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    Himabindu Lakkaraju

    Himabindu "Hima" Lakkaraju is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She is also a faculty affiliate in the Department of Computer Science at Harvard University, the Harvard Data Science Initiative, Center for Research on... View Details

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    Managing sustainability in supply chains

    By: Michael W. Toffel
    I am examining codes of conduct, management process standards, and government voluntary programs that address environmental and labor issues, seeking to understand what enables some of these programs to actually deliver on their promise of distinguishing organizations... View Details
    Keywords: Environment; Environmental Performance; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Strategy; Regulation; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Service Industry; Construction Industry; United States; California
    • 09 Sep 2014
    • News

    U.S. firms globally competitive, U.S. workers aren’t: Harvard Biz

    • 16 Mar 2009
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    Running Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What To Do About It

    Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman; Computer; Communications; Telecommunications
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    Social Choice and Voting Rules

    By: Jerry R. Green

    This research program is based on the idea that good voting systems should take into account the frequency with which different choice problems arise. Traditional social choice theory requires properties over a fixed domain of choice problems but does not offer the... View Details

      Robert Simons

      Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2024/25, he is teaching a... View Details

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      Entrepreneurial Finance and International R&D Management

      Walter Kuemmerle's research and teaching interests fall within the domain of knowledge and capital management in a global economy. His research focuses on international entrepreneurship and venture capital. He studies venture capital systems and entrepreneurship in... View Details

        Christina M. Wallace

        A self-described “human Venn diagram” Christina Wallace has crafted a career at the intersection of business, technology, and the arts. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business... View Details

        Keywords: arts; venture capital industry; consumer products; service industry; internet
        • March 2011 (Revised April 2021)
        • Case

        The Whiz Kids

        By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
        In October 1945, Henry Ford II received a telegram in his office at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan written by Charles "Tex" Thornton, a U.S. Air Force colonel. The telegram presented an opportunity for Ford to deploy a system of statistical control which... View Details
        Keywords: Ford Motor Company; Statistical Control; Management Systems; Accounting; Operations; Strategy; Mathematical Methods; Auto Industry; United States
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        • July 2014
        • Article

        Accounting for Crises

        By: Venky Nagar and Gwen Yu
        We provide among the first empirical evidence consistent with recent macro global-game crisis models, which show that the precision of public signals can coordinate crises (e.g., Angeletos and Werning, 2006; Morris and Shin, 2002, 2003). In these models,... View Details
        Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Mathematical Methods; Game Theory; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Accounting; Financial Crisis
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        • 12 Aug 2020
        • Research & Ideas

        Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

        rulings, allowing them to eliminate arbitrators that might sympathize with customers. However, many consumers “have no idea who these arbitrators are. They’re just names on a list,” Egan says. “But the firms know each one of these... View Details
        Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
        • February 1991 (Revised February 1992)
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        Appex Corp.

        By: Nitin Nohria
        1990 Business Week named Appex Corp. the fastest growing high-technology company in the United States. Appex provided management information systems and intercarrier network services to cellular telephone companies. During its rapid growth, the company went through... View Details
        Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Culture; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Performance Productivity; Problems and Challenges; Management Practices and Processes; Business Divisions; Information Management; Information Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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        • 2017
        • Chapter

        Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment: Building Research Through Tensions and Paradox

        By: P. Devereaux Jennings and Andrew J. Hoffman
        The focus of institutional theory is directed towards an understanding of situations where context is strong and binding, yet subtly experienced; where agency is often diffuse, embodied in an arrangement or system of actors rather than in an individual; and where... View Details
        Keywords: Institutional Theory; Natural Environment; Research
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          Linda A. Hill

          Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. Hill is... View Details

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          Stability and Competitive Equilibrium in Trading Networks

          By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky and Alexander Westkamp
          We introduce a model in which agents in a network can trade via bilateral contracts. We find that when continuous transfers are allowed and utilities are quasi-linear, the full substitutability of preferences is sufficient to guarantee the existence of stable outcomes... View Details
          Keywords: Balance and Stability; Markets
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          • 29 May 2006
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          How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?

          system of laws and regulations that provide more latitude to large organizations in their dealings with employees, customers, suppliers, and competitors. In recent years, questions have been raised about whether those laws and regulations... View Details
          Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

            Jan W. Rivkin

            Jan W. Rivkin is a Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. In the past, he has served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and head of the Strategy Unit. His research, course development, and teaching focus on... View Details

            Keywords: airline; computer; internet; music; transportation

              Henry W. McGee

              Henry McGee joined the HBS faculty in 2013 after retiring as President of HBO Home Entertainment, the digital and DVD program distribution division of Home Box Office, the pioneering premium television company. A member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit,... View Details

              Keywords: television; motion pictures; media; e-commerce industry; entertainment; broadcasting; distribution; health care; journalism; wholesale; arts; nonprofit industry
              • 02 Mar 2015
              • Research & Ideas

              ‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

              arrived at this point in part due to the recession when many retailers reduced headcounts as customers focused more on price and less on service, but also as a result of long-term initiatives like self checkout, which eliminated many cashier positions; inventory,... View Details
              Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail
              • 20 Nov 2006
              • Research & Ideas

              Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

              scientific and technological activities. And the benefit of opening up your problems to outsiders is that in fact you can get novel solutions—quicker solutions than what the firm or R&D lab might develop. It also opens up new domains... View Details
              Keywords: by Martha Lagace