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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Books
organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. An effective business culture can account for up to half of the performance differential between organizations in the same business. Drawing on field research and case studies,... View Details
Keywords: Utilities
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Introduction - The Collection - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Collection: Data Analysis Photography has the capacity for accounting for things seen in the visual world with an exactitude for their differences which no... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
"Boardroom Challenges," The Future of Boards Why so many directors were reflecting on the board's role is difficult to pinpoint. A partial answer undoubtedly rests in the fact that regulations and laws offer little guidance about what boards are supposed to do. In most... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
How Patient Should We Be In Waiting for the Tech Productivity Dividend? Respondents to this month’s column cited a number of factors accounting for the fact that there is no discernable increase in the rate of improvement in human... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
Harvard Business School and Marc Epstein of Rice University. Key concepts include: Tightly monitored employees were less likely to make independent decisions, even if their job descriptions allowed them to do so. They were even less... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
even harder to help those in need. Lu, who began doing volunteer work at an early age, has a deep-seated interest in public-sector work. Rather than pursuing the traditional private-sector path the summer after her first year at HBS, Lu chose to serve as a financial... View Details
- 01 Apr 2011
- News
My First HBS Class
(On Piskorski, see also here.) The day’s case, written by Jeff Bussgang (MBA ’95C) and Professors Piskorski and Tom Eisenmann, was about foursquare, a location-based social networking game. (For Bussgang’s blog about teaching his case, see here.) Since I was unfamiliar... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
make it the norm. August 2013 Management Science Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization By: Iancu, Dan, and Nikolaos Trichakis Abstract—This paper formalizes and adapts the well-known concept of Pareto e ciency in the context of the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
given the length of the economic recovery from the depths of 2008. But are several basic forces at work that put the notion of an imminent recession to rest? In the early 1960s, in a class on business logistics at The Ohio State... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness
Goodness, draws on research from the fields of philosophy, psychology, behavioral research, and the concepts of effective altruism to outline a set of actions that we can embark on immediately to make next year better than last. Start... View Details
- 31 Oct 2006
- HBS Case
Governing Sumida Corporation
Director Masako Egawa (HBS MBA '86), working with research associates Chisato Toyama (HBS MBA '99) and Kim Eric Bettcher. This case challenges students to think about different systems of corporate governance and whether they are converging toward just a few View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The HBS Show Must Go On: "STARt-up WARS" Continues Tradition of Smash Hits
scripts, and others working on sets. Even the spouses of the cast and crew helped. This is one event on campus that draws the entire HBS community together. It's easy to get hooked." Marino drew many comparisons between the show's production work and the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
Introduces students to the concepts covered in the Managing in the Information Age module on Enterprise IT. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608075 Managing in the Information Age Module... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
2017 Washington, DC: American Public Health Association Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management By: Howitt, Arnold M., Dutch Leonard, and David W. Giles, eds. Abstract—This book provides detailed accounts of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Regulation, edited by David Moss and John Cisternino, 87-109. Cambridge, Mass.: The Tobin Project, 2009 Abstract We explain the four basic ways to manage risk: prevention, risk shifting, risk spreading, and loss control. We set out five... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
Illustration by Neil Webb About a year before he reached retirement, Frank Chapman started mapping out the travels he and his wife envisioned for their golden years. A career accountant for British telecom companies, he thought it best to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
human) disaster risk, response, and recovery preparation. B: Basic Resources. There is massive growth in urban populations as hundreds of millions of people move to cities seeking opportunity (UNPD). Already, there is not enough clean... View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
others. Key concepts include: Luxury does not necessarily induce people to be "nasty" toward others but rather causes them to be less concerned about or considerate toward others. Exposure to luxury goods may activate a social... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Mar 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Successful Negotiation
past several years, cannot be accounted for by gender differences in work commitment, education, and experience, or other considerations such as unionization. In this working paper, Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn review two... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 May 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?
proportion of a firm's customers that account for nearly all of its profits may not exceed 10 percent when one takes into account the significant impact of so-called "apostle/owners" on a business.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett