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- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
to handle changing workforce needs that make sparing use of staff reductions and ensure that if they do happen, the process feels fair and the affected parties have a soft landing. Most successful approaches begin with a philosophy that...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
particular initiative, CEO activism-from Shultz to Chick-Fil-A's Dan Cathy to Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg to Goldman Sach's Lloyd Blankfein-represents a step forward for corporate involvement in the public square because these efforts are unusually View Details
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
goals. Morrell: So you get in there, you start tracking this data to improve your own wellness. How did the tracking impact your behavior? Grana: No surprise it initially just kind of helped to have some transparency there, to be able to...
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- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
provide reason to dismiss them as the wanderings of a restless mind. We propose that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the process by which spontaneous thoughts come to mind that leads them to be perceived to reveal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
visits a noodle shop with an unnecessarily long wait, for example, she’ll reengineer the process in her mind: move the food there, put one employee here instead of two to reduce the line by half. “I’m pretty sure the owner would not...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
This case presents the logic and execution underlying the launch of Data.gov, an instantiation of President Obama's initiative for transparency and open government. The process used by Vivek Kundra, the...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
good CSR performance are likely to report their CSR activities, thus increasing their overall transparency. Higher levels of transparency ease the fears of potential investors, making them more likely to invest. Driven by Social...
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by Staff
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
to this trend are studies linking greater board diversity with higher levels of board performance. And last year, in a move that should at least bring greater transparency to corporate governance, the SEC approved Nasdaq’s new listing...
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- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
and openness. Jobs that are designed to be meaningful and challenging meet the need to comprehend. Processes for performance management and resource allocation that are fair, trustworthy, and transparent...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Don't Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Julianna Schroeder, Jane Risen, Francesca Gino, Adam D. Galinsky, Michael I....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
regional law firm, Duane Morris entered a period of spectacular growth led by CEO Sheldon Bonovitz. Originally founded by Quakers, the firm had a distinct organizational culture featuring a number of unique or unusual business practices: a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Houdt) Thirty or forty angry Afghan police officers crowded into Karim Khoja’s office. Someone had stolen their pay, and the prime suspect was the CEO of Roshan, the company offering the new mobile payment system that was used to process...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
The authors propose a practical and sustainable approach to one of the greatest challenges facing leaders today: transforming a business in the face of imminent disruption. They build upon the lessons of Xerox, Apple, and Barnes & Noble to describe the View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
that. I think people had issues with her transparency or whatever. But there were a significant number of people who had a huge distaste for Donald Trump, but who really believed that Hillary Clinton was the last person in the world you'd...
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- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
Working PapersBarriers to Acting in Time on Energy and Strategies for Overcoming Them Author:Max H. Bazerman No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-063.pdf Fear of Rejection? Tiered Certification and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
look beyond just relocating supply toward harnessing process innovations and revisiting some of the trade-offs between product variety and flexibility. Harvard Business Review Webinar Student Perspective on Entrepreneurial Journey Having...
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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Streamline approvals. A complicated decision process can burden the fund with too many goals and lead to ineffective investing patterns. Provide powerful incentives. Companies that don't offer adequate compensation to their venture...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
because they were a chain, they were a business; they had very advanced processes like very good information systems. Health Stop grew to be a $100 million company. But these guys were run out of business by the hospitals and by the...
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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
pressing need in today’s world to shore up waning public trust in government institutions through transparency and good financial stewardship. Christopher Smart worked alongside Cognetti in Treasury, serving as deputy assistant secretary...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
its open society and “messy,” yet functioning, market-based democracy as a more conducive environment for long-term development. Its Western-style legal system and transparent financial systems encourage a chaotic, bottom-up approach to...
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Julia Hanna