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- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
School's U.S. Competitiveness Project. Rivkin is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. “Study after study has shown that a country's long-term prosperity depends on the quality of its human capital” Rivkin and fellow... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society
Professor Joseph Fuller looked beyond dystopian forecasts to explore how ever-evolving technology has the potential to improve the quality of work lives, the earnings of most workers, and company productivity. Viewpoints exposed students... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Feedback
This pioneering effort is now a multibillion-dollar industry. —Donn Walklet (MBA 1976) via alumni.hbs.edu Community from Cuisine Re: Doug Duda (MBA 1985) Food is love, and love drives consumer behavior. As the developed world becomes increasingly fascinated with the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
wrote. “If quality of life is a critical determinant, it is important to make a long list of the kinds of activities that one treasures or that people want to be able to perform by themselves.” Throughout his life, Uyterhoeven continued... View Details
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Sustainable investing and ESG resources
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News and information covering the sustainable and impact investment markets. Our subscription includes the daily publication, The... View Details
News and information covering the sustainable and impact investment markets. Our subscription includes the daily publication, The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
You’ve Been YouTubed
are. You can’t hope to project an idealized version of the truth.” The old rules of marketing and advertising still apply, too: “The genius is not in the choice of medium: in the simple idea of using social media to fight social media,” remarks Deighton. “It’s in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
explores the hidden world of statistics that rule individuals’ lives, jobs, commutes, vacations, food, health, money, and success. Statistics are how engineers calculate a person’s quality of life, how corporations determine individual... View Details
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
increased resource utilization (i.e., longer average length of stay) for both minor and major teaching hospitals, relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. We find limited evidence of negative effects on quality as measured... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
efficient and cheaper methods that undermine quality audits. The audit committee must have the leadership, independence and information to oversee the auditors and their relationship with the management.—... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
approach to the “pitch or spec” dilemma by constructing a model that links this choice to writers’ past experience and their confidence level about this particular idea. The model also predicts the average quality of ideas offered for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
is needed. So how did Houghton, who would become renowned for his inclusive, team-oriented, nice-guy leadership, get everybody’s attention? “I hit them over the head with a two-by-four and said, ‘Here’s what we’re going to do,’” Houghton recalls with a smile. That... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
little more effectively can make a big difference in the quality of our close personal relationships as well as our professional success. Drawing on the new science of conversation, Brooks distills lessons that show how we can better... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
quality and efficiency. The introduction of this transparency contributed to a 22.2% increase in customer-reported quality and reduced throughput times by 19.2%. Laboratory studies revealed that customers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
PART 3: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Getting on the JD/MBA Path
requirements and need the same quality of experiences. There is a wealth of information out there about the application process. I don’t have many golden nuggets to add, except to say that by thinking long... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
creating the best cost structure in the market. But the company wanted to compete primarily on quality not price. To that end, it struck exclusive deals with suppliers and marketing partners. Where they are today: The company continues to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
Information for Euro Elektrische Keramische Vorrichtungen (Euro EKV), GmbH Harvard Business School Exercise 908-033 In a six-party negotiation exercise, the TNDA Corp. plans to sell the Elcer Products Division to one of four potential... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We collect data on operations, targets, and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
in a way that they never were. Twenty years ago, said Lander, information was a trivial component of biomedical research. Most of what a scientist did was based on work taking place in his or her own lab or in a few other labs. Now, of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
member Dr. Warner V. Slack, of how access to information and the logistics of insurance would change in a consumer-driven system. While participants largely agreed that the Internet will revolutionize both, they expressed concern about... View Details
- July 2011 (Revised September 2012)
- Case
Industrial Metrology: Getting In-Line? (A)
By: Willy Shih
Metrology plays a key role in the manufacture of mechanical components. Traditionally it is used extensively in a pre-process stage where a manufacturer does process planning, design, and ramp-up, and in post-process off-line inspection to establish proof of quality.... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Machinery and Machining; Measurement and Metrics; Product Design; Planning; Quality; Opportunities; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Segmentation; Technology Adoption; Theory; Manufacturing Industry
Shih, Willy. "Industrial Metrology: Getting In-Line? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 612-004, July 2011. (Revised September 2012.)