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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Reversing the Queue: Performance, Legitimacy, and Minority Hiring

By: Andrew Hill and David A. Thomas
Studies of minority hiring have found that poor-performing firms or firms in highly competitive contexts are more likely to hire minority candidates. However, most work has examined hiring for entry and mid-level positions, not senior management. Management positions... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Selection and Staffing; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Performance Effectiveness; Sports Industry; United States
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  • 2011
  • Book

Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance

By: Bruce R. Scott
Capitalism, as defined in this book, is an indirect, three-level system of governance for economic relationships (i.e., economic, administrative, and political). Whereas economic markets can coordinate supply and demand within an existing system thanks to the invisible... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Price; Governance; Government and Politics; Books; Markets; Relationships; System
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  • January 1997 (Revised December 1999)
  • Case

OXO International

By: H. Kent Bowen, Marilyn Matis and Sylvie Ryckebusch
OXO, a kitchen tools and gadgets company, was started by a businessman who had 30 years of experience in the housewares industry. With his wife and son as founders, he creates a new niche in the gadgets industry for high-end gourmet stores. The company has headquarters... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Supply Chain Management; Production; Design; Ownership; Business Startups; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; Asia; New York (city, NY); Connecticut
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  • 29 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

put their findings in perspective and offer a framework for future research, the researchers emphasized the nature of a patent examiner’s work, which requires little coordination with co-workers on a daily basis. Examiners perform their... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Web

Program Requirements - Doctoral

Each semester students will consult with the Accounting & Management faculty coordinators to receive approval of their course selections. Foundational Courses (2 courses) Microeconomics Theory : A comprehensive two semester sequence on... View Details
  • Program

Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual

Lead strategic and organizational change to generate value Improve health care quality, system delivery, and patient value Access a network of health care institutions and facilities to enhance quality and coordination of care Leverage... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care
  • 16 Oct 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Government Debt Management at the Zero Lower Bound

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, Joshua S. Rudolph & Lawrence H. Summers
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

The Effects of Temporal Distance on Intra-Firm Communication: Evidence from Daylight Savings Time

By: Jasmina Chauvin, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tommy Pan Fang
Cross-border communication costs have plummeted and enabled the global distribution of work, but frictions attributable to distance persist. We estimate the causal effects of temporal distance, i.e., time zone separation between employees, on intra-firm communication,... View Details
Keywords: Communication Patterns; Time Zones; Geographic Frictions; Knowledge Workers; Multinational Companies; Communication; Multinational Firms and Management; Geographic Location
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  • August 2006
  • Case

Dreyer's Slow Churned(TM) Ice Cream

By: Noel H. Watson, Steven C. Wheelwright and Brian DeLacey
Examines capacity forecasting and planning in a complex new product introduction scenario. The introduction at Dreyer's, a large dairy snack manufacturer, involves not only a new product but a new manufacturing process and product package, thus implying a significant... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Forecasting and Prediction; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Product Development; Planning; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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Help - Alumni

Fitness Portal . What are the hours of the COOP? Hours and store info for the HBS COOP are at: https://store.thecoop.com/store-locations/ The Class of 1959 Chapel HBS alumni may use the Class of 1959 Chapel for weddings and memorials, through the sponsorship and View Details
  • 17 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Teaming in the Twenty-First Century

work done," says Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management. “Teaming is the engine of organizational learning.” The problem: Stable teams that plan first and execute later are increasingly infeasible in the twenty-first century workforce, she... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 25 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Importance of Teaming

effective teams. Teaming is teamwork on the fly. It involves coordinating and collaborating without the benefit of stable team structures, because many operations like hospitals, power plants, and military installations require a level of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson
  • 12 Jul 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Negotiation Processes As Sources of (And Solutions To) Interorganizational Conflict

Keywords: by Elizabeth Long Lingo, Colin Fisher & Kathleen L. McGinn
  • Article

The Ownership and Trading of Debt Claims in Chapter 11 Restructurings

By: Victoria Ivashina, Benjamin Iverson and David C. Smith
What is the ownership structure of bankrupt debt claims? How does the ownership evolve though bankruptcy? And how does debt ownership influence Chapter 11 outcomes? To answer these questions, we construct a data set that identifies the entire capital structure for 136... View Details
Keywords: Ownership Structure; Distressed Debt; Trading In Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Ownership; Borrowing and Debt; United States
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  • September 2011
  • Article

Global Capitalism at Risk: What Are You Doing About It?

By: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard and Lynn S. Paine
Market capitalism, a system that has proven to be a remarkable engine of wealth creation, is poised for a breakdown. That sounds dire, and it is. Increasing income inequality, migration, weaknesses in the global financial system, environmental degradation, and... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Economic Systems; Globalization; Corporate Governance; Markets; Risk and Uncertainty
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    Global Capitalism at Risk: What Are You Doing About It?

    Market capitalism, a system that has proven to be a remarkable engine of wealth creation, is poised for a breakdown. That sounds dire, and it is. Increasing income inequality, migration, weaknesses in the global financial system, environmental degradation, and... View Details
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    Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

    training at Emory University and a postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Andrés García at Georgia Tech. Somani Patnaik MBA 2023 Somani Patnaik is the co-founder and CEO of TurnipCare, an AI-based referral management and care coordination... View Details
    • Web

    About | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    investing. She has worked as a project manager at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a program coordinator for the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center and the Jewish Multiracial Network. She holds an MBA in Nonprofit Management... View Details
    • 19 May 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

    Keywords: by Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth & John J. Siegfried
    • 22 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem

    Keywords: by Robert S. Huckman & Bradley R. Staats; Video Game; Web Services