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- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
by truncating her true ranking. We show that in symmetric information environments this result is identical for all priority mechanisms and all linear programming mechanisms introduced in British entry-level medical markets and in public... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
individuals to enroll in weight loss programs, without a decrement in program effectiveness. Future research could explore the cost effectiveness of such subsidies or alternative designs. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
significant in the 2000s, due to slow growth in Japan, massive tax cuts in the USA, and expensive social programs in Europe. This now adds to the financing problem. By 2011, these deficits have become almost overwhelming, leading to debt... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
As interest in the flat tax grows, the world seems transfixed on an unlikely country, Slovakia, whose 3-year-old tax reform program is paying early dividends. Essentially applying a uniform tax rate on citizens (and sometimes companies)... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
encouraged his whole executive team to become leaders, and it was that large cadre that vowed to continue Dyke's programs after he left. The reproduction process involves finding and empowering natural leaders, regardless of their titles... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
also be necessary. Many companies assume that 50 percent, 100 percent, even 200 percent annual turnover in workers is “normal.” As a result, they fail to invest in programs such as upskilling that will dramatically improve their retention... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 22 Jun 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation
Questions To Be Answered What's the best bonus program to boost sales productivity? Can companies inspire heroism in employees? Can employers promote moral behavior? Does money lead to creativity? What's The Best Bonus View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
York City-based insurance program shortly after the World Trade Center bombing and arrived in China. Initially he planned to teach English, but soon the entrepreneurial spirit of the country caused him to begin exploring opportunities. He... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
AndrewsHarvard Business School Case 812-004 Toward the end of 2010, companies in the gene sequencing industry were pushing aggressive R&D programs to develop technologies and products in the race to sequence the entire human genome at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
Schneider, Tufano proposes a slight renovation of the program that will make it easier for asset-poor families to use savings bonds to build a nest egg for the future. Families living paycheck to paycheck rarely squirrel away funds to... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
Happold developed its first formal internal training programs under the name of "Archimedes Academy." The first two programs were (1) the Job Leader Program, targeted for senior engineers and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
susceptibility to competition. How to repair the rift? Two HBS faculty developed a CD-based program called Measuring Marketing Performance targeted at senior executives—namely CEOs, COOs, and CMOs. The tutorial helps execs understand how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
805-064 Patrimonio Hoy is a program targeting the housing needs of the low-income population by CEMEX, a major Mexican company and a leading global cement producer. Originally conceived as a project to better understand the customers in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
retaining customers than programs that focus on retaining customers but add cost to the product or service." Others tended to regard Treacy's and Reichheld's views as complementary. "I don't see a conflict," said Jack... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
It's presumed that mental health issues are more under an individual's control." Changing Cultures As Quelch and Knoop explore in their note, some companies are taking a different tack, being proactive about integrating mental health into their wellness View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
program for native Malays that had alleviated racial tensions and reduced inter-racial income inequality over the previous 40 years though, some argued, at the cost of fostering corruption. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
hours to the public good. However, the organization has been struggling to keep both The 1% Program and its own design initiatives integrated and reinforcing each other in creating social and professional change. Should Public split into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
to megacorporations. One of these programs, called the Immersion Experience Program (IXP), each year sends 30 or so potential MBAs to Japan, where they receive a unique education made possible by one of the most lethal disasters in modern... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
and some 1,000 cases. By the time he became professor emeritus in 1997, he had taught some seven thousand Harvard MBA students and ten thousand Executive Education participants in programs at Soldiers Field and abroad, while advising... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
powerful, but in a centralized, technocratic system, will be very powerful, because somebody has to do the research that informs all of this. The final group is the human resource people in corporations. They turn to limiting the choice of health care View Details