by Thomas K. McCraw - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Research - Global

625-003. New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. It was an opportunity for GM to learn about the Toyota Production System, which was quite different from the mass production... January 2025 Case View Details

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

established by Katelin “Katie” K. Bramley (MBA 1993) and Donald “Don” G. Bramley (MBA 1993) in honor of their 30th Reunion to support students who have experienced homelessness or the foster care system. Don... View Details

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

treatment;... 01 Jan 2021 Integrated Practice Units: A Playbook for Health Care Leaders by Michael E. Porter, PhD, MBA, Thomas H. Lee, MD, MSc The playbook for assembling and integrating a successful... View Details

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

Building on the Legacy Thought Leadership Andrew F. Brimmer James I. Cash Jr. Linda A. Hill David A. Thomas HBS Faculty Members HBS Doctoral Students Alumni Profiles Research Links Essay on HBS Thought Leadership Early AASU documents... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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New HBS Fund Chairs Take the Helm

Courtesy Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Courtesy Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson (both MBA 1988) became chairs of... View Details

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Student Research - Doctoral

Nancy D. Beaulieu, Jason D. Buxbaum, David Cutler, JoAnna K. Leyenaar, Sarah C. McBride, Olivia Zhao and Alyna T. Chien OBJECTIVES: This paper provides an examination of: (1) the frequency and net rates of change for general pediatric... View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

that implicitly activating the construct of time, rather than money, leads individuals to behave more ethically by cheating less. We further found that priming time reduces cheating by making people reflect... View Details

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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

481. Thomas K. McCraw, "American Capitalism" in Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions , ed. Thomas... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

Faculty Brian K. Baik Accounting & Management Sebastian Hillenbrand Finance Ebehi Iyoha Entrepreneurial Management Elisabeth Kempf Finance Jacqueline Ng Lane Technology & Operations Management Joseph Pacelli Accounting & Management... View Details

22 Jun 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation

Thomas Steenburgh and Doug J. Chung and K. Sudhir of the Yale School of Management. Can Companies Inspire Heroism In Employees? HBS Cases: Terror at the Taj Under terrorist attack, employees of the Taj Mahal... View Details

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Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

American Heart Journal Are Cost Advantages from a Modern Indian Hospital Transferable to the United States? by R. S. Kaplan, F. Erhun, V.G. Narayanan, B. Mistry and K. Brayton, et al We use time-driven... View Details

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Events - Business History

insight that interdisciplinary dialogue is necessary to understand the complexities of modern regulatory policy. The conference built on the HBS tradition that McCraw helped establish by bringing together... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund

TOMMY, JULIE, AND BILLY FRIST: New fund supports fellowships and innovation in financial aid. Photo Courtesy Frist family Financial aid at HBS has received a $10 million boost, thanks to a $9 million gift from the Thomas F. Frist Jr.... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Intangibles, Intellectual Capital, and Sustainability by the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management at the 2022 EIASM Interdisciplinary Conference for “Regulated Human Capital Disclosures” with View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

Indeed, Chandler concluded, by the mid-2oth century, the multiunit, multifunctional enterprise administered by salaried managers had become the “most powerful institution in the American economy.” In his... View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Fellow by the American Marketing Association in 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023. Eva Ascarza : Selected as an INFORMS Doctoral Consortium Fellow at the University of Miami in 2023. Eva Ascarza : Winner of the 2023... View Details

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Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs of MRI-Guided Prostate Brachytherapy Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing

By: Nikhil G. Thaker, Rajat J. Kudchadker, James R. Incalcaterra, Tharakeswara K. Bathala, Robert S. Kaplan, Ankit Agarwal, Deborah A. Kuban, Benjamin D. Frank, Prajnan Das, Thomas W. Feeley and Steven J. Frank

Integrated quality improvement (QI) and cost reduction strategies can help increase value in cancer care. We applied standard QI and TDABC methods to improve workflow efficiency and reduce costs for MRI-guided prostate brachytherapy. We constructed process maps,... View Details

Keywords: Brachytherapy; Quality Improvement; Prostate; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Cost Accounting; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Health Industry

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01 Dec 1996
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Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur

symposium will be collected and published at a later date. The following is a list of the papers' authors: Business History Professor Thomas K. McCraw and Assistant Professor... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

10 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 10

recipients' actual trustworthiness. This lax approach gives rise to adverse selection: the sites that seek and obtain trust certifications are actually less trustworthy than others. Using an original dataset on web site safety, I demonstrate that sites certified View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 17

PublicationsAn Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions Authors:Craig J.Chapman, Thomas J. Steenburgh Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract Prior research hypothesizes that managers use "real... View Details