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- September 2016 (Revised July 2017)
- Case
Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (A)
By: Dorothy Leonard and Christopher Myers
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a federally funded research institution within NASA, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has played a large role in many space and planetary explorations, particularly to the planet Mars. As a project-based... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Employees; Experience and Expertise; Aerospace Industry; United States
Leonard, Dorothy, and Christopher Myers. "Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (A)." Harvard Business School Case 917-404, September 2016. (Revised July 2017.)
- 05 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?
tricky to execute. For example, if Penney allows too much leeway to the individual store-in-store brands on how they display and manage their merchandise, it could subtract from the overall shopping experience that Johnson is trying to... View Details
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
PublicationsCollective Memory Meets Organizational Identity: Remembering to Forget in a Firm's Rhetorical History Authors:Michel Anteby and Virag Molnar Publication:Academy of Management Journal (in press) Abstract Much organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2011
- Case
Insight Communications
By: Rajiv Lal and Natalie Kindred
After undertaking a multi-year, metrics-driven operational and cultural overhaul, in April 2010 Insight Communications was planning the next phase of its development. Insight was a New York-based provider of cable, landline phone, and high-speed Internet service to... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
it could replace the electrode in the millions of lithium-ion batteries currently in production. The management team needed to decide whether to pursue the breakthrough self-assembly technology or move resources to commercialize the new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
Summing Up Dependency ratios are useful as general indicators of future economic and social health. But they must be managed downward on both a micro and macro basis, in the opinion of the majority of respondents to this month's column.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Fast Answer
Executive compensation
Execucomp, provides compensation for S&P 1000 firms from 1992 to present. BoardEx, profiles on over 1M Directors & Senior Managers including current compensation data for Disclosed Earners. S&P Capital IQ People... View Details
- 30 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
go astray. An organization's books may be in order, but its performance may be going down the tubes. What's to be done? Should the growing number of governance committees require management to establish certain measures—in this case,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
afraid to go deep and specialize if you can identify that intersection point, they said. There are many new areas in the climate arena with a shortage of subject matter experts. Steven Rothstein, Managing Director, Ceres Accelerator for... View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
request. The following day, Zuckerberg personally met with employees and posted a promise to audit and restrict access to user information by the developers of apps. He also agreed to testify before a United States congressional committee... View Details
- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
Photos by Benjamin Norman In 2014, Stephen D’Antonio (MBA 1986) was living the life he had always envisioned. He’d been a partner at Morgan Stanley for nearly two decades. He sat on the Firm Management Committee and was the COO of the... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
on benefitting DACs and groups currently underserved by transit. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law created the $3 billion Weatherization Assistance Program,[57] which uses formula grants managed by the Department of Energy to reduce... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
manage a company's resources. But many executives who have tried to implement ABC on a large scale in their organizations have found the approach limiting and frustrating. Why? The employee surveys that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Stan O’Neal
two emotions that come to mind when considering the 9/11 tragedy are sadness and courage. He is particularly proud of Merrill’s nine thousand employees who worked near the towers. “It really was an incredible feat for our View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
environment is much less rich than in other countries/sectors and in which managers are concerned about measuring the effectiveness of their commercial actions. Among the most immediate decisions they need to make is the size of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
inclusion tomorrow or today? Today, by miles, because not only are the problems going to stack up, but also your employee base is watching you, and they’re watching you choose not to do it. Inclusion is an urgent goal, and it is so... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Web
Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity
talented Black applicants to the MBA Program, as well as other underrepresented minority groups, through trusted partnerships with the HBS African American Alumni Association and organizations such as Management Leadership for Tomorrow,... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Pvt. Ltd. (formerly SET Pvt. Ltd.), a leading television broadcaster in India. Describes Singh's decision to evaluate employees based on values as well as performance and the management committee's response.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
administration. The monograph precedes their later account of the experiments, Management and the Worker, published in 1939. Research studies in employee effectiveness and industrial relations: papers... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Harvard Business Review Managing Political Misfits By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory McDonald Abstract—Not all employees agree with your politics. That's OK. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne