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- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Business as a Force for Good
As director of B Lab, the standards organization for certified B corporations, Kim Riether Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) encourages companies around the world to be a force for good. By promoting policies that benefit their employees, their... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Joy M., Liana Victorino, Ryan W. Buell, Michael J. Dixon, Susan M. Goldstein, Larry J. Menor, Madeleine E. Pullman, Aleda Roth, Enrico Secchi, and Jie Zhang Abstract—The purpose of this article is to present exciting and innovative research questions in service View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
businesspeople were forcefully reminded, yet again, of the ups and downs of the economy. By World War I, there were only about ten forecasting agencies operating in the United States. Professional economists, like Irving Fisher and Warren... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
“Green construction” projects at Hamilton Hall and Sherman Hall/Wyss House that are aiming to garner LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, a voluntary, consensus-based standard for energy-efficient buildings.... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
activities. Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino Periodical:The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract Many companies View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
Standards establishing limits for the six so-called criteria air pollutants: particles (PM2.5 and PM10), lead, ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and carbon monoxide. Many other countries have similar View Details
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U.S. Competitiveness Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the U.S. economy. The Looming Challenge to U.S. Competitiveness In a March 2012 article of the Harvard Business Review , Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin outlined the looming challenge to U.S. competitiveness. The United States is a competitive location to the... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
due to the condition. In addition, 3 percent of Mexicans suffer from glaucoma and 7 percent of diabetics in Mexico are needlessly blind. According to salauno, only 30 percent of the Mexicans who need corrective vision procedures or... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 21 Aug 2008
- News
Stylin’ at Gallatin
percent of the discarded materials were recycled in some way. Three thousands bricks were reused in the renovation. Gallatin is the second residence hall and fifth building on the HBS campus to achieve LEED certification for construction that meets sustainability View Details
- 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18
System Architecture By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterizing the architecture of complex technical systems and demonstrate its application... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard & Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was disrupted, however, by the 2008 global economic recession, an event... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
and accurate commercial data (to facilitate business forecasting, for example), and a skilled workforce with seasoned supervisors. “That mix of factors does not come standard with every country,” Fields notes. As for government’s role in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
to a new working paper coauthored by Lecturer Abigail Allen, the opposite is often true. When the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) proposed stricter public pension accounting standards in 2012,... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
party — a government or an insurance company — not only sets the prices but goes so far as to specify procedures and even the kinds of patients to be covered. Lately, payers are even telling doctors how to practice medicine, and those who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
postdoctoral fellow. Her research focuses on how people can work fruitfully across social divides. Prior to her academic career, Ramarajan worked in international development in West Africa focusing on conflict resolution. Douglas Fearing, an assistant professor in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
company called MinuteClinic, with locations in Minneapolis/St. Paul and Baltimore, operates a number of facilities where a nurse-practitioner or physician’s assistant provides an array of basic medical services, from diagnosing and... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
first clarify, my work does not assess the success or failure of the socialization model described in Manufacturing Morals. I consider myself a process researcher, namely a scholar examining the ways in which human systems operate to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
from company performance as critics imply? Not at all, according to HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch, whose 1998 working paper, "Compensating Corporate CEOs: A Process View," examines the procedures and forces that drive CEO pay packages.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
money in unnecessary admissions and treatments, and save patients from dangerous procedures they may not need." Gilligan is already talking with several hospitals and HMOs to get the service off the ground. Taking a step away from high... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
find another way to scale an assembly-line process? The Answers: Has Walden considered an Amazon approach, with additional procedures for a customer’s second and possibly third choices, in case inventory does not match a customer’s first... View Details