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19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

Expecting a general suggestion system or a semi-annual feedback meeting to take care of the "voice problem" is almost certainly a mistake. Most surprising to us has been the degree to which fear... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

October 2013
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How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure

By: Anil R. Doshi, Glen W.S. Dowell and Michael W. Toffel

Mandatory information disclosure regulations seek to create institutional pressure to spur performance improvement. By examining how organizational characteristics moderate establishments' responses to a prominent environmental information disclosure program, we... View Details

Keywords: Information Disclosure; Institutional Theory; Environmental Strategy; Mandatory Disclosure; Environmental Performance; Information; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Improvement; Environmental Sustainability; Manufacturing Industry; United States

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25 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

The success of American Home Products reflects a unique path of learning. The company originated with the merger of several companies in related businesses. During the seventy... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical

01 Mar 2005
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Faculty Research Online

directly to consumers. Do physicians take notice? Professor Emeritus Alvin Silk and Harvard’s Joel Weissman discuss a recent study. The Changing Roles of Doctors and Patients Richard Bohmer, a physician as well as an HBS assistant... View Details

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

04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

most rigorous extant methodologies for detecting "tunneling," or efforts by firms' controlling owner managers to take money for themselves at the expense of minority... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2007
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Faculty Books

show how Cemex, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, and other firms adroitly managed cross-border differences and how others failed at this challenge. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands by Rakesh Khurana (Princeton University Press) Associate... View Details

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

01 Sep 2014
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Groundwork

aspect of the School’s unparalleled educational experience,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “We are taking great care to build an exceptional environment for research and teaching in the 21st century.” How does HBS plan for the View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; George F. Baker III; real estate; Tata Hall; Educational Services; Real Estate

26 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time

monthly payment, according to the Federal Reserve. For people struggling to chip away at high balances, targeting specific items on their credit card bills can provide much-needed control and encouragement. “Instead View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we consider how the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

background in behavioral economics can help managers have an appreciation of where the standard economic analysis suffices, and where they should think more about how to structure the environment in which... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

reactor" in accelerating the rise in health-care costs. Why is this system such a problem? A: By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients'... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

B. Donham offered Doriot a position as assistant dean. 3 Doriot's career as an educator started when he began teaching Factory Problems and the Taylor System course. 4 In 1926, the Dean appointed Doriot Associate Professor View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered

pioneer in the study of flexible manufacturing systems. A major component of his work was a comprehensive study of more than half of these View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

early-twentieth-century social scientists is what we call "the meaning and organization problem." One of the main trends of modern society was the rise of large... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Dec 2001
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Governance in India and Around the Globe

Indian software maker Infosys specifically, and other Indian firms more generally.We document the under-studied effect that global product and labor markets can play in the convergence of corporate governance View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu; Technology

29 Sep 2020
News

A Righteous Path

organization to meet this growing need means managing growth—recruiting talent, developing office culture, finding room for everyone to sit, and, of course, fundraising to sustain the work—all while staying... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Feb 2002
News

Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story

sight of it, you'll fail. In contrast to Sony's approach, RCA, having achieved world dominance in its industry in the 1960s, fell off the "virtuous" path by diversifying into areas in which its managers had... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

15 Jun 2021
News

HBS Addresses Racial Equity

the Racial Equity Plan (REP), which was developed last summer by members of the Dean’s Anti-Racism Task Force and launched in September. “There always have been people dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion at HBS, and the new... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands - Blog - Business & Environment

computer decision-making software. Pest Management . First tested in Koppert Cress’s greenhouses, PATS, an indoor drone solution, is using AI to automate insect control using computer vision. Pest... View Details

30 May 2017
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2017 Advances in Strategic Management Geography, Location, and Strategy By: Alcácer, Juan, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas, and Bernard Yin Yeung, eds. Abstract—Changes in both technology and global political economy have vastly accelerated... View Details