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- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
skilled employees for three weeks to non-profit health organizations to provide pro bono consulting and technology services. It focuses on a handful of projects each year selected from an applicant pool of... View Details
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
Questions To Be Answered: What are the best techniques for fostering innovation in multicultural teams? I want my functional experts to influence high-level strategy. How can managers get the best thinking out of support staff? What role does information View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
individualized consultations where appropriate. THWARTING THE PUPPY MILLS In addition to being thick, Roth has written that successful marketplaces must be safe, meaning that all parties feel secure enough to make decisions based on their... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
between immigration and innovation. We construct a measure of foreign born expertise and show that technology areas where immigrant inventors were prevalent between 1880 and 1940 experienced more patenting and citations between 1940 and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
Are Uber drivers and HourlyNerd consultants independent contractors or employees? Interesting question, but the wrong one. Better to ask: Are we stifling innovation across the digital economy by forcing a simplistic choice, contractor vs.... View Details
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
layoffs, though, only one person among the six panelists had retreated to a traditional consultancy in 2001. The rest—who started everything from a women-centric financial services group to a natural products company that grew from a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
office. An executive search professional refuses the headaches associated with leading a practice area. Information technology consultants resist management assignments, for fear they'll become... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
graduate from HBS in Spring 2009. He must decide whether to join his father's company, Toronto-based AME Learning, as president working alongside his father who will be CEO. AME has been in business for 12 years, mostly as a small View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
strategy (and some consultants who advise on strategy) is that they assume that once you design strategy it gets executed. They don't look inside the process and realize that it's much more complicated. Bower: It's almost as if they think... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
consulting couch to the launch pad, denial is ubiquitous. You find it in individuals, in teams, in companies, in industries. Indeed, you find it in entire nations and economies. Look at the invasion of Iraq, or the dot-com bubble of the... View Details
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
studies on companies including Microsoft, Sony, and Intel, and consults with consumer marketing companies in the area of innovation. She also serves on the board of directors of Avid Technology and the board... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
members of the workforce.” As background material, students read an overview case, "The Offshoring of America," as well as "Monitor's Opportunities in India," a case that follows the decision-making process of the consulting group's CEO... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
Bohmer teaches an MBA course on health-care operations management, codirects the joint MD/MBA program, and serves as faculty chair for two Executive Education programs in health-care delivery. A native of New Zealand, he teaches and View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
For decades, management consultants and the popular business press have urged large firms to flatten their hierarchies. Flattening (or delayering, as it is also known) typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
show that politicians use school ties as a mechanism to engage in vote trading ("logrolling"), and that alumni networks help facilitate the procurement of discretionary earmarks. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/malco.pdf 2006 pub... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
cohorts who first attended them. Rather than partner with a university to develop an accredited program, the firm decided it would be better off developing the program itself, with the help of an outside consultant who had done something... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
Many male business leaders have the right intentions when it comes to tackling the sticky issue of gender inequality in the workplace. But try as they might to be more sensitive and inclusive with their language, men are quite simply bound to mess up sometimes, said... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
opportunities being created by information technology and the Internet. The increased emphasis Kelly placed on building leadership consulting services was itself a big change. The case asks what levers Kelly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Working PapersLocal R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace