robert G., and Kerry Herman. "Buro Happold." Harvard Business School Case 409-021, April 2009. (Revised August 2010.)
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
design good systems of reporting, hire the right people, and put together the proper multidisciplinary advisory groups. Name: David Thomas, H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of...
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Management
- 27 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge
skepticism others may feel about you is to surprise and delight them, Huang says. In a meeting with a buyer for Neiman Marcus, clothing designer Sara Blakely was talking up the benefits of her product,...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 2012
- Working Paper
How Short-Termism Invites Corruption—And What to Do About It
Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies-along with fund managers and other investors-on short-term results. The central concern is that short-termism discourages long-term... View Details
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Business and Shareholder Relations;
Public Ownership;
Performance Expectations;
Economy;
Crime and Corruption;
Ethics;
Trust;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Salter, Malcolm S. "How Short-Termism Invites Corruption—And What to Do About It." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-094, April 2012.
- 24 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?
looking for talent in a tight job market. “A company has to understand that rigidity around job descriptions and work processes artificially constrains the pool of talent that they can access for a position.” The data were culled from...
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by Kara Baskin
- Web
Research Areas - Doctoral
international ventures; the environments in which entrepreneurs make decisions; and social entrepreneurship. 4. Performance Measurement and Outcomes scholars study drivers and effectiveness of performance measurement and management...
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- December 2012 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
AmTran Technology Ltd.
By: Willy Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Karen E. Robinson
As an original design manufacturer (ODM) of television sets and leading supplier to Vizio, a market leader in the U.S. for LCD flat panel TVs, AmTran Technology Ltd. uses what founder Alpha Wu describes as a "WE" model in which western companies perform sales,...
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Keywords:
Modularity;
Technology Transitions;
Analog;
Digital;
Television;
TV;
Flat-panel;
ATSC;
NTSC;
Video;
Global Strategy;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Leadership;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Product Development;
Product Design;
Supply Chain;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Technology Adoption;
Technology Platform;
Electronics Industry;
Taiwan;
United States;
Japan
Shih, Willy, Jyun-Cheng Wang, and Karen E. Robinson. "AmTran Technology Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 613-069, December 2012. (Revised March 2015.)