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  • Research Summary

Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

  • 11 Apr 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

that you have to spend a whole lot of money before you know if the product is going to work," he says. To that end, Eisenmann teaches the cases "Predictive Biosciences" and "Aquion Energy." In studying Predictive, a venture-backed,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer
  • 02 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

broad diagnostic questions follow our three-dimensional scheme. First, you should ask whether it is a tactical or people-related barrier like communication, trust, misperceptions, or the like. Second, you should ask whether the problem is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

voiced about the term competitiveness more broadly already more than 15 years ago (Krugman, 1994). As an alternative, the note outlines a growth approach in which exports are a diagnostic instrument and the associated policies focused on... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 13 Feb 2020
  • Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

value proposition and create a competitive advantage. Managers don’t often take this diagnostic step to understand the systemic issues, in many cases because they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable. “Leaders often feel like they need... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Dec 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

into consideration the intense emotions of parents and children. So Dietz and his team embarked on a patient-centered redesign by attempting to view the diagnostic procedure through the eyes of a child. The result: Adventure Series... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 06 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

"transactional" leaders. Level One: Sociopath At the base of the model is the person who literally serves no one: the Sociopath. The Sociopath, afflicted with what the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
  • 07 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

Risk-Mitigating Technologies: The Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis What do great leaders do differently? Share your insights below. View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
  • 21 Aug 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

the class toward her personal passion, precision medicine. “Health care is rife with examples like these—and such applications of big data will only expand over the coming years. I spend a lot of time thinking about questions like, How will artificial intelligence... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Apr 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

emphasis on personalized learning through a series of exercises like this one and other diagnostic exercises. By this point in the program, students also concentrate on leadership and driving change. Leadership is about getting things... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Aug 2021
  • Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

productivity. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/WvZ0cFGPFEU8Igj4vKIZ][/div] Diagnostic tools, such as surveys and small group discussions, are critical to developing a more holistic view of the employee experience. In the Army, officers... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
  • 17 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 17

political motivations for Vietnamese leaders to provide equalizing transfers that limit inequality growth among provinces.   Cases & Course MaterialsBackground on the Technology of Molecular Diagnostics Regina E. Herzlinger and Jason... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

the firm's business practices. We have built a simple classification system that when combined with an "assessment" model could yield powerful diagnostics on how to migrate and manage a company's portfolio of CSR programs.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Dec 2007
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing

productivity, says Professor Gail J. McGovern. In this Q&A, she discusses what executives can do to repair the split and introduces a new diagnostic tool for measuring marketing performance used in the HBS Executive Education program.... View Details
  • 18 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

LISH team: LISH has longstanding interest in and experience with solving problems in computer vision, image analysis, and advanced analytics through crowdsourcing. We have extended our work and research into the field of medical image analysis. So rather than focus on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 10 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “When this type of work is outsourced it should not be viewed as a mere commodity.” Teleradiology is the reading and interpretation of CT, MRI, X-ray, and other diagnostic images. Increasingly,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

Management Distinguished Fellows Award, given at Columbia University, June 18, 2012. We wrote this article at Paul's request. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2241548 Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

savings. In the area of prevention, the spread of ever-cheaper mobile smart phones enables citizens in remote rural areas to receive online medical consultations, treatment suggestions, and prescriptions. Readings on diagnostic machines... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 18 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 18, 2016

diagnostic firm, is evaluating the offer made by Ron Zwanziger, the firm’s founder and former CEO, to acquire the company and take it private. The offer arrives at the end of a tumultuous year for the company, which saw Zwanziger fighting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

digital assessment and print-based workbook series called Ready®, Ready® Common Core, and i-Ready® Diagnostic and Instruction. In 2014, as sales are booming, Waldron and his team wonder how CA can stay competitive in the rapidly evolving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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