Quality And Quantity - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Nov 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

Summing Up Three themes appear to characterize many of the responses to this month's column: (1) leadership talent is portable, (2) the reasons that we chase stars are traceable to human nature, and (3) women have View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

24 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

digital age is a fertile area of his research. Luca is looking at rankings, expert evaluations, online consumer reviews, and quality disclosure laws to see how they work in market settings, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

about the difference between leadership and management, uncover the qualities and skills that characterize an effective leader, gain an understanding of common leadership... View Details

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

requiring no further investment from them, posting their property on Airbnb (in addition to Craigslist) would simply increase the quantity of the property owners’ exposure to possible renters. In addition to increased exposure, Airbnb... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

promising potential benefits, concerns persisted about navigating labor regulations, ensuring appropriate vetting, and guaranteeing the quality of work. Sarah Tang, the newly appointed Vice President of... View Details

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Research - Health Care

Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased? By: Leemore S. Dafny , Kate Ho and Edward Kong Drug copayment coupons to reduce patient cost-sharing have... View Details

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

Resellers can offer significant added value (and benefit from reputation effects) by verifying the quality of goods when that quality is difficult to confirm. But that position can be prohibitively risky... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

communities; better quality of life and good jobs. The Justice40 InitiativeDirects 40% of some federal investments to disadvantaged communities.[5] About $29 billion falls under this program.[6] Examples... View Details

03 Jul 2008
What Do You Think?

Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

those decisions as one of the most important factors in the quality of their work life. This observation raises some questions for us. As a follower, what advice would you give to other followers wishing to have an impact on their jobs... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

Research Summary

Overview

Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Leveraging Generative AI

thereby enhancing the quality of in-class discussions. Students also found it to be an invaluable resource for course preparation, using it to ask a wide range of questions about case studies, analysis, and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

18 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

for talent, and it’s all focused on these high productivity people, and very, very little on those workers who actually may hurt organizational performance,” Minor says. Fired toxic workers can leave a big... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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Leadership - Health Care

creating art, and spending quality time with her cat and family. Lu Malygina Coordinator Lu is the Coordinator for the Life Science and Health... View Details

11 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

aggregate information or map out where and how water is impacting a company’s supply chain.” Leni and Taryn see multiple entrepreneurial opportunities in the water space, among them: “assessing water risks... View Details

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

destination. In order to establish greater connection with their customers, the company decided to distribute directly to dealers. Those selling Land Cameras quickly learned the benefits of a system that could take a photograph and... View Details

31 Jul 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

Keywords: by Eric D. Werker

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

the long run, the most profitable to offer. Step 5: Determine customer value. Develop a way to charge for each customer transaction based on either the quality or the quantity of value you provide. Each... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

31 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

chains work and the performance of the factories that comprise them. The area is also a primary supplier of lithium battery chemicals, flash memory, and anisotropic conductive film used in LCD flat panel... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

company to create better jobs,” shared Ari Medoff. “We’ve had 30 or 40 years now of growing wage inequality and we have community institutions that have decayed. I think that one of the core factors is the erosion of job View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

Competitive advantage. Corporate strategy. The competitive advantage of nations. All over the world these terms quickly bring to mind the groundbreaking work of HBS professor Michael Porter, whose two decades of research on these and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

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