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- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
describes how investors can—and do—pay closer attention to retailers' inventory levels. “When it comes to implementing science in retailing, the 'missionary' is more important than the scientist.” Raman, who specializes in operations management, is the UPS View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
application, the paper chip, which costs only pennies to produce, monitors liver function and the adverse side effects of the powerful drugs used to treat HIV/AIDS and TB. In February, DFA's reach broadened when the Gates Foundation... View Details
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
considered itself to be among the best hospitals in the country, even though it had scant evidence to benchmark its performance against others. But data co-collected by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation instead showed that the outcome for... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
method can serve as the foundation for new bundled payment reimbursement approaches. Publisher's link: http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/docview/1634452215/fulltextPDF/4F2F96135E4D4D7CPQ/6?accountid=11311 January 2015... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
2009), Senior Program Officer, The Kresge Foundation Just what does it mean for a city to go bankrupt? Bankruptcies are so commonly associated with firms and individuals that we tend to use the same mental models to evaluate Detroit's... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
brand in the U.S.; a competitive offering of private label and exclusive brands; and, following the execution of One Macy's and My Macy's, a fresh, unique foundation for future growth. However, the company still faces significant... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
Microsoft, Cisco, and Google stepped up their efforts to meet these needs, even as they respond to revenue declines in traditional business sectors. While many of these are short-term opportunities, they can build important foundations... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
behavioral hazard, providing a theoretical foundation for value-based insurance design and a way to interpret behavioral "nudges." Once behavioral hazard is taken into account, health insurance can do more than just provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Michael Beer and Lynda St. ClairHarvard Business School Case 913-521 A new Dallas-based health and beauty spa aims to use a highly distinctive human resource system as the foundation of its competitive strategy. By encouraging employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
Frei is the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at HBS and is the author of Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You. Joseph Fuller: Focus on doing what is possible The most important impact... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
debate, THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS of Denmark have decided to allocate a small percentage of their investment portfolio to impact investments. Cambridge Associates, one of the leading investment advisory firms in the world, has been engaged to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
practicing executives in case learning. The work is built on the foundation of HBS field cases employing the monomyth "hero's journey" classic story structure along with the creation of associated fictional case characters... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
has had to be innovative and strategic in its ability to maintain its place as the fourth largest insurer in China. Chairman Chen Dongsheng laid a strong foundation when he launched Taikang in 2006; what will he do going forward to enable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
supporting and leading to its promise: "for the benefit of mankind." The core constitutes a hub around which the essential award-granting institutions, as well as the Nobel Foundation and other related entities and stakeholders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Jerry R. Green and Lawrence Kotlikoff Publication: In Institutional Foundations of Public Finance, edited by Alan J. Auerbach and Daniel Shaviro. Harvard University Press, 2009 Abstract A century ago, everyone thought time and distance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation to have a free (as in freedom) operating system. According to Stallman, application software will never be truly free unless there is a free operating system that supports it. Thus, since... View Details
- 09 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 9
http://hbr.org/search/813144-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-045 The Private Company Council Financial Accounting Foundation chairman Jack Brennan is under pressure from private-company interests to set up a new body-the Private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
influenced by a vast array of factors: schools, roads, regulatory complexity, almost everything matters—not just the traditional macroeconomic policies. If you don't have a good public-education system, for example, you lack the View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
agreeable by nodding and expressing agreement. This difference was eliminated when impression management concerns were minimized-when participants viewed the appeals on video. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton dunn carney ariely.pdf View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
to the aviation reward, the X PRIZE Foundation is offering similar carrots for breakthroughs in sequencing the human genome, designing fuel-efficient cars, and even reaching the moon. And the US government is experimenting with prizes as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding