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  • 02 Oct 2015
  • News

The ‘F’ Word

about butts in seats—it’s about helping people learn and make progress in life. That experience set me on a trajectory to convert a passion for education into my career. Now I am leading a transformation at the world’s largest education company to improve the View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

general purpose (e.g., quality management) to highly market specific (e.g., knowing how to manufacture an airplane wing). To illustrate the potential of the framework to shed new light on traditional strategy questions, the article... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada, and the U.S. obtain the highest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

behavioral finance: How rational are individual investors? It touches on the quality of advice that investors get, and the relationships between investors and their financial advisers. As we potentially shift our Social Security system... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Toy Story

Cranium states its purpose as being “to lighten and enlighten people’s lives.” While Furlong believes that much of Cranium’s success centers on its founders’ due diligence, the high quality of Cranium products, and the company’s ability... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

billion and more than 66,000 employees. With Chambers’s retirement imminent, Cisco’s board of directors must design a detailed succession process that will allow a smooth transfer of power. What type of selection process should the board members use? Which View Details
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

unreliable, and crushingly expensive. There is no shortage of proposed solutions, but central to the best of them is the idea that health care needs more competition. In other sectors, competition improves quality and efficiency, spurs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

and directed care as needed. The model aimed to improve care quality by enabling early interventions and reducing adverse events and to cut costs by allowing clinicians to care for a larger number of patients. Building on this and other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

case:http://hbr.org/search/712415-PDF-ENG Monocle Soltes, Eugene, and Sara HessHarvard Business School Case 113-024 Monocle, a magazine on global affairs, culture, and business, was founded by Tyler Brûlé to counter a perceived deterioration in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

New Ventures New Gains

any potential appearance of conflict of interest) are past contest participants. Exchange.com’s Stig Leschly comments on what he is looking for as a judge: “A team’s résumé is important, but it’s relevant to just a fraction of the problems that need to be solved. The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Opening the Door

consumer-driven system would require transparency in health-care quality and costs. Can you imagine shopping in a supermarket where you don't know products' prices or ingredients? In the 1930s, President Roosevelt created the SEC to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management
  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

greater, but the average quality will be lower due to the lower expected value of marginal ideas. However, we posit that slack time such as school breaks may be qualitatively different than work time because contiguous blocks may be... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

higher quality firm governance leads to a larger effect of tax avoidance on firm value. The results are robust to a wide variety of tests for alternative explanations. Taken together, the results suggest that the simple view of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

Industry Harvard Business School Case 507-021 ViaGen has invested heavily to develop cloning technology for the livestock industry. Cloning has the potential to significantly improve the genetics of livestock, leading to higher quality... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

reviews on average) and accuracy (some reviewers are more erratic than others), (2) reviewers to be influenced by existing reviews, and (3) product quality to change over time. We apply this approach to reviews from Yelp.com to derive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Mellon Prem Ramaswami is Head of Product at Sidewalk Labs where he focuses on using digital technology to radically improve the quality of urban life. Previously, Prem served as a Product Lead on Google Search’s Social Impact verticals... View Details
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

they merely added a new layer of legal obligations for governance without improving the quality of people serving on the boards or changing their behavioral dynamics. The author—formerly the president or chairman of two global financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

show that the magnitude of the forecast errors decrease is associated with the firm-specific differences between local GAAP and IFRS. Exploiting individual analyst level data and isolating settings where investors would benefit more from either increased comparability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

winery in China that was set on establishing itself as a world-renowned, quality vintner. Judy Leissner, the second-generation company leader, was at a crossroads in how she wanted to grow the business that her father founded in 1997.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

the only dedicated forest equipment company of size that remained in a consolidating industry. Competitors included global giants such as John Deere and Komatsu. Since his arrival at Ponsse in 2004, CEO Arto Tiitinen had focused the firm on delivering superior product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace