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- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
managers must understand the long-term impact on creative output and do everything possible to expedite the process and return the operation as soon as possible to a stable work environment. Second, while downsizing is under way, managers...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
in the timing of individual examiners’ transition to WFA. We observe mixed results of WFA across experienced and new hires: for experienced hires, WFA results in a 3.9% increase in output and a 24% reduction in turnover, without affecting...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
business model, and the transition from a world in which throwing CO2 up the chimney was free to one in which throwing away CO2 is a costly activity. This won't be easy, but it will be easier than we expect. Between 1942 and 1944, for example, the United States nearly...
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Figuring Out Her Mission | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
“You think of the whole system, so you change the way you measure success from your own output to how you enable others. At Boston Ballet, I was able to make the transition from an individual contributor mindset to a manager mindset.”...
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Powerful Ideas - Annual Report 2014
marketing and economics in novel ways. HBS also sponsors School-wide initiatives. The output of these different streams of work includes publications, programs, courses, and conferences that broaden the School’s impact and reach.” — PAUL...
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- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
addressed in the future through excellent research informed by and communicated to insightful practitioners of creative entrepreneurship in organizations of all types. What will be published or other output from your colloquium? The...
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by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
Studios’ film distribution division in Burbank. “A friend told me that people in Hollywood would think I was Einstein because I could work with spreadsheets,” he half jokes. “I’m one of the few writers who gets excited about reading the page 6 item in Variety about...
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Julia Hanna
- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at a Startup
around what the output is going to be is key to success for both the intern and for the company. The team at Mori has also found it important to be intentional about integrating interns into the company, whether they are joining remotely...
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- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
infusions (say, from the IMF) may actually backfire because they eventually lead to longer life expectancy, further population growth, greater consumption of output produced by the investment, and a return to the previous condition of...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
as much for the same seeds. That knowledge would help farmers haggle with dealers, but the real insight would come from analytics that go beyond consolidating seed prices to measuring a seed variety’s potential success. The most important View Details
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
hold. Wrong measure. That’s all about inputs. What really matters is the output, and one output in particular: how well managers throughout the organization understand what the strategy is and what it means for them.” —MIT Sloan senior...
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- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
time management is a shared responsibility." Frode Hvaring suggested that " in order to enable employees to mange their output in terms of priorities, quality, resources available and best work flows, the company needs to train...
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by James Heskett
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
US economy has made on so many other fronts, that is really shocking. LD: And that variation in management practice is also supported by enormous variation in output prices. Given the lack of positioning, prices should be a lot more...
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- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
certain set of remarkable people. There is nothing automatic about this particular magnetism. Judging from the history of the School, the challenge of the future is to find new ways in a new era to remain a special institution. Will there be publications or other View Details
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IFC: Europe; Decarbonization and Sustainable Production - Course Catalog
increasing outputs while reducing inputs like pesticides. We will explore environmental sustainability aspects, innovations that can be extended to other global contexts, and examine some of the challenges currently facing the sector. The...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Oakville, Ontario Energy management applications Paul Grana (MBA 2009) Tigo Energy Los Gatos, California; Munich, Germany; and Osaka, Japan Hardware and software that brings new levels of power output efficiency, management, and control...
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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper 10% of boss quality increases a team's total View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
that, “‘imposters’ could well bring in the balancing element in the teams of today where more people are the exact opposite in terms of work output to ‘talk’ ratio!” Cathy Lee speculated about whether imposters “are more loyal.” A comment...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
power of leadership through example, persuasion, and culture. Leadership is a complicated phenomenon that is not easily broken down through just one lens; it’s an accumulation of these perspectives, which is what we’re trying to get at. What were some of the tangible...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and advance faculty research that...
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Jennifer Gillespie