Implementation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2011
News

Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices

Professor Ashraf (center) with members of the study implementation team at Chipata Clinic, Lusaka, Zambia, including fi eld managers, surveyors, community health workers, and a study nurse. (click for larger view) Read a summary of... View Details

Keywords: birth control; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

23 Aug 2016
First Look

August 23, 2016

examine if it can be implemented in different contexts and across academic cultures, structures, and traditions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51496 Spring 2016 Journal of Applied Corporate Finance ESG... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

15 Sep 2015
First Look

September 15, 2015

price of competing products, pose new challenges on translating the demand forecasts into a pricing policy. We develop an algorithm to efficiently solve the subsequent multi-product price optimization that incorporates reference price effects, and we create and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

and the battery itself is long-lasting. Breakthroughs And Implementation The XO laptop also illustrates how goal-setting can raise the bar in an industry. "A number of technology breakthroughs were part and parcel of the development... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

01 Jun 2012
News

Made in the USA

survey cited specific actions their companies had implemented to remain competitive. The majority had taken steps such as improving worker training, investing in technology, growing exports, and expanding to new markets. Among the... View Details

Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; cheese; lobster fishing; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Student-Profile

Dafna Bearson

gaps between the skills that employees have and the skills they need to address modern challenges. Through one Lab project, Dafna is working with a team of scholars and industry partners to explore the implementation of a reskilling... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

How Do I Get Your Job?

close to our clients; that’s how we see the trends. We listen and we implement quickly. + ONLINE web-only content RU: Your cofounder and business partner is your husband, Barry Beck. Do you have any advice on how to select a cofounder?... View Details

Keywords: April White; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2014
News

Feedback

our content to that market?” is a question that also drives off-mainstream sports—for example, hockey in Austria. We are currently on the way to implementing a new kind of live streaming channel which features only the most relevant... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

James McKenney Remembered

created the first online computing facility at HBS. His research focused on managing the implementation and growth of intelligent terminal communications systems, knowledge-based systems, and the design and management of private... View Details

Keywords: Information

07 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers

were centrally determined, their actual implementation was delegated to local planning authorities. "This setup gave me the opportunity to look at the variations between areas with and without regulations, but also to look at points... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

06 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

Membership? Harvard Business School Case 707-032 China has been a member of the WTO for more than five years. Its implementation of requirements has been a mixed bag. While China's growth is still spectacular, many institutional problems... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

W. Feeley Abstract—Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own medical information into the EHR. Prior to the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

method patents that were litigated compared to patents that were not litigated offer empirical evidence supporting the hypotheses. Cases & Course MaterialsThe AtekPC Project Management Office Harvard Business School Case 308-049 Presents one company's efforts to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2008
News

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

enjoyed their own versions of success with the mega-retailer. Getting a ground-level view of how two companies achieved those positive outcomes illustrates the story-within-a-story of implementing corporate change. “Achieving that is... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

12 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Break the Rules of How Business is Done

of our team. I imagine neither the window extension or transparency tactics were very time consuming or distracting to implement (well, perhaps the former took some selling to their investors!), but they certainly make this company stand... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

individuals who incorporate for business purposes. Implementing such a tax would require measures to prevent some unintended consequences. A large fraction of corporations' excess cash--as much as two-thirds, according to some... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

14 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Recruiting During Uncertainty: How to Meet Students Where They Are

with students, within your job postings, and at events, share specific examples of how values are implemented throughout the business. For example, if honesty around performance is a core value of the company, explain how feedback is... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

18 Aug 2020
Blog Post

4 Ways to Make Your Company Conversations Count

recruiting, below are four ways to effectively engage with students during your Company Conversations this year. Implement these best practices and you may find you never want to go back to presentation-style recruiting! Post Materials in... View Details