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- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
the cost of investment in developing countries by at least 20 percent. And yet, companies are mostly silent on the subject. "The thing that struck me is how little information there is on corruption because no one wants to talk about it,"...
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by Michael Blanding
- 31 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest
Another tool to stimulate a distressed economy has made its way into the playbooks of central banks across the world. With quantitative easing, known as QE for short, a central bank makes it easier to borrow money by buying long-term...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
change among training organizations, our research team at Harvard’s interdisciplinary Project on Workforce analyzed 316 applications to the Postsecondary Innovation for Equity initiative. The grant competition, launched by venture...
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by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- September 2018
- Article
Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services
By: Maria Ibanez, Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
Work-scheduling research typically prescribes task sequences implemented by managers. Yet employees often have discretion to deviate from their prescribed sequence. Using data from 2.4 million radiological diagnoses, we find that doctors prioritize similar tasks...
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Discretion;
Scheduling;
Queue;
Healthcare;
Learning;
Experience;
Decentralization;
Operations;
Service Operations;
Service Delivery;
Performance;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Efficiency;
Performance Improvement;
Performance Productivity;
Decisions;
Time Management;
Cost vs Benefits;
Health Industry
Ibanez, Maria, Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman, and Bradley R. Staats. "Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services." Management Science 64, no. 9 (September 2018): 4389–4407. (Working paper available here. Winner of the 2017 Best Paper Competition of the POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management. Featured in Forbes, Quartz, and Inc.)
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
are told by another that their views and beliefs are wrong and should change. Organizations manage individuals with an increasingly wide range of differences among them, both within and outside the firm. While these differences are not as...
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- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
a Terrorist, a deeply powerful memoir by Patrisse Cullors, the founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. Cullors shares her incredible journey from childhood to adulthood as a Black queer woman in LA. It is an emotional, yet insightful...
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by Kathryn Haviland
- May–June 2011
- Article
The Uninvited Brand
By: Susan Fournier and Jill Avery
Brands rushed into social media, viewing social networks, video sharing, online communities, and microblogging sites as the panacea to diminishing returns for traditional brand building routes. But, as more branding activity moves to the web, marketers are confronted...
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Marketing;
Brands;
Brand Building;
Brand Management;
Digital Marketing;
Advertising Campaigns;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Communications;
Marketing Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Social Media;
Advertising Industry;
Consumer Products Industry
Fournier, Susan, and Jill Avery. "The Uninvited Brand." Business Horizons 54, no. 3 (May–June 2011): 193–207.
- September–October 2018
- Article
Online MAP Enforcement: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
By: Ayelet Israeli
This paper investigates a manufacturer’s ability to influence compliance rates among its authorized online retailers by exploiting changes in the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) policy and in dealer agreements. MAP is a pricing policy widely used by manufacturers to...
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Pricing Policies;
Pricing;
Channel Management;
Legal Aspects Of Business;
Retail;
Price;
Policy;
Governance Compliance;
Distribution Channels;
Management;
Retail Industry
Israeli, Ayelet. "Online MAP Enforcement: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment." Marketing Science 37, no. 5 (September–October 2018): 710–732.
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
When cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike distributed a faulty software update in July, it impacted a staggering 8.5 million devices. The crisis rippled through commercial airline operations, package delivery logistics, ecommerce, and health care, to name a few. This...
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by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
considered exemplary policies and practices by government. By looking more closely, however, Porter, Takeuchi, and Sakakibara also began to discover what they call "another Japan." While the...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
Asia: Building Sustainable Partnerships," held September 4 and 5, brought together over seventy participants from business, government, non-governmental organizations, and activist groups to share experiences and offer a strong corporate response to HIV/AIDS. The...
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by Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
undergird democracy There are several things businesses can do to strengthen democracy. Here are four of them. Encourage voter participation by providing employees with paid time off to vote, thereby addressing the barrier created View Details
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by Rachel Layne
- December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
- Case
Alltech
By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
Alltech was a Lexington, Kentucky–based producer of supplements for animal feed, with revenues of over $2 billion (projected to reach $3 billion in 2018), sales in 120 countries, 5,000 employees, and 100 manufacturing plants worldwide. For nearly four decades, Alltech...
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Alltech;
United States;
Agribusiness;
Agriculture;
Animal;
Animal Agriculture;
Animal Feed;
Livestock;
Family Business;
Vertical Integration;
Strategy;
Growth;
Feed Additives;
Feed Supplements;
Kentucky;
Growth Strategy;
Family Businesses;
Animal-Based Agribusiness;
Acquisition;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Change Management;
Trends;
Governance;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development;
Intellectual Property;
Leadership;
Management;
Markets;
Organizational Culture;
Private Ownership;
Science;
Quality;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Research;
Sales;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States;
Kentucky;
Brazil;
China
Bell, David E., and Natalie Kindred. "Alltech." Harvard Business School Case 518-001, December 2017. (Revised January 2018.)
- November 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Bridgit: Persevere or Pivot?
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
In late 2012, Mallorie Brodie and Lauren Lake, two young women in their final year of college, founded Bridgit, a technology startup that developed solutions to simplify vital but laborious processes within the construction industry. In the Fall of 2013, after months...
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- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite well. We then characterize the optimal policy path implied by the model and our estimates. Optimal policy makes heavy use of research subsidies as...
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Carmen Nobel
- Forthcoming
- Article
Political Elite Cues and Attitude Formation in Post-Conflict Contexts
By: Natalia Garbiras-Díaz, Miguel Garcia-Sanchez and Aila M. Matanock
Civil conflicts typically end with negotiated settlements, but many settlements fail, often during the implementation stage when average citizens have increasing influence. Citizens sometimes evaluate peace agreements by voting on referendums or the negotiating...
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Civil Unrest;
Peace Process;
Political Leadership;
Peace;
Politics;
Policy Change;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Government Administration;
Governance;
Political Elections;
Civil Society or Community;
Negotiation;
Negotiation Participants;
Public Relations Industry;
Colombia;
Latin America;
South America
Garbiras-Díaz, Natalia, Miguel Garcia-Sanchez, and Aila M. Matanock. "Political Elite Cues and Attitude Formation in Post-Conflict Contexts." Journal of Peace Research (forthcoming). (Pre-published online September 25, 2023.)
- Article
Health Equity, Schooling Hesitancy, and the Social Determinants of Learning
By: Meira Levinson, Alan C. Geller, Joseph G. Allen and John D. Macomber
At least 62 million K-12 students in North America—disproportionately low-income children of color— have been physically out of school for over a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These children are at risk of significant academic, social, mental, and physical harm...
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Keywords:
COVID-19;
Public Health;
Air Quality;
Social Determinants Of Health;
Schooling Hesitancy;
Vaccine Hesitancy;
Racial Injustice;
Inequity;
Inequality;
Health Pandemics;
Education;
Health Care and Treatment;
Policy;
Race;
Equality and Inequality
Levinson, Meira, Alan C. Geller, Joseph G. Allen, and John D. Macomber. "Health Equity, Schooling Hesitancy, and the Social Determinants of Learning." Art. 100032. Lancet Regional Health – Americas 2 (October 2021).
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive...
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- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
rate—a stark reminder of the perils of owning intellectual property in China at that time. Turning to the Internet itself, and particularly to content-sharing sites, the matter of ownership is challenged in a different way. Content...
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by Jim Heskett
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
alliances is that "greater interaction will result in productive two-way learning: corporations can be enriched by finding out how nonprofits mobilize and motivate personnel, while nonprofits can learn more about marketing and financial...
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by Nancy O. Perry