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- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
future problems and opportunities for innovation. The third is a tendency to fail to probe the root causes of success. Whereas post-mortems after failure are becoming a norm in many organizations, such soul searching rarely occurs after... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
maximizing productivity? How do we help employees with work/life balance?” “How to keep people engaged and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 05 Jul 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?
intelligence, IQ, personality, values, and experience A demonstration of executive intelligence must lie in the demonstrable ability to act and execute." Paul Jackson took us to the next step in commenting, "Once defined, how do we View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
on Managing the Future of Work and co-PI of the Digital Reskilling Lab. Her research focuses on managerial and organizational drivers of productivity and growth in corporations and the public sector. She co-founded several large-scale projects to View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
problem and other ongoing challenges within psychological science and allied fields. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50151 forthcoming Behavioral Science & Policy Making the Best Laid Plans Better: How... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
collaborated with Deloitte on TrustIQ, a proprietary tool that measures key elements of trust in major corporations and public sector organizations. “An increasingly large number of issues are piling up in front of companies, issues that... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
individual level. No person or organization wants to pay more for a product or service than it is worth. Again, when performance delivery is in doubt, performance-based pricing enables the buyer to pay only for the amount of performance that is actually delivered on a... View Details
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
unforeseen problems or opportunities. In doing so, they need to balance flexibility and speedy reaction times with long-term strategic focus. It is difficult to get this balance right! When surveyed on execution challenges, 29 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
governments have started to list state-owned enterprises, have selected professional managers to run them, and have given them more financial autonomy. We argue that the transformation from owner and manager to majority shareholder has reduced many agency View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
“overfitting” a statistical model, ensuring the model hits every historical data point and thus making it overly specific and lacking room for future variables. Another problem can develop with miscalibration, failing to consider whether... View Details
- 29 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.
Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
decision, to consider whether they are facing a "thinking too much" or "thinking too little" problem and adjust accordingly. Download the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcs.90/abstract How to Design... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Understanding Health Systems, Payors, and Regulation - Health Care
opportunities to enhance efficiency and quality, and serious fiscal challenges ahead if spending growth is not permanently curtailed. This course will introduce participants to the key strategic problems facing healthcare organizations,... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework premised on an organization's operational mission, scale, and scope. Not all organizations should View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
research here , Spencer’s other research here , and Andrei’s other research here . More Info The Cross-Section of Bank Value By: Mark Egan , Stefan Lewellen & Adi Sunderam AUG 2021 What are the determinants of value creation in U.S. commercial banks? The authors... View Details
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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online
Professors Shawn Cole & Vikram Gandhi Evaluate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, and learn how to incorporate them into investment decisions and measure and manage their impact. 6 weeks, 5 hrs/week Enroll by May 8... View Details
- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
The problem is that most of us naturally do notice each other's racial differences, regardless of our employer's policy. “Very early on kids get the message that they are not supposed to acknowledge that they notice people's race—often... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
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News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
shorter amount of time... 18 July 2019 Media Mention American College of Surgeons and Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness Partner to Develop Value Measurement Tool for Hospitals American College of... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
behavior-including charging large purchases with no clear business purpose to Cardio-Metric and presenting unrealistic financial projections to investors-but the CEO dismissed Kim's concerns and ordered him not to share them with others at the company. By April 2009,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne