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Case Research & Writing Group - Faculty & Research

Research Services Case Research & Writing Group 30ms Established in November 1999, the Case Research & Writing Group (CRG) grew out of Harvard Business School’s commitment to increase the diversity, impact, View Details

05 Jul 2012
What Do You Think?

Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

business faster and cheaper. I say may, because there is surprisingly little hard evidence to support these assumptions. Trust may facilitate the implementation of strategy. Doesn't it stand to reason that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

my difference is no more or less valued than yours. Most organizations do not manage diversity in this way, however." For organizations, supporting multiculturalism is not just about paying lip service to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Faculty & Research - Health Care

with one another. “ We are moving toward global competition for health care services driven by high costs in the United States and the lack of access to care in countries with governmentally controlled... View Details

09 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

Nisan-Ronen conjecture, especially given that the classic scheduling algorithms are anonymous, and all state-of-the-art mechanisms for special cases of the problem are anonymous as well. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 11

United States, expanding coverage and regulating insurers. However, it was not clear that expanding coverage would resolve a longstanding dilemma of rising costs for insurance and care. As the Department of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2012
Working Paper

How Short-Termism Invites Corruption—And What to Do About It

By: Malcolm S. Salter

Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies-along with fund managers and other investors-on short-term results. The central concern is that short-termism discourages long-term... View Details

Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Public Ownership; Performance Expectations; Economy; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Trust; Financial Services Industry; United States

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05 Jul 2022
What Do You Think?

Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?

(iStockphoto/aydinmutlu) Logistics issues have taken on unexpected and possibly unwanted “glamour” among those who study business and economics, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

24 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; and Marco Piovesan, an associate economics professor at the University of Copenhagen and a former research... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

17 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells

Backlash. The paper was co-written by University of Virginia Assistant Professor Tami Kim, who was an HBS doctoral student, HBS Assistant Professor Kate Barasz, John, and Michael I. Norton, the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

More Info – Less Info Exploring a new career opportunity, working on a pitch deck, or interested in finding out more about a competitor? We can help! Talk to a Baker librarian to learn how to best use our resources and View Details

March 2022
Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (B)

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco

In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details

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29 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)

designing interventions to increase vaccination levels for specific populations. I am helping reach vulnerable groups such as older immigrant adults, incarcerated adults, and home health workers, using focus groups View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

out of poverty, providing products and services that have improved people’s standards of living, and creating fulfilling jobs and careers. But... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

engagement and performance, reduce the time it took teachers to develop and grade learning assessments, enable administrators to better track data, View Details

25 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing

Cream-Skimming?, was written by Marco Di Maggio, the Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Vincent Yao, an associate professor from Georgia State... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Financial Services

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HBS - Key Metrics

Staff headcount includes employees classified as administrative & professional (exempt); research associates; internal post docs; service & trade hourly employed by Harvard Business School (HBS); View Details

19 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 19

China, Russia, Poland, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Turkey) is provided to over 650 institutional clients, including J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, KPMG, and ING Barings. After ruling out seeking another round of VC financing, the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

Painted in broad brush strokes, the contract emphasizes goals and outcomes, and is light on policy and implementation details. Of course, having begun many a sentence with the... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch

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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

ecosystem. We seek to support entrepreneurs in growing their businesses by providing capital that can be flexible in terms of structure and duration, according to each business’ needs. Ideal candidates for... View Details

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