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- 02 Apr 2012
- News
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
- Article
Assessing the Impact of Health System Organizational Structure on Hospital Electronic Data Sharing
By: A Jay Holmgren and Eric Ford
Horizontal consolidation in the hospital industry has gained momentum in the United States despite concerns over rising costs and lower quality. Hospital systems frequently point to potential gains in interoperability and electronic exchange of patient information as...
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Keywords:
Hospitals;
Health Information Technology;
Health Care;
Health Care and Treatment;
Data and Data Sets;
Information Technology;
Consolidation;
Knowledge Sharing;
Health Industry
Holmgren, A Jay, and Eric Ford. "Assessing the Impact of Health System Organizational Structure on Hospital Electronic Data Sharing." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 25, no. 9 (September 2018): 1147–1152.
- 21 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business
time I was particularly curious about a different set of issues: How can you use business as an agent for change in developing economies? How do you transform a local business...
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- January 1992
- Case
Metreke Cards
Used to introduce the assembly line process to first-year MBA students. Three different variations of an assembly line process for packing greeting cards are presented for analysis. To choose among the three, the students must address issues of time standards,...
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Wheelwright, Steven C. "Metreke Cards." Harvard Business School Case 692-073, January 1992.
- 08 May 2017
- News
Restaurants With Low Yelp Ratings Suffer Under Higher Minimum Wages
- 16 Sep 2024
- Video
Statement of Purpose
- 31 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders
and connection, even among digital-first companies and digital natives. 5. Continuous experimentation and learning In a world where speed matters, digitally mature organizations act even when the appropriate move is ambiguous. They don’t...
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- September 2013
- Article
Status Boundary Enforcement and the Categorization of Black-White Biracials
By: Arnold K. Ho, Jim Sidanius, Amy J.C. Cuddy and Mahzarin R. Banaji
Individuals who qualify equally for membership in more than one racial group are not judged as belonging equally to both of their parent groups, but instead are seen as belonging more to their lower status parent group. Why? The present paper begins to establish the...
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Keywords:
Hypodescent;
Social Dominance Orientation;
Intergroup Threat;
Hierarchy Maintenance;
Equality and Inequality;
Race;
Rank and Position;
Attitudes;
Identity
Ho, Arnold K., Jim Sidanius, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Mahzarin R. Banaji. "Status Boundary Enforcement and the Categorization of Black-White Biracials." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 49, no. 5 (September 2013): 940–943.
- October 2008 (Revised December 2008)
- Supplement
Gillette Company (E): Procter & Gamble
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird
After arriving in 2001 as the first outsider Chairman and CEO in Gillette history, Jim Kilts led a remarkable turnaround. But by late 2004 he had to make a difficult decision. To better position the 104-year-old, Boston-based company, he opted to sell it to...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Leading Change;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Change and Adaptation
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Matthew Bird. "Gillette Company (E): Procter & Gamble." Harvard Business School Supplement 309-033, October 2008. (Revised December 2008.)
- March 2022
- Article
When Less Is More: Consumers Prefer Brands that Donate More in Relative versus Absolute Terms
By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Anne V. Wilson and Leslie K. John
When trying to make a good impression on consumers through charitable giving, is it better for brands to maximize the overall dollars they donate or how much they give in relative terms; for example, the proportion of profits? Across five studies we show that consumers...
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Keywords:
Cause-related Marketing;
Charitable Donations;
Generosity;
Altruism;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Brands and Branding;
Consumer Behavior
Keenan, Elizabeth A., Anne V. Wilson, and Leslie K. John. "When Less Is More: Consumers Prefer Brands that Donate More in Relative versus Absolute Terms." Marketing Letters 33, no. 1 (March 2022): 31–43.
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
should be in place so this disconnect cannot be exploited by the corporation or the manager. In financial reporting, auditing and reporting conservatism are two such technologies. 2. Corporate accountability reports should also have the equivalent of View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
to know how to get those discoveries into the economy." To achieve that goal, Bowen and others believe that science-based companies require a different kind of leadership. "Since the investment and...
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- 14 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant
awarded a French accolade, Officer de La Legion D'Honneur, the highest honor France had yet bestowed upon a Chinese entrepreneur, but his shareholders don't have much to show for the deal. TCL had to write...
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by Tarun Khanna
- 14 Sep 2018
- News
Best Credit Cards: Ask the Experts
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
Airbnb Plans To Fight Racism With Diversity. But Will It Be Enough?
- May 2014
- Article
Representative Evidence on Lying Costs
By: Johannes Abeler, Anke Becker and Armin Falk
A central assumption in economics is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Several recent models depart from this assumption and posit that some people do not lie or at least do not lie maximally. These models invoke many...
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Keywords:
Private Information;
Lying Costs;
Tax Morale;
Representative Experiment;
Information;
Microeconomics;
Taxation;
Behavior
Abeler, Johannes, Anke Becker, and Armin Falk. "Representative Evidence on Lying Costs." Journal of Public Economics 113 (May 2014): 96–104.
- January 2016 (Revised April 2017)
- Case
The Galaxy Dividend Income Growth Fund's Option Investment Strategies
By: W. Carl Kester
This case is designed to provide an elementary introduction to options and option pricing for beginning finance students. Analysis of the case requires students to compare the prices of put and call options with various exercise prices and maturity dates on two...
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Keywords:
Options;
Option Contract;
Option Pricing;
Derivatives;
Mutual Funds;
Call Options;
Put Options;
Stock Options;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Volatility;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Kester, W. Carl. "The Galaxy Dividend Income Growth Fund's Option Investment Strategies." Harvard Business School Case 216-041, January 2016. (Revised April 2017.)
- 29 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Latinx Women in the Spotlight: Marimar Pérez-Riera (MBA 1994)
you for your post-HBS career? At HBS I learned to prioritize, and that included personal goals. I learned that self-worth was NOT driven by my salary or recognition. I learned that cultural differences were View Details
- June 1992 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
Concordia Casting Company
Describes five years of development in a centralized data processing activity serving a highly decentralized corporation. Data processing manager discovers that a major software system conversion is a full year behind schedule, and subsequently makes several managerial...
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Keywords:
Analytics and Data Science;
Applications and Software;
System;
Information Technology;
Change Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Human Resources;
Conflict and Resolution;
Supply Chain Management;
Accounting;
Auto Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren. "Concordia Casting Company." Harvard Business School Case 192-151, June 1992. (Revised March 2006.)