Filter Results
:
(197)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(197)
- News (37)
- Research (122)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (80)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(197)
- News (37)
- Research (122)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (80)
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
In a 2006 case he prepared about the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), HBS professor Bill Sahlman quotes HSCI cochairman and codirector of science Douglas Melton as Melton pondered the management skills HSCI was looking for in its...
View Details
- Fall 2022
- Article
Time to Put the Fossil-Fuel Industry into Hospice
By: Andrew J. Hoffman and Douglas M. Ely
If humanity is to survive the climate crisis, we must manage a just and orderly transition away from fossil fuels. The correct models for this resolution are triage, euthanasia, and hospice.
View Details
Hoffman, Andrew J., and Douglas M. Ely. "Time to Put the Fossil-Fuel Industry into Hospice." Stanford Social Innovation Review 20, no. 4 (Fall 2022): 28–37.
- February 2020 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
CRISPR and the Ethics of Germline Editing
By: Amitabh Chandra, Spencer Lee-Rey and Douglas Melton
Chandra, Amitabh, Spencer Lee-Rey, and Douglas Melton. "CRISPR and the Ethics of Germline Editing." Harvard Business School Case 620-101, February 2020. (Revised June 2021.)
- November 2004 (Revised April 2009)
- Case
Launching the New MINI
By: Douglas B. Holt and John A. Quelch
Focuses on how strategy is transformed into creative branding materials. Reports on the development of a wide variety of brand communication materials produced to support the MINI launch in the United States. MINI USA executives worked with their ad agency Crispin...
View Details
Keywords:
Advertising;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Launch;
Creativity;
Auto Industry;
United States
Holt, Douglas B., and John A. Quelch. "Launching the New MINI." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 505-020, November 2004. (Revised April 2009.)
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
postdoctoral fellow. Her research focuses on how people can work fruitfully across social divides. Prior to her academic career, Ramarajan worked in international development in West Africa focusing on conflict resolution. Douglas...
View Details
- April 1, 2020
- Article
A Detailed Plan for Getting Americans Back to Work
By: Amitabh Chandra, Mark Fishman and Douglas Melton
Given the different impact that the pandemic is having on individual communities across the country, the notion that all workers should be allowed to return to work on one date is unrealistic. Instead, individual states should make that determination. This article lays...
View Details
Chandra, Amitabh, Mark Fishman, and Douglas Melton. "A Detailed Plan for Getting Americans Back to Work." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (April 1, 2020).
- January 2013
- Case
Beijing's Terminal 3: Building a New Gateway to China
By: Douglas Fearing, Ananth Raman and G.A. Donovan
Fearing, Douglas, Ananth Raman, and G.A. Donovan. "Beijing's Terminal 3: Building a New Gateway to China." Harvard Business School Case 613-051, January 2013.
- September 2004
- Article
How Global Brands Compete
By: Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch and Earl Taylor
Holt, Douglas B., John A. Quelch, and Earl Taylor. "How Global Brands Compete." Harvard Business Review 82, no. 9 (September 2004): 68–75.
- 24 Feb 2011
- News
Show Time
the industry. As far as we know, HBS has never produced a big-time movie star. But in the Bulletin some years ago, Douglas Kinney (MBA ’56) wrote a fascinating inside account of movie-making based on his experience as an extra under...
View Details
Keywords:
Garry Emmons
- 1 Mar 2013 - 2 Mar 2013
- Conference Presentation
The Value of Flexibility in Baseball Roster Construction
By: Timothy Chan and Douglas S. Fearing
Drawing inspiration from the theory of production flexibility in manufacturing networks, we provide the first optimization-based analysis of the value of positional flexibility (the ability of a player to play multiple positions) for a major league baseball team in the...
View Details
Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Design;
Production;
Resource Allocation;
Groups and Teams;
Adaptation;
Sports
- March 2011
- Article
What Do Dividends Tell Us About Earnings Quality
By: Douglas Skinner and Eugene F. Soltes
Over the past 30 years, there have been significant changes in the distribution of earnings (cross-sectional variation has increased, with increasing left skewness) as well as in corporate payout policy, with many fewer firms paying dividends and the emergence of stock...
View Details
Keywords:
Distribution;
Business Earnings;
Change;
Policy;
Stocks;
Investment Return;
Performance Consistency;
Quality
Skinner, Douglas, and Eugene F. Soltes. "What Do Dividends Tell Us About Earnings Quality." Review of Accounting Studies 16, no. 1 (March 2011).
- Web
Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Slider Selection of springs made by U.S. Steel, American Steel & Wire, Waukegan, Illinois. U.S. Steel Annual Report, 1951. Corporate Reports Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Douglas A. Fisher. Steel Serves the Nation,...
View Details
- December 2010
- Article
Implications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive Research in Accounting
By: S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna and Douglas J. Skinner
Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and stewardship) and that verifiability and conservatism are critical features of a GAAP shaped by market forces....
View Details
Keywords:
Fair Value Accounting;
Standards;
International Accounting;
Financial Markets;
Financial Reporting
Kothari, S.P., Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner. "Implications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive Research in Accounting." Journal of Accounting & Economics 50, nos. 2-3 (December 2010): 246–286. (Presented at the 2009 Journal of Accounting & Economics Conference.)
- Article
Tigers, Dragons, and Others: Profiling High Performance in Asian Firms
By: Rohit Deshpandé, John U. Farley and Douglas Bowman
Deshpandé, Rohit, John U. Farley, and Douglas Bowman. "Tigers, Dragons, and Others: Profiling High Performance in Asian Firms." Journal of International Marketing 12, no. 3 (2004): 5–29.
- Article
Equitable and Efficient Coordination in Traffic Flow Management
By: Cynthia Barnhart, Dimitris Bertsimas, Constantine Caramanis and Douglas S. Fearing
When air traffic demand is projected to exceed capacity, the FAA implements Traffic Flow Management programs. Independently, these programs maintain a first-scheduled, first-served invariant, which is the accepted standard of fairness within the industry. Coordinating...
View Details
Keywords:
Traffic Flow Management;
Ground Holding Programs;
Equitable Flight Delay;
Equity;
Saving;
Management;
Management Practices and Processes;
Demand and Consumers;
Performance Capacity;
Performance Efficiency;
Conflict and Resolution;
System;
Aerospace Industry
Barnhart, Cynthia, Dimitris Bertsimas, Constantine Caramanis, and Douglas S. Fearing. "Equitable and Efficient Coordination in Traffic Flow Management." Transportation Science 46, no. 2 (May 2012).
- 2023
- Working Paper
Are Hospital Quality Indicators Causal?
By: Amitabh Chandra, Maurice Dalton and Douglas O. Staiger
Hospitals play a key role in patient outcomes and spending, but efforts to improve their quality are hindered because we do not know whether hospital quality indicators are causal or biased. We evaluate the validity of commonly used quality indicators, such as...
View Details
Keywords:
Quality;
Health Care and Treatment;
Measurement and Metrics;
Outcome or Result;
Health Industry
Chandra, Amitabh, Maurice Dalton, and Douglas O. Staiger. "Are Hospital Quality Indicators Causal?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 31789, October 2023.
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
impaired when a director moves to a new career position or ceases to be a top executive. Be it in theory or practice, the "butterfly rule" makes no sense as a precept of corporate governance. It is a bad idea that doesn't fly - and that doesn't deserve a following in...
View Details
Keywords:
Joseph Hinsey IV
- May 2020
- Article
Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care
By: Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger
In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. However, an...
View Details
Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Performance Efficiency;
Performance Productivity;
Mathematical Methods
Chandra, Amitabh, and Douglas O. Staiger. "Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care." Quarterly Journal of Economics 135, no. 2 (May 2020): 785–843.
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
produces continual improvement and allows them to rapidly adapt to change without succumbing to complexity. Dorade: The History of an Ocean Racing Yacht by Douglas D. Adkins (MBA 1975) (David R. Godine) This is a history of the Dorade,...
View Details