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  • 30 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

context of the health-care industry drew instant attention. Preventable medical errors resulting in injury cost the industry somewhere between $9 billion and $15 billion a year, the report stated. Even more... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 18 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing After the Recession

the result will be continuing downward pressure on prices. Economic recovery will not allow producers to let up on tightening cost controls and improving productivity. Know your lead indicators. Every good... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail
  • 12 Feb 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

harmed in their ability to be successful in the course. They live through that, and we have students who say they remember it vividly even a few years later." Experiencing that pain in the classroom can't be fun, but upTick does give... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education
  • 05 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 5, 2016

high-quality output. To evaluate this tradeoff, I develop a procedure to estimate agents' effort costs and simulate counterfactuals under alternative feedback policies. The results suggest that feedback on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 13, 2007

minds to wander were correlated with activity in this network. The Persistence of Inflation versus that of Real Marginal Cost in the New Keynesian Model Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Periodical:Journal of Money, Credit, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-067.pdf Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences Author: Hanna W. Halaburda Abstract This paper investigates the causes and welfare View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

delivering the goods and services to our customers more effectively than our competitors. Once we decided it was strategic, we had to fix it or suffer the consequences; and no one was willing to suffer the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader
  • 24 Jul 2019
  • Lessons from the Classroom

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

still a lot more to do. Gerdeman: Where does the research go from here? Luca: As a field, we need to learn more about where and when behavioral economics is most effective, and what are the limitations View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • August 2009 (Revised January 2012)
  • Supplement

Pandora: Royalties Kill the Web Radio Star? (B)

By: Robert C. Pozen and Alex Curtis Rosenfeld
Keywords: Cost; Government Legislation; Strategy; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

appearance of prejudice during social interaction is to avoid talking about race, or even acknowledging racial difference. Four experiments involving a dyadic task investigated antecedents and consequences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

by companies to reduce the threat of politically slanted negative press, focusing on FNC and the 2000 presidential election. "Depending on what the media reports on, it can actually create reputational View Details
Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

key performance variables (sales growth, profit margins, working capital turnover and long-term asset turnover) as well as financial leverage and cost of capital. Users can... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA

virtual platform, says Brook Dennard Rosser, assistant director of diversity recruitment, eliminated some of the barriers associated with taking time off, as well as travel and other costs associated with... View Details
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

Internalization of advertising services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated and varies widely across industries. To explain this variation, we draw on concepts from research on scale economies View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

by Beijing is unlikely to suffice. Product Positioning in a Two-Dimensional Vertical Differentiation Model: The Role of Quality Costs Authors: Dominique Lauga and Elie Ofek Publication: Marketing Science... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs

resources in creating these environments. And in many that do, only some managers make an effort to be inclusive. The consequence of that is when these managers leave, the female-friendly environments... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 20 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Misgovernance at the World Bank

According to the study, each developing country on the intergovernmental aid organization's Board of Executive Directors receives a significant boost in loans and grants—effectively a doubling of their funding, equivalent to a $60 million... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 17, 2015

evolving structure of corporate debt markets—and given rise to new questions about the private and social costs and benefits of leverage and, in particular, the role of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge depending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

evolving in this area? A: Yes, they are, and that is not necessarily a good thing. Financial accountability is an important characteristic of high-performing nonprofits, to be sure. But an undue focus on narrowly defined financial... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne