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Research Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

success & social progress. Social Progress Index Developing effective measurement tools for social progress. Philanthropy Strategies for effective philanthropy at foundations and corporations. Antitrust & Competition Policy The focus of... View Details

11 Apr 2023
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Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

is a good alternative, it's hard to drop something. It gets embedded in models, it gets embedded in contracts. You might have a measurement system that says this fund manager will be paid based on how much the return beats the GICS... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail

16 Jul 2020
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Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

incubated, and maintained. What is clear, however, is that for the industry to recover, restaurants must incorporate health and safety measures into a hospitable environment, staffed by well-trained and appropriately incentivized... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

on Managing the Future of Work and co-PI of the Digital Reskilling Lab. Her research focuses on managerial and organizational drivers of productivity and growth in corporations and the public sector. She co-founded several large-scale projects to View Details

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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

stability, pioneered by researchers at Harvard, is that financial instability often follows periods when financial institutions, like investors and policy makers, have underestimated risks. These errors in beliefs were an important cause of a financial crisis. If... View Details

30 Mar 2021
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Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

Trademark Office, Dataquick, which is now owned by CoreLogic, and Data Axle USA. When measuring the number and quality of patented inventions by high-tech inventors, Wu and his colleagues found that for every 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) of... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

Professors Shawn Cole & Vikram Gandhi Evaluate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, and learn how to incorporate them into investment decisions and measure and manage their impact. 6 weeks, 5 hrs/week Pay by August 28... View Details

18 Jun 2024
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Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details

Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing

18 Jun 2024
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Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

large shocks, they would catch sharp inflationary conditions sooner, Cavallo says. “They should be mindful of which model to apply, as different models are suited to different contexts,” Cavallo says. “Additionally, we need to measure... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

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Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance New Venture Competition Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public... View Details

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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Information Technology Information Technology To make the transformation to value-based health care... View Details

06 Jun 2018
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Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn

literature in economics on why firms tend not to cut people’s pay,” says Stanton, an applied economist who is an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at HBS. “We can actually measure the consequences.” A ‘natural... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

of Corruption Scandals Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Ignacio Franceschelli Abstract We construct measures of the extent to which the four main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption on their front pages during the period... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

show that it improves short-term productivity. However, although it improves performance in the short-term, we find that an overreliance on this task selection strategy hurts performance—as measured both by speed and revenue—in the long... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Data - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

chart images are available for download. Visit the ICCP website Social Progress Index The Social Progress Index is a rich framework for measuring the multiple dimensions of social progress motivated by the belief that to truly advance... View Details

10 Feb 2021
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Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?

by September 2018, #MeToo had been tweeted more than 19 million times. The #MeToo movement, which led to the firing of hundreds of other powerful men accused of sexual harassment in several job sectors, was seen as a call to action for the film industry. View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Media & Broadcasting

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Academics - Health Care

organizational models and measurement approaches to drive value improvement in health care delivery. The program includes three days of intensive Harvard Business School–style case discussions, guest protagonists, and concept... View Details

05 Jul 2006
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How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?

intelligence, IQ, personality, values, and experience A demonstration of executive intelligence must lie in the demonstrable ability to act and execute." Paul Jackson took us to the next step in commenting, "Once defined, how do we View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

May 2024 (Revised June 2024)
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Together for Sustainability

By: Ranjay Gulati, David Shin and Emily Tedards

This case documents the origin and development of Together for Sustainability (TfS), a chemical industry initiative dedicated to raising sustainability standards throughout the industry’s supply chains. In 2011, six Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) from some of the... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Standards; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Accountability; Chemical Industry

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Professor Schreger studies international finance and macroeconomics, with an emphasis on sovereign debt. Following a series of sovereign debt crises in the 1980s and 1990s, which caused defaults among emerging markets governments on their foreign currency obligations,... View Details

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