safety net - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

will be better information for better decisions. In some cases, better information comes from simply combining data that already exist in the firm but are spread across different parts of the company. Some metrics, such as customer satisfaction (like the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Nov 2020
News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

inflation, three presidents, Nixon, Ford, and eventually the next year, Carter, had caused me to work 80, 90 hours a week and create a negative net worth. I didn't plan to go to my HBS fifth reunion in 1975 and I didn't really have the... View Details

03 Nov 2015
First Look

November 3, 2015

funding leads to a net increase of 2.3 patents. Though valuing patents is difficult, we report a range of estimates for the private value of these patents using different approaches. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

red on food service. But Southwest doesn't pay much attention to that, because getting better at food service would slow its turnaround time, which is a big green for the airline when it comes to pleasing its customers. So we work on helping organizations identify the... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service

17 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 17

WalkRoundsTM—Based Intervention Authors:Anita L. Tucker and Sara J. Singer Abstract Background: Leadership WalkRounds have been widely adopted as a technique for improving patient safety and safety climate.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 May 2018
News

What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries

that the family structure has where people really depend on each other. So whenever you're successful, other people demand on you. And that can have a big impact on society. On the one hand, it's a nice safety View Details

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

welfare enhancing. In this case, the net cost of both contracting directly on an aggregate measure and exploiting career incentives based on disaggregated measures is smaller than the cost of contracting directly on disaggregate measures.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

now if K-12 education performance doesn’t substantially improve?” The consequences of each year sending tens of thousands of unprepared kids into a harshly competitive world are already clear. They include rising social safety View Details

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

Harvard Business School Note 706-044 Describes the emergence of several kinds of efforts to assure the safety of foreign investment in emerging markets: international arbitration, expanded official political risk insurance, credit from... View Details