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  • 13 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

college. However, recent changes to the state's accountability system necessitated greater focus on helping Codman Academy students meet this graduation requirement. Codman Academy's founding, academic model, leadership, and partnerships... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Sep 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Jan 2020
  • Blog Post

Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community

getting to know others, both current students and alumni, in the industries I was most passionate about. Coincidentally, there was also a lot of overlap with the Tech Club (of which I was also a member) given the entertainment and media... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2004
  • News

Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

art of the deal, replicated the Hazleton model, acquiring twenty companies and amalgamating the industry to create a global capability for the world's pharmaceutical makers. In 1987, with the industry for... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2006
  • News

Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969

focus from advising to investing in start-ups just as the UK and Europe embarked on major economic reforms. In addition, the U.S. venture capital industry got a huge boost when a 1978 clarification in the Employee Retirement Income... View Details
  • September 2009 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

Elkay Plumbing Products Division

By: Robert S. Kaplan
The vice president of sales learns that the most profitable 1% of the division's customers generate 100% of profits, and that two of the division's largest customers lose 50% of profits. The division has just finished a project to install a time-driven activity-based... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Profit; Management Systems; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

produces slower learning in human subjects than the standard second price auction mechanism. Our results also serve to highlight differences in behavior between simulated agents and human bidders that mechanism designers should take into View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

http://www.nber.org/confer/2009/EIf09/summary.html The Learning Effects of Monitoring Authors: Dennis Campbell, Marc Epstein, and F. Asís Martínez Jerez Publication: The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)

A native of Aliceville, Alabama, Lisa Churchville attended HBS while on educational leave from IBM. Upon graduation, she changed paths and pursued her interest in broadcasting, working as an account executive for ABC before joining NBC in... View Details
Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters

different industry or job type Many students come to HBS to change industries, but they bring with them a wealth of knowledge and experience from their past work, much of which can be transferable to their new path. Their unique... View Details
  • 30 Sep 2019
  • Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

respect to black leaders’ economic influence over the past century. Most remarkably, the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, was placed at the helm of the US economy in the midst of the Great Recession and executed multi-billion-dollar stimulus... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

A Market-Based Prescription

physicians’ services? Health-care providers are as constrained by managed care as consumers. Other industries enjoy much greater freedom. Grocery retailers, for example, serve a variety of customers in outlets ranging from discount clubs... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 25 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry

their new industry along with the federal standards and workforce they’ll need. Last fall, she began brainstorming with green entrepreneur Donnel Baird, CEO of BlocPower, when both attended events promoting the Biden infrastructure bill,... View Details
  • May 1994 (Revised February 2021)
  • Background Note

Note on Reimbursement of Health Care Providers: Case-Based and Capitation Payment

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Tom Nagle
Explains how managed care organizations use capitation as a payment method for providers. View Details
Keywords: Managed Care; Capitation; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Accounting; Financial Management; Health Industry; Health Industry
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  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

present I am working on understanding how the career trajectories of founders affect the performance of their firms. 2. Entrepreneurship in creative industries: While this area is related to the first, I am particularly interested in creating View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • Web

Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

gas-powered automobile built in the U.S. 1894 Boycott of Pullman sleeping cars leads to general strike on railroads Pullman Porters 1900 U.S. Industrial Commission declares trade unions good for democracy 1902 Willis H. Carrier designs... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Faculty Retirements

Robert H. Hayes An expert on industrial management and competition, Robert Hayes, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, joined the HBS faculty in 1966. He has taught numerous courses and thousands of students... View Details
  • Web

Generative AI for Business Leaders - Course Catalog

of industries. We'll identify drivers of change across a range of industries (e.g., professional services, news media, education, advertising, software, and healthcare). Governance of Gen AI, risk management, responsible and ethical AI... View Details
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

modern industrial corporation not only separates decision-making power from the full economic consequences of the corporation's decisions, but it also insulates shareholders from accountability for the... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler