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- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
team and the ways in which firms shift their identities, build innovative cultures and processes, and begin to change the world around them. Business leaders will find the book a source of both powerful examples and immediately actionable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707002 Patient Flow at Meldon Hospital Harvard Business School Case 608-171 Meldon Hospital challenged a team of physicians to improve patient flow from the Emergency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
School Case 312-007 Late in 2010, Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan and his team closed in on the decision of whether or not to issue contingent capital, which Swiss regulators would require by 2019. There were a number of substantial issues... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
organization, specifically, closed-source (or proprietary) versus open-source (or distributed) development. Our results reveal significant differences in modularity, consistent with a view that distributed teams tend to develop more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Dansko's growth, "home schooling"—taking young energetic employees with little business experience and mentoring them—seemed ill-suited for the next phase of growth. Equally as precarious was the fact that with few exceptions, none of the senior management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
demonstrating both the breadth and depth of the desire for change, as well as the tremendous frustration that has been building up over a long period of time.” In her role as senior associate dean for Culture and Community, Hammond is a member of the School’s... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
disease who was in very rough shape, with little to no hope and less than two years left. And so, over the course of a year, Dr. Yu and his team developed a therapeutic for this little girl, dosed her in January of 2018, and by that time... View Details
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
traditionally has held power. Another McKinsey study found that high levels of gender equality, measured on several societal dimensions across countries, are associated with such things as better female performance on math tests, better performance of women’s FIFA... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
highly bureaucratic, multilayered organizations that companies are using to execute their plans. There is so much pressure to realize short-term results that middle managers are consumed by making this month's numbers rather than building View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 13 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Trust
black plumber. Some brochures included a line that TrapGuard was certified by the International Plumbing Code, a set of standards developed by the International Code Council. Others did not. A month later, the research team followed up... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
making sure our existing customers still win and that we can still grow in that market,” says Pemberton. Should LS stick with the formula that’s been working, or should they make the leap to enterprise sales and commit to the scaling it would require? The Answers: My... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
Singh’s team reduced a clinic to a set of eight distinct modules, such as the operating rooms and waiting areas, that could fit together “like a jigsaw puzzle” in any new space. “It was a business where a brand could be built without... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
Congressman Newt Gingrich in 1995. She was part of Time's White House team during the Clinton impeachment process and later was the magazine's principal correspondent with the Gore presidential campaign. Of covering the White House,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
managing some of the most dangerous mercenaries in Africa, battling rebels with a crew of anti-Castro Cuban exiles, and learning what the rest of the intelligence world was dying to know: the location of Che Guevara. He describes how he and his View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
preparations for its future are. To justify buybacks and savings, the IR team makes sure all communication, even in good times, always contains some caution for the things that may go wrong tomorrow. Miller: Moreover, there is an... View Details
- June 2018
- Teaching Note
Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work
By: Boris Groysberg and Amram Migdal
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 416-031, 416-032, 416-033, 416-034, 416-035, and 416-036. View Details
Keywords: Communication; Communication Intention and Meaning; Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Management Skills; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Groups and Teams; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Behavior; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Emotions; Perception; Personal Characteristics; Perspective; Power and Influence; Prejudice and Bias; Reputation; Satisfaction; Trust
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
HBS alumni have been actively engaged in responding to the racial and social injustice in their communities and around the world. Read their various efforts below: OCTOBER 20 In their new book A Blessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
identifying value stocks.” Wang teamed up with Ki-Soon Choi and Eric C. So from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management to author the new research, entitled Going by the Book: Valuation Ratios and Stock... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
choice, according to a team of behavioral scientists who studied the systematic harm that can result from overeager goal-setting at work. “We identify specific side effects associated with goal setting, including a narrow focus that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
(b) the organization's traditional approach, which focused primarily on skills training. To confirm causation and explore the mechanisms underlying the effects, we replicated the results in a laboratory experiment. We found that individuals working temporarily as part... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne