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  • 14 Feb 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950

Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

relevant convenings. We look forward to working with BiGS on this.” As part of this strategy, the BEI contributes to the development of curricula in both the MBA Program and Executive Education. Toffel notes... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together

In the fall of 1996, HBS professor David A. Garvin was searching for teaching materials for his elective course General Management: Processes and Action. He wanted to help his students understand the pitfalls View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
  • 2002
  • Case

Southwest Airlines

By: Vijay Govindarajan and Julie Lang
Southwest used its short-haul and point-to-point strategy to achieve the lowest operating cost structure in the domestic airline industry. Flexible contracts and a rigorous peer recruiting process aligned its 35,000 employees with this strategy. View Details
Keywords: Cost; Air Transportation; Business Strategy; Air Transportation Industry
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  • 18 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

between savings and growth through investment. This link, however, disappears in open economy models, which is surely the relevant scenario in reality. An alternative interpretation of the relationship... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 07 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

technological advances open up new, previously unimagined use-cases, leaders must be prepared to ask and answer the question: "Just because we can do something, should we?" With regard to the use of data, leaders must be View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan introduced time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to provide the cost component in Michael Porter's Value Based Health Care framework of delivering superior patient outcomes at lower societal cost. TDABC is becoming the global standard for health care... View Details
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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Care explores the best practices for reorganizing and coordinating care, improving process efficiencies, implementing new reimbursement approaches, and integrating care delivery across practices. You will... View Details
  • 29 Mar 2023
  • News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

relief support to those affected by the earthquakes. “We rushed to the aid of our people by activating all of our means, in coordination with the relevant public institutions and organizations,” writes Şen.... View Details
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry

sectors including restaurants and food retail. Relevant topics covered include: -consumer trends in dining out -restaurant and food service segments... View Details
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 03 Oct 2023
  • Webinars: Career

Tech in the Job Search: LinkedIn for Career Exploration

CPD and a former LinkedIn insider equip you with the tools and insights you need for a fruitful data-driven exploration for the next stage of your career. Learn to better engage with fellow alumni and avoid the uncertainty of blindly committing to a new path by... View Details
  • December 2020 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

France Télécom (A): A Challenging Restructuring

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Ashley V. Whillans
These cases explore the impacts of industry shocks, resulting corporate actions that had a devastating impact on employees, and the legal conviction of corporate leaders for “institutional harassment."

This case series follows the evolution of France... View Details
Keywords: Health ＆ Wellness; Human Resource Management; Strategic Change; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Leadership And Change Management; Leadership And Managing People; Change; Restructuring; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Health; Human Capital; Human Resources; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Labor Unions; Law; Social Psychology; Strategy; Leadership; Leadership Style; Organizations; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Employees; Well-being; Telecommunications Industry; Europe; European Union
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  • June, 2024
  • Book Review

Debunking Immigration Myths: A Review Essay of 'Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success' (PublicAffairs, 2022) by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan

By: Marco Tabellini
This essay reviews Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. This elegantly written book, highly accessible to both economists and non-economists, is a must-read for anyone interested in the topic of... View Details
Keywords: Immigration; History; United States
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  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

importance of an informed and rigorous historical understanding for practitioners. He visited my office later to say that he felt Chilean policymakers and business leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

The Effect of a System for Sharing Best Practices Within Pre-existing Peer Networks

By: Shelley Xin Li and Tatiana Sandino
Peer networks, such as enterprise social networks (ESNs), can facilitate knowledge transfer across employees. However, such systems can also lead to information overload or difficulty in finding useful information. We examine data from a natural field experiment where... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Best Practices; Enterprise Social Media; Management Accounting And Control Systems; Social and Collaborative Networks; Communication Technology; Knowledge Sharing; Sales; Social Media; Retail Industry
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  • 15 Jun 2020
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

to the top. The time for action is running short. Professor Rebecca Henderson’s rigorous research in economics, psychology, and organizational behavior, as well as her many years of work with companies... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

climate and energy that are highly relevant to the current public debate.” The Brand IDEA: Managing Nonprofit Brands with Integrity, Democracy, and Affinity by Nathalie... View Details
  • 13 Jan 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

to deliver results to identify longstanding employees as representatives of blocked change. However, it is crucial to understand the specifics of an organization in order to act with rigor and precision.... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports
  • 03 Apr 2009
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

their leaders to recognize the importance and take advantage of advances in communications technology to remain relevant and competitive. J. W. Carpenter reported that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

that someone could start to discuss with his or her theologian? Nash: Let me back up and give you an example of the kind of thing that might cause them to say, "My religion is of relevance here."... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace