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- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
faced. There is also a second cause, one that has its roots in the changing shopping experience. During the 1960s, European retailing began moving away from personalized service and toward new self-service sales formats. Abetted by the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
at certain set levels. That changed everyone's mindset. At about that time, I started a new course on innovating health care because I believed MBAs who were interested in pricing, productivity, and efficiency could be essential as that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Rosabeth, you mentioned the structure and design of the organization as possibly contributing to the current problems. What improvements can be made? Kanter: We need more external information — both financial and nonfinancial — about the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
the opportunity and switching cost of domestic standards are relatively low. We do not find evidence that levels of and expected changes in foreign trade and investment flows in a country affect its adoption decision; thus, we cannot... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
Departments. "The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft," says Light. "So... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Underlying this change is a story of foresighted strategy and disciplined execution—of connecting knowing to doing. In strategic terms, the IBM transformation illustrates the ideas behind dynamic capabilities, showing how the company has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
deployed after the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as during world wars, previous pandemics, and other disasters. With that structure in place, the hospital was able to make the “crisp decisions that are required in warlike times,” says... View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
Cores, while closed collocated organizations tend to develop systems with larger Cores. Our findings represent a first step in establishing some "stylized facts" about the fine-grained structure of large, real-world technical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Feedback Shapes Social Networks By: Green, Paul, Jr., Francesca Gino, and Bradley Staats Abstract—Many organizations employ interpersonal feedback processes as a structured means of informing and motivating employee improvement. Ample... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- October 2019
- Case
GRIT Fitness
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Olivia Hull
In December 2018, GRIT Fitness was a growing chain of boutique fitness studios offering a variety of workout classes, including weightlifting, high intensity interval training, and cardio dance. With 400 members and three Dallas studios, CEO Brittani Rettig believed... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Plan; Trends; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Health; Selection and Staffing; Leadership Style; Leadership Development; Management Style; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Motivation and Incentives; Sports; Competition; Diversification; Expansion; Value Creation; Health Industry; Sports Industry; Texas
Applegate, Lynda M., and Olivia Hull. "GRIT Fitness." Harvard Business School Case 820-016, October 2019.
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Vayanos Abstract We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which clienteles with strong preferences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Business Review Press You’ve shed antiquated systems and processes. You went all-in on digital. Your teams settled into new, often better, ways of doing things. But did your organization change enough to stay competitive in the... View Details
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
which resemble a flowchart, reflect the orderly, logical fashion in which he structured and conveyed his philosophy on the art and science of business. "Business to [Doriot], and he hopes to you, can be one of the most satisfying and... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
costs to firms of changing strategy. The costs associated with strategy modifications, which we term “repositioning costs,” are particularly relevant to competitive interactions involving major changes to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
by the interaction of partner firms that does not necessarily accrue to any of them. The extent of "ambivalent value" is unclear, but its persistence, despite changing structural market features,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
in a culture where it's very difficult for people to tell other people what to do. It's not the usual supervisory manager-submanager structure found in the United States." Before coming to Turtle Island, Evanson was involved in the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
lasting changes in the lives of people and their societies. Rather, some organizations would be better off measuring shorter-term outputs or individual outcomes. Funders such as foundations and impact investors are better positioned to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies and structures of developed economies. The growing literature on the business history of emerging markets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
organized systems for improvement. Traditional structures and cultures within AHCs, although well suited to the tripartite missions of teaching, research, and clinical care, are not easily adaptable to the tasks of measuring, reporting,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
return-regression R2 and 16% worse in measurement error variance; firms choosing specific peers only modestly underperform. Structural estimates suggest that, absent frictions, the underperformance of index-based benchmarks imply a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel