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- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
medical/surgical units at two hospitals, shadowed support staff who provided materials, and interviewed employees about their internal supply chain's performance. These activities created a database of 120 operational failures and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
organizations in 20 countries, they and their interview team assessed how well manufacturers, schools, and hospitals adhere to three management basics: targets, incentives, and monitoring. They found that huge numbers of companies follow... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Oishi approached McKinsey colleague Sonosuke Kadonaga, an MIT alum and partner in the health care practice, and asked if she could join his group while continuing to lead her own. For the next two years—one foot in consumer goods, the other in health care—Oishi... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
Compartamos Banco (CB), a microfinance institution providing loans to rural women in Mexico. Students on the microfinance track in Oaxaca interviewed some of CB’s long-term clients in its Crédito Mujer program; at our debrief meeting it... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
commissioned independent investigations to understand exactly how things had gone so wrong. They interviewed employees, partners, donors, and competitors to tease apart what was working, what wasn’t, and what the NGO’s future should look... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
startup formation from founding, funding, management, and finding an exit. With successful tech entrepreneurs interviewed and featured throughout, From Startup to Exit will help you understand exactly what tech startups must do to succeed... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
found that while there was a small group of inner-city residents who were forced to do all their shopping within their communities, most had ways to at least occasionally make trips to larger stores that offered lower prices, greater selection, and fresher produce. In... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
objective is to build on Selznick's seminal work to investigate the value proposition of leadership consistent with institutional theory. We examine public interview transcripts from 52 senior executives and discover that leaders'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
as well as economic value and who pair micromanagement with big-picture aspirations about the future. The authors, who have studied, taught, and interviewed executives in some of the world's leading companies, assert that such leaders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
the tide, depending on what circumstances you’re in.” Like all of the alumni interviewed for this article, Snoey rejects the word “retirement” as a description for his current lifestyle. “My physical and mental capabilities continue to be... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
space. We have to figure out the places that are critical to progress where people aren’t working. That’s where we will have the most impact.” Gayle Lemmon: Life Stories RESHAPING THE NARRATIVE: Lemmon in California. Lemmon in Afghanistan, View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
confidence in the business community. Pulling Together In an interview in the September 24 edition of the Harbus, Dean Clark was asked if he believed the mood on campus would be "somber" for the rest of the year. "I don't think somber is... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Has Entered the Mainstream By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Leaders in all sectors, from business to sports to education, are increasingly wading into controversial political and social issues. Based on interviews... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
hospital emergency room and focuses on the effects of a new organizational structure, which we call a team scaffold, on teaming effectiveness and performance outcomes. Using a hybrid research design that adapts and blends quantitative network methods with qualitative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
these more sustainable approaches. That’s important, because if you don’t have an economically sustainable business model, the environmentally sustainable model you create won’t necessarily stand on its own. These interviews have been... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
mission. One applicant recalled that his interview with Shackleton was less than ten minutes long. During this time, the commander “asked me if my teeth were good, if I suffered from varicose veins, if I had a good temper, and if I could... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
location, location”) might be “people, people, people.” Everyone interviewed for this article mentioned the importance of people — both whom you know and whom you pick to work with — in getting and keeping a business going. As ZEFER’s... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
government relief efforts. “We realized that independent contractors and small businesses are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic because they are more likely to be on the front line with jobs like Uber drivers, owning restaurants, and hair stylists,”... View Details