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- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
Jim, a well-regarded residential developer operating outside Philadelphia, has been scouting around for a site for his next project. Two properties seem promising. The Abbott estate consists of seventy-five acres of woodlands and some... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
otherwise fail emissions tests. We find that for a significant number of inspectors, leniency is much higher for those customers with standard vehicles than for those with luxury cars, although a smaller group appears to favor wealthy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
to 12 percent. That’s a significant savings when you are hiring 250 engineers per year.” A short stint as assistant to the area management team for Schlumberger’s land division in 1999 exposed her to upper management, a move that led Kovatch to apply to HBS, where she... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
outstanding contribution to the community and potential to drive change for years to come. When fully implemented, Connections will allow 2,600 students from eight to 10 schools to participate in a sequential, four-year curriculum of island-based learning modules that... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
Google isn’t completely shutting down the online ad industry, says Gupta. In March, the tech giant unveiled its new cookie-alternative technology called FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), a browser standard that will allow companies to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
planning and strategy at Ford’s Asia Pacific operations in Shanghai and a panelist at HBS’s “Moving the Future” transportation conference this past February. Just as significantly, charging infrastructure is set to get a boost. According... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
of India's Public R&D Laboratories By: Khanna, Tarun, and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract—In this paper, we build on the standard resource dependence theory and its departure suggested by Vernon to offer a novel explanation for why... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
with the country’s recent economic slowdown, China has more billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income, View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
In a recent case study, professor Alan MacCormack and research associate Jay Wynn swung for the moon—Mars, actually. After two high-profile missions to Mars failed in 2000, MacCormack wanted to understand the organizational and procedural... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Artificial Intelligence Vodafone was operating in the fast-moving telecommunications market where innovation and scale were key. Faced with an onslaught of technological advances—big data, automation, and artificial intelligence—CEO... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
preoperative holding room was less than that of placing epidurals in the operating room. Personnel reallocation and workflow changes resulted in mean cost reductions of 14% with epidurals in the holding room and 7% cost reductions with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
with firm value and operating performance persisted. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1589731 Does Management Really Work? Authors: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
business judgment rule, directors must have “knowingly and completely failed to undertake their responsibilities” or had “an actual intent to do harm” — a standard that has let thousands of failed boards off the hook over the years. While... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
spend the money and its impact on their businesses and their livelihoods.” How are these findings shaping your work? Roth: There are two strands of research that form the basis of our conviction about how microfinance could do better. One is about the timing of... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
time. We examined a radical change in a recently acquired subsidiary of a U.S.-based global organization over a two-year period. With the aim to standardize communication across borders, the subsidiary changed its native working language... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
as identity work and show how subtle forms of gender bias in the culture and in organizations interfere with the identity work of women leaders. Based on this insight, we revisit traditional approaches to standard leadership topics, such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
show that optimal policy may simultaneously include substantial redistribution across income-earning abilities, as in the standard model, and reject three prominently proposed tags-gender, race, and height-as in actual policy. This... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
refused to go along, since this branch was concerned about aircraft operating from carriers. McNamara urged field commanders in Vietnam to apply measurement to enemy losses, but did not realize until it was too late that the measurements... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
the years, with the number of proposals filed doubling from 1999 to 2013. We use recent innovations in accounting standard setting to classify 2,665 shareholder proposals that address environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
solving climate change by setting high environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards in farmland management and investing in regenerative agriculture.” Pat Coady MBA 1966 | Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure "We’re finally... View Details