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  • 09 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year

On this Mother’s Day, as we reflect on the past year, the impacts of COVID-19 on working mothers deserve our attention. I have heard many people equate the COVID-19 pandemic to a period of wartime: a life-altering change to our collective society. At first, I thought... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

economic model. Even a simple time-driven ABC model will fundamentally change the way the company manages its process improvements, its product variety, and its individual... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

workday events can make or break employees' inner work lives. But it's forward momentum in meaningful work—progress that creates the best inner work lives. Through rigorous analysis of nearly 12,000 diary entries provided by 238 employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

Amazon.com: The Brink of Bankruptcy Harvard Business School Case 809-014 Enables a thorough analysis of the Amazon.com business model and its evolution from 1994 to 2001. The case ends with the company poised on the brink of bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

and informally ensure its members embrace proper business standards? Relying on his faculty experience, Michel Anteby takes readers inside the School to draw vivid parallels between the socialization of faculty and of students. In an era... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 5

Regulation? By: Drake, David F., and Robin L. Just Abstract—A regulator's ability to incentivize environmental improvement among firms is vital in achieving long-term sustainability. However, firms can and do respond to environmental regulation in a variety of ways:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

There's an important distinction. Very early in the program we decided that we wouldn't focus purely on nonprofits. We thought it should be about social enterprise, regardless of whether it's for-profit or nonprofit. We defined social... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008

Shanghai plant starts production in 2008, will its almost $50 million investment pay off? Is 10 years of experience in China enough to know how China works? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

Publication:Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little about the persons who receive their help. This concern is particularly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

sales by salesperson. Should they pay people individually on these newer products while maintaining the team-pay approach on the core? If so, it would raise a potential problem with shirking on the core... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

Businesses that offer their customers the highest levels of service might like to believe that all their efforts to pamper and please will pay off with an extremely loyal following. “Customers you might expect to be the most 'stuck' are... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 16 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

editors at Harvard Business Press, suggested the Times project to me; and as a historian I thought it would be a terrific opportunity to gain deep exposure to the primary source reporting that newspapers afford. When I was doing research... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
  • 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008

  Working PapersNone this week   Cases & Course MaterialsAT&T v. Microsoft (A): IP Litigation Strategy Harvard Business School Case 608-080 This case examines a hard fought litigation over a patent that originated at Bell Labs. It... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

doesn't distinguish between different levels of income. Wealthy, middle class, or poor, you pay the same rate. Also, a flat tax system is often completely free of deductions, exemptions, and exceptions. These efforts aim to make the tax... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

systems and demonstrate its application to a large sample of software releases. Our methodology is based upon network graphs and allows us to identify and define three fundamental architectural patterns, which we call core-periphery,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 6

Costs of Racial 'Color Blindness' By: Norton, Michael I., and Evan P. Apfelbaum Abstract—The article looks at research on people's attitudes and behaviors with respect to noticing and referring to a person's race. It explains the 2013... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

serve significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion is likely to compromise the headquarters' ability to control its local managers' behavior and satisfy the divergent needs of different types of customers. In this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

a new product launch and the potential path dependence of the product depending on initial returns. It allows students to wrestle with the way forward given these conditions, and how (if at all) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

multiple identities into five different theoretical perspectives: social psychological, microsociological, psychodynamic and developmental, critical, and intersectional. I then propose a way to take research on multiple identities forward... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne