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  • June 2010 (Revised January 2011)
  • Case

Scientific Glass Incorporated: Inventory Management

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and William Schmidt
Scientific Glassware is a fast-growing, privately held company that provides specialized glassware for laboratory and research facilities. Excess inventory is tying up extra capital needed to fund the company's expansion plans. The newly hired Manager of Inventory... View Details
Keywords: Inventory Control; Inventory Management; Materials Management; Order Processing; Warehousing; Salesforce Management; Logistics; Operations; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Finance; Consumer Products Industry; Technology Industry
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Temporal View of the Costs and Benefits of Self-Deception

By: Zoe Chance, Michael I. Norton, Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely
Researchers have documented many cases in which individuals rationalize their regrettable actions. Four experiments examine situations in which people go beyond merely explaining away their misconduct to actively deceiving themselves. We find that those who exploit... View Details
Keywords: Hindsight Bias; Lying; Motivated Reasoning; Self-enhancement; Social Psychology; Perception; Performance Expectations
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How Well Do Social Ratings Actually Measure Corporate Social Responsibility?

By: Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel
Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and capabilities influence billions of dollars of "socially responsible" investments as well as some consumers, activists, and potential employees. In one of the first studies to assess these ratings, we examine how... View Details
Keywords: Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Effectiveness; Natural Environment; Pollutants
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  • 30 Nov 2016
  • News

Improving On-the-Fly Teamwork in Health Care

    Can Wages Buy Honesty? The Relationship between Relative Wages and Employee Theft

    In this study we examine whether, for a sample of retail chains, high levels of employee compensation can deter employee theft, an increasingly common type of fraudulent behavior. Specifically, we examine the extent to which relative wages (i.e., employee wages... View Details
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    HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

    purposes. This rate applies to HBS and all schools at Harvard. Endowment Distribution (in millions) 162 FY19 173 FY20 184 FY21 191 FY22 208 FY23 Endowment Distribution Components 33% Professorships 24% Financial Aid 17% Unrestricted 8% Other 7% Special Initiatives 6%... View Details
    • 13 Jan 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

    German Soccer League over a season. Our research results show that leaders can reinvigorate a failing business using team members already in charge, and without large-scale change of direction. We observed that Small C retooling can... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports
    • 13 May 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: May 13

    during the interview process. Research shows that companies with more women on their boards have higher return on sales, higher return on invested capital, and higher return on equity. This article explains what boards need to ask to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Overview

    By: Ashley V. Whillans
    Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details
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    Connell House | About

    Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965 to 1968. In 2003, Dean Kim B. Clark rededicated the building in honor of the late William F. Connell (MBA 1963), whose family’s gift helped establish the HBS Leadership Initiative, a catalyst for cutting-edge View Details
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    Published Materials - Creating Emerging Markets

    Published Materials 26 Nov 2024 Hachette Book Group The Enduring Enterprise: How Family Businesses Thrive in Turbulent Conditions 18 SEPT 2023 Book Faculty Research Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia By: Meg... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2017
    • News

    A ‘One Harvard’ Perspective

    David Tunnell (MBA 1997) David Tunnell (MBA 1997) is a longtime advocate of crossing traditional academic boundaries at Harvard. For his Harvard College senior thesis on efficient markets, the economics major conducted most of his View Details
    • 04 Apr 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

    Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
    Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology
    • 15 May 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: May 15, 2007

    sociologists (and increasingly, economists) view networks to be essential to the functioning of markets, I will review much of the work that has been done in economic sociology on the formation of networks, as well as a little of the View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 16 May 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

    different: Her research suggests that a more powerful lever to increase a nonprofit's social impact might be to focus on building network relationships like-minded groups—even competitors. Organizations as unique as Guide Dogs for the... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 14 Feb 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

    are attuned to changes in their markets. Spending time in the marketplace, retail stores, factories, innovation centers, and research labs, or just wandering around offices talking to people is essential. Courage – Now more than ever,... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George
    • 30 Sep 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: September 30, 2008

    predictions for the impact of weak investor protection on MNC activity and FDI flows are tested and confirmed using firm-level data. The Influence of Ownership on Accounting Information Expenditures Authors:Leslie Eldenburg and Ranjani Krishnan Publication:Contemporary... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 10 Sep 2012
    • HBS Case

    HBS Cases: Branding Yoga

    Owner/President Management Program, with plenty of lessons about branding and competitive strategy. Two Paths In Branding Yoga, cowritten with HBS Global Research Group associate director Kerry Herman and View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
    • 01 Dec 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Financing Innovation

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda
    • 06 Jan 2021
    • Blog Post

    My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

    financially viable path, I encourage them to research what resources are available and to be prudent with their finances. It will take some sacrifice, but it’s possible. HBS is especially generous for students coming from humble... View Details