Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (2,147) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (2,147) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 43 of 2,147 Results →
  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

Documenting the actual levels of inequality within and across countries is generally considered a critical input to the design of economic and social policy (7–10); we suggest that assessing laypeople’s understanding of those levels, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results

interact with different people and maintaining a strong knowledge of who you are.” Last year, in conjunction with the School's Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, Dasgupta worked with Women's World Banking to design... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; development; leadership; social issues; management; technology; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
  • Web

Cotting House | About

Cotting House Cotting Cornerstone Ceremony 1967 Cotting House was made possible by, and is named in honor of, Charles E. Cotting (Harvard 1911). Constructed in 1967 during the tenure of Dean George P. Baker and designed by Robert Shaw... View Details
  • 22 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

we need to improve our profit,” he says. For example, a US industrial service company was losing 20 percent of its customers every year. Through research, its leaders realized that when customers stayed with the company for six months,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 26 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

There’s a saying in hospitality: The customer is always right. In fact, customers might be more influential than ever, according to a study of online restaurant reviews. Yelp, the website where consumers share their service experiences,... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

after much smaller scale errors or "near misses." These formal studies were forums designed explicitly for the purpose of learning from mistakes by probing deeply into their causes. In addition, cross-functional teams, known as... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
  • 28 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, February 28

preferences are homogeneous, newspapers are more likely to engage in cost-cutting. Both responses are more pronounced for newspaper firms whose sister firms have already experienced Craigslist’s entry. We also find that failure to design... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Cait Haught

finance." Yet Cait didn't neglect her desire for social impact. She created a partnership with Citizen Schools, a Boston afterschool program, to bring in outside experts who "spoke to the students on topics they wouldn't learn in the classroom, like financial... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

Carliss Baldwin, and John Rusnak Publication:In Design Structure Matrix Methods and Applications, edited by S.D. Eppinger and T.R. Browning. The MIT Press, forthcoming Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

particular subject area or further develop their career." Corina Cristea Lavoie Corporate Services Manager at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP If you’ve completed Leadership Principles , this course will help you expand your leadership toolkit... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

approach is for the government to delegate the management of investment promotion activities to the private sector. This approach often has the disadvantage that the private sector will not handle well the attributes of the task that are more like traditional... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
  • Article

Social Technology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Care for Older Adults

By: Arthur Kleinman, Hongtu Chen, Sue E. Levkoff, Ann Forsyth, David E. Bloom, Winnie Yip, Tarun Khanna, Conor J. Walsh, David Perry, Ellen W. Seely, Anne S. Kleinman, Yan Zhang, Yuan Wang, Jun Jing, Tianshu Pan, Ning An, Zhenggang Bai, Jiexiu Wang, Qing Liu and Fawwaz Habbal
Population aging is a defining demographic reality of our era. It is associated with an increase in the societal burden of delivering care to older adults with chronic conditions or frailty. How to integrate global population aging and technology development to help... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Age; Service Delivery; Information Technology; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Related
  • Web

Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

choose your path For many HBS MBA candidates, entrepreneurship rivals general management, consulting, and financial services as a meaningful career path. But by definition, considering entrepreneurship means pursuing something new, and by... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and Special Advisor to Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker for technology and innovation competitiveness. Most recently, he was Secretary of the Massachusetts Office of Technology View Details
  • 04 Mar 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Determinants of Individual Performance and Collective Value in Private-Collective Software Innovation

Keywords: by Ned Gulley & Karim R. Lakhani; Web Services; Web Services
  • 20 Apr 2021
  • Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

they eschew efforts—even bold, cutting-edge proposals—that are unlikely to generate value for customers, employees, or suppliers. “Companies that raise customer willingness to pay in a distinctive manner attract the very customers that find the firm’s products and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

command-and-control approach to management, remains in place, the newer tools designed to decentralize strategic decision making will never achieve their full potential, Hope and Fraser argue. The solution is not better budgeting... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

was Corporate Strategy at PepsiCo / Growth at SodaStream. Dallin McKinnon (MBA 2023, Section J), Summer Internship: Strategy MBA Intern at Volta Trucks Volta Trucks is a full-electric commercial vehicle manufacturer and services company.... View Details
  • Web

Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Marketing Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2025 Eva Ascarza : Recipient of a 2024–2025 HBS Required Curriculum (RC) Case Award for "Artea: Designing Targeting Strategies" (HBS Case... View Details
  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

the story. We've had students at undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels telling us that they couldn't stop reading because they were eager to know what would happen next. In addition, chapters of the book are designed like teaching... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace