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- 20 May 2019
- Blog Post
Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics
appreciated most: “It’s a technical process that is also very creative.” Over time, her part time hobby became a genuine career ambition. “I wanted to do something that smashed technique and creativity together.” Research leads to View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Schema Based on Detecting Life in a Face Authors: C.E. Looser, J.S. Guntupalli, and T. Wheatley Publication: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (in press) Abstract More than a decade of research has demonstrated that faces evoke prioritized View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
nature, has the potential for enormous rewards in the future. "It may be that the time to profitability isn't that much longer for a biotech company than an Internet start-up," remarks Pisano. "In biotech, one big drug will make you very... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Mar 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
employees to raise their creative game. But Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, has a different approach, creating an organization that values and rewards innovation rather than attempting to create it with his bare hands. AG Lafley, P&G's... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
2008, I decided to make the leap: I began the process of becoming a certified high-school math teacher. When D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee spoke to the HBS Club of Washington in October 2008, I introduced her, presented her... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
simply begin with the direction you want to go and take a small step. Thinking alone will never change your life-you must ACT. Then evaluate the lessons you learn from that first step, build on them, and take another step in your desired direction. Repeat this View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
of a fulfilling working life for those employed at Polaroid, Adams gave lectures and taught courses on the Polaroid process for company employees. He connected the rewards of personal creativity through... View Details
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
problem solve, which is what our analytical intelligence does, even though this approach is highly rewarded in our current world culture. In the book, I teach the reader the practice of free attention. This is a View Details
- 26 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Video: Students Foster Disability Awareness and Access
is someone you know, someone you could be working right next to you. Landon Hollingsworth: I have dyslexia and ADHD. For me, it's always been very difficult to read large amounts of text, and it takes a little bit longer for me to process... View Details
- Web
Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
fundamental challenge of improving clinical outcomes while controlling costs. Addressing this challenge will require dramatic improvements in the processes by which care is delivered to patients. This, in turn, will involve novel... View Details
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
series of articles and HBS Working Papers, he explores the process of how firms in business-to-business markets manage customer relationships. As a frame of reference, Narayandas explains that modern marketing occurs at three distinct... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- Web
VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to measure costs over the full care cycle, and then identify cost savings while maintaining quality of care Facilitate process improvements identified through the TDABC analysis Develop... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Blog Post
Creating a World with Trusted Leaders: An Open Letter from MBA Students
process for the three of us. We were extremely thankful for the support that we received from our professors, HBS, as well as the Harvard and MBA communities. Professor Ryan Buell, who teaches Managing Service Operations, responded to our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
class-action suit against the corporation) had adopted the salient structural characteristics and processes of experienced private-equity boards, I believe that many of the red flags signaling Enron’s economic woes and ethical drift would... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their faculty advisors (and getting... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
enhance the due diligence process for mergers and acquisitions, and to support continuous improvement activities such as lean management and benchmarking. In presenting their model, the authors define the two questions required to build... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
Create processes and controls. The innovation process is inherently uncertain, so companies must develop new ways of tracking progress in these units. Rewarding a manager who... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
care Facilitate process improvements identified through the TDABC analysis Develop innovative reimbursement approaches that reward providers and organizations for delivering higher value care Produce... View Details
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
This involved such things as reorganizing, delegating authority, increasing accountability, building trust among employees, and recognizing and rewarding desired behaviors. The authors conclude from this that “cultural change is what you... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett