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  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

rate. We discuss the implications of our findings for retail inventory and assortment planning and for the design of retail stores.   Working PapersDoes Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2020
  • Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

encourage fruitful conversations, according to Beer and Eisenstat, leaders should: Focus the conversation on the issues that matter most. Develop questions for workers that tap into the heart of the strategic and cultural problems that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 2009
  • Chapter

Organizational Design: Balancing Search and Stability in Strategic Decision Making

By: Jan Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow
Managers often must make decisions that depend on decisions in other parts of the organization. These interactions create a network of interdependent choices and make strategizing difficult. In this chapter, the authors explore the intersection between organizing and... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Strategy; Balance and Stability
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  • 10 Dec 2007
  • HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

addition, OLPC had to determine the right mix of attributes and features that would appeal to the target users, children. Design could not be an afterthought; the laptop had to be attractive enough so a young person would feel proud to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer
  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

confidence in their mastery of what they had already learned. We conclude by discussing the implications of these findings, such as encouraging further learning or harming teaching evaluations. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

FAQs - Doctoral

part of the Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Village. This program has been designed to enable motivated undergraduates to pursue summer business research in a defined project and also participate in a social network that will... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

causing them to place a lower value on the product or service being offered. To address this problem, managers should experiment with operational transparency—the deliberate design of windows into and out of the organization's operations... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

in the United States. It formed part of the consumer chemicals industry, which sold branded and packaged goods supported by heavy advertising expenditure. In soap, there were also substantial throughput economies, which encouraged... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
  • 24 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together

to a rite of passage like a wedding. Group rituals abound in the world of sports; for example, Notre Dame’s football team always walks the same route to the stadium. Many group activities involve food, from community potlucks to global View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

organizational design so as to reinforce and enable each other. August 2013 Harvard Business Review 91, no. 9 (September 2013): 68-76 Great Leaders Who Make the Mix Work By: Groysberg, Boris, and Katherine Connolly Abstract—Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

pandemic travel restrictions, the program pivoted to focus on US challenges and opportunities, taking more than 1,000 students to one of 15 domestic locations. With a lens on the course’s three modules—contextual intelligence, team effectiveness, and View Details
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

members to help select winning designs. Threadless encouraged community members to actively participate by critiquing submitted designs, blogging about their daily lives, posting songs and videos inspired by the designs, and, most... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-021.pdf Coerced Confessions: Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, novel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

building on intense lobbying to encourage further domestic deregulation and limit federal oversight of the energy industry, Skilling encouraged Enron executives to exploit to the hilt recent Securities and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 14 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

encourage participation, reduce gaming, and aggregate information in order to improve liquidity, efficiency, and equity in markets. We also discuss a number of fruitful applications of market design in other... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Profiles - MBA

friends. Exploring deployment options for ling.ai in low-resource communities has taught me the importance of simplifying technologies, sustainability, and scalability when designing and developing new tech. I've also been doing research... View Details
  • 30 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System

Keywords: by Stephen Haber & Aldo Musacchio; Banking
  • Program

OPM Renew

discover a living and learning environment expressly designed for executive education. Review Our Campus Health & Safety Protocols Admissions Criteria and Process We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available... View Details
  • Web

Executive Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Innovation - Virtual MAR 20-28, 2025 | Virtual Designed to help nonprofit leaders use performance measurement to enhance their organization's ability to achieve their mission, this program explores how participants can use performance... View Details