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- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
and mobilizing employees to embrace them, and practicing dual-minded leadership. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55837 March–April 2019 Harvard Business Review Operational Transparency: Make Your View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
driven by the fears of the past: ensuring nuclear safety and radiological health and avoiding nuclear proliferation. However, our actual experience with these issues has been far different than anticipated. Political leaders and voters need to ask regulators to...
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- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
try to be as transparent as possible in their dealings with others. It’s important to note that these findings complement, not necessarily contradict, those of Gino’s. Organizations exhibiting so-called rebel qualities have been found to...
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by James Heskett
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
How did the pipeline grow? Did we add lower- or higher-profit and lifetime value customers? Are we targeting shorter or longer selling-cycle prospects? What are the implications for the "center of gravity" in the venture's business model? An ICP View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
Draper petitioned the state’s attorney general for permission to collect signatures for the measure to be placed on the 2016 ballot, but by September 2014 the 752,685 validated signatures out of about 1.1 million collected (the validation View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
straightforward processing to update prices, while the other set requires more complicated analyses to incorporate the same piece of information into prices. We document substantial return predictability from the set of easy-to-analyze...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
budget constraints, EDs must better understand bottlenecks and their effect on process flow to improve process efficiency. The primary objective of this study was to identify bottlenecks in obtaining a head...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
Whereas the for-profit capital markets provide transparent objective criteria for making early- and later-stage investment decisions, balance risks with return, and create a "performance-driving cycle" by rewarding improvements in the top...
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by James E. Aisner
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
change and uncertainty, and military frameworks play a foundational part of this training. A significant milestone was achieved in 2001 with the emergence of the Agile Manifesto, foundational principles initially aimed at improving software development. The manifesto...
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by Euvin Naidoo
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
democratic history and an immediate, practical exercise for anyone looking for a way to strengthen our common civic commitments. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52134 2017 Academy of Management Annals Making View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
Commencement 2018 Address | About
business school, we often use it as a noun—meaning a collection of people, who come together for a common purpose, to create something of value. We take this coming-together process for granted, but when you pause and think about it, the...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
proposed new regulations: higher capital requirements; leverage limits; FDIC-like insurance charges; and, when all else fails, a receivership process to restructure, sell, or liquidate a failing company. Bottom line, no firm should be too...
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- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
requires substantial resources, both in terms of computing power and human capital. Even companies that contract with third-party providers to run pricing algorithms on their websites need significant data storage capacity, processing...
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- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
mayonnaise, a container of mustard, cold cuts, processed cheese spread (I'm from Philly, and we love Whiz), and pickles. Now imagine finding sawdust in the pickles, sand in the mustard, and so on. That quite literally was the situation in...
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- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
process of thinking about possibly adopting a third child (we already had two through old-fashioned means). And as I was doing personal research into adoption, it struck me one day that adoption was really just the flip side of...
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- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't improve. To fix these problems, senior executives and their HR departments should change the way they think about learning and development, and because context is crucial, needed fixes in organizational...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
surprising how few corporate leaders make a genuine effort to foster candor within their companies. Sadly, they lose any chance at building organizations in which speed and transparency contribute to the vitality of their enterprise....
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- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
everything I might have wanted, but the legislative process seldom produces that. Certain elements of this reform are positive and helpful, including the creation of a formal resolution authority and a systemic risk regulator; provisions...
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by Staff
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
possible decision in each individual case. But here, the ultimate objective is adding years to patients' lives, not just points to the team's winning percentage. "Because of the organ shortage, you want a system that is transparent...
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- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance. What deters selective disclosure and leads firms to instead make disclosures more representative of their...
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Carmen Nobel