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- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
collaboration and cooperation over decentralized individualism. How can large firms like BP collaborate among units and divisions and still remain financially profitable? A: The approach at BP was developed precisely to improve the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
feedback. Specifically, providing relative performance feedback improves the mean performance of participants compensated under an individual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Portrait Project
Lee Koffler
their lives over again. One hundred years after Johannes Brahms's death, his passion and sorrow survive in his Piano Quartet #3 in C Minor. For two centuries, Beethoven's Choral Fantasy in C Minor has led audiences to rejoice. In another version View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
about innovation in his performance art? "When you teach innovation, you tell your students that the best practices can come from some of the most unlikely sources," Thomke says. In the following years,... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
improvements such as worker protection might be costly to implement, but could save the company money down the line. How should companies think about profit-sacrifice? A: One of the key issues raised in the... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
low-income backgrounds. Anderson says their reading improved more than two grade levels over nine months, and they earned high school degree credits at twice the rate of typical high schoolers. Reset’s first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
overpaid? I think it’s embarrassing to see CEOs take big compensation and big bonuses in the same years that people are getting laid off. They should get bonuses and compensation only if the company is performing well over the long term.... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Pathfinder
adapt to a lower growth environment and still perform well, to improve productivity, to take on the digital challenges in their specific business and industry, and to build and strengthen their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
also be — and, given the large size of some companies, sometimes had to be — performed by teams of people. Meanwhile, the continual infusion of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
service, and knowledge management in examining the implications of this paradigm shift for managers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. Cost & Effect by Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper (Harvard Business School Press) Cost & Effect: Using... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
facility’s performance. “There is a lot of pressure to deliver and deliver quickly,” Sadun says. “The rational response of an appointed NHS CEO is not necessarily to improve... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
a production chain, that maximized output.” Klug admires the way Aoki took command of a key variable in restaurant management: table turnover, or “turns.” “Rocky made the restaurant a theater, with the chef as the star View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Alumni Books Live the Art by Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) (Rizzoli) A chronicle of Deitch’s career as an art dealer and producer of memorable installations and art happenings that transcended the idea View Details
- 11 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
7 Lessons from My Time at HBS
time reflecting on whether I am devoting the right amount of time to the activities and people that matter most to me. 2. Be yourself During my time at HBS, there were some moments where students shared some very personal stories from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
health-care reform in this country, we have to frame it as a managerial challenge. It’s not simply a policy issue. We won’t improve the system as a whole until we’ve improved the View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
what all those employees, who call themselves "athenistas," will be doing: improving health care efficiency and quality by connecting doctors, hospitals, and patients. For decades now, EHRs—computerized versions View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
purchased bundles may not always purchase pure consoles, even though consoles may be cheaper than bundles. The type of bundling chosen is critical to extracting value from consumers, with pure bundling View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
things like “strategy,” “focused activity level,” and “crisis response,” performance was dramatically improved when study subjects worked in the optimal conditions (with high rates View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
procedure performed or patient seen, without explicit rewards for the quality of the services rendered. This model translates internally into an incentive system that prioritizes patient volume over patient... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
measurement tool, the Total Motivation Factor, enables managers to measure the strength of the company culture and track improvements over time. They explore their original research into how Total Motivation... View Details