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- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
PublicationsTeaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy Author:Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Jossey-Bass, in press Abstract Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
apart. “If this cycle continues, whole retail chains can quickly become full of zombie stores” Taken all together, lower price points, decreased traffic, and smaller baskets means lower sales and margins for brick-and-mortar stores. Given recent View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
promotes a public policy goal of sustainable development, which is beneficial to both public and private interests. The public sector accounts for roughly one-third of the nation's construction spending, according to the latest figures... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
Setting Published: February 11, 2009 For decades, goal setting has been promoted as a halcyon pill for improving employee motivation and performance in organizations. Advocates of goal setting argue that for goals to be successful, they... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4
outsourcing and movement of labor, with its social welfare offerings. Reforms implemented during the past two decades drove down unemployment, promoted new company formation, and put the country at or near the top of international polls... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009
fluctuations as the ebb and flow of speculation (A), business (B), and banking (C). The service was directed by C.J. Bullock, who promoted Harvard's forecasting service around the world by forming collaborative agreements with John... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
Not only that, but when our students go on to lead enterprises and governments around the world, they will do so having formed strong bonds here at HBS — bonds that will help to promote understanding between nations in the future. HBS is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
and promotions like the one we ran last summer that offered a room upgrade if you could Hula Hoop for twenty seconds or win a round of Rock, Paper, Scissors. They also write about Kimpton’s sustainability efforts, such as our partnerships... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
Charter School Facilities Fund (CACSFF) and Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, found himself at a loss for words. Turner was in the midst of raising capital for the CACSFF, a vehicle designed to promote the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
and square," was a central component of the new strategy. The scheme initially had three pricing tiers and eliminated typical sales promotions in an attempt to simplify the shopping experience for consumers, thus moving J.C. Penney... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
struggle for custody over divisional control was a micropolitical process of interprofessional competition, played out between accountants and risk controllers who promoted conflicting measures of the key strategic uncertainty,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
outdoors in a Charlotte, North Carolina, city square to celebrate the launch of Envision Charlotte, a first-in-the-nation smart grid plan aimed at reducing energy use in the central business district. The initiative called for a 20% reduction in energy consumption in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
(EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important attempt to span this abyss. IGOs are mandated variously to smooth economic transactions, facilitate global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
understood and managed. The key to success? Incentives. Fortunately, new research has shed light on the role incentives can play in promoting new ideas, but these findings have been absent from innovation literature-until now. By using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
and also great recommendations from staff. So the net promoter score for working at the social centers for the impact of our programs has increased really significantly. I'm proud of the work our team has done on that. And they've given... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
been the UN’s under-secretary-general for internal oversight services. He is responsible for all manner of oversight of UN programs, including audit and investigative functions, to ensure that UN efforts internally mirror its global efforts to View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
peers. Qualitative data offer insights into the social identification processes underlying demographic similarity effects on turnover and promotion in professional service organizations. Working PapersLearning from My Success and from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
workplace injustice and transform our careers and organizations in the process. We―all of us―consistently exclude, underestimate, and underutilize huge numbers of people in the workforce, even as we include, overestimate, and promote... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
wanting to rent breast pumps) and offers a wide array of products to promote a healthy lifestyle, such as vitamins, aromatherapy tinctures, herbal remedies, and natural skin creams. "Today, people are looking less to doctors to enhance... View Details