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  • 21 Feb 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Developing the Guts of a GUT (Grand Unified Theory): Elite Commitment and Inclusive Growth

Keywords: by Lant Pritchett & Eric D. Werker
  • January 2, 2020
  • Article

Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions

By: Nancy Dean Beaulieu, Leemore S. Dafny, B. E. Landon, Jesse Dalton, Ifedayo Kuye and J. Michael McWilliams
Background: The hospital industry has consolidated substantially during the past two decades and at an accelerated pace since 2010. Multiple studies have shown that hospital mergers have led to higher prices for commercially insured patients, but research about effects... View Details
Keywords: Hospitals; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Care and Treatment; Quality
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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions The Challenge of Color James N. Doolittle. Illustration for Chevrolet, ca. 1934.... View Details
  • Web

Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

The power of the patient Patients like my mother have become the pioneers of change for rare diseases, advocating for themselves and educating their physicians in real time. Patient advocacy organizations and disease-focused, nonprofit, View Details
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

catalyze collaboration between HBS and SEAS as Harvard’s Allston campus evolves into an epicenter of research and innovation. A Focus on Education Education has been at the heart of Nunnelly’s and Dupré’s philanthropic efforts and... View Details
  • March 2018 (Revised September 2023)
  • Case

X: The Foghorn Decision

By: Robert S. Huckman, Karim R. Lakhani and Kyle R. Myers
In February 2016, Kathy Hannun—a project leader at X, Alphabet Inc.'s so-called "moonshot factory"—had to prepare a recommendation for the senior leadership of X regarding the future of Foghorn, a project she was leading to develop a carbon-neutral process for... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; R＆D Project Management; Radical Innovation; Clean Technology; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Energy; Research and Development; Projects; Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Technology Industry; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; California
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  • 06 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit

Focusing on retaining higher-spending customers, even if they aren’t as likely to leave, can increase the total profit a company can reap. As their research evolved, Gupta and Lemmens expanded this idea with another factor: which... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Financial Services
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

to exit direct stockholding if their stock portfolios have performed well; but these relationships are much weaker for mutual funds, a pattern which is consistent with previous research on the disposition effect among direct stockholders... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

how emotions influence how we think and interact with others, particularly in the workplace. An award-winning teacher, Alison’s new MBA course, “How to talk gooder in business and life,” will debut in spring 2020. In addition to her scholarly work, she has designed... View Details
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

  • 30 Apr 2020
  • Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy
  • 2012
  • Article

Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank

By: B. Staats and F. Gino
Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition... View Details
Keywords: Motivation; Productivity; Specialization; Variety; Work Fragmentation; Boundaries; Performance Productivity; Organizations; Research; Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Opportunities; Market Transactions; Resource Allocation; Performance; Goals and Objectives; Learning
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From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni

interested in contributing to, create your target list of organizations and do substantial research on each to understand their strategic initiatives and their competition. Then build connections with board members at those companies and... View Details
  • September 1986 (Revised February 1990)
  • Background Note

A Note on Quality: The Views of Deming, Juran, and Crosby

By: David A. Garvin
Describes the three distinct approaches to quality management represented by W. Edwards Deming, Joseph Juran, and Philip B. Crosby. Designed to introduce students to the elements of statistical quality control, structured approaches to quality improvement, and zero... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Performance Improvement; Mathematical Methods
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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy... View Details
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

footnotes. Our study is motivated by standard-setting interest in performance reporting and financial statement presentation, as well as prior research investigating managers' presentation choices in other contexts. Using different... View Details
  • 02 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • September–October 2021
  • Article

Frontiers: Can an AI Algorithm Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality? An Analysis in the Context of Airbnb

By: Shunyuan Zhang, Nitin Mehta, Param Singh and Kannan Srinivasan
We study the effect of Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm on the racial disparity in the daily revenue earned by Airbnb hosts. Our empirical strategy exploits Airbnb’s introduction of the algorithm and its voluntary adoption by hosts as a quasi-natural experiment. Among... View Details
Keywords: Smart Pricing; Pricing Algorithm; Machine Bias; Discrimination; Racial Disparity; Social Inequality; Airbnb Revenue; Revenue; Race; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Price; Mathematical Methods; Accommodations Industry
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  • 06 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

be handled in a way that allows for the emotional cauldron that people experience when they are the ones who actually carry out these tasks. According to research by Joshua D. Margolis of HBS and Andrew Molinsky of Brandeis, the emotions... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2017
  • News

David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1953 Born, Washington, DC 1975 Earns BA, Economics and History, Swarthmore College 1977 Earns MBA 1977 Receives Fulbright Scholarship to the Philippines 1979 Founds Research Counsel,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young