Costs And Consequences - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

21 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

registration costs and long travel and waiting time in areas with low polling station density. Similarly, there is a real need to improve citizens' faith in US elections, but... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

been a great friend. It makes me feel so good to know that my advisor is interested in my career and my well-being." Raman and Ton have been studying retail operation, focusing on an operational execution... View Details

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

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

How can a company from an emerging economy manage to make waves in global business? Ask Embraer. The Brazilian firm also known as Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A. is the fourth largest commercial aircraft manufacturer in the world, behind Boeing, Airbus View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

02 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

It’s a sticky but common dilemma for managers: A valued employee finds out that a coworker earns more, gets upset, and demands a raise. If gender or race figure into the wage gap, tensions can escalate fast. Companies, including Whole... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

30 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

predictors for (the) future success of a company," he suggests that these measures have to be viewed with a long-term lens, one that accommodates the fact in the short-run, managements may take actions to reduce costs View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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CORe Undergraduate Credit | HBS Online

your home institution that it will accept eight undergraduate degree credits for CORe and offer you aid. Once admitted to CORe, pay the credit cost of CORe Contact HBS Online Support for instructions on how... View Details

05 Sep 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

lead to 20 percent of the effort to bring great people on board and retain them for the long term. There’s a severe opportunity cost that comes with bringing on the wrong people and/or at the wrong time... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

different: Her research suggests that a more powerful lever to increase a nonprofit's social impact might be to focus on building network relationships like-minded groups—even competitors. Organizations as unique as Guide Dogs for the Blind Association View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2022
News

A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

full-price sales, a decrease in lost sales, and a decline in costs due to a reduction in excess inventory—along with up to a 95 percent reduction in manual labor. As Syrup expands, Theuerkauf View Details

Keywords: April White

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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment

U.S. Green Bonds Supplementary Readings Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2019 Lex in depth: the $900bn cost of ‘stranded energy... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

new application of technology, he set his sights on winning it—and did. “AutoCAD had been around, but it wasn’t being used at Bath Iron Works,” he recalls. “I ran the numbers on the cost savings and—lo and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

12 Mar 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO

the CEO, with manageable consequences that are generally positive. Factor 1: Fit High performing companies require CEOs with the right skill set, decision style, and values. They have strong credibility with... View Details

14 Jun 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia

Starting last fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On June 5 and 8, more than 300 alumni in East Asia gathered to celebrate and connect with each other at "An Evening with Dean Datar" events... View Details

13 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

understand the implications. “Facebook and Google—these services are free from a monetary perspective, but I think there’s some recognition that we are paying some cost in using them, by giving out some of... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

leading research universities, low cost or highly trained labor, and geographic bounty. Understanding how clusters work can help governments develop effective policies for creating them, as well as direct... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

This metric incorporates the benefit of free rent and other concessions they receive from landlords on the front-end without disclosing the future costs the company will incur when these concessions burn... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management for "Customization or Conformity? An Institutional and Network Perspective on the Content and Consequences of TQM... View Details

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Published Materials - Creating Emerging Markets

Education in Emerging Markets Since the 1960s By: Valeria Giacomin, Geoffrey Jones and Erica Salvaj 10 JUN 2021 Article Business History Review The Cost and Evolution of... View Details

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Ranjay Gulati : Won the 1996 Best Paper Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management for "Customization or Conformity? An Institutional and Network Perspective on... View Details

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