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  • April 2002 (Revised September 2002)
  • Case

Transformation of Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002

Investigates the reform of the Seattle Public Schools from 1995 to 2002. To initiate reform in 1995, the district hired John Stanford, an Army general, and Joseph Olchefske, an investment banker, as the district's superintendent and chief financial officer,... View Details
Keywords: Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Education; Business Strategy; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry; Seattle
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    Six Myths of Product Development

    Many companies approach product development as if it were manufacturing, trying to control costs and improve quality by applying zero-defect, efficiency-focused techniques. While this tactic can boost the performance of factories, it generally backfires with... View Details

      Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner

      From Apple to Merck to Wikipedia, more and more organizations are turning to crowds for help in solving their most vexing innovation and research questions, but managers remain understandably cautious. It seems risky and even unnatural to push problems out to vast... View Details

        How Fast and Flexible Do You Want Your Information, Really?

        Almost all executives want more and faster information, and almost all companies are racing to provide it. What many of them are overlooking is that the real aim should not be faster information but faster decision making, and those aren't the same things. Executives... View Details
        • 03 Mar 2003
        • Research & Ideas

        Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

        that she was a corporate securities partner in the San Francisco office of the law firm of Bingham McCutchen. She is author or coauthor of several textbooks, including the just-published second edition of The Entrepreneur's Guide to... View Details
        Keywords: by Staff
        • 10 Apr 2018
        • First Look

        First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

        Spring 2018 MIT Sloan Management Review The Store Is Dead—Long Live the Store By: Bell, David R., Santiago Gallino, and Antonio Moreno Abstract—In this article, we pursue two interconnected themes: the expansion of online-first retailers into offline stores that serve... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 03 Jun 2014
        • First Look

        First Look: June 3

          Publications August 2013 University of Chicago Press Innovation Policy and the Economy By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo18508109.html August 2013 Innovation... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 01 May 2014
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation

        Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
        • 09 Oct 2012
        • First Look

        First Look: October 9

          PublicationsAuctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications Authors:Peter Coles, Sanmay Das, Sébastien Lahaie, and Boleslaw Szymanski Publication:Second International ICST Conference, AMMA 2011 Abstract This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 17 Feb 2012
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Breaking Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing Socialization around Newcomer Self-Expression

        Keywords: by Dan Cable, Francesca Gino & Brad Staats
        • 06 May 2010
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Introductory Reading For Being a Leader and The Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model

        Keywords: by Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron & Kari L. Granger; Education
        • 17 Sep 2008
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Secrets of the Academy: The Drivers of University Endowment Success

        Keywords: by Josh Lerner, Antoinette Schoar & Jialan Wang; Education
        • March 2023
        • Case

        Between Two Minds: The Staglin Family

        By: Lauren Cohen, Ronnie Stangler and Grace Headinger
        Garen Staglin, Founder and Chairman of One Mind, reflected on his life’s work in brain health. As he contemplated stepping down in the next few years, he weighed how to pass along this legacy to his son, Brandon Staglin, the impetus behind and next generation of the... View Details
        Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Well-being; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry
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        Moving Forward from COVID-19: Organizational Dimensions of Effective Hospital Emergency Management

        By: Mariam Krikorian Atkinson, Nicholas Cagliuso, John Hick, Sara Singer, Elizabeth Bambury, Tuna Cem Hayirli, Masha Kuznetsova and Paul Biddinger
        Federal investment in emergency preparedness has increased notably since the 9/11 attacks, yet it is unclear if and how U.S. hospital readiness has changed in the 20 years since then. In particular, understanding effective aspects of hospital emergency management... View Details
        Keywords: COVID-19; Hospital Preparedness/response; Urban/rural Hospitals; Emergency Management; National Strategy; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Performance Effectiveness; Governance; Policy; United States
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        • 2018
        • Book

        The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy

        By: Sophus A. Reinert
        The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the 18th century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the 19th, they paradoxically sought to make the... View Details
        Keywords: Enlightenment; Political Economy; Italy; Commercial Society; Economic Systems; Trade; History; Markets; Society; Italy
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        • June 2008 (Revised July 2008)
        • Case

        Kit Hinrichs at Pentagram (A)

        By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
        This case focuses on Kit Hinrichs, a 65-year-old partner at Pentagram, a privately owned multidisciplinary design firm. One of the world's most prestigious design firms, Pentagram was founded by five designers from different disciplines in London in the 1970s. By 2008,... View Details
        Keywords: Arts; Business Offices; Customer Relationship Management; Design; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Groups and Teams; Creativity; Service Industry; San Francisco
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        • 28 Jul 2020
        • Research & Ideas

        Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

        essential to evaluate methods for measuring discrimination and associated design changes over time. About the Author Kristen Senz is a writer and social media editor for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: RyanJLane]... View Details
        Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service
        • 14 Jul 2023
        • Blog Post

        Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

        authored multiple high-impact publications and is the inventor of several patents leveraging the use of biomaterials for drug delivery and diagnosis. During her fellowship, Núria will serve as a founding scientific member to translate... View Details
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        Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

        Center Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) Boston Redevelopment Authority Boston Symphony Orchestra BRAC USA Bridges Outcomes Partnerships Calvert Foundation The Children's Investment Fund Foundation Citizen Schools City of... View Details
        • 02 Mar 2009
        • Research & Ideas

        When Goal Setting Goes Bad

        performance, the authors agree. But goal setting must be prescribed in doses, not as a standard remedy to increase productivity. They even offer a warning label and list 10 questions managers should ask themselves before starting goal... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne