Cost Effectiveness - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2000
News

Laura Scher of Working Assets

become effective activists and philanthropists through their everyday activities, at little or no cost to them," explains the friendly and low-key Scher, seated in an office whose walls are lined with... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

To equip students to effectively work in and lead these teams, FIELD begins with a five-week foundations module, in which students undertake a series of workshops on communication, feedback and coaching, emotional intelligence, and team... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

01 Mar 2012
News

Putting Ghosts to Rest

broad social transformation. Second, it is not always easy to see this idea of “social return,” nor is it easy to quantify. The risks of “social business” are high, and likely require some economic cost to capture the value of increased... View Details

Keywords: Chris Maloney; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

system with periodic review, constant leadtimes, infinite supply, full backlogging, linear holding and penalty costs and no ordering costs. Forecasting ARIMA time series requires tracking forecast errors (interpolations) and using these... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

highlights the process through which diversity initiatives become successful and offers insight into how organizations can more effectively recruit and retain a diverse workforce. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

effectively allocated resources in the economy. I still think that our approach is a good one, but maybe not as good as we thought. Hopefully, we'll better understand the conflicts of interest, improve the system, and have more awareness... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

30 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

favorite songs.” Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse, who does much of her business research on the entertainment industry, looked at the clash between bundles and digital distribution, and the effect on media and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

effects on citation rates. Our findings suggest that subfields can increase the impact they have on the broader intellectual discourse by situating their phenomena in rich contexts that illuminate the connections between their findings... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

Platform Envelopment Authors:Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To dislodge them, entrants generally must offer... View Details

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

"My response was that there's a big difference between a really great product and a company," she said. Given the constraints of costs and the problems of marketing, to cite only two factors, "Starting new businesses is a... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

18 Apr 2022
News

Home Grown

startups, the most innovative people of the country actually going to become entrepreneurs, and the capital actually moving [00:02:00] towards a lot more riskier kind of ventures, which is effectively going to change the face of the... View Details

27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

enculturating new employees such that they develop pride in their new organization and internalize its values. Drawing on authenticity research, we propose that socialization leads to more effective employment relationships when it starts... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Sep 2015
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September 8, 2015

their reputations and their relationships with stakeholders. Companies need clearer guidelines for determining whether a mistake merits an apology and, when it does, for crafting and delivering an effective message. In this article, the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Sep 2016
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September 13, 2016

of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Our model shows that NPE litigation can reduce infringement and support small inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing... View Details

26 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology

01 Sep 2011
News

Breaking Free from Fear of Change

research on high-need-for-achievement professionals — people with an insatiable need to keep achieving at all costs — DeLong took stock of the ways in which he and other driven executives can become victims of their own ambitions and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 1998
News

Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

will be the reverse. Some companies, governments, and agencies here and abroad will be forced into a second triage, allocating scarce resources on a makeshift basis. For even more vulnerable organizations, the effects of the Y2K problem... View Details

01 Nov 2012
News

First and Goal

beaten play for the championship. In effect, an adults-only paperwork controversy cost the kids a championship of their own. Fortunately, Swearengin noted, “The team all told me they felt like champions, which, for a coach, is a great... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

04 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 4

experimenter who had made them wait, or not interrupting at all. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44857 Measurement Errors of Expected Returns Proxies and the Implied Cost of Capital By: Wang, Charles C.Y.... View Details