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- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
Tata & Sons helped revolutionize business practices in India. From instituting the eight-hour work day and paid leave to providing a retirement gratuity, Tata's policies created a standard to which other companies—and eventually... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
First, in the case of the core and largest sector, Advertising Agencies, firm-level concentration as measured by Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) increased slightly but remained relatively low from 1977-2002. All of the HHI estimates readily satisfied the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
the organizations they studied responded to their post-reform competitive environments in roughly four stages: Stage I: Turnaround and Catch-up. Recognizing that their efficiency and quality levels were far below those of world-class... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
Links" or "Advertisements"?: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines Authors: Benjamin Edelman and Duncan S. Gilchrist Abstract In an online experiment, we measure users' interactions with search engines, both in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Kraft Accelerator
medicine’s biggest challenges, but only when we have all the pieces. The problem is that most organizations keep their data cordoned off. By aggregating and standardizing data, we can help accelerate clinical trials and impact clinical... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
Remember that integrity counts. Make your ethical standards visible and consistent throughout your career." CURRENT READING Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow As U.S. Secretary of Commerce in 1992, Barbara Franklin reestablished... View Details
- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
Summer has always been a time to take a breath and slow down. Now that the United States is entering a post-pandemic phase, we have yet another reason to take things a bit slower and stop obsessing about efficiency and speed. One of my... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
impacts. Seeing an opportunity in the vast amount of waste within the food system, Imperfect Foods began purchasing “number twos” directly from farmers in California’s Central Valley in 2015. Those are the slightly lumpy tomatoes or twisted carrots that don’t meet the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
Refined metals like gold and silver have a standard quality and are priced on global exchanges like the London Metal Exchange. But concentrates vary widely in terms of quality—some rocks have more copper than others, some come with... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
industrial firm Ellaktor and Standard and Poor's shows. With the venture capital industry being underdeveloped, Greek entrepreneurs were also excluded from financing. (See here my view on increasing innovation capacity in Greece.) But... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
Buildings By: Herron, J., Amy C. Edmondson, and Robert G. Eccles, Jr. Abstract—Buildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energy is used for heating, cooling, lighting,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of wrongful-discharge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
Uzbek energy and gas to India in particular. So, how can a job-creating infrastructure be created efficiently to reverse the country's precipitous decline? First, leverage existing successes. Roshan, for... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
of the most successful and insightful leaders of our time, the CEOs from companies as diverse as Standard Chartered Bank, Infosys, Nokia, Cummins, IKEA, Tata, and Campbell's Soup. The authors reveal how these leaders from around the world... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
a surcharge for tall ones? The standard Utilitarian framework for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a substantial height tax: a tall person... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
eventually a federation of many specialized companies. As they seldom committed to administrative centralization, their efficiency gain as a business organization remained marginal. The chapter first looks at the appearance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
“Value-stream mapping” in the oncology department standardizes the follow-up process with patients. An improvement strategy called “3P” (production, preparation, process), used to radically redesign space according to workflow, eliminates... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
development, service delivery, and project management. They had only small teams and no P&L responsibility. Their charter was to set standards within their areas and to work with others to bring about necessary improvements. . . . The... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
769-774 Abstract An examination of the role of research in business. The authors argue that scholars producing research in business fields are subject to stricter research standards due to the fact that they must produce work that is both... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace