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- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
theory. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53924 May–December 2017 Proceedings of the Marine Safety & Security Council, the Coast Guard Journal of Safety at Sea Leadership in Routine Emergencies and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
arrangement and a commitment contract that made the $30 payment conditional on both attending the provider visit and meeting an ART adherence threshold. Third, the passive control arm received routine care and no incentives. Participants:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
becomes routine practice, the Bank should revise its internal incentives for staff to improve participation through increased budgetary support, time allowances, capacity building, and performance appraisals that reward quality... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
proof that standard and routinely used fiscal measures, including the deficit, taxes, and transfer payments, are economically ill-defined. Instead these measures reflect the arbitrary labeling of underlying fiscal conditions. Analyses... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction
proxy solicitations enabling them to reach their widely scattered ownership, the slate of candidates proposed in the proxy materials, absent any kind of contentiousness, is routinely elected (without regard to withheld votes). Sparsely... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
collaboration by making information available when and where it's needed. They routinely capture data on processes to discover how work really happens. Finally, they study these data in an effort to find ways to improve execution. Taken... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
brilliantly if a company is lucky enough to be the only one in a market.) Because companies build them without thinking about the competition, they routinely deploy doomed business models. Moreover, many companies ignore the dynamic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
top management must seize hold of the substantive content of the new strategy as well as its operational implementation—a top-down intervention we call deep dive—in order to overcome barriers to change that are manifest in a wide range of organizational View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
poor process design (23%), and a lack of integration in the internal supply chains (23%). Our findings thus suggest that employees are unlikely to discern the role that their department's routines play in operational failures, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
2009 Abstract This casebook provides an organized treatment of the major challenges associated with managing large-scale disaster events, including discussion of systematic methods of organizing disaster response, preparing in advance for disaster situations, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
Review) A Pandemic Won’t Kill The Open Office, But Slack Could (Vanity Fair) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge “How do I spend my time and my money” is a question that requires rethinking during a time of crisis. Thus, the third thing to do is to be more... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
feeling of being a novice in the organization," she says. "This is a really important problem in organizations because transference of knowledge of skills and expertise is critical to helping new employees learn." The field studies will include hospitals, where... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
that their jobs routinely require them to stay late at the office, but when you press them, they admit that isn't true. Some occasional emergencies need to take precedence over everything else, but unless you work in a hospital, those... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
Management. Taylor and Francis, 2011 Abstract Routine and persistent acts of dishonesty prevail in everyday life, yet most people resist shining a critical moral light on their own behavior, thereby maintaining and oftentimes inflating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
eliminated or avoided. Examples are the risks from employees' and managers' unauthorized, unethical, or inappropriate actions and the risks from breakdowns in routine operational processes. Strategy risks are those a company voluntarily... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
messages, stayed the same. That one-hour loss of overlap represented a 19 percent reduction in opportunities to communicate synchronously during the typical workday—but the impact of that gap also depended on the type of job. The researchers found: Employees handling... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209105 Note on Valuing Control and Liquidity in Family and Closely Held Firms Harvard Business School Case 209-104 Most companies around the world are family controlled and/or closely held. The need to value... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
users have been requesting, but would it be too complicated for routine use? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912019-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement(B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912020-PDF-ENG PepsiCo,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
curiosity and passable trust that enables them to connect and share knowledge. Paradoxically, the very non-work related content that attracts users to social media and shapes passable trust can become a source of tension, thwarting a firm’s ability to encapsulate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
monitoring, and care for routine health issues. On-site physical therapists offer coaching to prevent injury and services to speed recovery. On-site diabetes educators work with groups of employees to engage them in lifestyle changes that... View Details