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- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
of funding erode for nonprofits, an increasing number are turning to the private sector for funding. Businesses are also increasingly searching for opportunities to form partnerships and co-branding programs with high-profile nonprofits.... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 10 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Unobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem
Keywords: by Faisal Z. Ahmed & Eric Werker
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
think? Original Article The week that I write this, I needed help programming a television set for recording purposes. Before being connected with the cable company service representative, I agreed to provide telephonic feedback about the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
say, "When we tried to create poverty intervention programs in third world countries, the exchange paradigms don't work because these people aren't even at baseline level. They don't have basic necessities of housing, sanitation,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
system we are operating. Q: You say in your article that the Toyota system involves a rigorous and methodical problem-solving approach that is made part of everyone's work and is done under the guidance of a teacher. How difficult would it be for companies to develop... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
Why in the world would anyone take the time to write complicated software programs for free? It's a good question, one that has piqued the curiosity of a number of economists, who wonder what benefits, if any, lie behind the burgeoning... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
help young people from low-income communities launch promising careers. The applications provide an inside look at the interplay among short-term training providers, employers, colleges, and high schools. "Policymakers, employers, and educators must prioritize and... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
hospitals. The e-commerce giant JD developed a drone program to drop parcels and to spray disinfectant. Smart helmets can identify anyone with fever within a five-meter radius. For other businesses, especially those where digital and... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
well-being by offering time-saving services—perhaps even in place of financial rewards. The Stanford School of Medicine did just that with a pilot program that rewarded faculty members with vouchers for meal deliveries, laundry services,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Article
Financial Analysis of Pediatric Resident Physician Primary Care Longitudinal Outpatient Experience
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Carole H. Stipelman, Brad Poss, Laura Anne Stetson, Luca Boi, Michael Rogers, Caleb Puzey, Sri Koduri, Vivian S. Lee and Edward B. Clark
Objective
To determine whether residency training represents a net positive or negative cost to academic medical centers, we analyzed the cost of a residency program and clinical productivity of residents and faculty in an outpatient primary care practice with or... View Details
To determine whether residency training represents a net positive or negative cost to academic medical centers, we analyzed the cost of a residency program and clinical productivity of residents and faculty in an outpatient primary care practice with or... View Details
Kaplan, Robert S., Carole H. Stipelman, Brad Poss, Laura Anne Stetson, Luca Boi, Michael Rogers, Caleb Puzey, Sri Koduri, Vivian S. Lee, and Edward B. Clark. "Financial Analysis of Pediatric Resident Physician Primary Care Longitudinal Outpatient Experience." Academic Pediatrics 18, no. 7 (September–October 2018): 837–842.
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
http://hbr.org/2011/12/the-ordinary-heroes-of-the-taj/ar/1 Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs Authors:Robin J. Ely, Herminia Ibarra, and Deborah Kolb Publication:Academy of Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
companies that offer internships to cultivate talent, including JPMorgan Chase, Deloitte, and PepsiCo, to roll out virtual programs in 2020. The study’s findings offer reassurance to the 81 percent of companies offering virtual or hybrid... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
innovative new financial derivatives or special-purpose vehicles, even if they serve on boards that are required to approve such potentially risky transactions. In fact, data on enrollment in executive education programs offered by... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Does 'Liking' Lead to Loving? The Impact of Joining a Brand’s Social Network on Marketing Outcomes By: John, Leslie K., Oliver Emrich, Sunil Gupta, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Does “liking” a brand on Facebook cause a person... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Equalizing Outcomes vs. Equalizing Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children’s Abilities Depend on Parents’ Resources
Keywords: by Alexander Gelber & Matthew Weinzierl
- 22 Feb 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Consumer Demand for Prize-Linked Savings: A Preliminary Analysis
- May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Gap, Inc., 2012
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
Between 2000 and 2012, Gap, Inc. (Gap) ceded its world leadership position in specialty fashion retailing to Inditex of Spain and H&M of Sweden. These two companies, each less than a quarter of Gap's size in 2000, were now setting the pace in the global mass fashion... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Fashion; Multinational; Brands; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Improvement; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Change Management; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sweden; Spain; United States
Wells, John R., and Galen Danskin. "Gap, Inc., 2012." Harvard Business School Case 713-511, May 2013. (Revised March 2014.)
- 06 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit
bucket and in a little over three years all your current customers might be gone,” says Gupta, the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. For that reason, many companies have a program to... View Details
- January–February 2023
- Article
Data-Driven COVID-19 Vaccine Development for Janssen
By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Michael Lingzhi Li, Xinggang Liu, Jennings Xu and Najat Khan
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred extensive vaccine research worldwide. One crucial part of vaccine development is the phase III clinical trial that assesses the vaccine for safety and efficacy in the prevention of COVID-19. In this work, we enumerate the first... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Health Testing and Trials; Forecasting and Prediction; AI and Machine Learning; Research; Pharmaceutical Industry
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Michael Lingzhi Li, Xinggang Liu, Jennings Xu, and Najat Khan. "Data-Driven COVID-19 Vaccine Development for Janssen." INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics 53, no. 1 (January–February 2023): 70–84.
- 2022
- Book
Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World
By: Jeremy Friedman
A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.
In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent... View Details
In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent... View Details
Keywords: Socialism; Economic Systems; Globalization; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies
Friedman, Jeremy. Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022.