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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
the performance of projects in the industry, we examined two outcome measures—one related to the performance of the final product and the other to the productivity achieved in terms of resource consumption... View Details
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
onto patients. To work, a public plan must be regulated and have independent governance, and, if it is well-designed, it might inspire competition from private insurers—leading to better value for patients. Regina E. Herzlinger, The Nancy... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
a firm practicing by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary product defining the upper bound of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
Gilchrist, Duncan S., Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra Abstract— Do higher wages elicit reciprocity and lead to increased productivity? In a field experiment with 266 employees, we find that paying higher wages, per se, does not have a discernible effect on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
for corporate boards. The yes answer reflects the fact that many productive aspects of corporate governance and control that have proven effective in the private-equity industry were noticeably absent at Enron. If Enron's board (which was... View Details
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
response to rivals’ anticipated and actual behavior in game scenarios. Furthermore, coaches are subject to constraints on the number of players allowed on their rosters and on the budget available to spread across their rosters. In other words, optimizing the View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
were also proud of their company culture, which de-emphasized traditional company hierarchies and encouraged independent thinking and cooperative working arrangements across departments. Keeping the company private, in their view, had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
manufacturing compliance services company to the U.K. and Europe. He has to decide whether to hire Wayne Snelgrove and how to define the scope of his responsibilities. Purchase the case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808099 The Elcer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
has quality variations, reducing consumption. Five independent growers formed a cooperative to provide quality control and a brand name—Ripe 'N Ready—that enabled retailers to differentiate their stores and producers to differentiate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
says. Sundance Institute. Founder Robert Redford's contribution in legitimizing indie films is akin to what James Beard did for American food. Sundance made indies and the different stories depicted in the genre more acceptable by "providing a way for people to... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
Knowledge is codified using a "people-to-documents" approach: it is extracted from the person who developed it, made independent of that person, and reused for various purposes. Ralph Poole, director of Ernst & Young's... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
in production and economies of scope in distribution. In some industries, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was gradually tamed by what the historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr. has termed the "visible hand" of professional... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
from large groups of people is exactly what nonprofits and political campaigns have been doing for more than a century. In today's world, though, the Internet has dramatically altered the ability for companies and independent... View Details
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
income levels for a period of several decades, broken only by the five-year period between 1995 and 2000, suggest a potential source of concern for the United States. Of course, these views depend on how one views growth. Gross domestic View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
who simultaneously identify with multiple brands they represent to customers, we examine the relationships among identity conflict and enhancement, on the one hand, and objective sales performance, on the other. We find independent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
failure rate may indicate that the fund is playing it too safe. Stick to your commitments. If a company is seen as a fickle investor, professionals will be wary of joining its venture unit, entrepreneurs will be reluctant to accept its funds, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
hospitals and established reliability using interrater comparison. Using a factor analysis, we identified three themes of management competencies: management of unit culture, patient flow, and nursing. We constructed patient-level regressions to assess the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
Business School, Emerita, who has studied workplace creativity for more than 40 years. “Those breakthroughs will be made by collaborative groups of ‘ordinary people,’ by open innovation contests and other open innovation processes, by users of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees, customers, or shareholders and placed the global financial system at risk. I... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace