Quality And Quantity - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

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Patent search: A comparative table of databases

allows patent quality analysis based on the Patent Assets Index Methodology. Such an analysis helps tech driven companies gain valuable insights into the strength and relative value of patents View Details

15 Nov 2023
News

Sound Investment

home in Evanston, Illinois, to “improve the quality of life in the immediate neighborhood, provide opportunity to young Black people and uplift the poor Black community,” reports the Evanston RoundTable.... View Details

Keywords: diversity; equity; inclusion

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

How to Become a More Effective Leader Learn about the difference between leadership and management, uncover the qualities and skills that characterize an effective leader, gain... View Details

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

24 May 2017
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John J. Brennan, MBA 1980

Express Chairman Emeritus, The Vanguard Group It’s 6 a.m. on a Sunday and Jack Brennan is making pancakes for his grandson, Jack, taking advantage of an opportunity to spend quality time with his namesake as... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

base colors that enhanced the dramatic quality of the resulting prints. 9 Photograph conservator Paul Messier contends that in terms of reproduction, “many of the ‘artistic’ attributes permitted by the new 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

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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

26 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

4 percent revenue boost for more established schools and a 3 percent bump for less established ones. Chung also found that spikes from victories were less significant for larger schools and for schools... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

alternatives to factory-farmed meat. They are recreating muscle fiber structure using plant ingredients and building a food and material science innovation platform that will create step-change improvement... 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

31 Jul 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

Keywords: by Eric D. Werker

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

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

patients alike will be able to track and share air quality analytics in a very democratized way from their handheld sensors connected to their mobile phones and organized View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

boutiques? (Nanda stuck with small museum shops and specialty catalogs at first, in spite of all the advance publicity.) Is it better to partner with an American product design firm and risk prohibitive... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Capital Allocation" (May 2023) with Mancy Luo, Larissa Schäfer, and Margarita Tsoutsoura. Ishita Sen : Received an INQUIRE Europe Research Grant in 2024 for “The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: View Details

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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Land had reinvented photography, his company, and himself. Never was a birth so vividly recorded," writes Peter C. Wensberg, who later became Polaroid's senior vice president for marketing. 65 At this juncture, Polaroid Corporation still... View Details

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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

ones. Don’t defer quality of life issues until retirement; ask yourself what “living well” means for you here and now. Pursue complementarity If you have spouse or partner, your career is not pursued in... View Details

11 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Perfecting the Project Pitch

Steenburgh's course, students give their pitches in front of peers who evaluate the performances on a number of factors, including the quality of the idea itself, how likely it is to succeed, and how... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher

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