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- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 2B indicates that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect agency, but only to the extent that indirectness signals reduced foreknowledge and/or control. Experiment 3... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
American Manufacturing Council, citing the president’s failure to condemn “hatred, bigotry and group supremacy.” Frazier's action triggered a mass exodus of other CEOs from two business advisory groups created by the president. One of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
chosen to designate an individual as a business leader (i.e., CEO), regardless of specific title, if he or she was regarded as the primary and, in some cases, sole leader in setting the company's direction, allocating resources, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
2004 at Outdoor Explorations, a nonprofit that brings together people with and without disabilities for inclusive outdoor adventures. She spent last summer doing marketing for Advanced Bionics, a Boston Scientific–owned manufacturer of... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain? Authors:Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr Abstract Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
the world choosing a leader for an organization is a primary responsibility of a board of directors. But others tempered that judgment with a variety of cautions. Richard Belloff made the base case by saying "The Board should choose... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
Get What You Pay Them Case: Lincoln Electric Company Written: 1975 Copies Sold: 284,826 With a tradition of innovation and technological leadership, the Lincoln Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was the world's largest manufacturer of... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Get What You Pay Them Case: Lincoln Electric Company Written: 1975 Copies Sold: 284,826 With a tradition of innovation and technological leadership, the Lincoln Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was the world’s largest manufacturer of... View Details
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Harvard Business School's Intensive Seminar on Value-Based Health Care and Partner's HealthCare's Residents and Fellows course and is a member of the senior advisory board for InciteHealth at Harvard Medical School's Center for Primary... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
review of his company's impressive sustainable development efforts over the past five years (which fill a twenty-page brochure) quickly reveals why Fortune magazine has dubbed Johnson "corporate America's leading environmentalist." Since 1990, S.C. Johnson & Son has... View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
based upon firm and agglomeration economy traits. We test our framework on the U.S. location choices of new manufacturing entrants between 1985 and 1994 and find that firms are far more attracted to skilled labor and specialized suppliers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
essential research tools—Markov decision process, game theory and information economics, queueing games, econometric methods, and data science—by illustrating their uses and applicability on examples from diverse healthcare settings, thus connecting tools with thrusts.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
become managing editor. He then moved to Harvard Business Publishing, where he became editorial director, with primary responsibility for Harvard Business Review. Also the author of Office Hours: A Guide to the Managerial Life, a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
way. It was Primary Day. As was his habit on this occasion of civic duty, Joseph J. Lhota (MBA '80) had risen early at his Brooklyn Heights home in order to vote at his local polling place before departing for Lower Manhattan and his City... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
for six years in a row; but leadership saw CHOP as more than the large main campus in western Philadelphia. Beginning in the 1990s, CHOP had created a large network of Primary Care Providers, Specialty Care Centers, Ambulatory Surgery... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
914-014 Ford Asia Pacific & Africa: The E-coating Facility Decision in Gujarat, India (A) In April 2013, Ford Asia Pacific & Africa (FAPA) was examining its options for e-coating service metal parts for the Ford Customer Service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-038.pdf Fluid Teams and Fluid Tasks: The Impact of Team Familiarity and Variation in Experience (revised) Authors: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract In many manufacturing and service... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
designing and managing an operations organization. The best way to do something depends critically on the characteristics and capabilities of your organization and the competitive context in which it finds itself. That is, lean View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
EPOC, and highly sophisticated software that can translate a person's emotions, cognitive thoughts, and facial expressions into digital outcomes. Emotiv wants the technology to be adopted by mainstream consumers and is leaning towards the video game market as its View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
cases themselves, exist or may be supplied for teaching business." Business-school faculty therefore needed to develop cases of their own. But Donham recognized that these cases would have to be different from legal cases. For businessmen, the View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin