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- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
similar amounts of technology. The common pattern was that the majority of customers in those markets had changing needs and wants, and their behavior was changing. Kost: Many of the companies you’ve studied gained a foothold in the... View Details
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
transaction data from a Japanese bank's home loan application processing line. We find that over the course of a single day, specialization, as compared to variety, is related to improved worker productivity. However, when we examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
Abstract We study the effect of small windfalls on consumer-spending decisions by examining the purchasing behavior of a sample of online grocery shoppers over the course of a year. We compare the purchases... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity
that change, including cultural change, is beginning to take hold. Faculty and doctoral students A diverse faculty is critical to scholarship, teaching, and connections with practice. Diversity enhances creativity and unlocks opportunities for new learning.... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
into these questions, we studied four organizations selected to reflect a wide range of attributes—for-profit and nonprofit, large and small, North American and European. We asked people to indicate how often they had work-related... View Details
Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
- Web
Artful Leadership | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio... View Details
- 22 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Launching the Women in Tech Initiative at HBS
management positions in tech companies are held by people identifying as female (Source: Statista); 27% of female respondents to a PwC study considered a tech career, compared to 62% of males respondents... View Details
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance
in Baker Library’s Historical Collections reveals a case study of Boston-area residential finance in the 1920s and 30s. In the early 1920s, Somerville entrepreneur Edmond M. Cremen moved into real estate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Urde, Mats, and Stephen A. Greyser Abstract—The purpose of this article is to explore corporate brand identity and reputation, with the aim of integrating them into a single managerial framework. The Nobel Prize serves as an in-depth field-based View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
of 102 non-European Union countries, we study variations in the decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). There is evidence that more powerful countries are less likely to adopt IFRS, consistent with more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
improvement, the research shows how powerful a tool grouping people deliberately, even if temporary, can be for managers. In other research, Valentine studied four other hospitals that implemented team scaffolds in their emergency... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
sophisticated interventions, such as cardiac catheterization and bypass surgery. Big problems with meaningful solutions While the study couldn’t determine why Black patients ended up at lower-quality hospitals, Chandra is investigating... View Details
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
able to make it into stores by Christmas after I get through the inbound trade-lane delays into the distribution centers. We have a terrible mess in intermodal rail. There are bottlenecks all along the system. Gazette:You co-wrote a case... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
applies road rules to extreme “driverless dilemmas,” and more on how it can make decisions in everyday cases that lie on the edge of hard-and-fast driving rules. “Human drivers take a test, and we then assume that they are going to use... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
labels (vs. text warning labels, calorie labels, and no labels), provided insight into psychological mechanisms driving effectiveness, and assessed consumer sentiment. Study 1 indicated that graphic warning labels reduced the share of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control
industries agile enough to meet their professional and personal needs. Employees also have greater agency to demand the working conditions they want. In the past, employers have had the upper hand during times of economic uncertainty, but that is not the View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
not sure which course is right for me. How do I choose? Please take a look at our course catalog which compares details on each of our current course offerings. What kind of access will I have to faculty? Our courses have been developed... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
Frances Frei and Francesca Gino (Image by John Ritter) Frances Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management, is an expert in the intersection of leadership and inclusion. Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration, View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint