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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

Stakeholder Relations ; Business and Government Relations ; Creativity ; Reputation ; Social and Collaborative Networks ; Civil Society or Community ; Social Issues ; Poverty ; Strategy ; Construction Industry ; Education Industry ; Energy Industry ; Industrial... View Details

06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

manufacturers to influence prices set by their downstream partners. A MAP policy imposes a lower bound on advertised prices, subjecting violating retailers to punishments such as termination of distribution agreements. Despite this... View Details

04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

experimenter who had made them wait, or not interrupting at all. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44857 Measurement Errors of Expected Returns Proxies and the Implied Cost of Capital By: Wang, Charles C.Y.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 May 2011
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Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

The full cultural and sociological aftershocks of the earthquake in Japan—the worst disaster to hit the country since World War II—are washing like a tsunami across many industries as manufacturers and their customers scramble to replace... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

Sustainability, Innovation, Strategy, Supply Chain Management The case describes BMW's electrification and decarbonization strategy, and how the company measured carbon emissions throughout the life cycle of its vehicles and used tools like carbon abatement View Details

08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

consequence of actual leverage than it is of risk premiums. Standardized Color in the Food Industry: The Co-Creation of the Food Coloring Business in the United States, 1870–1940 By: Hisano, Ai Abstract—This working paper examines how, starting in the 1870s, food View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Venture Competition Runner-Up, Business Track: Sanso Sanso is helping drug manufacturers produce life-saving biologics more efficiently, in order to deliver cheaper drugs to patients worldwide. Team: Narek Dshkhunyan, MBA 2024; Daniel... View Details

01 Aug 2022
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Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?

(last) 4 decades optimizing global production to the lowest cost denominator and just-in-time delivery a global production system that is optimized for lowest cost is not very resilient. We will now optimize... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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Regional Winners - Alumni

generates innovative designs for electric motors. Our software provides motor manufacturers with large sources of gains and cost reduction, reachable only through disruptive computer calculation and... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Ahmedabad, and the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. A chartered accountant, he holds two master's degrees and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Cited by his students as a dedicated and innovative teacher, Datar received... View Details

2023
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Cost-Efficient Decarbonization of Portland Cement Production

By: Gunther Glenk, Anton Kelnhofer, Rebecca Meier and Stefan Reichelstein

Accounting for nearly 8% of global annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the cement industry is considered difficult to decarbonize. While a sizeable number of abatement levers for Portland cement production is becoming technologically ready for deployment, many are... View Details

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06 Mar 2006
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Four Strategies for Making Concessions

Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie's book A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System (ILR Press, 1991). The head of a manufacturing firm was preparing to initiate talks with the leadership... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

28 Feb 2023
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Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

likely to quit in the first year of the program. Black students were also more likely to drop out than white students. Some of the disparity may have to do with Black students being less likely to apply for apprenticeships in fields like Advanced View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Apr 2023
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Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology

19 Apr 2004
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Birth of the American Salesman

economic system. But what made the U.S. unique was the scale of American firms that were founded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These massive manufacturing concerns, which produced tremendous numbers of business... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

09 Mar 2003
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Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

cost advantage over integrated mills. But the quality of the steel they produced was inferior. The rebar market at the bottom rung of the industry (rebar is small steel bars made from scrap and used to create reinforced concrete) was the... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

05 Apr 2016
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April 5, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50854 Knowing When to Ask: The Cost of Leaning-in By: Exley, Christine L., Muriel Niederle, and Lise Vesterlund Abstract—Gender differences in the propensity to negotiate are often used to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

March 2020
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Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein

In vertically integrated energy systems, integration frequently entails operational gains that must be traded off against the requisite cost of capacity investments. In the context of the model analyzed in this study, the operational gains are subject to inherent... View Details