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- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
spoken natively; the supervisors speak the other 2. To bridge the gap, the mining industry long ago adopted the use of Fanagalo, a pidgin language developed in the nineteenth century so colonists could communicate with their servants.... View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
entrepreneurial skills on a broader canvas. Companies complain that their recruits aren't adequately educated. In response, they will have to train their workers themselves or go elsewhere to find customers. Bankers bemoan Dodd-Frank, but... View Details
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
services. In health care, nursing services, community social services, mental health services, and home health-care services are on the rise. One executive recently told me... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
form of new capabilities and team-member resilience. We then highlight the critical roles of leadership and of communication and conflict management training as strategies for overcoming the challenges to team effectiveness in NPD, as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
issues that profit brings to a social service organization. Founded thirty-five years ago, the small, multiservice nonprofit Haley House is a spiritually based community organization that serves "society's forgotten people"—the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that entrepreneurs located outside software hubs—in cities where monitoring and information flow on prospective clients is harder—rely significantly more on diaspora... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
reducing private and social costs. We study how resolution responds to changes in price and communication using a new, extensive dataset of copyright infringement incidences by firms. The data cover two field experiments run by a large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
1980s, under the leadership of Roger Smith, GM tried to transform itself into the "21st Century Corporation." 74 The plan was to revamp all of the assembly plants and replace workers with robots and other forms of... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest public sector workers union in the U.S., was responsible for protecting the pensions of its members. Because pensions were invested for decades, Ferlauto wanted the companies in which the union... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-031.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAndrea Jung: Empowering Avon Women Harvard Business School Case 406-095 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406095 Atheros View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
Universal Health Care Is the Best Solution Authors: Regina E. Herzlinger Publication: In Current Controversies: Health Care, edited by Noel Merino. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2010 Abstract The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance markets and product markets in health care. We argue that the prevalence of choice difficulties and biases leading to mistakes in these markets establish a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship Authors:Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, and Felda Hardymon Publication:John Wiley & Sons, 2012 An abstract is not available at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP002070.html... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
its effects on employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety. We analyzed a matched sample of nearly 1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death rates than a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50304 October 2015 Health Affairs Exposure to Harmful Workplace Practices Could Account for Inequality in Life Spans Across Different Demographic Groups By: Goh, Joel, Jeffrey Pfeffer,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
longitudinal data from 68 multi-method case studies of organizational change initiatives conducted at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom support these predictions and advance a relational view of organizational change in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
allowed by health authorities. Yet caries remained a significant threat to public health in many countries, both developing and developed. As Suzan Harrison, Colgate's president of Oral Care, prepared to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
that leaders can take which have a positive symbolic value include: Fixing what people see every day. This is a small and simple step that creates a good mood and positive behaviors. It can include cleaning up the work environment and solving basic problems that View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4
health concerns can communicate with physicians online or by phone and receive advice or even a diagnosis without having to visit the physician's office. American Well's co-founders, Ido Schoenberg and Roy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
Gap? Government Subsidized Lending and Access to Capital By: Lerner, Josh, and Kristle Romero-Cortes Abstract—The consequences of providing public funds to financial institutions remain controversial. We examine the Community Development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne