Producing Managers - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

environmental record is actually quite mixed. But you wouldn't know it from environmental ratings and rankings that claim to highlight the most environmentally proactive companies. News Corporation was awarded the highest rating of "AAA" in the Global... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

01 Jun 2024
News

Outside Voices

In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Pete Ryan; immigration; repatriation; innovation; public policy; Greece

13 Jun 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

That Costs HOW Much?

for a product, shoppers typically have no idea what it costs to produce that item. But it turns out that consumers reward efforts to lay out these figures—to deconstruct the price tag. Seven Tips for View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

13 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia

Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That's been the experience of Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

01 Apr 1997
News

HBS Research Available on World Wide Web

will produce hundreds of new cases and dozens of books, as well as numerous articles and working papers. This activity covers an enormous variety of business and organizational issues; taken as a whole, it constitutes an unmatched... View Details

Web

VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Business School professors Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan, engages with leading health care providers in the U.S. and around the world to measure and manage patient-level costs over complete cycles of care for a variety of medical... View Details

09 Apr 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel

more citizens are achieving personal wealth, and the middle class is growing. On our trip to India, we had the opportunity to meet with a variety of companies that are part of the clean build: from incumbent power and steel producers that... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Studying Japan from the Inside

working for an underperforming company can produce outstanding results if they have the right leader. Q: What are some of the challenges that Japanese managers face today? A: Globalization. When U.S.,... View Details

Keywords: Cynthia Churchwell; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Mar 2011
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

behavior? What do you think? Original Article We've supposed for a long time that certain behaviors foster relationships that can determine success or failure. Now improved technologies (such as brain imaging) combined with imaginative research are View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 1999
News

Class of 1942 Chair Honors Paul Lawrence, Promotes Leadership

and the management of R&D laboratories. At HBS, he teaches courses in managing organizations, innovation, and international competitiveness. He is a consultant and an instructor in corporate executive... View Details

Web

Case Writing & Industry | Baker Library

studies. (4) Through its continual ties with industry, HBS has produced case studies that are both grounded in complex, real-world business situations and serve as effective teaching instruments. The development of case studies has in... View Details

07 Nov 2014
News

In partnership to support a mission

education, civic engagement, and international peace and security initiatives. Jenkins explains that she and Lew divide the portfolio, each serving as the primary manager for one-half of the investments, while acting as devil’s advocate... View Details

18 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

increasing in financial characteristics predicted to be associated with greater unverifiable fair-value-based discretion. To investigate whether non-impairment is associated with managers producing on... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2016
News

Taking Care of Business

expertise in quality control and volume manufacturing in the automotive industry (where he does double duty as managing director of Sundaram Brake Linings), Mahesh launched Sundaram Medical Devices in 2010, won the NVC, and built a better... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2004
News

Hollywood Story

has a lot in common with film producing and screenwriting. “There is definitely something to be said for having the kind of training I had at Goldman,” says Epstein, who finished production in May on The Deal, a “global oil thriller” she... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Jun 2017
News

Case Study: Something New

launching Anomalie in 2016, she was a supply-chain manager for Apple Watch—and a bride-to-be in search of a wedding gown. In the process, the self-described TOM nerd discovered that one city in China View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

open to making any change, let alone endorsing major change? Into this unpromising environment, Whitehead proposed to separate executions from solicitations and to have everyone in investment banking at Goldman Sachs work either on soliciting business and View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

06 Nov 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

levels of management was a theme running through several comments. As Dennis Nelson put it, "When an organization knows on what investments its existence depends, and the various returns on its investments, resource allocation from... View Details