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- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
instead take the sort of advice that they’ve constructively given to their clients for years. By using this challenging moment as an opportunity to address the root causes, they will better ensure that this situation does not arise again... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/311083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 414-043 United Rentals (A) In the spring of 2008, the recession had decimated the company's core business, construction equipment rental. The economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
proposal for a $23 million contract to help construct health care centers all over the country—an amount more than 10 times Last Mile Health’s 2014 budget and three times the $7 million in unrestricted philanthropy they were already... View Details
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
“Streetchange,” the difference in Streetscores of the same blocks, seven years apart. “A positive value of Streetchange is indicative of new construction or upgrades, and a negative value is indicative of overall decline of a street... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
Working PapersIncorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting Authors:Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur, and Ananth Raman Abstract As numerous papers have argued, sales, inventory, and gross margin for a retailer are interrelated. We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
a college’s academic and nonacademic attributes available to students, how do these scandals affect their applications? To investigate, we construct a dataset of scandals at the top 100 U.S. universities between 2001 and 2013. Scandals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
Inc., the world's largest design software company, decided to engage in Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) for the design and construction of its new Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Solutions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- March 2014
- Module Note
Implementing Environmentally Sustainable Operations
Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainable Supply Chains; Sustainable Operations; Environment; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Environmental Management; Environmental Operations; Environmental Performance; Environmental Policy; Environmental Protection; Environmental Strategy; Environmental Regulation; Operations Management; Operations Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Operations; Supply Chain; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Safety; Social Enterprise; Quality; Production; Working Conditions; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Buildings and Facilities; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry
Toffel, Michael W. "Implementing Environmentally Sustainable Operations." Harvard Business School Module Note 613-090, March 2014.
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
helping the environment or encouraged to drill for carbon-based fuels? How do we fund government programs such as health care and entitlements? How big should government be? "...it would be constructive to have a discussion about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
of their biggest research challenges was how to determine whether a manager’s guidance was on target or misleading. They did so by constructing their own estimates of how a company was doing in real time by using data collected from a... View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
flattened landscape left behind, giant construction cranes, clustered over the site's several acres, accentuate its emptiness. It is here that Harvard University is putting down a big bet on the future—and on a dramatically new, emerging... View Details
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
materiality map for each industry. In our paper, we take those maps and construct scores showing how different companies are investing on material ESG issues. That allows investors to construct better risk... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
boundaries. We then examine the evidence, using a unique dataset to construct firm-level indexes of vertical integration for a large set of countries. In line with the predictions of our model, we obtain three main results. First, higher... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
absorbing losses in excess of 12 percent. The scholars also run a simulation that constructs a "CDO²" by further dividing the mezzanine tranches, noting that due to the practice of subdividing large pools of residential... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
conformity comes at a steep price for our careers and personal lives. When we mindlessly accept rules and norms rather than questioning and constructively rebelling against them, we ultimately end up stuck and unfulfilled. As leaders, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2024
- Case
Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project
By: Richard S. Ruback, Matthew Preble, Ruth Page and Dave Habeeb
Vinalhaven is an island community located approximately 12 miles off the coast of Maine. The island has a year-round population of about 1,300 people as of 2022, with an additional 3,000 people who reside on the island in the summer months. The two largest industries... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Natural Resources; Natural Environment; Weather; Sustainable Cities; Forecasting and Prediction; Construction; Property; Infrastructure; Capital Budgeting; Projects; Project Finance; Negotiation; United States; Maine
Ruback, Richard S., Matthew Preble, Ruth Page, and Dave Habeeb. "Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 224-735, June 2024.
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
operating clause would scare off anyone who might wish to buy the Patriots and move the team to another city. It would also deter local buyers who might have hoped to swing a public-private deal to construct a new facility. For Kraft, it... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
make cities in smarter ways, so that they are built more quickly, with less waste and overall impact on the environment during the construction process. Environmental performance will improve in part due to building better buildings. For... View Details
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
natural gas strategy to the water and broadband businesses, the unprofitable international power development strategy, the perverse financial incentives for executives, the aggressive use of mark-to-market accounting, the performance guarantees in the power plant View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter