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- 21 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Employee Negativity Is Like Wildfire. Manage It Before It Spreads.
contagious? But what are “collective emotions,” and how can a leader intervene to redirect or reduce the intensity of group feelings that could have harmful effects? “A good analogy for the idea of collective emotion is of a forest fire,”... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- January 2, 2020
- Article
Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions
By: Nancy Dean Beaulieu, Leemore S. Dafny, B. E. Landon, Jesse Dalton, Ifedayo Kuye and J. Michael McWilliams
Background: The hospital industry has consolidated substantially during the past two decades and at an accelerated pace since 2010. Multiple studies have shown that hospital mergers have led to higher prices for commercially insured patients, but research about effects... View Details
Beaulieu, Nancy Dean, Leemore S. Dafny, B. E. Landon, Jesse Dalton, Ifedayo Kuye, and J. Michael McWilliams. "Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions." New England Journal of Medicine 382, no. 1 (January 2, 2020): 51–59.
- 26 Mar 2014
- HBS Seminar
Brian Kahin, MIT
- 31 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders
decision-making” as one of the most critical success factors in the digital era, judgment—an analog skill—is still required. Digitally mature companies have employees up and down the hierarchy who can look at data critically, knowing that... View Details
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Managing Marketspace Service Interfaces
Jeffrey F. Rayport is focusing on the strategic challenges that face businesses selling information-intensive products and services. A key strategic issue in such businesses is the dematerialization of information-intensive products and services as a consequence of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
Meanwhile, starting in 2013, Analog Devices CEO Vince Roche encouraged innovators from the top down and transformed the semiconductor giant into a designer of integrated, strategic systems—including a platform that accelerated the global... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details
- 04 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.
to communicate ideas and promote understanding, the coauthors contend. “Stories become a prism through which humans live,” Takeuchi and Nonaka write. Being able to effectively use metaphors and analogies translates to the ability to... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 28 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
What's a Boss Worth?
than Boss B for everyone.” Measuring boss quality To measure boss quality, the researchers looked at transaction times for the workers under them on any given day (due to confidentiality agreements, he can’t say what the transaction is—but a good View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
through those ties and may take pride in a reputation for a higher standard of performance when observed by a valued peer, the researchers note. In some ways, analogous effects may be observed in customer service in other professions and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
future and the past, and 'exploit and explore,' all at the same time. That's a relatively rare accomplishment," he says. Tushman cites organizations such as Analog Devices, British Telecom, IBM, and Procter & Gamble as achieving... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 09 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
“Impulsivity is the opposite of understanding facts.” As he would explain during our conversation, Joe lives according to the following principle: whether in your career or your personal life, understand the consequences – and the purpose – of your decisions. I liked... View Details
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
directors of 39 companies, including 14 public companies. His former public company directorships include Analog Devices, Fleetcor Technologies and optionsXpress Holdings. In addition, he is Chairman of the Vanderbilt University Board of... View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
need to ask of themselves and the companies they are targeting, and why they need to think of themselves as hunters. READ MORE DM: I want to talk about this book, The Startup Lottery. Throughout it, you apply this analogy of the theater.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frances Haugen: (MBA 2011)
and the levers to prevent and mitigate them. If we can all sit around the table and have a shared conversation, we can get to a duty-of-care standard. We’re not saying do it all; we’re saying there should be a floor somewhere in the middle. I use the View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
Sophus Reinert, Dante Roscini, and Arthur Segel) Japan: Innovation Through the Fusion of Digital and Analog (led by professors Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell) London: Entrepreneurship in the UK and Europe (led by Greg... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Suggestions: Use analogies that are broadly accessible to make all students feel included in the discussion. Include references to non-US contexts. Assuming that students are comfortable revealing their invisible identities in the... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
designing programmable analog signal processing chips. Aprendo Mason Myers Business Track Runner-Up Aprendo is a service that verifies job candidates’ prior education and employment data quickly efficiently and conveniently. Empower... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
for interaction between these producers and consumers. This is not just an academic exercise: The distinction is quite important as the two models (merchant versus two-sided platform) are associated with different business strategies. One View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
the salesman's role in promoting goods was different from that of advertising. To use a military analogy common in the early twentieth century, advertising was a weapon for waging an air war, while salesmen were deployed as foot soldiers... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard