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Teaching by the Case Method - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
moderator, devil's advocate, fellow-student, and judge," all in search of solutions to real-world problems and challenges. Unlike lectures, case method classes unfold without a detailed script. Successful instructors simultaneously manage... View Details
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
From the problems posed by the Great Recession to the devastation in Haiti and the Gulf of Mexico, from the continuing economic growth of India and China to a cascade of entrepreneurial ventures, the year 2010 offered a wide assortment of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
knowledge to solving the problems of individual patients—offer enormous potential to help patients and the U.S. health-care system overall, says HBS senior lecturer Richard M.J. Bohmer, a physician and researcher on the intersection of... View Details
- 02 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
Employees Out Sick? Inside One Company's Creative Approach to Staying Productive
workers each, running on tight schedules with little room for error. Yet the average daily worker absenteeism rate was 11 percent, and for any particular production line, the absence rate was 20 percent or higher at least one out of 11 days. “You need to solve the... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
we've been coming at the same problem from different angles using the same mission, the same philosophy, the same moral understanding of what we're trying to do, which is to, look, you don't get very much time in the world.” Brooks:... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 07 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back
much funding," Ghosh says. "What funding does is cover up all the problems that a company has. It covers up all the mistakes, it enables the company and management to focus on things that aren't important to the company's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
problems in the health care industry. It has been stuck in outdated management practices and payment models that made the problem progressively worse over the past 50 years despite tremendous advances in... View Details
- 21 Nov 2023
- Op-Ed
The Beauty Industry: Products for a Healthy Glow or a Compact for Harm?
In my recently published book Deeply Responsible Business, I write about business leaders since the 19th century who have acted responsibly, often by putting the welfare of their communities above the idea of maximizing profits. I make a sharp distinction between... View Details
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
testosterone. Taken together, all but one conceptual replication has demonstrated support for the embodied effects of expansive nonverbal postures. However, multiple experiments have found that the postural effects appear to be bounded by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23
Trichakis Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper deals with a basic issue: How does one approach the problem of designing the "right" objective for a given resource allocation problem? The notion of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
when the co-partisan audience is strongly ideological (and so might have been expected to encourage undiscerning punishment). We thus suggest that reputation can make people more punitive, even in ambiguous situations, but does not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
show positive contributions. —Francis Nedvidek (TGMP 4, 1999) A Problem Shared Is a Problem Halved I first read about imposter syndrome about 20 years ago and was astonished to see myself so clearly in the... View Details
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
single constraint should be used in place of multiple constraints on bank equity ratio to minimize distortions on bank behavior; 2) the regulatory framework should be designed minimally to minimize legal gaming and regulatory arbitrage;... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
What Makes a Good Leader?
things in a few words. General Electric's Jack Welch is a good example. He is astonishingly articulate and able to convey complicated concepts in just a few phrases." Of course, knowing your audience is also essential. "Great... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies and societies, including market... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities. Within the literature on corporate strategy, this tension between focus and breadth is reconciled by the concept of related diversification (i.e., a firm with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It
innovators, problem solvers, entrepreneurs, and leaders that instead of wasting their time wondering why things are the way they are, they should simply accept their world as given” "I Moved Your Cheese is based on the idea that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
but related through their connection with an underlying, evolving technical system. In the future, I believe the key problem for organization design will be the management of distributed innovation in such dynamic systems. Organization... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 29
multiparty risk and disaster management, namely that the organizational challenge is to enable multiple actors and subunits with competing and often conflicting values and expertise to establish a virtual, well‐aligned organization.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach By: Lakshmi Ramarajan Psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers have long recognized that people have multiple identities—based... View Details