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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
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The decline of the community newspaper in the United States has been steep and severe. A quarter of American papers have folded in the last 15 years, and industry-wide consolidation has eviscerated the newsrooms of those that are left, leaving them understaffed and... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
show that this aggregation of information is not only a leading indicator of violations of rules and regulations, but it’s even a leading indicator of the whistleblower complaints themselves,” Campbell says of the study that resulted,... View Details
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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
and sustain high-performing K–12 public school districts in the United States. These efforts have resulted in more than 30 case studies focused on adapting and applying management concepts within urban... View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
survey. We find that the end-of-month inventory significantly increased in four of the six retail segments studied and that, after controlling for sales and macroeconomic factors, the positive time trends for the end-of-month inventory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
Summing Up When Is Listening Not a Good Strategy? Like a good case debate, the discussion of the question of whether listening is a lost art was not one-sided. What was clear was how important people felt listening is to effective... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
the fact that data questions touch every part of the enterprise.” The program drew C-suite executives and senior managers to look at how big data affects the supply chain, marketing, human resources, and other key business functions. Attendees View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
processes as disparate as smelting, extrusion, die design, and finance. We also started creating pilot sites in the health care industry. We started our work with a "learning unit" at Deaconess-Glover Hospital in Needham, not far from campus. We've got a... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
http://www.nber.org/papers/w11503 Synthesis by Microbes or Chemists? Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing in the Antibiotic Era Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Publication:History and Technology 23, no. 3 (2009): 237-256 Abstract This article presents a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
from the ideal conceptions of community. Through a detailed case study of the UNICEF-IKEA Bal Adhikar Pariyojana (BAP), a grassroots initiative that seeks to advance child rights in India, this paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
clearly valuable, there are now questions and concerns about how best to employ it. For example, team members are concerned that the data could be misused or misinterpreted. The case study quotes Dr. Joia... View Details
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Ethan Li
time at HBS—in class and out—is valuable. I love the case study method; it helps me relate my prior experience to future goals. For example, we just had a case about the... View Details
- 15 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer
New research finds that companies that took steps to meet an international safety standard further improved their working conditions after adoption, logging 20 percent fewer cases of illness and injury than non-certified firms. The... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Ahmed Alimi
Ahmed. "In Nigeria where I studied before now, the teaching method is lecture-based. The case method is very different for me—but it's a confidence-building process. Whatever you say, you have to be... View Details
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
same time. In some cases, leaders discover that resources are being wasted because one person has been given too many. Those resources can be reallocated and used more wisely, or the person in that role could be asked to step up more. Simons did a View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
Burke, and Cantillon through to that of Longfield, Cairnes, Bastable, Edgeworth, Geary, and Gorman, it is surprising that no systematic study of Irish political economy has been undertaken. In this book the contributors redress this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007
is invested and aid has a small but insignificant effect on growth. Aid has no effect on the financial account, but does raise holdings of foreign reserves. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
a one-fifth reduction in the likelihood of losing their board seat and in the likelihood of losing other directorships. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-048.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsDasher Company Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the Beauty Industry through an Independent Project
deliver information. Through primary research – over 500 customer surveys and in-depth interviews with industry professionals – I examined the topic of “disruption of information channels in the beauty industry” as an Independent Project. At HBS, I had View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
a successful transformation in your company. Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines Author:Nava Ashraf Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Using an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Mireya Iglesias Ayala
self-discovery. What is your most memorable classroom moment? One of my favorite cases last semester in Financial Reporting and Control (FRC) was “OXXO's Turf War Against Extra,” which is the largest convenience store chain in Mexico.... View Details