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- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
an impact in a wide range of industries. Q: How has this area changed over the years since your first visit? A: While Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong have always had a strong bias for entrepreneurship and global competitiveness (albeit evolving to View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
Management Professor Robert H. Hayes and Associate Professor Marco Iansiti Global Financial Systems Professor Robert C. Merton and Associate Professor Peter Tufano Organizations and Markets Professors George P. Baker III, Carliss Y.... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
June 2016 PLoS ONE Social and Spatial Clustering of People at Humanity's Largest Gathering By: Barnett, Ian, Tarun Khanna, and Jukka-Pekka Onnela Abstract—Macroscopic behavior of scientific and societal systems results from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
fungible, and cannot be easily leveraged for strategic advantage by proximate competitors. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-071.pdf Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives Authors:Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
stability. The authors have found that real improvement requires systemic change, not discrete fixes. They describe a five-step process for that—along with the diagnostic work you’ll need to do in advance. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
care with health care partners Increase operational efficiencies: Match clinical resources to clinical processes and improve resource utilization Optimize costs over the full cycle of care Manage reimbursement and payment challenges... View Details
- 19 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Education Pioneers
hire for? EP has recruited Pioneers from Harvard Business School ever since our founding in 2003. We look for students who want to utilize their growing business expertise to impact the education system from outside the classroom, and... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
from the crowd of more experienced users and are therefore able to better capture value from using the goods. Data on firm contributions to open source software (OSS), an important crowdsourced public good, is used to test the theoretical predictions. Using View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback
value they want to provide, and then understand the customer’s purchase journey for obtaining that value. That gives you all of the markers you need to design an omnichannel system that’s going to feed into the goals that consumers have... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
role of leaders for centuries. Plato, writing his Republic in the fourth century B.C., argued that the ideal city would have an elaborate system to choose its leaders that made any individual leader replaceable. Thucydides, writing just a... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
that the system isn't set up to incentivize health care workers to do that. "The reason it's never done is that nobody gets paid to do it .there's no incentive to do anything," Cutler said. Services Not Emphasized In terms of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
doctors, administrators, and finance folks, all trying to work through the nitty-gritty details of how to implement this patient-care innovation. “What does the transition plan look like to get from where we are now to a new model?” asks Midtown COO Dane Peterson. “We... View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
business model that best matches the characteristics of the innovation and the needs of the target customer group. For example, one electronics company we worked with thought it had a new-market disruptive innovation on its hands. There... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
implications for minority professionals—and for the people mentoring them through the different stages. (Working Knowledge readers note: Stages 2 and 3 are not covered in detail in this excerpt.) Stage 1 According to my research, a pernicious result of the two... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- Web
Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
Address the Refugee Crisis A paper written by Swedish student Lovisa “Lisa” Tengberg (MBA 2020) for the spring 2020 elective Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change was selected for development as a case study. “Just Arrived:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
first semester, 10 percent of the Class of 2022—70 people from a wide array of backgrounds—volunteered their own networks and knowledge to help. This outpouring of support, however, was still not enough to match the number of requests... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
had received an appointment to the US Naval Academy at Annapolis while in high school. He had more of a technological bent than did Callaghan, and he studied both systems engineering and nuclear engineering. He was in the Submarine... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
Group (CRG) has helped faculty members source case leads beyond traditional networks. With the support of the Global Initiative and Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, the CRG has created a new case tracking system to help View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
systems and nonfunctional governance systems." "In the 1980s," says Jensen, "there were many more takeovers, mergers, leveraged buyouts, and restructurings intended to create efficiency and value. While some of this is happening now,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry