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- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
Business School and Professor in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Even though Chipotle’s supply chain is shorter, with fewer intermediaries between supplier and restaurant, the use of local... View Details
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
conditions along supply chains? Michael Toffel: In the US, this has probably been the most pronounced in the meatpacking industry, where folks work pretty closely together and weren’t really cared for in a robust way. And companies have had to figure out on their own... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
Working PapersTraveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani Abstract We develop a framework to examine how politicians with short-term electoral pressures control bureaucrats... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
require a grand organizational makeover or buy-in from the CEO. All it takes is collaboration between you and your team-working together and making small, doable changes. What started as an experiment with a six-person team at The Boston Consulting Group-one of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
enhance cognitive performance. “Offices with the premier health story will get the premium rent and get the tenants, and the offices with a lagging health story will lag.” To convey to managers the benefits of the healthy building... View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
through direct ads or referrals by early adopters who post about their services. “Their way to capture clients is through viral acquisition,” says Viceira. Lastly, fintech firms save costs by outsourcing money management expertise to... View Details
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a joint project of HBS and Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also founder and CEO of the District Management Council, an organization that works with school districts to improve... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
work and non-work identities. Specifically, we suggest that identity compatibility is influenced by (a) the extent to which individuals can control the co-activation of identities, and (b) the routinization of identity co-activation. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
creditors for quality reporting. In contrast, the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis posits that public equity firms, because their managers have a greater incentive to manage earnings, have lower... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
30-year customer of Filene's Basement, a retailer offering fashion goods at discounted prices, who was eventually fired by the firm. The case traces how company actions taken in the name of customer relationship management (CRM)... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
spending needs as well as economic factors such as rising interest rates that affect different assets in different ways. Viceira's research analyzes asset allocation strategies for personal and institutional investors. He teaches investment View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
underlying your strategy and analyze how it's implemented through your business processes and structures. Drawing on decades of research into performance management systems and organization design, Seven Strategy Questions is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
businesses after World War II, and how his children and grandchildren have taken the business forward, professionalizing the management and engaging in extensive social investments. The Group became a symbol of ethical capitalism, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
diagnosis and treatment into distinct units because the skills and processes required for each are quite different. Services and locations will be better aligned, providing greater control and efficiency. Organizations will gather data on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
of capital within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for performance measurement and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
inside the firm to create subunits that define the operating core. As you will see, responsiveness is the critical objective for units close to the customer; economic efficiency and cost control are more important for units in the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
in our data set by non-negotiation organizational research reveals that more open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation article will be cited in organizational studies, after controlling for other, previously... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
start, locate, or invest in a city. As HBS professor Michael Porter has explained in The Competitive Advantage of Nations, political units—whether nations or cities - are in competition with each other and can control their destiny using... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
HawkinsHarvard Business School Supplement 111-032 Analyst must identify role of management and actuarial judgment in measuring corporate post-employment benefit obligations and assets. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
pharma," said HBS professor Regina Herzlinger, moderating a panel discussion titled "Pharma and Biotech—Where does Europe Stand in the World?" The discussion was held at the conference on November 22. At the start of the 1990s, the U.S. and European drug... View Details