Skip to Main Content
HBS Home
  • About
  • Academic Programs
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Research
  • Baker Library
  • Giving
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Initiatives
  • News
  • Recruit
  • Map / Directions
Faculty & Research
  • Faculty
  • Research
  • Featured Topics
  • Academic Units
  • …→
  • Harvard Business School→
  • Faculty & Research→
  • Research
    • Research
    • Publications
    • Global Research Centers
    • Case Development
    • Initiatives & Projects
    • Research Services
    • Seminars & Conferences
    →
  • Publications→

Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (2,729) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (2,729) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (4,672)
    • People  (11)
    • News  (1,031)
    • Research  (2,729)
    • Events  (24)
    • Multimedia  (60)
  • Faculty Publications  (1,613)

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (4,672)
    • People  (11)
    • News  (1,031)
    • Research  (2,729)
    • Events  (24)
    • Multimedia  (60)
  • Faculty Publications  (1,613)
← Page 3 of 2,729 Results →
Sort by

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web
  • 24 Feb 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood & Samuel G. Hanson
  • July 2023
  • Article

Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
Do productivity and managerial quality vary within the firm? If so which managerial traits and practices matter most for team productivity? Combining granular garment production data with survey data on managers across 120 production lines in India, we document... View Details
Keywords: Productivity; Non-cognitive Skills; Learning By Doing; Ready-made Garments; Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Performance Productivity; Fashion Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
Citation
Find at Harvard
Read Now
Related
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo. "Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics." Review of Economic Studies 90, no. 4 (July 2023): 1569–1607.
  • Article

Corporate Change and Quality

By: Michael Beer
Citation
Related
Beer, Michael. "Corporate Change and Quality." Quality Progress 21, no. 2 (February 1988): 33–36.
  • January 2013 (Revised August 2013)
  • Case

First Solar: CFRA's Accounting Quality Concerns

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Ian McKown Cornell
The case relates to accounting quality analysis conducted by the leading research firm Center for Financial Research and Analysis (CFRA) on companies in the solar industry with a focus on First Solar Inc. In 2009, CFRA was concerned that First Solar, like much of the... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Accounting Quality; Financial Accounting; Financial Statement Analysis; Accounting Fraud; Accounting Red Flags; Accounting Scandal; Risk and Uncertainty; Quality; Earnings Management; Valuation; Crime and Corruption; Financial Statements; Energy Sources; Green Technology Industry; Accounting Industry; Energy Industry
Citation
Educators
Purchase
Related
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Ian McKown Cornell. "First Solar: CFRA's Accounting Quality Concerns." Harvard Business School Case 113-044, January 2013. (Revised August 2013.)
  • 26 Apr 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Assessing the Quality of Quality Assessment: The Role of Scheduling

Keywords: by Maria Ibanez and Michael W. Toffel; Service; Food & Beverage
  • May 18, 2012
  • Article

Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss

By: David I Levine, Michael W. Toffel and Matthew S. Johnson
Controversy surrounds occupational health and safety regulators, with some observers claiming that workplace regulations damage firms' competitiveness and destroy jobs and others arguing that they make workplaces safer at little cost to employers and employees. We... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Occupational Safety; Evaluation; Regression; Matching; Difference In Differences; Safety; Health; Working Conditions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Advantage; Performance; Manufacturing Industry; California
Citation
Find at Harvard
Read Now
Purchase
Related
Levine, David I., Michael W. Toffel, and Matthew S. Johnson. "Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss." Science 336, no. 6083 (May 18, 2012): 907–911. (Online supplement (appendix). Featured in an article by the head of US OSHA, and in U.S. News & World Report and many other news outlets. Basis of U.S. Congressional testimony on promoting safe workplaces.)
  • November 2020 (Revised June 2022)
  • Case

