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Polaroid | Harvard Business School: Invention of the Polarizer
Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact View Details
- 20 Aug 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
A Decision-Making Perspective to Negotiation: A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future
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by Chia-Jung Tsay & Max H. Bazerman
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Polaroid | Harvard Business School: Invention of the Polarizer
PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium...
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- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
case exhibit. "We looked at the diameters, and then we actually measured the size of four pictures, and we noticed that the relative sizes of the pictures don’t match the relative size View Details
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
Musacchio, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Dante Roscini, conducted the in-depth interviews, often focusing on key moments of transition and decision-making. The just launched website offers access to video clips,...
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by Julia Hanna
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
Reinventing Retail: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores, published this month. A bookstore anthropologist Since 2012, Raffaelli has examined how indie bookstores have survived and thrived in the digital era. The research...
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- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
in applications, although just how many students shy away from applying depends largely on how widely the incident is reported in the media. The June research paper The Impact of Campus Scandals on College Applications shows that a...
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- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
unlikely issue for professors in a business school to take on, but they say they are lucky that HBS independently funds much of the research conducted by its faculty and doctoral students. That’s important,...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
selective anecdotal evidence to pose a question. After all, John Doerr is a graduate of Harvard Business School. But think about it. The Silicon Valley and its neighbor to the north Seattle have influenced management and the View Details
- September 2009
- Article
A Detailed Analysis of the Reduction Mammaplasty Learning Curve: A Statistical Process Model for Approaching Surgical Performance Improvement
By: Matthew Carty MD, Rodney Chan, Robert S. Huckman, Daniel C. Snow and Dennis Orgill
Background: The increased focus on quality and efficiency improvement within academic surgery has met with variable success among plastic surgeons. Traditional surgical performance metrics, such as morbidity and mortality, are insufficient to improve the... View Details
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Experience and Expertise;
Health Care and Treatment;
Medical Specialties;
Outcome or Result;
Performance Efficiency;
Performance Improvement
Carty, Matthew, MD, Rodney Chan, Robert S. Huckman, Daniel C. Snow, and Dennis Orgill. "A Detailed Analysis of the Reduction Mammaplasty Learning Curve: A Statistical Process Model for Approaching Surgical Performance Improvement." Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 124, no. 3 (September 2009): 706–714.
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the School, even as HBS alumni continued to distinguish themselves in the realm of entrepreneurial practice. In 1982, acting on a marketing survey they had conducted as second-year students, David W....
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- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
safety testing by third-party labs in the US in 2015 was about $1.5 billion, compared to the estimated $8.5 billion value of food safety tests conducted by companies in-house. Mérieux NutriSciences is one...
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Collection on the Business Aspects of Aviation | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
research conducted by the Aviation Research Program. The nascent collection was housed in a separate room with a special curator in charge, Ruth A. Sanborn. A few years earlier, when the Aviation Research Program was first under...
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- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
conducting intensive field research in rural Kenya and other parts of the former British Empire, argues that there are clear parallels between academic knowledge and business intelligence. Elkins View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- May 2014
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Health Care Accountability: Examples in Cancer Treatment
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred
This case is designed to support a discussion of the importance of outcomes evidence in empowering the public to make better health care decisions, the desired level of transparency and accountability for health care providers, and the issues with current measuring and...
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Health Care;
Cancer;
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center;
Cancer Treatment Centers Of America;
Vantage Oncology;
Radiology;
Risk Adjustment;
Treatment Outcomes;
Health Care Outcomes;
Prostate Cancer;
Transparency;
Health Care and Treatment;
Risk Management;
Outcome or Result;
Health Industry;
United States
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Simultaneous Distinction, Democratization and Omnivorism Effects: A Longitudinal Analysis of Dynamic Symbolic Boundaries in Counterfeit Consumption Networks
Sociologists have long examined the interactive relationship between social structure, taste and power. This literature has overwhelmingly fallen into three, ostensibly competing, theoretical “camps”: Distinction, where high-status consumers use...
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- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
in their job listings, research shows that the language of job descriptions often subtly adheres to gender stereotypes. And that deters members of the opposite gender from applying to those jobs. For...
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Dissertation: Is the Ideal Worker Still Real? Sources and Consequences of Men's Professional Identities
My dissertation examines the implications of men's changing lives for their work identities and for gender inequality in organizations. Current theories of workplace gender inequality hinge upon the widely-shared cultural image of an "ideal worker,"... View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic (In)Congruence in the Helping Process within Organizations
- 03 May 2011
- Working Paper Summaries