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- 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...
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
organizational behavior, including pioneering efforts in the field of quality of work life. Earning his MBA in 1950, Turner joined the Technology Project at Yale's Institute of Human Relations, where his work with Charles R. Walker and...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Education Innovation
system: "By practically any measure, the quality of public K–12 education in the United States is dismal." And the stakes are high. As Childress, deputy director of education at the Gates Foundation, outlined, research continues to show a...
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- Career Coach
Philippe Taieb
internationally. He was a consultant at Braxton Associates, a strategy consulting firm, in London and Paris and then led business units for Swiss company SGS, the world leader in certification and quality...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
PORTER: Health care's zero-sum competition model adds costs and results in severe quality problems. University professor Michael Porter never planned to write a book on health-care reform. In fact, he expected brickbats in response to a...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
upon educating leaders who would have a positive impact on the world. The article remains a classic and has since been republished several times. Zaleznik’s take on the subject of leadership was informed by his training and certification...
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- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
Maintenance of Certification Examinations By: Valentine, Melissa A., S. Barsade, Amy C. Edmondson, A. Gal, and R. Rhodes Abstract—Context: Physicians can demonstrate mastery of the knowledge that supports continued clinical competence by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Takeaways from the Peek Women's Colleges Cohort
currently completing my certificate in the fundamentals of business through the HBX Core program, and I am loving it. Studying at a women’s college really taught me to value my own thoughts and opinions, and to not be afraid to add my...
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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
other was elevating her students’ achievement scores. To move the needle on both, she took Leading Change, Leading Schools, and Leading People, three of four online courses included in the Certificate of School Management and Leadership...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
500 free online courses in basic education and workplace skills—essentially a community college curriculum—that can lead to global training certificates and diplomas for its 2 million students around the world. (For example, ALISON offers...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
statistical data from five hundred business groups in India and spoke to dozens of managers in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Chile. The pair found that companies outside the United States perform better when they replicate the quality View Details
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Judith A. Ross
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Countdown To Remote Learning
(HBAP), a certificate for executives launched in 2018. Ten HBAP faculty members served as trainers and mentors to their colleagues, with support from HBS’s Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning. “The School ran numerous training...
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Countdown To Remote Learning - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
most of them had never taught online before. “HBS has the highest teaching standards. We don’t like to do anything that isn’t phenomenal,” explains Datar. Fortunately, HBS had gained valuable experience and insights from co-developing the Harvard Business Analytics...
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- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
corporations, which makes no sense today because we want doctors and hospitals to work seamlessly as an integrated practice. Another example is physician certification by state, which means that when the Cleveland Clinic wants to offer a...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
productivity but also by offering a sustainable means for families to improve the quality of their lives through their own hard work and initiative. The goal is to empower individuals so they can mobilize their talents, break the cycle of...
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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Ratcheting, Competition, and the Diffusion of Technological Change: The Case of Televisions Under an Energy Efficiency Program By: Amano, Tomomichi, and Hiroshi Ohashi Abstract—In differentiated goods markets with societal implications, View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
laboratory experiments in food service contexts that suggest that the introduction of operational transparency improves service quality and efficiency. The introduction of reciprocal operational transparency contributed to a 22.5%...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
60 percent. I remember one shift at the end of March where we were crushed by the number of patients, and for the first time in my career I had to specifically schedule extra time after my shift to complete all of the death certificates...
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- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-099WP.pdf Evaluating the Impact of SA 8000 Certification Authors:Michael J. Hiscox, Claire Schwartz, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract SA 8000, along with other types of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
all-year-round—even though the true color of butter fluctuated throughout the year. “Uniformity of color was one of the qualities that butter color makers stressed to their customers,” Hisano writes, citing a 1905 advertisement in which...
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by Carmen Nobel