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  • 2010
  • Chapter

Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice

By: Alvin E. Roth
The deferred acceptance algorithm proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962) has had a profound influence on market design, both directly, by being adapted into practical matching mechanisms, and indirectly, by raising new theoretical questions. Deferred acceptance algorithms... View Details
Keywords: Labor; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Failure; Mathematical Methods
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  • March 2004 (Revised March 2005)
  • Case

Oscar de la Renta

By: Bharat N. Anand, Elizabeth Lea Carpenter and Samhita Patwardhan Jayanti
Over three decades, Oscar de la Renta (ODLR) had established itself as one of the premier luxury brands in America. Its mainstay business had always been producing and marketing high-priced, couture/ready-to-wear luxury goods. Now, in September 2003, it faced a series... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Borrowing and Debt; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Production; Family Ownership; Luxury; Competition; Diversification; Expansion; United States
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz
Civil society actors have been pushing for greater accountability of the World Bank for at least three decades. This paper outlines the range of accountability mechanisms currently in place at the World Bank along four basic levels: (1) staff, (2) project, (3) policy,... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Business and Community Relations; Social Enterprise; Motivation and Incentives
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  • May 1997
  • Teaching Note

Managing Product Development: Matching Technology with Context, Instructor's Note

By: Marco Iansiti
This overview to Managing Product Development (MPD) both previews course material, cases, exercises, and lectures--and provides its conceptual and academic underpinnings. Additionally, this note links these materials to the activities students will be undertaking in... View Details
Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Product Development; Knowledge Management; Performance; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Opportunities; Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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  • 30 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

regulated circumstances. If your bank ever presents you with a mortgage like that, it's in violation of the National Organ Transplant Act." So the slippery-slope argument is actually an area of agreement, or at least not outright... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

and Karim R. Lakhani Publication: Organization Science (forthcoming). Abstract We examine who the winners are in science problem-solving contests characterized by open broadcast of problem information, self-selection of external solvers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2023
  • News

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

  • May 2007
  • Article

Managing Your Boss

By: John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter
The best way to make a major impact in your organization? Forge a strong relationship with your boss. You'll get the support and resources you need to put your great ideas into action. But "managing up" isn't easy. For example, if you're reporting to a new CEO, you... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Relationships; Value; Behavior; Communication; Decisions
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  • Web

Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

is used in health care delivery organizations around the world. Length: 28 min. January 2018 Presentation The Value-Based Health Care Agenda The Value-Based Health Care Agenda by Michael E. Porter In this video Professor Porter teaches... View Details
  • August 1999 (Revised June 2008)
  • Case

Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty
Eighteen months after launching Nickelodeon Latin America, general manager Taran Swan must leave the company's Miami headquarters for her New York home because of complications with her pregnancy. Unable to travel for at least the next six months, Swan must decide how... View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Leadership Style; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Groups and Teams
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  • 04 Apr 2024
  • News

The Making of a Medical Milestone

On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in animal-to-human transplant, or... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 17 May 2016
  • First Look

May 17, 2016

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51060 Harvard Business School Case 516-079 Fair & Lovely vs. Dark Is Beautiful Women of Worth (WOW) is an organization that seeks to empower women through training and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Citation guides

attached addendum on citing generative AI). Harvard University provides guidance on citation styles, such as APA, MLA, Chicago, and Blue Book (legal).     Citation tools can help collect and organize your sources.... View Details
  • October 2010
  • Article

The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Allen S. Grossman
Many of our largest and most successful companies today did not exist 50 years ago. During this same time interval, companies that ranked among top in the 1960s have disappeared, been merged out of existence, or become much smaller presences in the U.S. industrial... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Investment Funds; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Accountability; Management Practices and Processes; Infrastructure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Effectiveness; Nonprofit Organizations
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  • 02 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

discrimination; and pay increases for CEOs has far outpaced gains for the regular worker. Added to that is what the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development calls “the race to the bottom”—countries frequently lowering their... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • Article

Geographic Mobility, Immobility, and Geographic Flexibility—A Review and Agenda for Research on the Changing Geography of Work

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
I review and integrate a wide range of literature that has examined how geographic mobility of high-skilled workers creates value for organizations and individuals. Drawing on this interdisciplinary literature, I document that geographic mobility creates value by... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Mobility; Frictions; Work-from-anywhere; Employees; Geographic Location; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • June 2013
  • Case

Ron Ventura at Mitchell Memorial Hospital

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Heide Abelli
Mitchell Memorial Hospital is a 750-bed regional academic medical center in Ohio. Andy Prescott, Chief of the Cardiovascular Center, is reviewing the performance evaluations of his star vascular surgeon Ron Ventura. The evaluations, the result of a 360-degree... View Details
Keywords: Performance Expectations; Conflict Management; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Resignation and Termination; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Evaluation; Health Industry; Ohio
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  • 20 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

bisexual, transgender, gender nonconforming, and queer communities. Here, current HBS students share their personal stories through the National Coming Out Day storyboard series organized by the HBS PRIDE Club. We accept everyone in any... View Details
  • Web

The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

Medium-High 20 1920 s 19 Social divisions arise between rural and urban areas Women's suffrage Harlem Renaissance Rampant bootlegging and organized crime Influence: Medium 30 1930 s 19 Escapism in radio serials Prohibition repealed Golden... View Details
  • Web

Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

Organization Whether you represent a large multinational corporation or a small local business, we have a solution for your learning and development needs. Learn More Our Difference Alternative Investments will equip you with the skills,... View Details