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  • 2008
  • Report

Survey Questionnaire on Environmental Management Practices: Summary of Results by Industry and Practices

By: Magali Delmas and Michael W. Toffel
This document provides a summary of the results of a survey on Environmental Management Practices (EMP) conducted by the University of California at Santa Barbara during October and November 2003. The survey was sent to 3255 facilities in 8 industrial sectors: pulp,... View Details
Keywords: Economic Sectors; Surveys; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Non-Governmental Organizations
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Collaborative Architectures for Innovation

By: Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti
Collaborative innovation has become a hot topic in innovation today. Scholars, consultants, and the business press all urge companies seeking to boost innovative performance to become more "collaborative." Too often, however, companies fail to distinguish among the... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Governance Controls; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 2008
  • Article

Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States

By: Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman

Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors' behaviors, procuring organizations' roles in increasing donations remain less explored. The United States offers a unique setting in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Behavior; Programs; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Ventures; Health Testing and Trials; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; For-Profit Firms; Organizations; Training; United States
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  • 28 Nov 2018
  • HBS Seminar

Jon Jachimowicz, Columbia University

  • Research Summary

Overview

The Information Age has introduced well-received opportunities to track performance. Fitbits and Fuelbands allow individuals to track their own performance; companies like Uber and leading hospitals help you choose a driver or a doctor based on how others rated... View Details

Keywords: Management Accounting; Disclosure; Performance Measurement; Incentives; Control; Education; Education Industry; Health Industry; Transportation Industry; Energy Industry; Auto Industry; United States; Japan; India

    The Venture Capital Cycle

    In The Venture Capital Cycle, Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner correct widespread misperceptions about the nature and role of the venture capitalist and provide an accessible and comprehensive overview of the venture capital industry. Bringing together fifteen... View Details

    • Profile

    Luc Sirois

    lifelong idealism and drive to improve world. Sirois recalls his time at HBS as providing the spark necessary to direct his energies in the early days of the emerging digital superhighway. “Technology was enabling a new world. It didn’t... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Technology; Nonprofit / Government
    • 14 Nov 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

    authors provide numerous examples of health care organizations that are taking these steps—and seeing impressive results. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53460 forthcoming JAMA Cardiology The Central and... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 13 Jan 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Impact of Modularity on Intellectual Property and Value Appropriation

    Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Joachim Henkel
    • 19 Jul 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model

    Keywords: by Vishal Gaur, Richard Lai, Ananth Raman & William Schmidt
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Eva Ascarza
    Professor Ascarza’s research primarily focuses on providing researchers and marketers a better understanding of how to manage customer retention so as to reduce churn and increase firm’s profitability. She addresses these issues by building empirical models of customer... View Details
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    Customer-Centricity as a Vehicle for Organic Growth

    By: Ranjay Gulati
    This body of work examines the mechanics of how firms grow profitably in commoditizing markets. Underlying the "customer-centricity" that many firms embrace today is a factor that will determine their success with this effort: enabling collaboration across... View Details
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

    By: Sergey Chernenko, Robert Ialenti and David Scharfstein
    We show that business development companies (BDCs)—closed-end funds that provide a significant share of nonbank loans to middle market firms—are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. They have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36%... View Details
    Keywords: Financing and Loans; Capital; Credit; Financial Institutions
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    • October 2023
    • Case

    CornerUp: Digitizing the Corner Store

    By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, Stacy Straaberg and Diego Zainos De La Sota Riva
    In July 2023, Jason Diaz, co-founder and CEO of CornerUp, assessed the progress of his business-to-business e-procurement software application (app) startup, founded in January 2022. CornerUp began as a fast-moving consumer packaged goods (FMCG) distributor in New York... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Small Business; Transition; Decisions; Social Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Disruptive Innovation; Market Participation; Digital Platforms; Trust; Business Strategy; Expansion; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Technology Industry; United States
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    • May 21, 2020
    • Editorial

    Primary Care Is Hurting: Why Aren't Private Insurers Pitching In?

    By: Leemore S. Dafny and J. Michael McWilliams
    Primary care clinicians are the front line for patients with suspected infection. We rely on them to diagnose, triage, and manage patients with potential or confirmed COVID infections. They are also responsible for keeping non-COVID medical conditions under control... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Primary Care; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Financial Condition; Insurance
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    • 2017
    • Book

    The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations

    By: Tsedal Neeley

    For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an... View Details

    Keywords: Communication; Residency; Corporate Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Brazil; France; Germany; Indonesia; Japan; Taiwan; Thailand; United States
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    College Tuition, Public Finance and New Business Starts

    By: Gareth Olds
    A growing public discourse cites the rising cost of education and student debt overhang as a contributor to slow economic growth. A parallel discussion explores the causes of the secular decline in business dynamism and entrepreneurship rates in the United States over... View Details
    Keywords: Cost; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship
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    • February 2015
    • Other Article

    Evaluating the Impact of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative on Breast-feeding Rates: A Multi-state Analysis

    By: Summer Sherburne Hawkins, Ariel Dora Stern, Christopher F. Baum and Matthew W. Gillman
    Objectives: Despite the passage of state laws promoting breast feeding, a formal evaluation has not yet been conducted to test whether and/or what type of laws may increase breast feeding. The enactment of breastfeeding laws in different states in the USA creates a... View Details
    Keywords: Race; Nutrition; Laws and Statutes; United States
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    • Summer 2012
    • Article

    Epistemic Contests and the Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: The Brazil–USA Cotton Dispute and the Incremental Balancing of Interests

    By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
    The World Trade Organization (WTO) features prominently in studies of international institutions, often cast either as a tool of rich-world domination over the poorer South or as a neutral mediator facilitating a tariff-free world of economic prosperity. This article... View Details
    Keywords: Organizations; Trade; Conflict and Resolution; Consumer Products Industry; Brazil; United States
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    • April 2012
    • Case

    Renesas Electronics and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A)

    By: Willy Shih and Margaret Pierson
    The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011 caused extensive damage to Renesas Electronics wafer fabrication facility, a critical link in the global automotive supply chain. Many OEMs sole-sourced customized microprocessors from the fab, so its... View Details
    Keywords: Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Supply Chain Management; Production; Strategy; Semiconductor Industry; Auto Industry; Japan
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