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  • 29 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 29

Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton and the hard-bargaining style of Herb Cohen's You Can Negotiate Anything. Now Michael Wheeler provides a dynamic alternative to one-size-fits-all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

that technology diffuses slower to locations that are farther away from adoption leaders. This effect is stronger across rich countries and also when measuring distance along the south-north dimension. A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 1980 (Revised April 1994)
  • Case

New Balance Athletic Shoes

By: Kim B. Clark
Faced with growth exceeding 100% per year, James Davis, president of New Balance, must decide how to meet the need for additional capacity. Several factors contribute to a climate of extreme uncertainty. Several options are considered, ranging from a second shift to... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Strategy; Information; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Performance Capacity; Risk and Uncertainty; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Republic of Ireland
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  • January 2012
  • Article

How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work

By: Teresa Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their employees in four avoidable ways. This article is based on analysis of hundreds of work diaries from professionals describing everyday events that... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Creativity; Performance Productivity; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation Strategy; Performance; Strategic Planning; Leading Change; Balanced Scorecard; Mission and Purpose
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  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

Review 88, no. 6 (June 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the preview: http://hbr.org/2010/06/change-for-changes-sake/ar/1   Working PapersLimits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

measure of national competitiveness. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18249 Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance Authors:Mercedes Delgado, Michael... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 1978 (Revised January 1985)
  • Case

Searle Medical Instruments Group (Abridged)

By: Steven C. Wheelwright
SMIG, a division of G.D. Searle, was a fast growing high market-share company in the field of nuclear medical instruments. It manufactured two basically different product lines, one very successful and the other less so. Although marketing was separate for these... View Details
Keywords: Change; Brands and Branding; Market Participation; Production; Success; Performance Capacity; Expansion; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 28 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’

Association and an MBA candidate in the class of 2015 at Harvard Business School. The event was moderated by Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, whose research focuses on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

and civil aviation authorities might undertake over time horizons of months to years as well as tactical measures that may be adopted on a daily basis in response to dynamic, "real time"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

institutions. They have the capacity to determine their own fate and in so doing take the indispensable university to new heights. In performing that critical task, they must understand not only current... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

Interest Rates Author:Luis M. Viceira Publication:International Journal of Forecasting (forthcoming) Abstract This paper explores time variation in bond risk, as measured by the covariation of bond returns with stock returns View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2007 (Revised August 2009)
  • Case

Aurolab: Bringing First-World Technology to the Third-World Blind

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
Aurolab is the in-house producer of IOLs (required in cataract surgery) for the Aravind Eye Care System, a group of charity hospitals with the largest volume of eye surgery in the world. Aurolab's manufacturing capability and capacity had long exceeded the requirements... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Production; Mission and Purpose; Performance Capacity; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Strategy; India
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  • July–August 2018
  • Article

When Technology Gets Ahead of Society

By: Tarun Khanna
New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don’t yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar challenges: The rules are unclear and... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Society; Situation or Environment; Infrastructure; Entrepreneurship; Performance Effectiveness; Cooperation
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  • 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Transparency as a Solution for the Hospital Capacity Problem

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
COVID dramatically clarified a shortcoming in our great healthcare system, but like everything in the world, it has its shortcomings. What we see through the apex of COVID is that many hospitals in hotspot areas cannot provide an adequate supply of beds. Although the... View Details
Keywords: Hospital Capacity; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Capacity; Planning; Cooperation
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  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

to examine the effects of team familiarity and variation in experience on multiple measures of performance for software development projects. In most cases, we do not find... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

The American economy is a mess, and our broken political system is largely to blame, according to a Harvard Business School US Competitiveness Project report released today. Harvard’s Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The New Math of Customer Relationships

to have packaged and measured the relationships in a way that made sense to a lot of people. Q: Many companies approach creating a good customer experience as a discrete action: a customer satisfaction... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

As health insurance reform is hotly debated in Washington, DC, what strategies should be central for the benefit of patients' health? HBS faculty with expertise in business administration, economic development, View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

valuations in first financing rounds. Further econometric tests suggest that, as predicted by the theory, this effect is driven by unobservable heterogeneity, and it is more pronounced in teams that make quick decisions about founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne