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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
temporary structures were built during World War II to accommodate participants in the School's military training programs, but it wasn't until the 1950s that the next major construction push took place. Much thought and care went into... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
Living Kidney Donation Authors:Ruthanne L. Hanto, Alvin E. Roth, M. Utku Ünver, and Francis L. Delmonico Publication:Chap. 8 in Kidney Transplantation: A Guide to the Care of Transplant Recipients, edited by D. McKay and S. Steinberg,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
investment can have very different consequences depending on whether the firm's capability is close to a critical "tipping threshold." When the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue with few... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
original operating model developed by Dr. Wheelis was one in which TBC was staffed by a large number of part-time clinicians, the "affiliate model." However, changes in the health care environment, particularly the advent of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
associated with strategy modifications, which we term "repositioning costs," constitute a defining feature of strategic choice, which is particularly relevant to interactions involving grand strategies. Repositioning costs can View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
unexplored dimension. Deliberate Learning to Improve Performance in Dynamic Service Settings: Evidence from Hospital Intensive Care Units Authors:I. M. Nembhard and A. L. Tucker. Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
thought to myself how can it be that the president of the University of Vienna cares so much what the Shanghai Jiao Tong University says about his university, but he does. These rankings have come to define what individual institutions do... View Details
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
MaterialsColgate Max Fresh: Global Brand Roll-Out Harvard Business School Case 508-009 In February 2005, Nigel Burton, in his third year as president of global oral care at Colgate-Palmolive Company (CP), had every reason to feel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
and not those of third parties. Michael Porter points out that when social activities lack a strategic dimension, Milton Friedman's well-known criticism that philanthropy has no place in business, suddenly seems to take on more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
now GFI, Baker has become a leading expert on the world’s shadow financial structure and illicit money supply. He also understands corruption’s human toll. Burned into his memory is the Nigerian lady who helped care for his children,... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
that penniless immigrant taught himself to lead a major corporation through some of the toughest challenges in the history of business. This is an inspiring biography that will enthrall anyone who cares about technology or leadership.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
such as talent and capital, away from wealth creation and toward wealth distribution. It distorts thinking. Restoring the balance of power is critical to the competitiveness and the health of the rest of the economy. Limits on the size... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
variety of quality improvement strategies. Highlights quality improvement collaborative—organized programs popularized by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in which teams from multiple institutions work together to improve care in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
of Children's Television Workshop in New York, which produces educational TV programs for children such as Sesame Street, is finding that using business strategy has been critical to the success of his nonprofit organization. "In an... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
one way to avoid this trap is to answer the question that a male founder would be asked. “Redirect a question about risk with an answer about opportunity.” “Now, more than ever, emphasis on diversity is critical to developing a respectful... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
“This has to be a shared mission,” Obama told attendees at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University, where he signed the order onstage. “So much of our computer networks and critical... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
case, I thought I was Jesus. I was baptizing nurses in the faucet of the urgent care facility. To everybody else around me, it looked incredibly scary. But for me, I thought I was omnipotent. I was speaking in Dr. Seuss rhymes and... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
it, they should call on their junior colleagues. The problem: subordinates don't want to offend the boss. Therefore, as executives become more senior, they tend to get less feedback. Why it matters: over time, senior leaders can become confused about their development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
competitors could only offer three. However, LEGO offers a 30-35 percent margin to retailers, compared to competing brands offering 40-50 percent margins. What if local retailers wanted the higher margins and could care less about... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
file sharing has robbed them of billions of dollars after four consecutive years of falling music sales, they criticized the team's methodology, which consisted of monitoring 1.75 million downloads over 17 weeks in 2002, scouring through... View Details