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- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
technology would provide the country with greater agricultural production, a major source of exports, without the need to convert additional areas of the Cerrado or Amazon to farmland. However, producers have been slow to adopt it due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- August 2011
- Supplement
Raj Datta, Former Chief Knowledge Officer of MindTree, In-Class Comments, April 1, 2011
By: David A. Garvin
MindTree is a mid-sized Indian IT services company known for its knowledge management practices, its collaborative communities, and its strong culture and values. The CEO has set a goal of becoming a $1 billion company by 2014; to reach that goal, employees must create... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Learning; Values and Beliefs; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; India
Garvin, David A. "Raj Datta, Former Chief Knowledge Officer of MindTree, In-Class Comments, April 1, 2011." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 312-703, August 2011.
- 15 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?
The deadline on an important work project is looming, but you keep getting distracted by news stories and silly cat videos online. Even though installing an Internet-blocking app might help you stay focused, you resist the idea, telling... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
information technology can lead to more flexible organizational structures and innovative management control systems. These ideas appear in her recent casebook Managing in an... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 14 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition
Despite their best efforts, most companies continue to squander what may be their greatest asset in today's knowledge economy: the wealth of expertise, ideas, and latent insights that lies scattered across or deeply embedded in their... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor cofounded a kidney donation matching system for New England,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
PublicationsBlending Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Tiona Zuzul Publication:In Encyclopedia of Strategic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
characterization. They demand multiple epistemologies, theoretical orientations (e.g., construction, analysis, or intervention), and value considerations. As our understanding of this emerging field of study grows, we become aware that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
technologies could be used to create a captive one-to-one relationship between firms and consumers, so that customers could literally be viewed as assets. We should start to realize that things are not that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
communication technology sector in the United States, and find empirical support for the four hypotheses developed here. The research presented in this paper has implications for our understanding not only... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Bloom Energy
generation systems are helping businesses become more resilient and reduce uncertainty from grid dependence. Our technology, first developed for NASA's Mars Program, is among the most efficient power... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
telecommuting is "dangerous to health"—the title of the column that prompted these responses—depends on several factors ranging from organizational culture and job type to skill level View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011) Abstract Market capitalism, a system that has proven to be a remarkable engine of wealth creation, is poised for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
time. Publisher's link: http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book235126 Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis Authors:Alan MacCormack, John... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
factors will be mitigated (by) leaders who are short on ethics and morality ." Others, most of whom assumed that the technologies would successfully be applied, were less sanguine about the results,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
notably higher entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major highway system, the North-South East-West corridor (NS-EW). Improvements for portions of the NS-EW View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807011 Business, Law, and Society: The Systems Approach to Law and Management Harvard Business School Note... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
ideas. This isn't traditional benchmarking, since managers don't simply copy something they see elsewhere. Rather, they take pieces of practice or technology that they find and recombine them in novel ways... View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban living capacity, by combining low carbon and resource-efficient development with the use of information and communication View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne