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- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
were looking for ideas with potential to revolutionize the field quickly. “We tell our scientists, ‘Dare to be great. Bring us the projects that you can’t get funded elsewhere.’ We don’t want safe, incremental science. We’re not looking...
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Linda Kush
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
Effort or Timing: The Effect of Lump-Sum Bonuses Authors:Thomas J. Steenburgh Publication:Quantitative Marketing and Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This article addresses the question of whether lump-sum bonuses motivate salespeople to work harder to attain View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
and the communities they live/work in, (he has observed) dramatic productivity increments no layoffs, no additional technology, 'just' increased employee engagement." Does he have something here? What do you think? Original Article...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
too many organizations do not practice the thinking described above. Instead they fall into a pattern of only incrementally changing resource allocations from year to year. (The report doesn't, however, associate the practice with either...
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by James Heskett
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
small, incremental steps," said Upton. "The same holds true for information technology." In the wake of the Internet and advances in IT have come a host of service firms, including the three represented on Upton's panel:...
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by Jim Aisner
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
longer will access to incremental markets be the primary expansion driver; increasingly the drive must be to capture scarce sources of intellectual and human capital—strategic resources that can provide sustainable competitive advantage...
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by Staff
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
transistor — emanated from groups of people with complementary skills," say the authors. Furthermore, they argue, creativity doesn't have to come in visionary leaps. Incremental steps count, too, and figuring out how to implement a...
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by Laurie Joan Aron
- Web
FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
affect health care? A: TDABC is a key component of an incremental approach to health care reform. By understanding costs, clinicians and managers can make small changes according to identified areas of impact. The cumulative sum of these...
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- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
computer ended the use of typewriters, or how electronic fuel injection systems replaced carburetors. It's probably more accurate to say the Apple Watch introduces several impressive incremental innovations that improve and combine...
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- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World...
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by William R. Kerr
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
government involvement was an issue. Regardless of the vehicle for achieving it, there was little optimism that we would be seeing a significant incremental effort soon. As I read your responses, a question crossed my mind: In light of...
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- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
or heat. Enlightened self-interest still drives investment decisions. Few investors and businesses with whom we spoke were interested in “green” activities or even ESG on their own merits -- since those don’t lead to incremental revenue...
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- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
and push for improvement from their employees and clinicians. If we can shift attention to the organizations that have found a way to achieve both aims—financial and quality—that’s really the exciting direction. But getting there is not going to happen through View Details
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
incremental to the effects of other forms of organizational structure, namely business and geographic diversification. I also find that the level of debt at subsidiaries affects the parent company's borrowing costs. However, the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
"anything that substantially alters the way in which the work of management is carried out," including organizational forms. He distinguishes it from operational, product/service, or strategic innovation. Although he maintains that only limited View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
Tripsas "Big breakthroughs are great, but we found that even incremental progress evokes a powerfully positive inner work life," Amabile notes. "In my Managing for Creativity course, I ask students to consider how they will...
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- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Case 806-069 Randall Fojtasek, a partner at Brazos Private Equity Partners, must decide whether to invest more money in Cheddar's restaurant chain, which the firm invested in 10 months earlier. The incremental investment would fund a real...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
people on campus to meet with our students. That kind of interaction would make a deep and valuable impression. Hall: We need to show our students how incremental errors of judgment can lead down a slippery slope to a whole heap of...
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by Garry Emmons
- Web
Financial Report 2018 - Financial Report 2018
$56 million, or 7 percent, from fiscal 2017, compared with our forecast of zero growth. HBP and Executive Education delivered a combined $35 million of incremental revenue, year-over-year, primarily driven by gains in Executive Education...
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- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
requiring workers to self-certify through an app that they are symptom-free each morning. Statistics: Is there evidence that it’s working? Finally, employers will want to keep track of incremental sick days and health care expenditures....
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