by Dennis Campbell - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

new world. Typical approaches used by legacy players such as using technology to improve efficiency, encouraging business units to do digital experiments, or launching independent units to spur innovation have met with limited success.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

August, 2022
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Billing and Insurance-Related Administrative Costs: A Cross-National Analysis

By: Barak D. Richman, Robert S. Kaplan, Japees Kohli, Dennis Purcell, Mahek Shah, Igna Bonfrer, Brian Golden, Rosemary Hannam, Will Mitchell, Daniel Cehic, Garry Crispin and Kevin A. Schulman

Billing and insurance-related costs are a significant source of wasteful health care spending in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development nations, but these administrative burdens vary across national systems. We executed a microlevel accounting of these... View Details

Keywords: Health Care Costs; Administrative Costs; Cost; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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April 2014 (Revised June 2014)
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Wawa Inc.

By: Blythe J. McGarvie, Dennis Campbell and Kristin Stack

Retailing requires attention to detail and customer and employee loyalty. Wawa is a 50-year old food retailer with almost a cult-like following. With $9 billion in revenues, Wawa is the 50th largest privately-held company in the US. Learn how they have accomplished... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Management

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21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

States, Neeley argues that an organization’s lingua franca is the catalyst by which all employees become some kind of “expat”(someone detached from their mother tongue or home culture). Through her unfettered access to the inner workings... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Nov 2011
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Saluting Our HBS Veterans

steady stream of combat veterans attending the School (as documented in the March 2004 Bulletin), their impact has been especially pronounced in recent years. Individually, students such as Donovan Campbell (MBA 2007), Rye Barcott (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; veterans; National Security and International Affairs; Government

29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many investors form beliefs about future... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2008
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Listen Up

All eyes are fixed on Jim Aisner, the maestro of HBS campus tours, as he spoke to a group of alumni and their families in Baker Library | Bloomberg Center on the opening day of the Centennial Global Business Summit, Sunday, October 12. Over the past 25 years, Aisner,... View Details

Keywords: campus tours

01 Jun 2012
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Desperate Sections

forced the Dean to eliminate underperforming sections in order to keep the School in business and to fund a new, revamped curriculum. Chaos ensues, and indeed it merrily continued over four knock-’em-dead performances, perpetrated by a... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

16 Feb 2023
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Clearing the Air

Animation by Richard Borge Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA Candidate) HBS senior lecturer Jim Matheson Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA Candidate) HBS senior lecturer Jim Matheson Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix? The opportunity—and necessity—of carbon... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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Committed To HBS’s Success

permanence. The Tukman’s Dean’s Fund has supported Professor Dennis Campbell, Associate Professor Noam Wasserman, and Senior Lecturers Shikhar Ghosh and Scott Snook. The new Mel Tukman Senior Lectureship will further strengthen the... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Apr 2014
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Detection devices that outsmart the criminally minded

Anthony Harris (MBA 1979) is engineering a more secure world as president and CEO of Campbell Security Equipment Company (CSECO), the world’s leader in portable contraband-detection equipment. Devices made View Details

01 Jun 2008
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Happy Birthday, HBS

the party’s pièce de résistance in January. Dias built the plywood and Styrofoam superstructure, and Bernardo oversaw creation of the confectionary facade. It measured 6’x 5’x 2’ (minus the cupola). Banquet managers Catherine DiChiara (green jacket) and Heather View Details

Keywords: Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

Researchers Tony Guidotti Emma Salomon Esther Cho Case studies Patagonia: ‘Earth is Now Our Only Shareholder’ By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney KKR at CHI Overhead Doors By: Dennis View Details

01 Oct 1999
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The View from the Pit

Illustration by Steve Bjorkman When the Class of 1974 returns to campus to celebrate its 25th Reunion, at least three of its members won't have far to travel. From their base of operations at Soldiers Field, faculty members and classmates... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Mar 2009
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More Alumni Books

Merlin's Dragon by T.A. Barron (MBA ’80) (Philomel) Joker One: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood by Donovan Campbell (MBA ’07) (Random House)... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2002
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In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data

decade, however, influential manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble and Campbell Soup initiated such partnerships to help smooth production cycles and improve profits. Retailers were wooed by the potential... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)

01 Mar 2008
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Alumni Books

Thelma Olexa (AuthorHouse) Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins by Tom Perkins (MBA ’57) (Gotham Books) Sentinel of the Seas: Life and Death at the Most Dangerous Lighthouse Ever Built by View Details

Keywords: Noel Capon; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2013
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Class Day/Commencement 2013

Class Day/Commencement 2013 Photos by Russ Campbell "With meaning, any job can become a calling," former Time Inc. chairman and CEO Ann Moore (MBA 1978) told 901 MBA, 7 DBA, and 8 joint PhD graduates during... View Details

Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 1999
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Proposed Chair Would Honor African-American Business Pioneer

community service activities. Among his many honors was the 1987 HBS Distinguished Service Award. The initiative to establish the Fitzhugh professorship is being cochaired by Dennis F. Hightower, HBS... View Details

01 Sep 2012
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Moving Day 2012

Sandberg Photos by Russ Campbell (Commencement); Neal Hamberg (Class Day) As Dean Nitin Nohria told the audience on Baker Lawn on May 23, this year’s Class Day was an occasion for both celebration and... View Details