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- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
activation inspired improvements in people’s emotions, resistance to disease, resilience to stress and burnout, creative problem solving, performance under pressure, and relationships with their employer. Results also revealed that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
to jumpstart entrepreneurial leadership in established firms, and in understanding how an entrepreneurial leader continues to lead innovation throughout the lifecycle of a business—from startup through scale-up. “Today, I often see that... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
we now see an industry back on its heels, massively disrupted by an external force so unprecedented it is almost unfathomable. The severity of this business interruption will continue to endure and be further complicated by the mandate of... View Details
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
[Editor’s note: This is the third installment of a continuing series on issues that 600 CEOs told us keeps them awake at night. Today's topic: The challenges of making organizational decisions in this uncertain environment.] While we may... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems Authors:Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes, and Alyson Falwell Abstract Objective. To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2023
- In Practice
After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?
life of an early-stage business. When a situation is declared code red, startups should know who’s on point for communication with each stakeholder, who’s leading a process and how each process will be led. Also, plan for retrospectives after each situation to View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
conversations elicits the information needed to continuously improve the organization. “If you’re a responsible car owner, you don’t go more than a year without having it in for maintenance, to have it... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Dec 2022
- Op-Ed
Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation
aligned with its strategic performance goals and its human and customer-centric values. Because managers at all levels are held accountable for implementing and maintaining this governance and learning system, it becomes embedded in the culture. That ensures View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
- 21 Mar 2019
- HBS Case
The Ferrari Way
and rewards longtime loyal customers with first chance to buy limited edition cars. On the surface, that scarcity-generates-demand model seems destined to clash with becoming a public company. Ferrari decided to go public, in part, to View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
effects of deregulation on firm size are significantly non-linear. The reallocation of market shares toward a small number of large firms and a large number of small firms is characterized as the "shrinking middle" in Indian manufacturing. Small- and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
to improve them. “As performance pressure mounts, teams are considerably more likely to follow general experts.” "Performance pressure emerges when people are working on a high-visibility project and when others are really counting on... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
Collins Properties, must decide with its equity partner whether to continue funding the building's losses while trying to lease the vacant space, restructure the debt, or default on the loan and turn the building over to its lenders. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
it, he bemoaned decisions (for which he accepted responsibility) that improved efficiency and increased economies of scale but robbed stores of some of their essential magic, such as the smell of roasting coffee and the sights and sounds... View Details
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
message that adaptation and change were necessary if they were to continue to exist. Challenges to the conventional wisdom can be upsetting to individuals and organizations alike, and for that reason are often suppressed or discouraged.... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 2010
- Working Paper
Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster
By: Nelson P. Repenning and Rebecca Henderson
Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"—delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer-term investments—makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Performance Improvement; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Management Practices and Processes; Revenue; Quality; Competency and Skills; Motivation and Incentives; Auto Industry; United States
Repenning, Nelson P., and Rebecca Henderson. "Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-033, September 2010.
- 16 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
to reflect the change in operating expense associated with introducing the new equipment. The second factor that can cause a change in the activity cost-driver rate is a shift in the efficiency of the activity. Quality programs, View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
an outsourcing firm complete radiological reads for hospital customers. We find that customer-, domain-, and technology-specific experience—as compared to other experience-leads to improved productivity. We discuss the implications of our... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49445 Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Performance feedback is ubiquitous in competitive settings where new products are developed. This paper introduces a fundamental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne