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- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
their employers on the one hand, and the decision makers and their employers on the other. GLG CEO Alexander Saint-Amand needed to assess both whether the compliance mechanisms in place were adequate for all parties, and if so, how or... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
Certainly things having to do with safety and security. I like to use an example of, we met with a company that makes robots that look like snakes and these snakes have sensors all over them and they send these snakes to try to go into dangerous buildings, say a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
development, much like the move into dog food and supplements. Non-nutritional products are growing at a very high rate and now account for roughly half of SmartPak’s revenues. A retail location in Natick, Massachusetts, doubles as a kind of test lab to View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Bussgang, Jeffrey Abstract—Relative to established organizations, start-ups can be hard to figure out. What are the jobs to be done? The best entry points? How can you tell whether a company has potential for success and is the right fit for you? The author advises... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
attention is allocated, and how that attention is allocated. Using click-stream data for thousands of U.S. households, we assess if and how attention allocation on each dimension changed between 2008 and 2013, a time of large increases in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
entrepreneurial ventures handle more than 2,000 donations per year or 10 percent of the yearly volume of donations. D. A Glimpse into the Future? The competitive forces that may appear in this new "market" are poorly understood. To View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006
categories: power, management, leadership, and culture. Choosing the right tool, say the authors, requires assessing the organization along two critical dimensions: the extent to which people agree on what they want and the extent to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni
post-MBA opportunity and would like to have a conversation to assess your eligibility for the GO Fellowship, please contact Kurt Piemonte, HBS Career & Professional Development, 617-495-6390, kpiemonte@hbs.edu . Awards Awards are designed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
combined with annual assessments on insurance providers, hospitals, and, indirectly, employers. Observes Pozen: “Any state thinking of following the Massachusetts model needs to have, as we did, a clear accounting system — remarkably,... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
intervention. Hence, an understanding of residual market imperfections—those imperfections that persist after market competition and regulation are accounted for—must inform any assessment of the long-term attractiveness of firm... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
visualization, a lens to assess existing competitive offerings, the creation of potential customer personas, and imagining a "hero's journey." When combined, these analyses allow designers to conceive elements that will result... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
cultural profiling, the practice of actively monitoring workers' behavior to assess how well they embody the values of their employing organization and of penalizing those employees who engage in deviant cultural behaviors. First, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
high standards. Confidence requires an honest and thorough assessment of the situation and the courage to accept responsibility for dealing with it, even if that means owning up to past mistakes. Confidence and the high self-esteem... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and allowed Christianity and Islam into China for the first time. Tang presents Taizong’s wisdom in conversations between him and his advisers that reveal core aspects of leadership, among them: how to assess oneself and others, how to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
assessing the business past and looking ahead to the future. Accordingly, over the past several months, from among HBS's more than sixty thousand active alumni, we have solicited and received many hundreds of votes, opinions, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
market-distorting bubble. The big difference between now and the late 1980s is supply. “Oversupply is kryptonite to the real estate market, and I don’t see an oversupply situation,” he notes. Nor do other market insiders, whose consensus View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
a useful input to assessing risks, allocating quality improvement resources, and making sourcing decisions. This paper examines how the scheduling of inspections risks introducing bias that erodes inspection quality by altering inspector... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
Christensen). Look at the product to be developed and assess its chances for success, Barron said. A start-up that develops a so-called disruptive business—one that dramatically improves upon the status-quo available in the market—has a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
students will also be learn to rigorously assess investments in the context of non-financial objectives. Investing – Sustainable Investing is a finance course, which could be taken on a stand-alone basis or as a complement to Private... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
top-talent list a closely guarded secret. And the assessment process used to decide who is a future leader is an even greater mystery. This book shows how you can get on and stay on your company’s fast track. The authors draw upon decades... View Details