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- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
managers and directors be maximizing returns to shareholders? What do YOU think? References: Joseph L. Bower and Lynn S. Paine, The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership: Most CEOs and Boards Believe Their Main Duty Is to Maximize... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
more evenly across industries. The book's position on this question is that gender is not a main determinant of success in this industry, but that status as an "outsider" of some kind was important. This helps to explain why so many... View Details
- Article
National Trends in the Safety Performance of Electronic Health Record Systems From 2009 to 2018
By: David Classen, A Jay Holmgren, Zoe Co, Lisa Newmark, Diane Seger, Melissa Danforth and David Bates
Importance Despite the broad adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems across the continuum of care, safety problems persist.
Objective To measure the safety performance of operational EHRs in hospitals across the country during a 10-year period.
Design,... View Details
Keywords: Electronic Health Record Systems; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Performance; Safety; Measurement and Metrics; United States
Classen, David, A Jay Holmgren, Zoe Co, Lisa Newmark, Diane Seger, Melissa Danforth, and David Bates. "National Trends in the Safety Performance of Electronic Health Record Systems From 2009 to 2018." JAMA Network Open 3, no. 5 (May 2020).
- 2008
- Working Paper
From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
- Web
Training Materials - Research Computing Services
Libraries Research Data Management Program / Instruction Harvard Research Data Webinars and Explainers R Introduction to R Static notes with code examples and results All workshop materials as downloadable archive Main site for all R... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?
selection and development of leaders. Some took issue with his definition, a few disagreed with his main thesis, and a number suggested the importance of executive intelligence as only one ingredient in leadership success. Stephen Burkett... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree
year, I was able to split my time between a healthcare startup in New York and blockchain startup in Berlin. Especially during my startup internships, I was able to cross over and help out with legal work, even though my main roles were... View Details
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
this helps explain why Best Buy is still around while its main competitor Circuit City is in its grave. But this misses an important piece of the story that is documented in Reorganize for Resilience. None of this would have been possible... View Details
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
Salem, NC Subjects: AP US Government CA Malia McAndrew Khan Lab School Mountain View, CA IL Don McArthur-Self Maine South High School Park Ridge, IL OR Matt McBeth Cascade High School Turner, OR Subjects: Government, History RI Olwyn... View Details
- 22 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make
and express the value of resilience to their teams, the likelihood that workers will report such incidents increases. That was the main finding of Resilience vs. Vulnerability: Psychological Safety and Reporting of Near Misses with... View Details
- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
could even argue that the main difference between the two acts is merely the timing of the gift: Tips follow the rendering of a service, whereas bribes precede it." Torfason says the link between tipping and bribing may come in part... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Carol Wright
program, you’re likely someone who likes to plan and have a sense of what their future looks like. Being admitted to 2+2 means that you have an incredible graduate school experience waiting for you down the line and the opportunity to explore from a career perspective... View Details
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Gary Works Photograph Album | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR... View Details
- 24 Feb 2021
- Lessons from the Classroom
What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace
The 2020 debut was popular: Approximately 100 second-year MBA students took the class, with 10 spots reserved for students from outside of HBS. His main goal in creating the course wasn’t necessarily to provide his students with business... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
[2]. However, this lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for electric heat pumps is not standard across the U.S.– we will cover an overview of electric heat pumps and main drivers that will likely impact U.S. adoption patterns. The... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
time they bring the platform in competition with new competing platforms from previously separate industries. Managers should be clearly aware of the fundamental economic functions performed by their platforms—these functions are the main... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
Publications 2013 pub Does Social Connection Turn Good Deeds into Good Feelings?: On the Value of Putting the 'Social' in Prosocial Spending By: Aknin, Lara B., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Gillian M. Sandstrom, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—When are the emotional benefits of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 2008
- Working Paper
Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality
By: Alvin J. Silk and Charles King III
This paper analyzes changes in concentration levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services (A&MS) industry using publicly released data that have been largely ignored in past discussions of the industrial organization of this industry, namely those available... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Mergers and Acquisitions; Revenue; Analytics and Data Science; Surveys; Marketing; Measurement and Metrics; Rank and Position; Competition; Advertising Industry; Service Industry; United States
Silk, Alvin J., and Charles King III. "Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-044, September 2008.
- 2023
- Book
Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia
By: Meg Rithmire
Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian regimes. Many accounts of rapid growth alongside monopolies on political power have focused on crony relationships... View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Systems; Crime and Corruption; China; Indonesia; Malaysia
Rithmire, Meg. Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia. Oxford University Press, 2023.
- December 2015 (Revised September 2016)
- Supplement
ANA (B)
By: Doug J. Chung and Mayuka Yamazaki
All Nippon Airways (ANA) became the largest airline in Japan in 2013. Having been designated as a domestic carrier by the Japanese government till the mid-1980s and Japan being the sixth largest domestic airline market, two-thirds of ANA’s passenger revenue came from... View Details
Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Analysis; Economics; Price; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Product; Policy; Air Transportation Industry; Japan
Chung, Doug J., and Mayuka Yamazaki. "ANA (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 516-054, December 2015. (Revised September 2016.)