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- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
buyout. Others maintain that PE fund managers are better at managing firms and making them more efficient than many corporate executives. Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff professor of investment banking at HBS, has spent much of the past... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
collection basket. Another key discussion around the greenhouse was its energy consumption. About 30% of the facility’s costs are related to energy, and the team is continuously looking for ways to become more sustainable and efficient in... View Details
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Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services
We wish to bring to your attention a number of items that will help you work efficiently and prevent you from having future problems: Remember that home folders are not sharable, and typically contain files that pertain to your work only.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
mindset to make you more strategic or more efficient with your time—but there’s not much research on that yet. Recently, we studied how people could spend their discretionary income to promote happiness: What would happen if you spent... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
increasing economic efficiency and improving government finances. Yet, privatization does not imply the disappearance of government from the affected sector. In many cases," says Emmons, "the reduction in state ownership is accompanied by... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
this bank use its strengths and overcome its weaknesses to best serve its constituents and the public? This case follows Sturzenegger´s eventful first few years in office to examine how a state-owned enterprise maneuvered in a challenging environment to hit its targets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
exploit, enables a firm to adapt over time. In this paper we review and integrate these comparatively new research streams and identify a set of propositions that suggest how ambidexterity acts as a dynamic capability. We suggest that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
learning efficiencies that could drive down manufacturing costs over time. By 2016, Boeing had deferred about $27 billion in production costs related to its 787 program. If Boeing had been forced to expense these costs, it would have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2018
- Teaching Note
City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
This teaching note assists in the classroom instruction of the HBS No. 318-089, “City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact.” It offers to instructors a case summary and analysis, along with student preparation questions and a guide for classroom discussion of the case.... View Details
Keywords: Scaling; Education Entrepreneurship; Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
- March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City... View Details
Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and James Weber. "City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact." Harvard Business School Case 318-089, March 2018. (Revised June 2018.)
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
benefits are at most partially realized. The same institutions and practices that facilitate efficient ad placement can also facilitate fraud. The networks that should be serving advertisers have decidedly mixed incentives, such as cost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
than department-level-performance measures; (2) internal supply department routines that respond to specific patients' needs rather than to predetermined stocking routines; (3) knowledge that is necessary for efficient handoffs of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Case 510-037 Nanosolar is a start-up company in the clean tech sector. It expects to be one of the first manufacturers to produce thin-film solar panels using copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) technology. Although this technology is less View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
risks that these firms impose on society. Third, creating a receivership process would allow an efficient handling of failed companies. "We really need to insist that no institution is too big to fail," says Moss. "With what I'm... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
advantage and market outcomes hence could be more efficient with stronger indirect network effects. We empirically examine the competition between the Xbox and PlayStation 2 consoles. We find that Xbox has a small quality advantage over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
getting proximate to the lived experiences of those most impacted by racism, which for many of us, means identifying and collaborating with local champions and nonprofits who can allow us to efficiently and effectively leverage our skills... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
recovery workforce across a large geographical region prone to high risks,” he notes. “This product is not available in our sales system, and it is marked with ‘not for sale.’ It is only provided by our logistics system, which is highly View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
are more effective for partisans, candidate advertising is more effective for non-partisans, whereas outside advertising is more effective for partisan voters. Our findings can help strategists efficiently allocate resources across and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
outcomes of an organization’s immediate interventions or the ability to affect system-wide change. By graphing the two levels of scale against the two levels of impact, we have constructed a four-quadrant framework. Quadrant #1 focuses on the activities of a single... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
to the customer over time. Customer relationships become continuous and open-ended, service becomes more efficient and proactive, and new business models are enabled. The rich data on location and environment that products provide take... View Details