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- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
That’s the way they are typically stated. It implies that you first set out to achieve diversity by bringing in more people of color, and then take steps—through inclusion training, mentoring, fast-tracking, or whatever—to plug the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jan 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Banks Have an Edge?
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Turkey. When the video ends, Janice McCormick, director of Academic Services, flicks on the lights and leads the group on its first foray into case method learning. Despite McCormick's encouragement, it is an awkward exercise, marked by... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
function caused by the tumor and its treatment, Susan had survived the unsurvivable. It was then that Sontag made a promise to himself and his wife: “If I ever get a chance to do something about this... View Details
Keywords: April White
- April 2013 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
Google's Project Oxygen: Do Managers Matter?
By: David A. Garvin, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Liz Kind
Google's Project Oxygen started with a fundamental question raised by executives in the early 2000s: do managers matter? The topic generated a multi-year research project that ultimately led to a comprehensive program, built around eight key management attributes,... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Business Policy; General Management; Human Resource Management; Management; Leadership; Human Resources
Garvin, David A., Alison Berkley Wagonfeld, and Liz Kind. "Google's Project Oxygen: Do Managers Matter?" Harvard Business School Case 313-110, April 2013. (Revised October 2013.)
- 14 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
What I Learned at SVMP
perspective to the case and challenge other people to think differently. I learned to speak up because I do have value to add with my diverse experiences just as everyone else does. Through the week of SVMP... View Details
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
influential…, PTCA has been used less frequently than in hospitals with less influential surgeons." And even if PTCA and other innovations make it past initial gatekeepers, it's a long road to adoption because of learning curves... View Details
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
according to a recent study by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Albert W. Sheen. In The Real Product Impact of Mergers, Sheen finds that mergers generally have little effect on product quality over time, even while product... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
treasure trove that could help businesses plan their alliance strategy. “If an alliance is so much better, why isn't everything done by alliance?” Firms often ask this question when considering a large project. It can be advantageous to... View Details
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
Considering how much money is spent in the field and the advances that the US economy has made on so many other fronts, that is really shocking. Dafny: And that variation in management practice is also supported by enormous variation in... View Details
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
University Institute—set out to get to the bottom of CEO time management by following nearly 100 top managers in Italy, as reported in a recent paper with the deceptively simple title, What Do CEOs Do?... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Shaping the Learning Environment - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Teaching by the Case Method Shaping the Learning Environment Preparing to Teach Getting Started Developing Instructor Style Shaping the Learning Environment Knowing Your... View Details
- 2024
- Article
Learning Under Random Distributional Shifts
By: Kirk Bansak, Elisabeth Paulson and Dominik Rothenhäusler
Algorithmic assignment of refugees and asylum seekers to locations within host
countries has gained attention in recent years, with implementations in the U.S.
and Switzerland. These approaches use data on past arrivals to generate machine
learning models that can... View Details
Bansak, Kirk, Elisabeth Paulson, and Dominik Rothenhäusler. "Learning Under Random Distributional Shifts." Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 27th (2024).
- 27 Nov 2013
- News
Five Challenges China Must Meet by 2034
- 23 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do
Desirable. “Even in the most progressive, gender-balanced households, on average, women seem to think about a greater diversity of pursuits” While you let that provocative title sink in, it’s worth noting that the research was conducted View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- March 1992 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Lada do Brasil
By: James E. Austin and Helen Shapiro
In an effort to capitalize on the entrepreneurial opportunity presented by the Brazilian government's trade liberalization, a Panamanian automobile trading company launched a business of importing the Russian made Lada cars into Brazil. The company confronts a complex... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Transformation; Economics; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Capital; Policy; Competition; Auto Industry; Brazil
Austin, James E., and Helen Shapiro. "Lada do Brasil." Harvard Business School Case 392-122, March 1992. (Revised June 1993.)
- 06 Dec 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Trials and Terminations: Learning from Competitors' R&D Failures
Keywords: by Joshua Lev Krieger
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
Courtesy Rick Sontag In 1994, Rick Sontag’s (MBA 1968) wife, Susan, was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. Thanks to an experimental treatment, Susan survived, though she continues to experience significant loss of cognitive function caused View Details
- 02 Jan 2024
- What Do You Think?
Do Boomerang CEOs Get a Bad Rap?
(AdobeStock/Vincent) The return of Robert Iger as CEO of Walt Disney followed by a poorer-than-expected company performance has rekindled the debate about whether the decision to bring back formerly successful CEOs to revitalize an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
campus incidents by doing searches of college names and four different types of scandals: murders, sexual assaults, hazing, and cheating. Murders accounted for the largest category of media stories at 42... View Details