Quality Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 19

why managers may respond to the demand for dividends from local seniors. Overall, these results are consistent with the notion that the investor base affects corporate policy choices. Utilizing Team Member Expertise Under Pressure... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Apr 2004
What Do You Think?

Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?

mergers and acquisitions fail to achieve their objectives, suggesting possible remedies to this "flawed process." Kathryn Yates, for example, cited three primary reasons for M&A failure: "1) Forgetting to plan for the cost of integration… 2)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

for a second-mover to challenge a first-mover. A: Firefox and Camino claim only a small market share, and those users are on the tech-savvy end of the user spectrum. In particular for Mac-centric browsers, we still live in a PC-dominated world. Until IT View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

03 Dec 2024
News

From One to Many

created with Ferrazzi Greenlight? When I went to HBS I was known as the guy who came out of manufacturing, having spent a number of years implementing Total Quality Management at a pharmaceutical company in... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock

could reorder the way a lot of corporations work today. Instead of having 1,000 people in the same office, create localized offices or give people a budget to create an office at home. In doing so, you would significantly improve the View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

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Fly-by-Night Firms and the Market for Product Reviews

By: Gerald R. Faulhaber and Dennis A. Yao

This paper presents a model that permits third-party information provision in a market characterized by information asymmetries and reputation formation. The model is used to examine how the market for information provision affects prices and supply in the primary... View Details

Keywords: Markets; Reputation; SWOT Analysis; Mathematical Methods; Price Bubble; Inflation and Deflation; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Cost; Information; Quality; Price; Competitive Advantage; Information Industry

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16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

to have an HBS case written about them? Isn't it very unusual to be studied up-close in this fashion? Dessain: The Harvard Business School name is well known in Europe, but there are still a relatively small number of alumni in senior View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Oct 2002
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Faculty Research Symposium

administrators together for lively presentations by colleagues and a panel discussion on “The Market for Management Ideas,” moderated by Walter Kiechel (MBA '76/JD '77), senior vice president and executive director of HBS Publishing.... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

And his afterlife: “When three-headed Cerberus greeted him / Socrates replied: ‘I won’t need / an attack dog, thank you. I married one.’” Mergers and Acquisitions: Integration and Transformation Management as the Gateway to Success by... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

every field of business endeavor. Their impact has been significant and broad-based: according to research by Associate Professor Amarnath V. Bhidé, more than one-third of HBS alumni currently manage their own firms twenty years after... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2013
News

Five Bright Ideas

European Computer Driving License, a basic requirement for any IT job in Europe, which otherwise can cost as much as $500 per course.) English language, computer skills, and business management curricula are especially popular. Explains... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

03 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

small-business owners can purchase their own low-cost indoor air quality monitors to measure these factors in real time, independent of what the landlord or plant manager may be saying, giving them a measure... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate

15 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 15

quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World Bank project quality suffers as a consequence of political influence only when the recipient country is economically vulnerable in the first... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Jonathan Evans

expand from serving eight schools to serving schools nationwide. To scale the technology, I assembled and managed a team and was charged with managing partnerships with people twice my age.” Connected by a... View Details

01 Feb 2018
News

HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86

Hugo Uyterhoeven Hugo Uyterhoeven Hugo E.R. Uyterhoeven (MBA 1957, DBA 1963), an expert on general management and a member of the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty for more than 50 years who maintained a steadfast commitment to course... View Details

10 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis

and methods have allowed local farmers to use water more efficiently, while also boosting their production and crop yields. Rosario Bazán is the Co-Founder and General Manager of Danper, a leading agribusiness based in Peru. Founded in... View Details

02 Mar 2015
News

To Market, To Market

operate livestock breeding centers, improve soil systems, and create opportunities for a younger generation to take on farming. In Armenia, Heifer has been teaching farmers about pasture management as well as helping to develop an... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Agriculture; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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Evgeny Koudryavtsev

capital at the time. In the fall, TPG closed its first deal in Russia." International perspective Evgeny decided to invest time in an MBA to learn the best practices in general management. "In investing, it is important to evaluate the View Details

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Marcela Sapone

sending gifts, booking appointments and reorganizing closets. By assuming the time-draining task of finding high quality service providers, Alfred secures the best professionals on a subscriber’s behalf. Sapone tips her cap to Angie’s... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine

father’s that evolved into a hobby that turned into a business,” she says. “We not only wanted to be excellent stewards, we wanted to enhance its value.” As managing partner of Knudsen Vineyards, Knudsen Cowles now provides strategic... View Details

Keywords: Ryan Jones

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