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  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

notably higher entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major highway system, the North-South East-West corridor (NS-EW). Improvements for portions of the NS-EW system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

role of telecommunications firms in providing content. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53774 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2003 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

Union Corrugating Company (B)

By: Paul W. Marshall and Julia Stevens
Lauri Union, president of Union Corrugating Co., has successfully transformed her family's corrugated steel roofing and siding manufacturer into a successful enterprise. Reviews how Union turned the struggling company around and also considers the management structure... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Competition; Work-Life Balance; Success; Change Management; Management Systems; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Boston; North Carolina
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  • Fast Answer

Sustainability in Energy Industry

This is a part of Baker Library's Sustainability Research Guide. Background readings Addressing Climate as a View Details
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twitter.com/HarvardHBS she/her/hers (optional) Do: (all items and blank lines are optional) Use the same font as you are using for your message. ("Title, Department" line may appear in italic.) Use black. (Links may adopt the default View Details
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

James McKenney Remembered

MCKENNEY: The first information systems expert at HBS, he led its early IT efforts. HBS professor emeritus James L. McKenney,an expert in management information systems and the use of computer View Details
Keywords: Information
  • 12 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. The U.S. healthcare View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

someone who fits these criteria, boards may find that many talented CIOs and CTOs drop off the list of potential IT committee members.) The IT expert must have not only a solid grounding in the firm's overall business needs but also a holistic view of the organization... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
  • 27 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Should I Pay the Bribe?

Please tell us about your initiative to create a joint center between Harvard and Yale to monitor corruption. What will its mission be and how will it operate? A: In many countries corruption accusations are used politically. Thus, the judiciary View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell
  • 06 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem

WorldCom or Adelphia. The failures at those companies were more likely caused by a combination of fraud committed by individuals, inadequate control and governance systems that tolerated clear conflicts of interest, and a frothy market in... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

Vision: A Unicorn Evolves

market fit.” In the beginning, Outreach didn’t have a pricing model: “We just kept upping the price, and people kept paying.” Yet the software, while powerful, was unstable. The team had built it quickly and on a budget, because fundraising was still slow. “People kept... View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; technology; startups; leadership
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

renewables, in particular solar and wind, means that our electricity system is going to be Capex-driven, and the marginal cost of power will essentially be zero much of the time. Matching demand closer to supply, rather than the other way... View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Cognitive Uncertainty in Intertemporal Choice

By: Benjamin Enke and Thomas Graeber
This paper studies the relevance of cognitive uncertainty – subjective uncertainty over one's utility-maximizing action – for understanding and predicting intertemporal choice. The main idea is that when people are cognitively noisy, such as when a decision is complex,... View Details
Keywords: Cognitive Uncertainty; Intertemporal Choice; Cognition and Thinking; Complexity; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • April 2012 (Revised March 2013)
  • Module Note

State Capitalism and State-Owned Enterprise Reform

By: Aldo Musacchio
The note examines state capitalism in the twenty-first century. It introduces a series of topics and cases related to state capitalism, such as the debate about the causes of inefficiency in state owned enterprises, possible ways of turning them around, as well as a... View Details
Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Business Government Relations; Political Economy; Turnarounds; Economic Systems; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations
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  • November 1997
  • Case

Colly Cotton Ltd.

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Tom Clay
Colly Farm is an entrepreneurial cotton farm complex that has to compete on a world market. In going public it has to satisfy the market that it can remain profitable in volatile times. View Details
Keywords: Earnings Management; Entrepreneurship; Going Public; Balance and Stability
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  • October 31, 2017
  • Article

In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The Harvey Weinstein horror show has brought attention to previously unspoken abuses of male power to sexually harass and suppress women. Prominent women are joining the #MeToo moment, feeling safety in numbers as they reveal facing egregious bullying. Businesses are... View Details
Keywords: Sexual Harassment; Gender Inequality; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Change; Safety; Corporate Governance
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  • 1990
  • Chapter

Cost of Product and Process Complexity

By: S. Datar, R. Banker, S. Kekre and T. Mukhopadhyay
Keywords: Complexity; Cost; Product Development; Business Processes
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  • 1994
  • Chapter

Competition Policy and Privatization: An Organizational Perspective

By: James Langenfeld and Dennis Yao
Competition (antitrust) policies in Central and Eastern Europe need to address both short-term problems associated with the transition to a market economy as well as the development of institutions suitable for a mature market economy. In this paper we employ an... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Policy; Development Economics; Emerging Markets
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case

By: Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack and David Dreyfus
We test a method that was designed and used previously to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software systems. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover new facts about the components and their relationships in an enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Complexity; Applications and Software; Product Design; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 11 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Four Ways to Create Lasting Change

systems and processes. Moreover, the firm had experienced a slight decline in performance and increasing competition from major rivals prior to his arrival. We were intrigued by the changes taking place at Alpha, particularly as we... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace