Bottom Of The Pyramid - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2023
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The human knee is a marvel. It’s the hinge at the center of our gait, the evolutionary adaptation that makes humans the only fully bipedal mammals on the planet. But the knee also is a complicated and vulnerable knot of bone, muscle, and sinew. Nearly everyone knows... View Details

Keywords: Shoshi Parks

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Keywords: Banking

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How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace - Recruiting

significant impact on the company’s bottom line, is psychological safety. WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY? In her book The Fearless Organization , Harvard Business School... View Details

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Advancing Global, Public, and Societal Health - Health Care

and teaching, including businesses serving low-income populations in both emerging markets and developed nations. Chu teaches the second year elective Business at the Base of... View Details

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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

introduced Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) to health care. In this unique approach, costing is approached from the bottom up looking at exactly what happens to a patient in View Details

04 Apr 2023
What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

the most money possible is the real objective.” Thoughtful responses suggested more useful ways of examining the question as well as measuring... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

possibly to an extent where even meritorious lawsuits are not being brought, though that is hard to establish empirically. “The bottom line from our study is that the balance has moved away from investors... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

mid-sized account base. At the top of the customer base pyramid where the accounts are huge, marketing and sales... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

candidates and asked them to rank their top three choices. Some of these sets employed standard algorithms, which generally included only three women who ranked near the bottom... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

27 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

there was more than a full point between the top quartile (which averaged 3.72) and the bottom (which averaged 2.88). “Even the United States,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

MBA Courses Business at the Base of the Pyramid (B-BOP) This course seeks to provide an understanding of how... View Details

30 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?

to lose money if they grant price discounts in-store to inquiring customers—although some will do so to appease an angry customer or through a sense of fairness. In some cases, however, self-matching is the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

03 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers

slicing meat, baking bread—they show that they’re willing to roll up their sleeves, but this behavior could be costly to their businesses’ bottom lines. By looking at the everyday activities View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Retail; Consumer Products

17 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

afterwards, their employment prospects were pretty dismal,” says Mark Egan, an assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School. Egan details the misconduct findings in a new working paper, “When... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

06 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

a follow-on offering, the price falls, in part because you're putting more supply on the market for a given level of demand," Baker says. "In View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

In the half-century since his graduation, Theodore Roosevelt IV (MBA 1972) has earned widespread respect as both a forward-thinking investment banker and an influential activist through his efforts to address climate change and preserve public lands. For much of that... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax

26 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

curve,” for example, made employees in the top 20 percent of performance eligible for raises and promotions, while those in the bottom 10 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

success alone. In a country where one-third of the population lives beneath the poverty line, he is an advocate of political and economic reform... View Details

04 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

passed a ball back and forth in a video. Between tasks, however, half of the subjects were allowed to watch a video of the British comedy TV show... View Details