Publications

November 1989
Case

IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (Condensed)

By: D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen

Keywords: Employment; Management Practices and Processes; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry

1985
Book

Marketing Management: Readings from Theory to Practice

By: B. P. Shapiro, R. J. Dolan and J. A. Quelch

Keywords: Marketing; Management; Theory; Practice

December 1995
Article

Financial Instruments: Decision, Proposals, and Best Practices

By: David F. Hawkins

Keywords: Financial Instruments; Decision Making; Practice

Web

Database Best Practices - Research Computing Services

Data Practices Database Best Practices 3ms Please consider the following before you start building your MariaDB database. What are your goals for the database? Keep in mind for what purposes your database... View Details

07 Jul 2020
Blog Post

The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground

the program give us confidence that we will graduate equipped with a powerful tool—a degree that enables us to understand and positively impact our surroundings. But using a tool effectively requires training; the JD/MBA seminar has been the perfect View Details

March 1999
Article

Practices for Managing Information Flows Within Organizations

By: Joel Demski, Tracy Lewis, Dennis Yao and Huseyin Yildirim

Firm organization determines how coworkers communicate and how information flows within the firm. Banking, accounting, consulting, and legal firms process proprietary information which their clients wish to protect. The firm's ability to safeguard and manage... View Details

Keywords: Information Management; Management Practices and Processes; Safety; Governance Controls; Customer Focus and Relationships

March 2011
Case

Seven-Eleven Japan: The Tanpin Kanri Retail Practice

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Carin-Isabel Knoop

This case focuses on Tanpin Kanri, which uses both store-level human knowledge and product information sharing. View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Employees; Practice; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; Japan

April–June 2018
Article

Establishing Teams: How Does It Change Practice Configuration, Size, and Composition?

By: Alyna Chien, Michael Anne Kyle, Antoinette S. Peters, Shalini Tendulkar, Molly Ryan, Karen Hacker and Sara J. Singer

Little is known about how practices reorganize when transitioning from traditional practice organization to team-based care. We compared practice-level (1) configuration as well as practice- and team-level (2) size and (3) composition, before and after establishing... View Details

Keywords: Academic Medicine; Primary Care; Team-based Care; Health Care and Treatment; Groups and Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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summer 1992
Article

Shareholder Trading Practices and Corporate Investment Horizons

By: Kenneth A. Froot, André Perold and J. Stein

Keywords: Institutional Investing; Market Efficiency; Behavioral Finance; Equities; Stock Market; Indexing; Financial Markets; Asset Pricing

15 Jun 2012
News

How Competition Can Encourage Unethical Business Practices

13 Aug 2009
News

Practicing Medicine in the Age of Facebook

01 Dec 2011
News

Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices

and her colleagues are doing. “This commitment to developing ideas with impact not just in academia but also in practice and in policy,” says Dean Nitin Nohria, “is a vital part of our identity and DNA.” View Details

Keywords: birth control; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

08 Mar 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices

Keywords: by Victor Manuel Bennett, Lamar Pierce, Jason A. Snyder & Michael W. Toffel; Auto

Article

Lawyers Abroad: The Internationalization of Legal Practice

By: Debora L. Spar

Article

Practicing Medicine in the Age of Facebook

In my second week of medical internship, I received a "friend request" on Facebook, the popular social-networking Web site. The name of the requester was familiar: Erica Baxter. Three years earlier, as a medical student, I had participated in the delivery of Ms.... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Relationships; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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October 1995
Article

New Trading Practices and Short-Run Market Efficiency

By: Kenneth A. Froot and André Perold

Keywords: Institutional Investing; Market Efficiency; Behavioral Finance; Equities; Stock Market; Indexing; Financial Markets; Asset Pricing

October 2003 (Revised April 2006)
Background Note

Moral Reasoning: A Practical Guide for Leaders

By: Sandra J. Sucher

We encounter moral or ethical challenges in our professional lives, in our close relationships, and as members of the broader communities that we are part of. This methodology demonstrates how moral reasoning works and how it can be integrated into a problem-solving... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Moral Sensibility; Management Systems; Problems and Challenges; Civil Society or Community

September 1998 (Revised May 2004)
Case

Becton Dickinson: Ethics and Business Practices (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine

Becton Dickinson's Global One-Company Operations Group must decide on the company's global policy on gifts, gratuities, and business entertainment. A central issue is whether the policy should be established centrally and made uniform worldwide or whether it should be... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Ethics; Law; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Global Strategy; Trade; Business or Company Management