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2010
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Crime Distribution and Victim Behavior during a Crime Wave

By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky

The study of how crime affects different income groups faces the difficulty that crime-avoiding activities vary across these groups. Thus, a lower victimization rate in one group may not reflect a lower burden of crime, but rather a higher investment in crime... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Wealth and Poverty; Selection and Staffing; Crime and Corruption; Income; Leading Change; Information Management; Argentina

March–April 2017
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Sink or Swim: The Role of Workplace Context in Shaping Career Advancement and Human-Capital Development

By: Shinjinee Chattopadhyay and Prithwiraj Choudhury

We develop and test predictions on how early-career challenges arising from the workplace context affect short- and long-term career advancement of individuals. Typically an organization’s decision to deploy a manager to one of several possible contexts is endogenous... View Details

Keywords: Workplace Context; Career Advancement; Context; Situation or Environment; Human Capital; Personal Development and Career; Performance

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

Thomas Keller, whose restaurant group includes the French Laundry in Napa Valley and Per Se in Manhattan, employed 1,200 staff in his 13 restaurants, but by mid-March staffing was reduced to 18 employees... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Customize your curriculum Access a select network of like-minded leaders Experience exclusive course content Gain real-world insights from business experts Apply your learning through a capstone 7 Courses Credential of Leadership, Impact,... View Details

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Business ownership: by gender, race and ethnicity

Where can I find data on U.S. businesses by gender, race, and ethnicity? U.S. Census Bureau: The Survey of Business Owners (SBO) provides the only comprehensive, regularly collected source of information on View Details

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Stock Pitching: company, industry and market research

a database that provides research reports on industries in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and China. Industry risk reports are available. View Details

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities. Answering Your... View Details

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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Unfortunately, Michael Porter no longer advises PhD students. Please go to HBS Doctoral for more information about the program and advising. How can I schedule a meeting or interview with Michael Porter? At this time Professor Porter is... View Details

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

engaging 2,500 commentators, ultimately selecting four finalists who will benefit from an advisory network of health care industry leaders (including many HBS alumni), be the subject of a teaching case, and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

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Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

excellence in playing the roles described for them. Select plans and plan administrators based on health results, not administrative convenience Align interests by encouraging long-term relationships between... View Details

19 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

The News Corporation/News of the World scandal has been described as a case study in bad management. What was there about the company's organizational culture that led to "Murdoch's Mess"? Professor Michel Anteby, who studies how meaning is built at work... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing

01 Dec 2016
News

HBS Alumni Contribute to Business and Society

and social impact of alumni founder activity, board service, and volunteerism. Here is a selection of results for HBS alumni. Entrepreneurship *In addition to the annual... View Details

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Neither a Bazaar nor a Cathedral: The Interplay between Structure and Agency in Wikipedia's Role System.

By: Ofer Arazy, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf and Adam Balila

Roles provide a key coordination mechanism in peer-production. Whereas one stream in the literature has focused on the structural responsibilities associated with roles, the another has stressed the emergent nature of work. To date, these streams have proceeded largely... View Details

Keywords: Wikipedia; Knowledge Work; Organizational Structure; Knowledge; Information Publishing

July–August 2019
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Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of Internal Structural Conditions

By: Yanhua Bird, Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel

Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor practices to the standards set forth in those codes. Yet little is known about whether organizational structures such as codes... View Details

Keywords: Organization Theory; Economic Sociology; Social Responsibility; Sustainability; Auditing; Process Improvement; Organizational Structure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Supply Chain; Labor; Working Conditions

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

begins locally with involved providers in a non-judgmental manner. Over time, reporting can be expanded to other providers and payers. Public reporting can lead to informed patient and payer choice in the... View Details

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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

to cover; the patient population to be included; any exclusion criteria. Q: What is the best method for selecting a medical condition? A: When selecting a medical condition to examine via TDABC, the primary... View Details

2016
Working Paper

Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

By: Gary P. Pisano

The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971), attempts to... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Advantage

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