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- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Publications August 2013 Modernizing Insurance Regulation Comparative Regulation of Market Intermediaries: Insights from the Indian Life Insurance Market By: Anagol, Santosh, Shawn A. Cole, and Shayak Sarkar Abstract—This book provides a look into the crucial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
encounters countless barriers because organizational innovation implies changes in strategy, structure, systems, and attitudes. And if one continues to push on the edge of the envelope, as is our norm, then... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
workforce is not a quick fix to control costs or improve the quality of care. A poorly planned redesign can even result in increased costs and decreased quality. Changes in skill mix and role definitions should be preceded by a detailed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
Understanding Psychological Safety in Healthcare and Education Organizations: A Comparative Perspective By: Edmondson, Amy C., Monica Higgins, Sara J. Singer, and Jennie Weiner Abstract—Psychological safety plays a vital role in helping people overcome View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
to note, though, that this situation might benefit other countries that will welcome these workers, as for instance Canada has been saying. The US will get a smaller slice of the world economy pie if it turns it back to the world. But if we take a step back, putting... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
five months-cut defects by half, reduced inventory by 20%, and raised output by 10%. A control group saw no such gains. The authors' global data set suggests that implementing good management at schools and hospitals yields change more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
guessing among them and probably an eventual change in policies and views. Losing Alibaba really stung.) Alibaba was founded in 1999 in the city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province in eastern China. In those early days, it was a small,... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
fast second mover can upset the normally strong barriers to entry that a first-mover advantage in a network setting can create. In short, the big lesson learned is that a window of opportunity exists for a second mover to challenge a... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
The unparalleled size of Asia's markets has always caught the eye of multinational corporations. More recently, as government policies and cultural attitudes in the region continue to evolve, the strategies of multinational companies have View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
fundamentally change the trajectory of a broken system. The bundled payment model, in contrast, triggers competition between providers to create value where it matters—at the individual patient level—and puts health care on the right... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
"the right environment" to promote accountability and head off future disasters. The corporate leaders we have interviewed say that culture isn't something you "fix." Rather cultural change is what you get after you've... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
the new market leaders." Even if many things have to happen before fundamental organizational changes occur, it still leaves us with questions: Is this kind of change worth pursuing? If so, what View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
opportunities and substantial returns on investment of the kind suggested by some are years, perhaps even decades, away. It will require not only caution but also a great deal of patience as barriers to economic development are lowered.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
managing change. Instead, they develop many disconnected initiatives to bring about change — initiatives that by their piecemeal nature are doomed to failure. "In light of that," Beer explains, "we formulated this profiling... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
This article examines how the teaching of a course concerned with the development and implementation of the goals and policies of a firm changed during three periods in the postwar period: first, with the introduction of the concept of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
organization strategy to enable the different functions to work together to bring products to market more quickly. As Ludwig grappled with a way to jumpstart change at DIS, he began to suspect that people throughout the unit were talking... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Communication in Multicultural Networks: Deficits in Inter-cultural Capability and Affect-based Trust as Barriers to New Idea Sharing in Inter-cultural Relationships Authors:Roy Y.J. Chua and Michael W. Morris Abstract Innovative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Innovation Profiling process to determine what barriers were preventing the company from achieving its strategic objectives. The result showed that the company needed to make changes in the areas of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
Walt Disney and the 1941 Animators' Strike Harvard Business School Case 406-076 Focuses on the leadership lessons drawn from the events precipitating the Animator's Strike of 1941, depicting the growing pains of a company that was as much formed and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
changing definitions of success and diversity, barriers faced by women at work, the expectations of work and family, and present-day implications for the pipeline of future women leaders. Students consider... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino