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- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
the line, are not directly replicable in software as there is no line to stop. "What we hope to do," Upton says, "is to distill the relevant aspects of lean manufacturing so that managers can see how these tools were applied successfully in a service... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling
purchase that would contribute to income rather than simply depreciate with time. A similar argument justified the purchase of a home sewing machine, which reduced average time for making a shirt from fourteen hours to just one. The... View Details
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Nika Duan
proximity to some of the most interesting and thoughtful humans across all different backgrounds and experiences. Being part of the HBS community is like Stepping into your own self-discovery journey alongside the most supportive, talented, and encouraging people going... View Details
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
electives from available HBS Online certificate courses. What will the cohort experience be like? + – An essential part of CLIMB is the peer learning experience. Not only will your section be filled with peers at similar points in their... View Details
- 16 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)
porridge) and fried rice for lunch instead of a ham and cheese sandwich. It took me until college to find a larger community of folks with the similar experience of being pulled in two opposite directions: not Chinese enough and yet not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
current project follows a similar initiative from his time at Volkswagen with automotive parts maker Gestamp—which was in turn inspired by a YALP case, “Southwire and 12 for Life.” The case tells the story of a Georgia cable manufacturer... View Details
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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online
Participants are expected to fully complete all coursework in a thoughtful and timely manner. This will mean meeting each week’s course module deadlines and fully answering questions posed therein. This helps ensure your cohort proceeds through the course at a View Details
- 2010
- Article
Hospital Performance, the Local Economy, and the Local Workforce: Findings from a U.S. National Longitudinal Study
Background: Pay-for-performance is an increasingly popular approach to improving health care quality, and the US government will soon implement pay-for-performance in hospitals nationwide. Yet hospital capacity to perform (and improve performance) likely depends on... View Details
Blustein, Jan, William Borden, and Melissa Valentine. "Hospital Performance, the Local Economy, and the Local Workforce: Findings from a U.S. National Longitudinal Study." PLoS Medicine 7, no. 6 (2010).
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
cohort proceeds through the course at a similar pace and can take full advantage of social learning opportunities. In addition to module and assignment completion, we expect participation in the social learning elements of the course by... View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
structures follow a similar pattern. Brown decided to go another route—an Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP). In 2016, Brown agreed to sell 100 percent of his ownership stake to the firm’s employees. The move helps preserve the... View Details
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Compensation by Industry/Position/Location
for similar jobs across the board, it is not absolute. To find this premium dataset, select the Account icon in the right corner of the front page after registering and then select Premium Salary Database. Locate Salary Surveys by... View Details
- 22 May 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture
- 23 Jun 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms
- 2020
- Chapter
Business, Ethics and Institutions. The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in a Comparative Perspective
By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones
This chapter offers a survey of the evolution of Turkish capitalism from the 19th century Ottoman Empire until the present day. It shows that Turkish business over the last century and a half was shaped in an institutional context similar to those in many developing... View Details
Keywords: Business Groups; Capitalism; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Government and Politics; History; Religion; Business History; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
Colpan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones. "Business, Ethics and Institutions. The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in a Comparative Perspective." Chap. 1 in Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives, edited by Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones, 3–22. New York: Routledge, 2020.
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
reasons behind the findings, the researchers conducted a similar experiment in the controlled environment of a university lab. They recruited 175 college students for a three-hour study, conducted over two consecutive days. The students... View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
world, the best place to change the minds of voters, especially disenchanted voters, is on their doorsteps, Pons says. Voters who dismiss the canned responses of a well-groomed candidate might listen to an activist from the same town or a View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
Apple. Amelio had attempted to negotiate a similar arrangement with Gates and had failed. Second, Steve was able to endow the work of others with meaning as no one else at Apple could. Fred Anderson, who was hired as chief financial... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Feb 2024
- News
Startup Shepherds
By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
majority, arrived in Texas classrooms last fall, a new round of fiery rhetoric erupted. And while the Texas curriculum fight may have been the loudest, similar battles have played out in California, Colorado, and Oklahoma, as each state... View Details
Keywords: April White
- November 2021
- Article
Ratings, Reviews, and the Marketing of New Products
By: Itay P. Fainmesser, Dominique Olié Lauga and Elie Ofek
We study how user-generated content (UGC) about new products impacts a firm's advertising and pricing decisions and the effect on profits and market dynamics. We construct a two-period model where consumers value quality and are heterogeneous in their taste for the new... View Details
Keywords: Online Reviews; Product Ratings; Social Networks; Word Of Mouth; Pricing; User-generated Content; Advertising; Product Marketing; Price; Consumer Behavior; Product Positioning; Social Media
Fainmesser, Itay P., Dominique Olié Lauga, and Elie Ofek. "Ratings, Reviews, and the Marketing of New Products." Management Science 67, no. 11 (November 2021): 7023–7045.