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  • Blog

Up Close: A Return to In-Person Executive Education Programs

for their next programs in the fall, the lessons learned from this pilot are top of mind. For Corsino, that means being more comfortable with the unknown. "We like to have a lot of View Details
  • 18 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

everything at once. You don't try to take on the teacher's unions; you don't try to have IBM control it. You're reducing the amount of resistance it's going to get, which is always a brilliant change... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 07 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53835 July–August 2018 Journal of Healthcare Management Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Model the Costs of Various Process-Improvement Strategies in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

food security (a key national security priority) by extending its control of the global food system through overseas acquisitions. At the same time, COFCO sought to grow its market share in China's fiercely... View Details
  • 23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23

correctly report that they click fewer advertisements, controlling for the number of advertisements they actually click. Results are most pronounced for commercial searches and for users with low income, low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2001
  • Case

GE's Early Dispute Resolution Initiative (A)

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
GE's chief litigation counsel sought to rationalize litigation flow by viewing it as a manufacturing process. By applying the principles of Six Sigma, P.D. Villareal created an Early Dispute Resolution (EDR) system that enabled both lawyers and managers to work... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Lawsuits and Litigation; Six Sigma; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges; Conflict and Resolution; Energy Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

  Working PapersNone this week   Cases & Course MaterialsCommon Agricultural Policy and the Future of French Farming Harvard Business School Case 707-027 Presents the history and evolution of the EU... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

there has been more and more construction in hazard prone areas. And it’s possible that the existence of federal disaster relief actually helped stimulate some of that building. The point is that if we’re... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 11 Dec 2014
  • News

Fashion's Retail Revolution

limit. “The growth of interest in fashion and luxury products on campus has been tremendous,” he says. “The vast and rapid changes in retailing and technology are democratizing fashion and luxury,” Alvarez continues. “The age when fashion... View Details
Keywords: April White; fashion; Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Finance
  • 30 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

Reflecting on my service

military doesn’t just train you how to run towards the sound of bullets; it teaches you how to control the chaos, how to tackle seemingly insurmountable obstacles, how to build and lead teams with rapport... View Details
  • 20 Jul 2020
  • Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

propose a way to alter our health insurance benefits universe for insured employees and the self-insured by combining the best of Republican and Democratic ideas about health insurance. More choice, affordability, and personal View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance
  • 25 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

Imagine an organization made up of a variety of three-dimensional shapes. Rectangular blocks represent the functions: manufacturing, R&D, and sales and marketing. The spheres are regional offices.... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 27 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

founding in 1912. But overall, under 15 percent of US family firms are managed by nonfamily executives, according to the Family Firm Institute. Sadun's team plans to apply the findings of the family firm... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • April 2007 (Revised August 2014)
  • Case

Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa (A)

By: Eric Werker
Incoming and outgoing foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had undertaken substantial economic reforms in order to attract more foreign direct investment, but it was... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Macroeconomics; Foreign Direct Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Africa; South Africa
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  • 12 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 12

crisis. In this article, Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes present a categorization of risk that allows executives to understand the qualitative distinctions between the types of risks that organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

explores the personal motivations and ambitions of Tam Le, who is simultaneously assuming control of the restaurant and exploring a number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

found (or potentially found) in practice and whose hypotheses connect independent variables within the control of practitioners to outcomes they care about using logic they view as feasible. I provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 18, 2009
  • Article

Regulate, Baby, Regulate

The U.S. today faces its biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. That is why Barack Obama and his team have been looking to Franklin Delano Roosevelt for help. The stimulus measure passed by Congress in February that includes money for building... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Management Teams; Infrastructure; Insurance; Negotiation Deal; Government and Politics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Credit; Banks and Banking; Debt Securities; United States
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  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

  Publications September 2014 Organization Science Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin Abstract—We examine how unfavorable social comparisons differentially spur employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2024
  • News

Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details