Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (2,675) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (2,675) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 56 of 2,675 Results →
  • 2015
  • Book

Strong Brands, Strong Relationships

By: Susan Fournier, Michael Breazeale and Jill Avery
From the editorial team of the ground-breaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice comes this new volume. Strong Brands, Strong Relationships is a collection of innovative research and management insights that build upon the foundations of... View Details
Keywords: Brand Building; Brand Management; CRM; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Advertising; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry
Related
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

An Anatomy of Performance Monitoring

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
Performance monitoring is a mainstay management tool in most organizations. Yet we still know little about whether—and why—better monitoring yields better performance in practice. To shed light on these questions, we study the introduction of a performance monitoring... View Details
Keywords: Performance Monitoring; Worker Skills; Skill Depreciation; Managerial Inattention; On-the-job Training; Productivity; Multitasking; Quick Serve Restaurants; Performance Evaluation; Employees; Competency and Skills; Training; Performance Productivity; Management; Information Technology; Food and Beverage Industry; Puerto Rico
Related
  • 09 Mar 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Causes and Consequences of Firm Disclosures of Anticorruption Efforts

Keywords: by Paul Healy & George Serafeim

    F. Warren McFarlan

    Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at... View Details

    Keywords: e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry
    • October 2010
    • Article

    The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Allen S. Grossman
    Many of our largest and most successful companies today did not exist 50 years ago. During this same time interval, companies that ranked among top in the 1960s have disappeared, been merged out of existence, or become much smaller presences in the U.S. industrial... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Markets; Investment Funds; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Accountability; Management Practices and Processes; Infrastructure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Effectiveness; Nonprofit Organizations
    Related
    • 01 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

    Because workers focus too narrowly on how to achieve those objectives, rather than looking beyond the scope of their role to improve the business more broadly. Gallani conducted the study—which was published in the journal Contemporary View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • Web

    Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

    worldview. Social Join a global community of business professionals. Learn from and network with peers before, during, and after your course. Ask questions, collaborate, give feedback, and share experiences and expertise across industries... View Details
    • Web

    Morgan Hall | About

    stone facility housed offices for the Dean, faculty, research staff, and administrative personnel, as well as accounting laboratories, research rooms, and a laboratory of industrial physiology. Special care... View Details
    • 27 May 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: May 27, 2009

    industry and services. Although each Mubadala investment is supposed to earn large returns, the strategy balances financial against "strategic" returns. ADIA and Mubadala are the institutional architecture to manage the wealth... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 28 Apr 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: April 28, 2009

    Industry Location and International Regulatory Variation Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Publication:Chap. 16 in Ways of Regulating: Therapeutic Agents between Plants, Shops, and Consulting Rooms. Vol. 363, 271-290. Berlin, Germany: Max Planck... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 21 May 2021
    • Blog Post

    Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

    Integration on Stock Valuations. One example of this was when I was asked to evaluate a large OEM company based in Asia. I evaluated the company’s ESG performance by applying the Sustainability Accounting Board’s (SASB) ESG Integration... View Details
    • Web

    Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

    "the role of industry is to sense a deep human need, then bring science and technology to bear on filling that need." 9 As automobile ownership increased exponentially through the 1920s, Land aligned his research of polarizers with what... View Details
    • 02 Aug 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

    A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • 24 Oct 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

    thing? If the ratings are capturing real quality, then that's a force for good. To the extent that there is gaming or nonrepresentative views, that's a problem. The onus is on the review industry to change that." “If the ratings are... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
    • Web

    The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

    artists in the 1920s and ’30s the ability to achieve extraordinary nuances in gradations of tone, texture, and saturation. Related industries responded, and by the end of the 1920s photographers could choose from a broad range of paper... View Details
    • April 1998 (Revised September 1998)
    • Case

    Classic Pen Company, The: Developing an ABC Model

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    Classic Pen has diversified from its core blue and black pen business by introducing new specialized colors. But costs have risen and margins on blue and black pens are decreasing. The controller turns to activity-based costing (ABC) for an explanation. View Details
    Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Manufacturing Industry
    Related
    • 17 Mar 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: March 17

    Abraham Neyman Abstract—Building on the work of Nash, Harsanyi, and Shapley, we define a cooperative solution for strategic games that takes account of both the competitive and the cooperative aspects of such games. We prove existence in... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    Decarbonization and Sustainable Production: Immersive Field Course in Denmark and the Netherlands

    back in 2012, I was hoping to graduate and work in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. My goal was to contribute to eradicating energy poverty and improving general welfare. At that time, petroleum View Details
    • May 2022
    • Article

    Variance Analysis: New Insights from Health Care Applications

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Susanna Gallani
    We use a health care application to illustrate how variance analysis can be used to benchmark costs across similar service delivery sites. Variances for personnel costs, typically the largest cost component in service organizations, are calculated for price, quantity,... View Details
    Keywords: Variance Analysis; Benchmarking; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Service Industry
    Related
    • 02 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

    Scenario 1: The Overcapacity M&a A great many mergers and acquisitions occur in industries that have substantial overcapacity; these tend to be older, capital-intensive sectors. Overcapacity accounts for... View Details
    Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower