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  • 16 May 2016
  • HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

prompted a greater demand for food testing in order to verify the authenticity of the claims. Increasing consumer consciousness about food safety and healthfulness: Consumers have high expectations about the safety of their food, so a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

to promote financial development. The evidence here includes country fixed effect regressions and an instrumental model inspired by Engerman and Sokoloff's (2002) work, which to our knowledge has not yet been used in finance and which passes prevailing tests as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Alumni Books

You Want by Tamara Erickson (MBA ’78) (Harvard Business Press) Erickson shows how members of Generation X — the 30–45 age cohort sandwiched between Boomers (who refuse to retire) and Gen Ys (with their relentless confidence and demands... View Details
Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

"Our process is a structural mechanism that alleviates the problem by getting information into the open and helping managers discuss the undiscussable." But "getting in shape" involves several demanding exercises... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

A Primer on Patents

annually soared from 62,000 to 177,000. Swamped with about 350,000 patent applications each year, examiners are overwhelmed and unable to devote enough time to check out the validity of each one. And thanks to the CAFC, once a patent is... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 15 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

that business disruptions are not just potential threats, but common occurrences that demand immediate attention from CEOs, C-suite teams, and boards. It's time for leaders to take stock of their companies’ operational resilience—their... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
  • 12 Mar 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

companies must serve a social purpose. “Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose,” Fink wrote. “To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial performance but also show how... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Banking
  • 06 Nov 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

allocation." The detailed work was still bottom up, but true change had to be driven by the top in a sustained entrepreneurial effort. Bower teamed with Clark Gilbert and others 37 years later to report studies suggesting that while the initial ideas were still... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details
  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

expensive, and irritating to employees. This book shows you how to implement time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC), an easier and more powerful way to implement ABC. You can now estimate directly the resource demands imposed by each... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

arise when cross-price elasticities are estimated for a set of brands expected to be substitutes. These anomalies are the occurrence of: (a) negatively signed cross-elasticities; and (b) sign asymmetries in pairs of cross price elasticities. Drawing upon the Slutsky... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

Beyond what we can do as individuals to reduce our risks of exposure, are there objective measures employers can use to validate what is effective? The answer, fortunately, is yes. Many claims will be made over the next few weeks and... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate
  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1590245   Cases & Course MaterialsBook Publishing in 2010 Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy BartlettHarvard Business School Note 711-419 Legacy book publishers wrangled with e-book retailers over royalty rates, release... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

Economics 1, no. 1 (December 2009) Abstract Much of empirical corporate finance focuses on sources of the demand for various forms of capital, not the supply. Recently, this has changed. Supply effects of equity and credit markets can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

integration. The reason is that at low prices, increases in revenue resulting from enhanced productivity are too small to justify the cost, whereas at high prices, the revenue benefit exceeds the cost. Trade policy provides a source of exogenous price variation to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

sugarcoated: balancing the challenges of a demanding career with motherhood. "You've got three choices," Hunt tells her students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she runs the Women and Public Policy Program. "You can go... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 14 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 14

Additionally, labor quality and the structure of demand and a long tradition of work in organizational behavior suggests that the successful adoption of productivity enhancing managerial practices requires complementary changes in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

theoretical illustrations and Monte Carlo simulations to validate our claims. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52743 Executive Education in the Digital Vortex: The Disruption of the Supply Landscape... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

internal beneficiary that made connectedness salient yielded a persistent increase in productivity relative to a control group. We validate this effect in the laboratory and provide evidence that the effect is mediated by an enhanced... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

individuals, and a purely peer-based performance review and stack ranking. As customer demand and market forces draw Valve into hardware in 2013, Valve questions whether their organizational model will need to change as it expands from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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