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- 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
forthcoming Management Science Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We provide the first large-sample evidence on the behavior and impact of nonpracticing entities... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
long-term impact on the practice and thinking in this field will reach its full potential. From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management Author:Anette Mikes Publication:Accounting, Organizations and Society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
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Green Stuff: Value, Risk, and Environmental Management Environmental issues increasingly influence companies in their approach to fundamental business concerns. How these matters play out in terms of corporate behavior is the subject of a... View Details
- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
valuable asset. However, the company is now at a crossroads. It has grown so big and so popular that it must consider monetizing certain aspects of its business to ensure sustained quality and to continue to bolster its content offerings.... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
leadership and management is to prioritize among competing accountability demands. This involves deciding both to whom and for what they owe accountability. This paper provides an overview of the accountability pressures facing nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
decision by the Bush White House to provide more than $20 billion to GM, Chrysler, and their financial subsidiaries, the auto task force put together by President Obama managed a restructuring of both companies at a breathtaking pace.... View Details
- 21 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Visits NYC
and organizations after the fellowships, to hear about experiences. Seeing students and alumni during their fellowships brings us an entirely different angle. They may have just come from a brainstorming session or have on their mind a presentation to senior View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
Kids may grow up wanting to be entrepreneurs, but “no kid dreams of growing up to be a venture capitalist,” says Jeffrey Bussgang (MBA ’95). Thankfully, Bussgang has managed to do both and write about it, too. His recent book, Mastering... View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
difference-in-differences analyses to examine the effects of a switch from decentralized to centralized hiring at our research site. We find that, on average, centralized hiring does not increase the quality of employee-company matches,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
In his work managing real estate investments at Samson Investment Partners in New York, Lloyd Zuckerberg (MBA 1990) often draws on the same sensibilities that guide his leadership of the nonprofit New York Landmarks Conservancy. “I don’t... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
PublicationsOptimizing Organic Waste to Energy Operations Authors:Bariş Ata, Deishin Lee, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract A waste-to-energy firm that recycles... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Deep Reading
searchable way to access them. Leboyer could have joined a havruta, the rabbinical version of a study group, to help him navigate the corpus, but as managing director of the Venture Lab for Software and AI at the Technical University of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society
and uses them in the elective he developed, How Star Women Succeed. One case he teaches, “BlackRock: Diversity as a Driver for Success,” examines BlackRock’s efforts to increase diversity in management and build a more inclusive culture... View Details
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
selecting investments, VCs see the management team as more important than business-related characteristics such as product or technology. They also attribute more of the likelihood of ultimate investment success or failure to the team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
Raising The Bar Medtronic has always had dedicated employees, but the organization often rewarded loyalty instead of performance. Whereas the quality of the first-line employees was exceptional, serious gaps in View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
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Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
Adams, who was known for the technical and artistic quality of his images and for his masterful printing. Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, test photographs by Ansel Adams, January 1954, © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Polaroid... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
running operations across the Internet as well as having a heavier IT component that examines subjects such as Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) and Internet Commerce EE: What are the main objectives of the program? Upton: BCAO's primary objective is to enable View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
company ravaged by a massive fire. "They were very upset," says Sucher, the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice and Joseph L. Rice, III Faculty Fellow at HBS. "What upset them was how cavalier they thought... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
fret about the quality of the care they receive, the burden of out-of-pocket expenses, and gaps in coverage for long-term care, prescriptions, and catastrophic illnesses. For business, health care has become a lose-lose proposition: You... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger