Speed Of Adjustment - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 May 2023
Blog Post

Interview Strategies to Connect with a Wider Range of Candidates

Are your organization’s interview processes inclusive and equitable? Or, are there more opportunities to counter bias in your interviews and welcome candidates with a variety of backgrounds and experiences? The following recommendations... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

2019
Working Paper

Thinking Outside the Box (12): The Benefits of Increased Transparency in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance for the 180 Million Insured

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman

Economists have long noted that the tax exclusion of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) caused workers to purchase health plans that differ in price and other characteristics from those they would otherwise choose for themselves. We explore the short-term and long-term... View Details

Keywords: After-tax Income; Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Income Inequality; Tax Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Income; Equality and Inequality; Taxation; Policy; United States

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Understanding Economic Value Added

By: Mihir A. Desai, Fabrizio Ferri and Steve Treadwell

Explores the concept of economic value added (EVA) and its practical applications as a management control system for performance measurement and incentive compensation. Explains how EVA is measured and explores some of the adjustments to financial statements that are... View Details

Keywords: Value

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21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

of the most widely implemented Agile operating approaches) and also a former fighter pilot, draws on his experience of landing a jet on a heaving aircraft carrier. He describes determining a glide path to... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

featured a three-element 135 mm f/11 lens and shutter speeds from 1/8th to 1/60th of a second with an optical viewfinder that folded out. 72 A single adjustment to the lens... View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

With "variable sunglasses" users could adjust the degree of glare they wanted to eliminate. Polaroid promotional literature affirmed that "vibration-direction has been a scientific curiosity, and little... View Details

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

On the first day at HBS, all first-year students meet their sections – a mini 94-student family amidst the larger cohort of 938 students. To get to know one another, we were given a prompt inspired by a bet someone made with Hemingway... View Details

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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

speed of a horse, locomotives compressed weeklong journeys into days. By mid-century, the rails moved people, raw materials, and goods around the country relatively quickly, cheaply and, for the most part,... View Details

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

feeds the average sports junkie's need for speed and excitement. "I don't know if you know it, but a Tesla is almost as quick from 0 to 60 as a Ferrari," Higgins says. "The way electricity transfers power is quite... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

25 Jun 2020
News

Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic

North Africa. In addition, Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee spoke with Fiba Group leaders Hüsnü Özyeğin (MBA 1969), founder and honorary chair, and Murat Özyeğin (MBA 2003), chair, about the speed of recovery... View Details

17 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience

and excited she was to move here all the way from South Africa. What has also helped with the adjustment as an international couple arriving at HBS, is that Azrah has been able to take advantage of all that... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

enterprises as it is to startups. Gaining Speed Following Stevenson's return to HBS, two events in the early 1980s helped shape the study and scope of entrepreneurship at the School. The first, a 1983... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

28 Mar 2019
News

California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change

said in his speech, if we leave for a 9am meeting at 8:30am, and we know it will take us an hour to get there, we don’t think of ourselves as late until the clock hits 9am. This is how it is with climate change. We are already late, even... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

22 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Carbon Tariffs: Impacts on Technology Choice, Regional Competitiveness, and Global Emissions

Keywords: by David F. Drake; Manufacturing

14 Dec 2007
Op-Ed

When Your Product Becomes a Commodity

speed from launch to maturity is faster than ever before. Marketers can do three things to delay the inevitable forces of commoditization. Innovate. A new product that better meets consumer needs, even an... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Building a Culture of Awareness and Accountability in your Organization

create environments where people can show up with the full humanity recognized every single day,” said Manso-Brown. Without this important aspect of organizational policy and culture, adjusting hiring... View Details