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  • Research Summary

THEME #2: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH VARIATION

Prior work has yet to establish definitively the role that variation (e.g. in individuals' activities or organizational processes) plays in the development of capabilities.  Variation is usually either not considered (e.g., the learning curve examines... View Details

  • Article

Healthy Buildings in 2070

By: John D. Macomber and Joseph G. Allen
Fifty years seems a very long time in the future for most industries. Not so in buildings and real estate; built structures routinely last decades if not hundreds of years, as long as they are economically competitive. Any discussion of the 50-year future has to... View Details
Keywords: Health ＆ Wellness; Real Estate; Architectural Innovation; Public Health; Health; Buildings and Facilities; Well-being
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  • 12 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Bridging Science and Business: My Summer Internship at Eli Lilly

symphony of scientific innovation and business strategy. All in all, my stint at Eli Lilly was an invaluable exercise in integration, taking me beyond routine team tasks to spearheading a high-impact project that challenged and honed my... View Details
  • May 2017
  • Other Article

Stepwise Distributed Open Innovation Contests for Software Development: Acceleration of Genome-Wide Association Analysis

By: Andrew Hill, Po-Ru Loh, Ragu B. Bharadwaj, Pascal Pons, Jingbo Shang, Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, Iain Kilty and Scott Jelinsky
BACKGROUND: The association of differing genotypes with disease-related phenotypic traits offers great potential to both help identify new therapeutic targets and support stratification of patients who would gain the greatest benefit from specific drug classes.... View Details
Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Genome-wide Association Study; Logistic Regression; Open Innovation; PLINK; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

The Impact of Funds: An Evaluation of CDC 2004-12

By: Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, Steve Dew and Dong Ik Lee
CDC was founded in 1948 as part of the U.K. government's efforts to develop the economic resources of Britain's remaining colonies. Since then, CDC has pursued a series of strategies to "do good without losing money," as its original mission was phrased. Its approach... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Great Britain
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  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

their stress levels," according to the article. ""I'm here for you." Let your employees know routinely that you are there for them when they need to share concerns or simply require a sympathetic, nonjudgmental ear. Consider making... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

Opportunity: Customers’ Routines When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • Web

Profiles - MBA

knowledge to focus on the development of innovative devices or systems that can improve a person's quality of life through better integration to society, return to daily routines or increased independence. In the future, I want to... View Details
  • 29 Jan 2018
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How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

forward. In this way, roles emerged and shifted as the teaming went on. Leaders of different subgroupings met routinely every morning and called for additional quick meetings on an as-needed basis. They developed a protocol for... View Details
Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Game On

the most complex development deals you can do,” he observes. The permitting and engineering took about two years; the $3 million project was demolished and rebuilt in six months. Navigating that kind of bureaucracy is routine for a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 07 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

to chart teams’ interactions as they transitioned to remote work. The name of the firm and its industry are confidential, but its teams routinely traveled together to visit clients prior to the pandemic. Drawing on past research about... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 29 Mar 2022
  • Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

Shetty, a cardiac surgeon and founder of Narayana Health, built a financially viable enterprise at scale by pioneering low-cost heart surgery for tens of thousands of low-income patients. Shetty was motivated by the widespread unavailability of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Leadership - Faculty & Research

including adjusting the company’s portfolio mix to higher-margin businesses and affirming and strengthening Greif’s strong culture. In partnership with the company’s board chair, Rosgaard worked to make changes to the board composition and board View Details
  • 04 Apr 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

they have decided to give up their weekend to come up with a better idea? Would they have agreed to break the routine of Mondays working remotely to share their response in the relative privacy of the office (vs. online)? Would the five... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Profile

Tara Basu Trivedi

grew up? I wanted to be a teacher – so much so that I would spend hours pretending to teach things to my stuffed animals. I’d even fill my coloring books with grades and little comments for my “students!” What is your favorite childhood memory? My mum’s and my morning... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2019
  • Blog Post

All Is Well in Texas: How Julia Cheek Founded Her At-Home Lab Testing Startup, EverlyWell

routinely returns to Boston to attend the Rock 100, a biennial event that HBS holds for start-up alums in entrepreneurship, and feels “it is by far the most helpful event put on my HBS. It’s a world-class resource for alums. HBS has been... View Details
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The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the division of research, and a professor of investment banking at HBS. The case presents a labor problem in a hypothetical shoe manufacturing plant of the same name: workers were routinely leaving the plant 45 minutes early, adversely... View Details
  • 28 Feb 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Master the Team Meeting

overhauling your meeting process won’t necessarily show positive results the very next meeting, and changing it too often could cause unrest, and even distrust if the rules of engagement keep changing. Have at least four to six meetings for a new View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 13 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases

Price Hikes How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare? With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology; Consumer Products; Retail
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Health Care - Faculty & Research

measured and compared their ambulatory care costs. The clinicians selected three strata of patients (0–11 months, 1–5 years, and 6–17 years of age). Process maps were developed for each of the age cohorts at each site, and the costs of ambulatory care—with emphasis on... View Details