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Business History - Faculty & Research

Ultimately, the Godcharles ruling enshrined the specialness of workingmen's labor contracts and rejected the use of equity principles to justify contract regulations, but the controversy also informed future labor strategies, especially... View Details
  • 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

thereby contributes to the theory of positive optimal taxation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54934 Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Aug 2022
  • Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

consultant, specializing in growth strategy and operational efficiency. Gibson and Wilson both served as officers in the US Army culminating at the ranks of colonel and captain, respectively. You Might Also... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
  • 18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

organization among enterprises specializing in overseas ventures, they did not become the dominant form of large enterprises within British economy itself. Business groups organized under the holding company such as Calico Printers'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

relative to those with higher scores. We then create a “hygiene alert”—a message that appears only for restaurants identified by the City as having “poor” operating conditions with “high-risk” hygiene violations (using the same low score... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBS - The year in Review

Faculty Brian K. Baik Accounting & Management Sebastian Hillenbrand Finance Ebehi Iyoha Entrepreneurial Management Elisabeth Kempf Finance Jacqueline Ng Lane Technology & Operations Management Joseph Pacelli Accounting & Management... View Details
  • 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

ownership, the partners focused on improving operations and enhancing sales with impressive results: sales doubled and EBTIDA increased by over 40%. But the "Great Recession" had an immediate impact in the fall of 2008 as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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DESIGN THEORY AND PRACTICE ES285

By: Roberto Verganti

Any organization, business or venture grounds its value on how “meaningful” are its products (functionally, symbolically and emotionally). Design Theory and Practice (DTP) empowers students to create products that are meaningful, to people who use them and to... View Details

Keywords: Integrated Design; Leadership; User Experience Design; Design; Strategy; Technology; Product Design
  • 01 Dec 2023
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The Exchange: Help Wanted

moved away from operational expertise as they look to hire CEOs. Do organizations know how to recruit for these softer skills? Raffaella Sadun: As a basic starting point, organizations often lack the process to make these decisions... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

understand financial statements and communicate financial results. My job is project-based, and I'm currently leading the operational functions of a system-wide IT implementation, a project that affects the daily work of a few thousand... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

portfolio performance and generated strong returns for its investors—accomplishments attributed to its unique balance between operations and finance professionals. The firm made sure that, for every deal, it had both the finance and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

your circle of competence, then operate inside that perimeter,” Huang advises. 2. Own your constraints and encourage others to see past them In Huang’s freshman year of college, she was shocked to fail a writing assignment. When she asked... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

2025 | Case | Faculty Research In April 2025, the founding team of Windsurf, an AI start-up specializing in code generation gathered in Mountain View, California, to assess its remarkable year of growth. The company had scaled from a... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

distinct geographic markets, we show that such combinations can reduce competition among merging hospitals for inclusion in insurers' networks, leading to higher prices (or lower-quality care). Using data on hospital mergers from 1996 to 2012, we find support that this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Soltan Bryce

in a pandemic felt like the right thing to do.”After graduation, Soltan will be joining the strategy team at Boston Medical Center as the Special Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer through the HBS... View Details
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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

Specialization Complete any three courses within this subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization and signify your deep expertise in finance and accounting. Learn More about what you earn What... View Details
  • April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
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Fleet Oil Company: An Exercise

The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Non-Renewable Energy; Cost; Production; Performance Productivity; Research and Development; Energy Industry; Atlanta; Houston
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

was a general partner at Hancock Venture Partners from 1988 to 1997. Hancock Venture Partners was the predecessor firm to HarbourVest Partners. Previously, Mr. Wadsworth worked for Booz, Allen & Hamilton, where he specialized in the areas... View Details
  • 06 Jul 2023
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Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Back in 2014, When Chris Marinak (MBA 2008) was in the process of rolling out the instant replay system as a Senior Vice President at Major League Baseball, he... View Details
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

market expertise and focus his business expansion in developing countries? If so, where should he concentrate his efforts—India, Brazil, China, or other countries? Or should he instead focus on expanding into developed markets through View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace