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- 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20
make it the norm. August 2013 Management Science Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization By: Iancu, Dan, and Nikolaos Trichakis Abstract—This paper formalizes and adapts the well-known concept of Pareto e ciency in the context of the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
multinationals toward organization-wide rationalization. Efficiencies and commonalities have emerged, particularly with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance and control. In addition,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
time that certain activities, such as marketing, must remain local in concept and execution to be successful. At the same time, the defining feature of globalization has been the push by multinationals toward organization-wide rationalization. View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
difficult question is whether policymakers need to learn more from theorists, or the other way around. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-140.pdf PublicationsInput Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?
With the rise of mobile payment apps like Venmo, many people can easily record the exact charges incurred by a lunch partner and pay back debts to the cent. They see themselves as efficient and fair. Others often have a different word for... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
generally more similar in quality than two randomly selected brands," Sheen says. More generally, the findings show that merged companies often follow through on the operational efficiencies that they promise to their shareholders.... View Details
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
Harvard Business School, professor Ananth Raman discussed the importance of empathy in customer-facing business. "As we're talking about things like retail efficiency and profitability, this is a topic that I think needs more attention,"... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
advantage of the inner city, though, comes not through the income of residents but rather what he called "income density"—a high population living in close quarters within any individual area. Inner cities can also boast View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
Corruption Boat Ezekwesili agreed that it is important to make government more efficient to do "what it ought to be doing." Citizens should reduce the level of discretionary power that government officials hold, she said,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
conference featuring four graduating students working on climate in a different ways. In the final session with Matheson, three panelists presented mini-TED talks on their ventures: Danielle Colson (MBA 2022), founder and COO of Mantel, described their breakthrough,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
in-person pitches to miners and smelters around the world—estimating that they personally reached about 80 percent of the market—explaining how Open Mineral would make them more efficient and profitable, as well as collecting their... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
and more marketable to employers,” says Paul. While his favorite module was economics, he is already utilizing the business analytics tools he mastered in CORe. “Being able to create histograms to quickly visualize data makes me more View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
address pollution. IVL developed an important role as knowledge producer and as an intermediary of environmental knowledge between the late 1960s and the 1980s. The proactive response of Swedish big business is shown to have been based on a belief that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015
efficiently utilizing resources to do so; and (3) adapting to unforeseen, future challenges. This short note walks through the Congruence Model, a simple yet powerful tool for achieving alignment in an organization. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24
performance on immaterial issues perform the best. These results speak to the efficiency of firms' sustainability investments, and also have implications for asset managers who have committed to the integration of sustainability factors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009
effects of v4 scarcity, while obtaining price discovery and allocative efficiency benefits of market transactions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-091.pdf Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
compromise the health of the entire ecosystem. Loose coupling: Embrace mobility and flexibility. The heart of operating strategy for a niche player is to leverage the broad-based efficiencies offered by connecting up with several players... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
Social networks matter for more than just efficient Internet communication. They're also crucial for the strong performance of stock recommendations by analysts, according to researchers at Harvard Business School and the University of... View Details
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
twice the administrative overhead found in Canada and is significantly higher than most other high-resource countries. Adoption of certified EHR systems was seen as a potential antidote. By digitizing patient records and adding billing workflows around them, the View Details
- 21 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
HBS and the Arts
loading dock and throughout the facility. Once we had refined the procedure, making it more efficient and improving accountability, I helped to train the art handlers who would be following it day to day. I spent the second half of the... View Details