Community-First Public Safety

By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
How many police officer positions to fund? In August 2020, the question facing St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, which might have seemed routine to another mayor at another time in another place, was anything but. A pandemic had rendered the city some $19-$34 million short... View Details
Keywords: Race; Law Enforcement; Governance; Decision Making; Safety; Social Issues; Public Administration Industry; United States; Minnesota; Saint Paul
Citation
Educators
Purchase
Related
Weiss, Mitchell B., and Sarah Mehta. "Community-First Public Safety." Harvard Business School Case 821-005, November 2020. (Revised June 2022.)
  • Research Summary

Financial reporting quality and its consequences

Does reporting quality have real economic consequences? Professor Yu addresses this question in her research, which examines the channels through which reporting quality affects the behavior of economic agents, namely managers and investors. Her particular focus is... View Details

  • January 1978 (Revised March 1988)
  • Background Note

Quality of Earnings

By: David F. Hawkins
Presents a discussion of earnings quality --characteristics, relationship to earnings multiple, application and measurement, volatility and risk, as they affect earnings quality. View Details
Keywords: Quality; Business Earnings
Citation
Educators
Purchase
Related
Hawkins, David F. "Quality of Earnings." Harvard Business School Background Note 178-126, January 1978. (Revised March 1988.)
  • May 16, 2016
  • Article

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

By: Dina Gerdeman and John A. Quelch
Chipotle Mexican Grill’s ongoing struggle to win customers back months after a contaminated food crisis highlights the challenges companies face with keeping food safe.

Chipotle has seen its shares tumble and recently reported its first-ever quarterly loss... View Details
Keywords: Food Safety; Organic Food; Supply Chain Management; Globalization Of Food Business; Mérieux NutriSciences: Marketing Food Safety Testing; Food Safety Modernization Act 2011; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Transition; Economic Systems; Food; Health; Supply and Industry; Logistics; Practice; Problems and Challenges; Quality; Safety; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Insurance Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Relations Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Mexico; North America; United States; Canada
Citation
Read Now
Related
Gerdeman, Dina, and John A. Quelch. "Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 16, 2016).
  • October 1991 (Revised January 2000)
  • Case

Workplace Safety at Alcoa (A)

By: Kim B. Clark and Joshua D. Margolis
Examines the challenge facing the managers of a large aluminum manufacturing plant in its drive to improve workplace safety. The CEO of the company has made safety a top priority. The plant has made good progress in reducing the injury rate, but now confronts the need... View Details
Keywords: Working Conditions; Safety; Problems and Challenges; Change Management; Operations; Resignation and Termination; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Manufacturing Industry; United States
Citation
Educators
Purchase
Related
Clark, Kim B., and Joshua D. Margolis. "Workplace Safety at Alcoa (A)." Harvard Business School Case 692-042, October 1991. (Revised January 2000.)
  • May–June 2025
  • Article

Balancing Digital Safety and Innovation

By: Tomomichi Amano and Tomomi Tanaka
Designers of consumer-facing digital products have tended to focus on novelty and speed (“move fast and break things”). They’ve spent more effort on innovating than on anticipating how customers—and bad actors—might engage with products. But as digital products become... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Cybersecurity; Demand and Consumers; Safety
Citation
Find at Harvard
Register to Read
Purchase
Related
Amano, Tomomichi, and Tomomi Tanaka. "Balancing Digital Safety and Innovation." Harvard Business Review 103, no. 3 (May–June 2025): 120–127.
  • 13 Feb 2024
  • Cold Call Podcast

Apple’s Dilemma: Balancing Privacy and Safety Responsibilities

Keywords: Re: Nien-he Hsieh & Henry W. McGee
  • Article

Internal Deadlines, Drug Approvals, and Safety Problems

By: Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun and Danielle Li
Absent explicit quotas, incentives, reporting, or fiscal year-end motives, drug approvals around the world surge in December, at month-ends, and before respective major national holidays. Drugs approved before these informal deadlines are associated with significantly... View Details
Keywords: Health; Economics; Government and Politics; Innovation and Invention; Research; Science; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
Citation
SSRN
Find at Harvard
Related
Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Danielle Li. "Internal Deadlines, Drug Approvals, and Safety Problems." American Economic Review: Insights 3, no. 1 (March 2021): 67–82.
  • Article

Price and Quality Decisions by Self-Serving Managers

By: Marco Bertini, Daniel Halbheer and Oded Koenigsberg
We present a theory of price and quality decisions by managers who are self-serving. In the theory, firms stress the price or quality of their products, but not both. Accounting for this, managers exploit any uncertainty about the cause of market outcomes to credit... View Details
Keywords: Causal Reasoning; Self-serving Bias; Strategic Orientation; Managerial Decision-making; Price; Quality; Decision Making; Theory
Citation
Find at Harvard
Related
Bertini, Marco, Daniel Halbheer, and Oded Koenigsberg. "Price and Quality Decisions by Self-Serving Managers." International Journal of Research in Marketing 37, no. 2 (June 2020): 236–257.
  • 2018
  • Chapter

The Strategic Imperative of Psychological Safety and Organizational Error Management

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Paul Verdin
Despite discussion in the management literature about agile organizations or learning organizations, many large organizations are top-down, slow to change, and fraught with obstacles to learning. We describe “strategy-as-learning” to contrast with the traditional... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Learning; Safety; Organizational Culture; Performance Consistency
Citation
Find at Harvard
Purchase
Related
Edmondson, Amy C., and Paul Verdin. "The Strategic Imperative of Psychological Safety and Organizational Error Management." In How Could this Happen? Managing Errors in Organizations, edited by Jan U. Hagen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  • October 1992 (Revised December 1997)
  • Case

Sterling Chemicals, Inc.: Quality and Productivity Improvement Program

Describes the design and implemenation of a quality improvement program. Sterling Chemical's management hoped the program would improve teamwork and productivity at the plant. View Details
Keywords: Quality; Groups and Teams; Performance Productivity; Performance Improvement; Chemical Industry
Citation
Educators
Purchase
Related
Wruck, Karen. "Sterling Chemicals, Inc.: Quality and Productivity Improvement Program." Harvard Business School Case 493-026, October 1992. (Revised December 1997.)
  • December 1999 (Revised March 2000)
  • Case

Workplace Safety at Alcoa (B)

At the May 1996 annual shareholders meeting, Alcoa CEO Paul O'Neill reported that Alcoa was making great progress toward becoming a world-class leader, both in terms of workplace safety and profitability. This validated of O'Neill's decade-long emphasis on safety as... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Working Conditions; Quality; Cost; Profit; Management Systems
Citation
Educators
Purchase
Related
Spear, Steven J. "Workplace Safety at Alcoa (B)." Harvard Business School Case 600-068, December 1999. (Revised March 2000.)
  • March–April 2013
  • Article

Expected Firm Altruism, Quality Provision, and Brand Extensions

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
A setting is considered where consumers keep track of the extent to which brands care about them, which is modeled as altruism of brands towards their target consumers. Consumers who purchase an experience good of high quality reasonably deduce that the supplier of... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Quality; Consumer Behavior; Attitudes; Brands and Branding
Citation
Find at Harvard
Related
Rotemberg, Julio J. "Expected Firm Altruism, Quality Provision, and Brand Extensions." Marketing Science 32, no. 2 (March–April 2013): 325–341.
  • August 1995
  • Case

Quality Printing

By: Charles Christenson, Elon Kohlberg, Arthur Schleifer Jr., Harborne W. Stuart Jr., Paul A. Vatter and George Wu
Keywords: Publishing Industry
Citation
Find at Harvard
Related
Christenson, Charles, Elon Kohlberg, Arthur Schleifer Jr., Harborne W. Stuart Jr., Paul A. Vatter, and George Wu. "Quality Printing." Harvard Business School Case 896-002, August 1995.
  • ←
  • 3
  • 4
  • …
  • 136
  • 137
  • →

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web
ǁ
Campus Map
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
→Map & Directions
→More Contact Information
  • Make a Gift
  • Site Map
  • Jobs
  • Harvard University
  • Trademarks
  • Policies
  • Accessibility
  • Digital Accessibility
Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College.