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- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307047 Cook Composites and Polymers Co. Harvard Business School Case 608-055 This case describes how a company improves resource efficiency and process View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
Then judgment—a fusion of thinking, feelings, experience, imagination, and character—becomes critical. The author offers five practical questions to improve your odds of making sound judgments: What are the net, net consequences of all my... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
equilibrium resulting in all arbitrators slanting towards being industry friendly. Evidence suggests that limiting the respondents’ and claimants’ inputs over the arbitrator selection process could significantly improve outcomes for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
readjustment in some way. At the same time, the communities that these veterans are returning to after their service are struggling with issues like urban blight, school infrastructure, and access to quality parks and green spaces. The... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016
developed. This paper introduces a fundamental tension between incentives and improvement in the provision of feedback. Using a sample of 4,000 commercial logo-design tournaments, I show that feedback reduces participation but View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
American mobility, where local leaders shape initiatives without waiting for Congress to act, and ambitious companies partner with governments to tackle projects that serve the public good, create jobs, and improve View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
interdependent. And although you may have a great doctor with the best intentions, the system may not allow him or her to give the quality of care they would like to. A: Absolutely. My heart really goes out to physicians nowadays. They're... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
payment model undoubtedly simplifies billing matters for the patients, the main impetus is to lower health care costs while simultaneously improving quality of care. In the traditional fee-for-service model,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
help improve saving and financial decision-making, but much more can be done to improve the effectiveness of these programs. Download the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13824... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
Yet research suggests that this “work-family narrative” is incomplete: men also experience it and nevertheless advance; moreover, organizations’ effort to mitigate it through flexible work policies has not improved women’s advancement... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
http://hrleadsbusiness.org/rise-of-hr-e-book May 2015 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Medicine's Continuous Improvement Imperative By: Huckman, Robert S., and Ananth Raman Abstract— Maintaining View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
Coalition, an organization coordinating business, government, and nonprofit efforts to improve India’s water quality and health outcomes. Naina Lal Kidwai: This was not a sexy business. You don't want to put... View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
teamwork in decision-making, the challenges of group decision-making, and the strategies for engaging team learning skills and attitudes to improve both the quality of and commitment to group decisions.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
document sources of value creation in mergers by analyzing novel data on the quality and price of goods sold by merging firms. When two competitors in a product market merge, their products converge in quality, and prices fall relative to... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
standpoints—layoffs; cost-cutting to the point where you know you're going to stretch your work force very, very thin; quality tradeoffs that may mean that you're not going to be delivering on what you say, and there may even be a safety... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
affiliation. These results hold through a large number of specifications and cannot be attributed to mobilization against the laws, measured by campaign contributions and self-reported political engagement. ID requirements have no effect on fraud either—actual or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
her Veverka Family foundation, she set about learning how to become an “impactful” philanthropist. She pursued her love of the outdoors by systematically visiting each of the now 63 national parks. Her passion for improving recreational... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
years,” Dean Emeritus McArthur remembered. “During my years as Dean, he was one of just a handful of our colleagues who carried the greatest weight in leading and changing this community and our activities. He was the source of endless ideas for us to View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
attention―manufacturing of launch vehicles and satellites―its growth is in fact quite strong. That’s especially true when you adjust for the quality improvements and price declines in that area; something... View Details
- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
unsolved pain points are rooted in the quality of the first few months of onboarding into an organization. The existing onboarding experience relies on a five to thirty page wall of text document, supplemented with only a single support... View Details