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  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

control and order processing, particularly the tradeoffs between centralized and decentralized inventories. Students must complete a quantitative analysis of the costs and benefits View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using instruments that identify the firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

their products directly to buyers) or as a reseller (purchasing products from suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a decision between whether control rights over a non-contractible decision variable (the choice View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

Truth Be Told

fraud? What kinds of internal control levers, employee training programs, or perhaps even internal (nonfinancial) rewards and recognitions lead to a greater number of internal... View Details
Keywords: April White; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 08 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

grievances? This article, the first in a series on negotiation dynamics, identifies six ways to more effectively separate fact from fiction at the bargaining table. The focus will be on the interactive quality of the process—specifically,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

2018 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business By: Gupta, Sunil Abstract—Disruption and transformation get a lot of hype and for good reason. Digital technologies have disrupted... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

outcomes while controlling for the endogenous matching of projects and organizational forms. Solo firm leases are less profitable than alliance leases because alliance members combine their information and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

experiment in three sites in which we paid off high-interest moneylender debt of individuals. Most borrowers returned to debt within six weeks. One to two years after intervention, treatment individuals were borrowing at the same rate as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Sizing Up Social Impact

influence an organization can have on social factors beyond its boundaries." Most research on organizational performance focuses on cause-and-effect situations that assume degrees of linearity and control... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs
  • May 16, 2019
  • Article

To Improve Food Inspections, Change the Way They're Scheduled

By: Maria Ibanez and Michael W. Toffel
Health inspections are an important tool to increase food safety, but there are still 48 million cases of food-borne illnesses and 128,000 hospitalizations every year in the United States. Our research finds that inspectors reported fewer health code violations as they... View Details
Keywords: Inspection; Scheduling; Food; Safety; Health; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Improvement
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  • 05 Mar 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?

transparency and communities it has spawned, new attitudes toward work and the way it is performed, and global competition and cooperation, much of it fostered by the Internet. But will these forces outweigh the natural tendency View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

and affiliated physicians. Over the last two decades, through a combination of active legal defense and medical error prevention, the RMF has successfully controlled the medico-legal costs View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jan 2012
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accelerate the decline of independents by increasing the attractiveness of smaller in-town store formats for retail chains. The causal impact of planning regulation is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

spend less, order a higher percentage of "should" items (e.g., vegetables), and order a lower percentage of "want" items (e.g., ice cream) controlling for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Blog

Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School

This article originally appeared in the Harvard Business School—Newsroom. You've been in this role, and at HBS, for just over a year now. Can you reflect a bit on what you've been hearing and learning? It was insightful and exciting to spend time with many different... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

In 1947, Professor Myles Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, introduced a unique offering into the MBA curriculum called The Management of New Enterprises. Believed to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

financial management and the usefulness of formal hedging of agricultural production risks was offered to randomly selected farmers in Gujarat, India. The authors evaluate the effect View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

future research. Specifically, I call for research on the materiality of environmental and social issues for the future financial performance of corporations, the design of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

The City Solution

cities that are holistically improving their energy use to reduce their emissions and save money. Often these solutions involve submetering individualized utility measuring of city buildings, which allows for a closer monitoring View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs
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