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- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
cases themselves, exist or may be supplied for teaching business." Business-school faculty therefore needed to develop cases of their own. But Donham recognized that these cases would have to be different from legal cases. For businessmen, the primary tasks were... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
more pressing crisis management activities. Local sales organizations, which are often tasked with local-level implementation of community health activities, prioritize product sales, supply, and distribution issues first. Target is... View Details
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
developing methods for receiving, documenting, and legalizing large numbers of immigrants. Just as important, it is implementing various ways of training immigrants to get them into the work force as soon as possible. As a result, it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
organization that implemented a highly decentralized business model. I exploit variation in this organization in whether or not employees are selected via channels that are likely to sort on the alignment of their preferences with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
it’s important to understand their risks, as well as those of partners and customers. Process: Implement a robust vendor management process for critical systems that considers business continuity risk, ensuring transparency, and mutual... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 06 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities
growing concern, HUL has created a system of viable, decentralized MRFs throughout wards in Mumbai through a public- private partnerships with the BMC local government. The government provides the land for the MRF, an implementation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Manufacturing Excellence: A Leader’s Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence by Larry E. Fast (PMD 52, 1986) (Productivity Press) Fast explains how to implement and sustain a top-down, comprehensive strategy for manufacturing... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
new applications, and second, to shift the mindset of an organization that has held the identity of an ‘imaging' company for decades." The case details how President and CEO Shigetaka Komori implements a restructuring of the company... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
are particularly interested in understanding how, if at all, the firm should go about effecting meaningful word-of-mouth (WOM). To tackle this problem, we collect data from two sources: 1) We implemented a large-scale field test in which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
The increase largely represented spending on incremental projects, DTx, and IT infrastructure. Key accomplishments in fiscal 2024 included strategy and planning to modernize the IT portfolio, the initial implementation of a new digital... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
consistent with our field interviews of R&D executives from laboratories involved in our study. The study provides further evidence of the geographically bounded nature of knowledge. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2423341 Bureaucratic Norms and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Publications The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Harvard Business Press Books, 2012 Abstract Innovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Student Handbook | MBA
instruction; suspending or limiting access to University-provided residential housing; limiting its provision of or access to certain activities and services, introducing or modifying vaccination, mask, and physical distancing mandates; and View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
implementing successful transformations. In this book he examines the crucial first step in his framework: creating a sense of urgency by getting people to actually see and feel the need for change. Why focus on urgency? Without it, any... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Gulati states that managers have figured out what consumers want and what their company should offer but are only now appreciating the huge institutional barriers that prevent them from delivering. He offers a practical process by which companies can overcome the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
sales force on track to achieve their annual sales quotas. The paper also introduces two main methodological innovations to the marketing literature: first, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
not only experience project-level success with the implementation of new work practices, but also organizational-level success as indicated by overall measures of performance. We tested our hypothesis in a longitudinal study of 23... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
and implement our idea for a kids’ menu,” says Jiang. “But we discovered that the consumer preferences and concepts of a bakery were completely different in Brazil. It challenged us to understand the customers’ mind-sets,” explains... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Examining Global Workforce Management
they implement their approaches in all the countries in which they operate. The research was sparked by a discussion of layoffs in the required MBA course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Sucher was initially surprised to discover... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
in its performance. The case illustrates the power of a great leader. All of the reforms Ghosn implemented were originally proposed by middle managers who had been working for Nissan for twenty years; they were instrumental in the... View Details