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  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

Many of these shortcomings can be attributed to the Bank's inability or unwillingness to fully integrate accountability to affected peoples into incentive structures for staff. In addition, there has been little improvement in terms of... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 22 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

initial step, China Netcom's Chairman, Zhang Chunjiang, began a program that sought to further develop the company's corporate governance practices to meet international corporate governance standards. The company hoped that its commitment in developing a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

NPIL's new acquisitions in Canada and the United Kingdom to market NPIL globally. His three direct reports are each involved in different aspects of NPIL—the Canadian operations, the British operations, and the global business development—and the case explores the team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

New Paths to Success in Asia

leapfrogged U.S. advances. In this dynamic environment, detailed insights such as those developed by Lane and other HBS scholars are essential to understanding the realities of doing business. They provide what Asia-Pacific Initiative... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
  • 21 May 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai

amounts of recyclable plastic available in that huge stockpile is an operational marathon (1). Dalmia is doing this with a hub and spoke model, consisting of centralized sorting facilities (hubs) connected to various recycling facilities (spokes) that manage the... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset

which we’re in the process of doing. As for the dataset, it is completely free/opensource and is already becoming the preferred policy dataset over more general state-level data. It’s been accessed thousands of times and used by modelers... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

http://or.journal.informs.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/60/5/1199.full.pdf+html Convergence of Position Auctions under Myopic Best-Response Dynamics Authors:Cary, Matthew, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

representation on boards, and even the potential to create social good. Covering both public and private markets, the course will present the unprecedented opportunities that have arisen due to energy transition and other trends through rigorous approaches to business... View Details
  • 06 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 6

  Publications August 2013 Cengage Learning Principles of Management. 1st ed By: Gulati, Ranjay, Anthony J. Mayo, and Nitin Nohria Abstract—Prepare your students, as managers, to confront today's challenges and opportunities that are more View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

Harvard Business School Case 208-111 This lesson develops the classical structural approach to pricing and hedging credit risk: Merton's (1974) contingent claims model of debt and equity claims. This View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

designing a model where the full spectrum of your employees-not just the outstanding ones-will have no choice but to deliver excellence as an everyday routine. You get there by building a system that just doesn't produce anything else.... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer to consume the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

regimes that reduce bias in quality assessments in domains such as food safety, process quality, occupational safety, working conditions, and regulatory compliance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52570 Demand Estimation in View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

must disrupt the way we think about social change. The author suggests how this can be done by sharing stories and case studies focused on innovative approaches to large-scale social change. Operating Model Canvas: Aligning Operations and... View Details
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

model where firms choose which suppliers to integrate and whether to delegate decisions to integrated suppliers or keep them centralized. We test the predictions of this model using a novel dataset that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

social media, two-sided platforms, robotics, and cybersecurity. Educational Objectives The course exists to address a gap in management scholarship between two fundamental stages of corporate development – exploration and exploitation . This View Details
  • Web

Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library

world.” 1963 Case Clearing House Sells Enough to Break Even Intercollegiate Case Clearing House sells $107,000 worth of mimeographed cases, approaching break-even point. 1963 Dynamic Case Series Introduced First-year students participate... View Details
  • 25 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

a problem of nightmarish proportions [because of] the growing complexity of the systems and the interdependent structure of their designs. Each new computer system had to be designed from the ground up, and only new systems could take... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology
  • January 2011 (Revised November 2015)
  • Case

The National Geographic Society (A)

By: David A. Garvin and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Information Publishing; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Internet; Publishing Industry
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  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

same behaviors described as “random behaviors.” Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51401 Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System By: Begenau, Juliane, and Tim Landvoigt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne