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- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
high-reliability organizations give rise to a distinctive way of thinking—workers direct attention at failure (rather than success) and are concerned with reliability (rather than efficiency)—leading to better outcomes. The concept of... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
orders can be delivered. Alex: But other times it means when you are reaching a customer, there are so many unmet needs that you can offer. And to be able to captivate their attention and change behavior, you have to offer a range of... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
health of the enterprise rather than near-term returns to its shareholders. Their model would refocus companies’ attention to innovation, strategic renewal, and investment in the future. Publisher's link:... View Details
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- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
red on food service. But Southwest doesn't pay much attention to that, because getting better at food service would slow its turnaround time, which is a big green for the airline when it comes to pleasing its customers. So we work on... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
people to communicate better and express their feelings. We've had the total quality movement and the move toward creating teams and the high-commitment workplace. I see what's going on today as simply a reiteration of these previous trends." Still, others feel... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
in a population. This chapter advances a historical comparison of these two methods-individual case reports and population meta-analysis-and draws attention to the fragmentation of the institutional basis for assessing pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23
attention to the returns of firms that do not issue at all, suggesting that issuance is partly an attempt to cater to broad time-varying patterns in characteristics mispricing. Our approach helps forecast returns to portfolios based on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
conflict, focusing our attention on the findings from an empirical literature on the topic that has blossomed over the last 15 years. We then turn to a discussion of how individuals and policy makers can use what has been learned about... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
no statement of the decision reached by the businessman...and generally business cases admit of more than one solution...[they] include both relevant and irrelevant material, in order that the student may obtain practice in selecting the facts that apply." Much... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
concentrate on developmental capital and buyouts. If that worked, we could turn our attention to brand-new ventures later on, which we did." "We started out as generalists," says Waite. "All through the '60s and '70s, there wasn't a... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
views matter. And it can turn departing employees into corporate ambassadors for years to come. Unfortunately, too few leaders pay attention to this tool; their programs fail to either improve retention or produce useful information. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
understanding of how to evaluate empirical research papers. While reading both case studies and empirical research require close attention and scrutiny, evaluating empirical research requires a different "lens"-this note briefly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
outcomes salient (Burns & Corpus, 2004), the bias did not emerge when the presentation did not draw attention to recent outcomes. Fixing Health Care on the Front Lines Author:Richard M.J. Bohmer Publication:Harvard Business Review 88,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
and Miklos Sarvary Publication:Marketing Science (forthcoming) Abstract Abstract: Media firms compete in two connected markets. They face rivalry for the sale of content to consumers, and at the same time, they compete for advertisers seeking access to the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
dukes"; 6) initiates and sustains cross-cutting actions to break down the polarizing effect of "fiefdoms" and "stovepipes"; as well as 7) focuses attention on cultivating and managing key external stakeholders... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
interest because of recent attention on Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs in the United States and elsewhere. As I write in my essay in the Handbook, and have explored in other work with my HBS colleague Tarun Khanna, the history of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
considerable research attention from several HBS faculty members, including Bob Hayes and Kim Clark. And as developing economies took off, “students could no longer be counted on to spend their entire professional careers in the United... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
Great Recession. Certainly, there are some similarities: there are some elements of a standard demand-side crisis, and we need to be attentive to those. But the problem we are facing today goes far beyond a breakdown in demand, so it is... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
ill-prepared entrepreneurial aspirants. Mace's course, The Management of New Enterprises (MNE), was initially offered as a second-year elective in 1947 and saw one hundred students enroll. According to the course catalog, MNE was designed "to center View Details