Task Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and Management

The current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

Bandiera and B. Kelsey Jack A substantial body of research investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform View Details

01 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

manager at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, he supported the refresh of Gavi's corporate strategy, integrating learnings from COVAX (a global response to end the COVID-19 pandemic co-led by Gavi and the WHO) into its core operations. Previously, at Dalberg, he View Details

16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Courses - Private Capital Project

models such as venture capital, growth equity, and buyouts. Participants will study investment criteria, management strategies, and decision-making processes essential in the field. Private Equity and Venture Capital The Investment Management course is View Details

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

like that was explicitly designed to engage the drives, the skills, the smarts, and the emotions of such people in a collaborative effort to design, produce, and sell products and services of value to the wider world? After we have... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

09 Mar 2003
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Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

A business plan predicated upon asking customers to adopt new priorities and behave differently from how they have in the past is an uphill death march through knee-deep mud. Instead of designing products and services that dictate... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

served on the board of the Newton Schools Foundation and the Newton high school task force. Todd is married and has three children. Joseph Lassiter, Harvard Business School Joe teaches Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation in Business,... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Curb Appeal

trash collection to snow removal. If the forecast is correct, DSNY will have to clear 5 to 6 inches from 6,500 miles of city streets—a task that involves fitting plows to 2,000 garbage trucks and salt spreaders while continuing to collect... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

Investment Promotion Like some other activities financed by governments, investment promotion has certain characteristics of tasks typically carried out by the government but others that are normally associated with View Details

Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Strategy and the Internet

for competitors to imitate information systems. The openness of the Internet, combined with advances in software architecture, development tools, and modularity, makes it much easier for companies to design and implement applications. The... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter

12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

does this occur? Across four studies, people justified their dishonest deeds through moral disengagement and exhibited motivated forgetting of information that might otherwise limit their dishonesty. Using hypothetical scenarios (Studies 1 and 2) and real View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2023
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

seniors in many African countries are more integrated into family life. The students were tasked with helping the startup expand its primarily word-of-mouth marketing strategies and develop more scalable channels to reach new customers.... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

11 Jul 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'

when you don’t. A Good Place to Start Terror at the TajUnder terrorist attack, employees of the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower bravely stayed at their posts to help guests. A multimedia case study looks at the hotel's customer-centered culture and value system. How to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Service

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

cubic yards, but most of those excavations had been designed for a sea-level canal and proved useless for the American effort. (In fact, most of the French excavations sank below Lake Gatun when the Americans dammed the Chagres River.)... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

03 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business

Sake Of Science To find out whether it was possible to assuage grief by performing seemingly meaningless rituals designed by someone else, Norton and Gino conducted a laboratory study in which they induced grief-inducing loss and assigned... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

experts perform their work. Yes, certain tasks can be completed correctly and completely by AI, but for those types of tasks we will see something like the Industrial Revolution, where people's jobs changed,... View Details

31 Jan 2007
HBS Case

When Good Teams Go Bad

Concludes Polzer, "The best teams are those that not only combine the skills of their members successfully to fit the demands of their task but also energize team members through the bonding that comes with striving toward a common... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

16 Nov 2015
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Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

process and then understand how it works is very difficult, however. Gross showed some creativity in finding an innovative way to do just that. His study looked at graphic design competitions that take place via online platforms that help... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

2015–2021, Jones served as the founding Dean of the College of Innovation + Design at Boise State University, and from 2010–2015, he worked at Harvard University, serving from 2011 as the Evans Family Foundation Managing Director of the... View Details

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