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- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
the line, are not directly replicable in software as there is no line to stop. "What we hope to do," Upton says, "is to distill the relevant aspects of lean manufacturing so that managers can see how these tools were... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
giving Quaker's executives ample reason to believe they could produce similar growth for Snapple. But replicating Gatorade's success was more than an objective—it was a matter of corporate survival. With only one brand in its beverage... View Details
- 27 May 2022
- Blog Post
Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023
about transitioning from the military to a full-time MBA program? It’s hard to replicate the sense of community that you feel being in the military, and every veteran has to make that transition. Having the Armed Forces Alumni... View Details
- 23 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness
Americans are lonelier than ever—a problem the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated. Could interactions on platforms like Zoom and Twitch come close to replicating the real-life contact people crave? New research suggests that’s more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Events - Private Capital Project
Josh Krieger (Harvard Business School) Public Market Replication of Private Equity January 18, 2022 “Public Market Replication of Private Equity” with Rich Carson (Cambridge Associates), Peter Cornelius... View Details
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
within Brazil’s borders. Challenges to solving social problems It won’t be easy to replicate successes like FOSS, says Nagle, who points to a number of likely complications. Take the question of free community-college tuition, for... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee
noise. For phone meetings, introduce yourself before speaking. “This is...” Engage Your Employees As a manager, it’s important for you to consider what has worked well for your team in person and how you can replicate or build upon those... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
investors. If these results were replicated in health care, in the short term, patients could select hospitals with more adequate surge capacity arrangements and investors in hospital debt and equity would reward them. In the longer run,... View Details
- 24 Jan 2011
- HBS Case
Terror at the Taj
recover after the attacks. Underlying this framework is a central conundrum: Why did the Taj employees stay at their posts, jeopardizing their safety in order to save hotel guests? And is this level of loyalty and dedication something that can be View Details
- Web
K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
replicable interventions to address gaps in India’s education sys... EducationSuperHighway 2.0 By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean October 2022 | Faculty Research In 2012, Evan Marwell launched... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
replicated it many, many times. I was shocked." The question is, why? In a series of follow-up studies, the researchers determined that the explanation may come down to one word: trust. Honesty, The Best Policy? In one experiment,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India
positive image contributes to the success of their initiatives. Understanding and replicating this positive perception could be a valuable consideration for other similar entities globally. Their demand far surpasses their supply. So this... View Details
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
R&D also come with more investment risk. While science-based patents are more likely to have higher values, they are also more likely to be total flops. In efforts to commercialize novel science, R&D teams often fail to replicate... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 14 Dec 2016
- HBS Seminar
Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
private sector spends the largest share of training dollars dedicated to adults. Policymakers should support programs that actively encourage employers to invest in talent pipelines. CareerWise, founded in Colorado but now expanding to Indiana, New York City, and... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
culture. Second, startups typically operate under some pretty unique circumstances that are hard to replicate in a larger enterprise. The reality of startups, though, is that you don’t have a lot of money and so the pressure is enormous.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Experience and description-based decision making.
Prof. Barron and his co-authors study the effect of the economic environment on decision making. One example involves the effect of rare (low probability) events. People behave as if they overweight these events in some settings (e.g., when buying insurance and... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
survey done on nonprofit leaders, managers often cited a preference for growth by branching, i.e., replicating the organization from one site to another and maintaining central control and ownership of the new units. What Wei-Skillern and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
finance. "We don't teach as finance professors or marketing professors; we teach as general management professors under the rule that anybody can teach anything and everybody teaches everything. By teaching across functional boundaries, we're trying to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace