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Time-driven Activity-based Costing of Multivessel Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting across National Boundaries to Identify Improvement Opportunities: Study Protocol

By: F. Erhun, B. Mistry, T. Platcheck, A. Milstein, V.G. Narayanan and R. S. Kaplan
Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is a common treatment for coronary artery disease—a disease that affects over 10% of US adults and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. In 2005, the mean cost for a CABG procedure among Medicare beneficiaries in the... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; United States; India
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  • 06 Sep 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?

2017. Steve Lohr and Landon Thomas, Jr., The Case Some Executives Made for Sticking With Trump, The New York Times, August 18, 2017, pp. B1-B2. Merck’s Code of Conduct, Merck.com, accessed August 25, 2017. View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • December 2015
  • Article

On Wealth and the Diversity of Friendships: High Social Class People around the World Have Fewer International Friends

By: Maurice H. Yearwood, Amy Cuddy, Nishtha Lambaa, Wu Youyoua, Ilmo van der Lowe, Paul K. Piff, Charles Gronin, Pete Fleming, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Dacher Keltner and Aleksandr Spectre
Having international social ties carries many potential advantages, including access to novel ideas and greater commercial opportunities. Yet little is known about who forms more international friendships. Here, we propose social class plays a key role in determining... View Details
Keywords: Friendships; Social Class; Internationalism; Wealth; Relationships; Globalization
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  • 03 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

If the user makes a purchase, the affiliate is credited. Loyalty programs: Code inserted surreptitiously on a computer sends the user through an affiliate link when the user attempts to visit a merchant directly. Best case, the user... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing
  • 20 Aug 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Decision-Making Perspective to Negotiation: A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future

Keywords: by Chia-Jung Tsay & Max H. Bazerman
  • November 2004
  • Case

The Electronic Product Code: Future Impact on the Global Food System

By: Ray A. Goldberg and James Weber
The Electronic Product Code (EPC) is a successor to the Uniform Product Code and will improve the efficiency and traceability of the global food system. This case focuses on how best to implement this new system and respect the privacy of the ultimate consumer, and the... View Details
Keywords: Information; Rights; Ethics; Consumer Behavior; Management Systems; Technology Adoption; Innovation and Invention; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Social Influence in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Community Establishments’ Closure Decisions Follow Those of Nearby Chain Establishments

By: Abhishek Nagaraj, Mathijs de Vaan, Saqib Mumtaz and Sameer Srivastava
As conveners that bring various stakeholders into the same physical space, firms can powerfully influence the course of pandemics such as COVID-19. Even when operating under government orders and health guidelines, firms have considerable discretion to keep their... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Peer Influence; Closure Decisions; Health Pandemics; Business Ventures; Decisions; Business and Community Relations
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  • 28 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

establishments would go under. “We see that lower-rated restaurants generally go out of business at higher rates, so they already tend to be living closer to the edge,” says Michael Luca, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 23 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity

that a downsizing of such magnitude could have a very negative impact on the firm's creative environment, Amabile and Conti obtained the company's permission to conduct three more waves View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • Web

Monitoring CPU usage of your jobs on the HBSGrid - Research Computing Services

Technical How-To’s & Notes Technical How-To’s & Notes Monitoring CPU usage of your jobs on the HBSGrid There are two ways to monitor your running job: Run unix command top on the compute node where your job is executing, or Query LSF via... View Details
  • 12 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

not, multinational brands have taken up the mantle of responsibility, establishing codes of conduct that their suppliers are—theoretically at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work

large whiteboard to enable the discussions to mimic those conducted at HBS. By all accounts, the hard work of the organizers paid off. "I congratulate the HBS alumni in Ireland on a very successful program.... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

The Cole Room: A Wealth of Resources for Job-Seekers

The Cole Room in Baker Library offers an extensive range of useful information for alumni conducting a job search. Resources include a database of more than twenty thousand... View Details
  • 19 Jul 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic (In)Congruence in the Helping Process within Organizations

Keywords: by Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer & Teresa M. Amabile
  • 03 May 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, 1880-1930

Keywords: by Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger & Se Yan
  • Web

1.15 Official Transcripts / Certificates of Attendance | MBA

(e.g., a violation of the Honor Code or Community Values), if applicable. Transcripts are issued by the Registrar’s Office to verified requesters upon receipt of a Transcript... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

including Augustine Heard & Co. Thomas Hunt & Co. papers include accounts current, bills, account stock and deliveries, invoice books, day books, sales, and letters sent, illustrating the brisk level of business View Details
  • 21 May 2018
  • HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

case exhibit. "We looked at the diameters, and then we actually measured the size of four pictures, and we noticed that the relative sizes of the pictures don’t match the relative size View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion
  • 10 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

in applications, although just how many students shy away from applying depends largely on how widely the incident is reported in the media. The June research paper The Impact of Campus Scandals on College Applications shows that a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
  • 30 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

selective anecdotal evidence to pose a question. After all, John Doerr is a graduate of Harvard Business School. But think about it. The Silicon Valley and its neighbor to the north Seattle have influenced management and the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education