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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
programs strengthened the relationship between firms’ historical innovative efficiency and subsequent subsidy awards and depressed the influence of their corruption-related expenditures. We also examine the impact of these changes:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
consumers? Do you think the number of options in this category will increase in the future? A: There are a variety of other tax-favored savings vehicles. For example, there are now tax-advantaged savings vehicles that focus on saving for education. The Education... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Harvard Business School Case 118-014 Predicting Purchasing Behavior at PriceMart This case was written for the EC course “Managing with Data Science.” The course provides MBA students with no programming experience an introduction to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
investigate nine open source programming contests in which 875 software programmers submit over 4.7 million lines of code. We conduct our analysis at the individual level and identify how programmers gain the ability to adopt and invent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
equity—grew from 8 percent to 66 percent. Almost all of that was due to option programs that made relatively poor use of market information and were poorly designed. The compensation committees rely on consultants to provide market-based... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
Kraus comes in. Kraus teaches the second-year MBA course Building a Business in the Context of a Life (BBCL) and is currently helping to develop a similar Executive Education program called Crossroads. The two courses attract different... View Details
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
Analysis": Managers are often called on to make recommendations for or against programs that cost money to implement. Before marketing expenditures are made, managers want to be sure that they will be getting a return on their... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
pay-as-you-go actuarial basis. The public discourse about Medicare for All is deceptively appealing. The health care program for the nation’s seniors is highly prized by Medicare beneficiaries—85 percent say they’re satisfied. Who can... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
create more interesting program choices for audiences." Azeem suggests a more appropriate response, saying, "Speed can trump IP, especially in technology industries. In the time it takes to secure a patent, you ought to have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
lofty target of commercial space travel, where he hoped to change the New Space sector as dramatically as Amazon was changing retail. His timing was characteristically prescient, since NASA was in the process of winding down its space shuttle View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
were more like them, too, whose careers were similar to the careers the students were pursuing," Sucher says. So the video series includes people like Hemant Luthra, now a top executive at Mahindra CIE Automotive in Mumbai, who is a 1994 graduate of the Advanced... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
Cohen's revolutionary program BitTorrent, which makes it possible to transfer very large files, such as movies, at a high speed over the Internet. The program, which is available for free over the Internet, is used for peer-to-peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
years, MacCormack has led FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development), a hands-on experiential learning program that has arguably revolutionized education at HBS more than any development since the introduction of the... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
an ambidextrous approach to solve their own innovator's dilemma. They contrast these luminaries with companies that—often trapped by their own successes—have been unable to adapt and grow. Drawing on an extensive research program and over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53695 forthcoming Journal of Oncology Practice Development and Feasibility of Bundled Payments for the Multidisciplinary Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer: A Pilot Program By: Spinks, Tracy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
to target high-risk patient segments with advice about exercise, nutrition, and other programs in an effort to minimize medical visits. The problem: insurers' claims data is not as current as hospitals' clinical data. In addition,... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
customer acquisition approach. Communication programs must be tailored to the desired customer segments. The engineering company, dealing with a relatively small number of customers (twenty to thirty), developed a so-called... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
program design under which codes and monitoring are more likely to go beyond mere symbolism and to be associated with improvements in supply chain working conditions. At the institutional level, we find that suppliers improve working... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
Cases & Course MaterialsGLOBIS Mukti Khaire, Akiko Kanno, and Nobuo SatoHarvard Business School Case 811-061 Yoshito Hori, dean of the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University, was planning to launch a full-time English MBA View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
all the kinds of transactions? A: No, actually, that's the easy part of the problem. And that's proven by the fact that frequent shopper programs are able to deliver coupons and in some cases, samples, to regular supermarket customers. Q:... View Details