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- 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
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
the more familiar lean technique of value stream mapping (VSM) to identify and decrease wasted time and effort throughout the software development process. Improving From 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
invest in a new company-owned and operated techn... Featured MBA Courses Business at the Base of the Pyramid (B-BOP) This course seeks to provide... 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
- 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
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
force business leaders to confront? For the full listing, click here . Business at the Base of the Pyramid (Fall... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research
much over the last three decades when Social Security is properly accounted for. This is because Social Security wealth increased substantially from $7.2 trillion in 1989 to $40.6 trillion in 2019 and now represents nearly 50% View Details
- 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... 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
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 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
- 27 Nov 2006
- What Do You Think?
What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?
Summing Up The topic of performance reviews triggers a wide range of complex responses. The fact that most of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett