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- 07 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
be smaller for them, they will also need to be even more conservative with cash. Underrepresented founders often will be held to a higher standard in terms of financial progress and are likely to be faced with more board oversight (more... View Details
- 10 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
opportunity, Schoonbeek and van Poecke set about building a scalable, cost-effective, and automated software solution to enable companies to manage and improve their ESG performance. “There is no uniform set of standards for ESG, which... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
co-op program for potential MBA students? How about greater sharing of teaching or administrative talent, similar to what IBM and other organizations have done in the past—in this case, sabbaticals with the potential of career change? Only a select few might be able to... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
high-value customers.” It would almost be as if a high-end retailer such as Louis Vuitton or Gucci told people to go their outlet store first, Ngwe says. Huge gain in sales In a series of experiments involving a real online fashion and apparel retailer, Teixeira and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
kinwun Summing Up: What are the Earmarks of a “New Economy?” Responses to this month’s column rightly focused on the need for measures and standards before deciding whether we are entering an era of social and economic change as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
out firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations without engaging in infringement. Our empirical analysis shows that on average, NPEs behave as opportunistic patent trolls. NPEs sue cash-rich firms—a one standard... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’
and in their place jointly create the bestselling jazz album of all time. Sarath's 80-20 rule is a good standard for negotiators too. You need the 80 percent so that you can move forward and dampen fears about making irreversible... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
focusing on compliance: "Statement of Research Code of Conduct—This research project is being conducted with strict adherence to the standards and obligations required of applied social science." Again, the students who were... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Jeffrey Wiesen, an attorney specializing in biotechnology, the standard routine was "more a work-for-hire model than a collaboration model, although we always called it collaboration." In a nutshell, it worked like this, Wiesen... View Details
- 08 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
market opportunity, Schoonbeek and van Poecke set about building a scalable, cost-effective, and automated software solution to enable companies to manage and improve their ESG performance. “There is no uniform set of standards for ESG,... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Southern Railroad, Standard Power & Light Corporation, and McKeesport Tin Plate, and as consultant to investment banking firms. Doriot taught Manufacturing for decades. In the early 1940s, however, he suspended his teaching activities to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
Andresen's 1986 departure). Andresen took time out to attend Harvard's Advanced Management Program in 1974 in order "to test my standards of management," he says. "I had been working nonstop for over five years and felt the need to take... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
Governance Codes in Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational business regulation is increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
show that optimal policy may simultaneously include substantial redistribution across income-earning abilities, as in the standard model, and reject three prominently proposed tags-gender, race, and height-as in actual policy. This... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
will be critical to their success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51813 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
performance. Publisher's link: https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-truth-about-csr Working Papers Auditor Lobbying on Accounting Standards By: Allen, Abigail M., Karthik Ramanna, and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract—We examine how Big N auditors'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
can provide a valuable source of product differentiation. And finally, advances in development tools (e.g., computer-aided design) coupled with a move to more open architectures and technical standards have driven down the cost of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
the energy industry is far more important than the ups and downs of the Internet." Oil Lingo 3-D Seismic: A technique to acquire a three-dimensional image of the earth's interior by projecting sound waves from geometrically spaced points at the earth's surface. Barrel:... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
Douglas S. Fearing Publication:Transportation Science (forthcoming) Abstract When air traffic demand is projected to exceed capacity, the FAA implements Traffic Flow Management programs. Independently, these programs maintain a first-scheduled, first-served invariant,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman