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16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

heightened consumer awareness and expectations make this appear not to be the case.” Global food safety standards are lacking Unsafe food, such as fruits and vegetables contaminated with feces, clearly creates a huge public health risk,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

18 Nov 2013
Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

opportunities for real-time conversations and engagement to people around the world. The company has accomplished this by taking advantage of the modular nature of today's ubiquitous communications... View Details

Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology

01 Oct 1997
News

Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices

finest." Field-Based Learning Expanded field-based learning opportunities now include more field studies, faculty-initiated research projects in which students may participate, and fieldwork within standard courses. About 40 percent View Details

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

they need to make decisions about care. The government or a broad consortium of employers could jump-start the collection and dissemination process by agreeing on a standard set View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity

that a downsizing of such magnitude could have a very negative impact on the firm's creative environment, Amabile and Conti obtained the company's permission to conduct three more waves View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

15 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg

associated with ammonia or chlorofluorocarbons which damage the atmosphere. An ammonia-based system would have put both the nearby residents and marine life in jeopardy if there was ever a system leak. One of the district heating center’s... View Details

28 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

Musacchio, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Dante Roscini, conducted the in-depth interviews, often focusing on key moments of transition and decision-making. The just launched website offers access to video clips,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Web

Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

including Augustine Heard & Co. Thomas Hunt & Co. papers include accounts current, bills, account stock and deliveries, invoice books, day books, sales, and letters sent, illustrating the brisk level of business View Details

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

Reinventing Retail: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores, published this month. A bookstore anthropologist Since 2012, Raffaelli has examined how indie bookstores have survived and thrived in the digital era. The research... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

19 Jul 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic (In)Congruence in the Helping Process within Organizations

Keywords: by Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer & Teresa M. Amabile

September 2009
Article

A Detailed Analysis of the Reduction Mammaplasty Learning Curve: A Statistical Process Model for Approaching Surgical Performance Improvement

By: Matthew Carty MD, Rodney Chan, Robert S. Huckman, Daniel C. Snow and Dennis Orgill

Background: The increased focus on quality and efficiency improvement within academic surgery has met with variable success among plastic surgeons. Traditional surgical performance metrics, such as morbidity and mortality, are insufficient to improve the... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Outcome or Result; Performance Efficiency; Performance Improvement

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08 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year

unlikely issue for professors in a business school to take on, but they say they are lucky that HBS independently funds much of the research conducted by its faculty and doctoral students. That’s important,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 May 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, 1880-1930

Keywords: by Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger & Se Yan

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

effort to strengthen “reasonable price” provisions in California law, pushing for standardized prescription compounding and pricing, as well as price schedules set by manufacturers. “The history of American... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

01 Jun 1998
News

HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work

large whiteboard to enable the discussions to mimic those conducted at HBS. By all accounts, the hard work of the organizers paid off. "I congratulate the HBS alumni in Ireland on a very successful program.... View Details

09 Dec 2015
Research Event

When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms

later Twitter acquired competing app Periscope and cut off Meerkat’s access to Twitter’s social graph. And then there was the iPhone flashlight app from Noah Corp., which you’ve likely never heard of because Apple now includes a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Technology; Web Services

December 2010
Article

Implications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive Research in Accounting

By: S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna and Douglas J. Skinner

Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and stewardship) and that verifiability and conservatism are critical features of a GAAP shaped by market forces.... View Details

Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Standards; International Accounting; Financial Markets; Financial Reporting

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03 Jun 2002
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

highly unionized, highly paid work force puts in an average workweek of 28.8 hours. To this we could add a second and related practice: Balance work and personal life. Many would claim that the quality of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

It was a brief dalliance, just a few weeks in length, over text and video only. The end of the affair was nonetheless just the beginning for Stephen Easterbrook, the McDonald’s CEO who went from being hailed as the company’s “savior” by... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

Research Summary

Simultaneous Distinction, Democratization and Omnivorism Effects: A Longitudinal Analysis of Dynamic Symbolic Boundaries in Counterfeit Consumption Networks

Sociologists have long examined the interactive relationship between social structure, taste and power. This literature has overwhelmingly fallen into three, ostensibly competing, theoretical “camps”: Distinction, where high-status consumers use... View Details

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