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- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
application, the paper chip, which costs only pennies to produce, monitors liver function and the adverse side effects of the powerful drugs used to treat HIV/AIDS and TB. In February, DFA's reach broadened... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
effectively within the newly merged entities. Weighing the Benefits and Costs of Making Software: Toward a Contingency Theory of the Determinants of Development Process Design Authors:Robert D. Austin and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-005.pdf The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality (revised) Author:Zeynep Ton Abstract Determining staffing levels is an important decision in retail operations. While... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
computers, primarily for commercial and business markets. The commercializing of the System 360 required half a decade, at the cost of nearly $7 billion. That extraordinary learning experience immediately defined the computer industry... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
relationship between FDI and growth. We use 'quality' to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project characteristics which are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
forecasting, despite a number of characteristics that make it a challenge to fit to a dynamic supply chain environment, to be effective in that context. We further show that the forecasting process, together with the supporting mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
documentation, litigation defense, and regulatory compliance. These excessive documentation requirements also strain the patient-physician relationship, reducing the time patients spend with their doctors and hampering effective... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
Texas, to Nevada, where the tax rates are significantly lower. That is causing disruptions in those local markets because of the influx of new people. The delta between the cost of homes in California or in Boston or New York relative to... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
operational innovation to manage the tradeoff between cost and quality. It's an issue you find in every business, whether you're a chef or an executive at Mercedes or BMW or Apple." In November, Oldani visited Pisano's second-year... View Details
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
percent. The cost of creating this closed ecosystem of top-tier executives is more than the price of CEO compensation and searches. It is also the cost of the failed messiahs who could not deliver the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
the downsides of the cluster phenomenon. After the French tire maker Michelin introduced radial tire technology—which in effect doubled a tire's useful life—Akron tire companies quickly began to lose their edge. The Akron firms faltered... View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
School researchers: Disregarding advice from colleagues could invite harsh backlash that just might damage valued workplace relationships, according to the recent paper Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice, published... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
and these companies are meeting market demand, it's a good thing," he said. "The more space flights we do, the more we'll bring costs down." Some of the audience questions were less related to leadership than to the fact... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
style, such processes enable the CEO to make effective decisions consistent with where he wants the company to go. One of our new CEOs learned this the hard way. Soon after he became CEO, he was asked to approve a marketing campaign for... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
Washington State) and by participants with responsibility to enforce rules in an experimental lab setting. We also show that this effect is driven by psychological reactance. We discuss both the theoretical and practical implications of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
and can afford good healthcare, you lack that foundation. If you don't have a governmental system that works effectively and delivers good public services, that's a drag on productivity. The United States used to be a uniquely productive... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
of the future coming? What do you think? Original Column The decade of the 1980s saw widespread subscription to the notion that there were two “generic competitive strategies” aimed at achieving industrywide success: those that provided either a differentiated or a low... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
(fence-sitters) provide the change agent with an affective basis to coopt them. This cooptation increases the probability that the organization will adopt the change. By contrast, strong ties to potentially influential organization members who disapprove of a change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
has its own logistical limitations. Running an fMRI scanner costs researchers up to $1,000 per hour, and studies often use 20-30 subjects, Karmarkar says. And while EEG lets subjects move around during testing, fMRI requires them to lie... View Details