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- April 1997
- Case
Romeo Engine Plant (Abridged)
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Amy P. Hutton
A newly reopened automobile engine plant has been organized along total quality and teamwork principles. Employees now solve problems and ensure quality, rather than watch parts being produced. New operating and financial systems have been installed to promote... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Groups and Teams; Employees; Performance Improvement; Auto Industry
Kaplan, Robert S., and Amy P. Hutton. "Romeo Engine Plant (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 197-100, April 1997.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Farsighted House Allocation
By: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus, Flip Klijn and Markus Walzl
In this note we study von Neumann-Morgenstern farsightedly stable sets for Shapley and Scarf (1974) housing markets. Kawasaki (2008) shows that the set of competitive allocations coincides with the unique von Neumann-Morgenstern stable set based on a farsighted version... View Details
Keywords: Microeconomics; Housing; Resource Allocation; Mathematical Methods; Competitive Strategy; Equality and Inequality
Klaus, Bettina-Elisabeth, Flip Klijn, and Markus Walzl. "Farsighted House Allocation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-129, May 2009.
- 11 Oct 2024
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
with each other. The HBS Alumni Board, whose members are selected from a pool of active and committed volunteer leaders, represents the global HBS alumni community. Members serve as resources for the Dean, faculty, staff, and students by... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
managers may be trying to categorize their firms as small firms when investors favor small firms. Purchase the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13762 Allocating Marketing Resources... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
significant changes took place at HBS during Fouraker's tenure as Dean, including sizable increases in the numbers of women and minority students; new curriculum initiatives in ethics, business and government, human resource management,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
A young currency trader knocks politely on a conference room door at Kingdon Capital Management Corp. (KCMC), a Manhattan-based hedge fund. Her boss, KCMC's founder and president Mark Kingdon, invites her in with a friendly nod. "The... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- Web
Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting
not limited to venture capital but also expand to goods and service-based businesses. Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting There are excellent resources to help train your managers and employees to... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
HBS has shaped me as a leader is by showing that the right technical answer might not do you much good at all if you can't also manage the very real people challenges." Spencer describes his other duties as a combination of financial... View Details
- June 1997
- Case
Massachusetts General Hospital: CABG Surgery (B)
By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Mikelle Eastley
Once the CABG care path is implemented and other care paths begun, hospital staff and administration examine the resulting data. Further methods of improving care and reducing cost are presented for analysis. View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Policy; Retention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Operations; Performance Improvement; Health Industry
Wheelwright, Steven C., and Mikelle Eastley. "Massachusetts General Hospital: CABG Surgery (B)." Harvard Business School Case 697-021, June 1997.
- June 2001
- Case
Cerner Corporation (A)
By: D. Quinn Mills and Matt Salloway
The CEO thinks people are not working long enough hours. He sends a memo. This series describes the backlash. View Details
Keywords: Crisis Management; Management Style; Leadership Style; Nonverbal Communication; Employees; Organizational Culture; Health Industry
Mills, D. Quinn, and Matt Salloway. "Cerner Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 301-136, June 2001.
- Web
Mental Health Awareness Month | Baker Library
appraisal is then made to confirm that the event is harmful and to psychologically review coping resources available to manage the event. The appraisals are followed by coping behaviors which may be either... View Details
- Web
Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details
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Crucibles of Crisis Leadership - Course Catalog
more self-assured in the high waves and strong winds they confronted. Understanding precisely how these people did this is the overarching objective of the course. We will pay particular attention to the larger “rules of the road” of crisis View Details
- Web
Partners & Families | MBA
business journals, and access to other select Harvard libraries). MBA Partner Resources Partners are vital members of the thriving HBS community. For general questions, please contact MBA Partner Services , which is View Details
- 09 May 2016
- Blog Post
What To Know For An International Job Search
organizations you had not known before. Baker Library also has resources for alumni that can help you create a target list of companies through E-Baker. Strengthen Your Weak Ties It may have been several years since you’ve had to network... View Details
- January 2013
- Article
Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment
When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor... View Details
Becker, Bo, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob. "Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment." Journal of Financial Economics 107, no. 1 (January 2013): 1–24.
- August 2022
- Case
Air Wars: Deregulating the U.S. Airline Industry
By: Tom Nicholas and James Weber
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the U.S. government assisted in the development of an airline industry by subsidizing the delivery of mail and allowing mail carriers to also fly passengers. Because the government awarded mail routes to the lowest... View Details
Keywords: Government Regulation; Deregulation; Change Management; Economics; Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Business History; Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Labor; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Industry Structures; Operations; Strategy; Adaptation; Competition; Air Transportation; Air Transportation Industry; United States
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
power plant, she ultimately rose to be president of Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation and Minnesota Energy Resources Corporation, within the Integrys Energy Group. “I had several instrumental leaders who believed in me, who saw my... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
power source. Amager Bakke is located within eyeshot of downtown Copenhagen, and despite being an industrial waste management and energy production site, serves as a community gathering point. With the world’s tallest rock-climbing wall... View Details