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- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
Assistant Professor Douglas Fearing doesn't have the magic bullet to make this painful part of air travel a thing of the past. But his research on evaluating and improving the performance of complex systems such as air traffic control offers road warriors some... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
MBA students alike, the implications of that view are huge. For policymakers, the message is that cost cutting alone does nothing to improve the quality of care and probably will reduce it. Is anyone in Washington listening? For MBA... View Details
- 06 Nov 2009
- News
Health Reform Paths Not Taken
For workers at firms that didn’t offer health insurance, any amount they spent on health insurance also would be tax-free. Herzlinger contends that extending the health-care tax exemption to workers would be relatively easy to implement,... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between service capacity costs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
Viceira, is by keeping costs low. Traditional financial advisors are all about establishing a personal relationship with their clients, understanding their financial situation and walking them through their options. By pursuing a... View Details
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 CEOs of listed firms yields three sets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
protect their intellectual property rights—one of the most important growth drivers in the US economy—in developing markets. The case is one of a series Iyer is developing that are linked to property rights in emerging economies. Other case studies include an View Details
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
(giving competitors a lead in a market) and the entrenchment benefits (the cost advantage firms develop through learning-by-doing when they enter early). Both the opportunity costs of absence and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
your comments published in an upcoming issue of HBS Working Knowledge—it will cost you $6.00 to download the full story from HBR. See details below. For two years, U.S.-based DataClear has all but had a stranglehold on the data View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
That is no longer true, though, for any but a relative handful of institutions. Costs have risen to unprecedented heights, and new competitors are emerging. A disruptive technology, online learning, is at... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
homes, while wave energy could power more than 200 million. And global capacity for ocean energy is even greater, with experts saying that marine sources could provide enough electricity to satisfy worldwide demand four times over. Yet marine energy remains a View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
for new features. Our paper introduces a dynamic mixed duopoly model in which a profit-maximizing competitor (Microsoft) interacts with a competitor that prices at zero (Linux), with the installed base affecting their relative values over... View Details
- Profile
Alice Yang
applied for a position with the organization, and in the summer of 2003, became Farmer’s research assistant. “It was just before Tracy Kidder’s bestselling book, Mountains Beyond Mountains, was published. PIH was still relatively small –... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Alumni Board Wraps Up Year
also found that Alumni Career Services already has a broad array of beneficial Web-based and on-campus career development offerings, but that awareness of these services is relatively low. Hence, the committee recommended improving... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
boost earnings to meet earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
that the "good old days" of relatively strenuous, dangerous, and boring manufacturing jobs are not coming back. Many of those jobs have been exported for good. Now we are confronted with a new reality: Service jobs are just as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
PublicationsManager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers Authors:Francois Brochet, Lucile Faurel, and Sarah McVay Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
through the lens of "sabermetrics" to compete with much better-funded organizations, achieving success with a relatively small investment. Writing recently in The New York Times, Cade Massey and Bob Tedeschi speculate on whether... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
Education reunion attendees and found that while only subtle changes were needed to improve the MBA reunion experience, the Executive Education model should be addressed more closely. The committee’s recommendation was to undertake a full View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details