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- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
underlying your strategy and analyze how it's implemented through your business processes and structures. Drawing on decades of research into performance management systems and organization design, Seven Strategy Questions is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-006.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsKanebo Ltd. (A) David F.Hawkins, Suraj Srinivasan, Akiko Kanno, and Lizzie GomezHarvard Business School Case 111-037 Speculation as to how Japanese companies might View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
winners and losers into consideration. Both groups need to be encouraged and included in the implementation process, and reassured of their value and worth to the company, Neeley says. For the favored group specifically, Neeley suggests... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
more and more cases, when leaders make critical decisions, they are not choosing among specific, detailed options, each supported by in-depth analysis, nor are they expecting to implement the option they choose in a familiar, predictable,... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
an incident gets reported and that a solution is implemented so that the incident doesn't recur. We can look at whether this happens over time. Knowing this will make a significant contribution to improving patient safety, because a lot... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
cheap, fast, and "easy," don't you think Cisco would have used them? Q: What are the characteristics of successful Web service implementations today? What kinds of companies can benefit most? Are there certain types of processes... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
threaten our world competitiveness. It may actually help us find ways to be more productive." Susan Seitel agreed, saying "there are ways to have both and we have proof. The country's dramatically increasing output comes coincidentally at the same time more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. They do this by allocating scarce capital resources to the best opportunities, then measuring and controlling performance against projections.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
transistor — emanated from groups of people with complementary skills," say the authors. Furthermore, they argue, creativity doesn't have to come in visionary leaps. Incremental steps count, too, and figuring out how to implement a... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- Web
Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
orthopedic surgical groups at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Mayo Clinic, University of California San Francisco, Connecticut Joint Replacement Unit and the Schön Klinik in Germany. These sites... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
told me a lot in and of itself," he says. Meanwhile, Nielsen developed his own definition: "The mission of a school is to serve as the primary partner, with parents, in the total development of a child into a responsible citizen." Eager to View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
lab and the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases. But in a much larger sense, Yeo is looking out on Singapore's future-a future he has played a primary role in creating since 1986, first as the longtime chairman of the Economic Development Board (EDB), which plans... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
discover and implement the breakthroughs required for realization of the vision; 3) the creation of a system that ensures both the timely identification of breakdowns (and the dissemination of information about them) that, if unresolved,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016
system, began implementing a new learning management system in the MBA Program, and implemented a new technology platform to support a wide range of Executive Education functions. The increase in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
challenges then are first, to screen and prioritize the multitude of possible 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... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
offer insurance at genuinely lower prices, but only if it is implemented without the financing gimmicks that have artificially lowered the costs of Medicare at the expense of future generations. The pricing of the public option must... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
communication devices, the tools of Anderson’s trade are more prosaic — a scalpel, a soft-bristle brush, tweezers, a razor knife, Q-tips, and the like. As collections conservator at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Anderson skillfully wields such low-tech View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- Web
Politics and War - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
the suspension of gold payments by the Bank of England. Prime minister William Pitt was forced to implement the issue of paper money when the Bank announced a gold shortage, due to loans it had made to finance the war with France. Rumors... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
lockdown for more than two months. These measures have been effective at preventing the spread of the virus and flattening the curve. If the sole objective is to prevent the spread of the virus, then a full lockdown, such as the one View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
social issues continued across the world, especially in Indonesia and Malaysia, which produced 80% of palm oil. The case discusses the sustainability strategy implemented by Unilever across time with regards to palm oil, together with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne