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- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
We note that quality and process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish. Another pitfall occurs when budgeting and financial planning are done separately from... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
person at the company is required to spend at least one day a year providing their services in the field. To foster community relations, Pollard said, he "began by wondering what would happen if employees were given extended lunch hours to go mentor... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
novel dataset on algorithmic programming contests that contains data on individual effort, risk taking, and cognitive errors that may underlie tournament performance outcomes. We find that competitors on average react negatively to an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
Markets," looks at a wide range of practices, legal and illegal, from dwarf tossing to slavery to California's ban on the human consumption of horse meat, and asks how economists can find a common language, if not a common point of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
Lillo of Swiss Reinsurance Company. To get consumers to sign onto the technology, the industry must instill trust by focusing on programming the cars to behave with the “common sense” human drivers tend to... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
program design under which codes and monitoring are more likely to go beyond mere symbolism and to be associated with improvements in supply chain working conditions. At the institutional level, we find that suppliers improve working... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
out (1) Roots of high achievers' anxiety: fear of being wrong, lack of a sense of purpose, and a craving for human connection; (2) Destructive behaviors we adopt to relieve our anxiety: busyness, comparing ourselves to others, and blaming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
through experience. ... That is why so many MBA programs teach using the case study method..." Jack Wung appeared to take issue with this view, suggesting that "street smarts can only be acquired in the school of hard... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
research had taken root. Over the past 35 years, examination of social and environmental influences on creativity has become increasingly vigorous, with broad implications for the psychology of human performance, and with applications to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
of Nonprofit Organizations in June, a joint executive education program presented by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, and the Harvard Kennedy School. He will co-chair the HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
products to have adverse events reports. These data may inform proposals for review of high-risk devices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52136 in press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
ground, investors could pull funding for a variety of reasons—not the least of which is the inconsistent pace with which human space travel has progressed following the shuttering of the Space Shuttle View Details
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
hospitals. The e-commerce giant JD developed a drone program to drop parcels and to spray disinfectant. Smart helmets can identify anyone with fever within a five-meter radius. For other businesses, especially those where digital and... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
of benchmarking when used to assess the performance of human resources, information technology, finance, and other internal support or shared services groups. In our forthcoming book, Alignment, David Norton and I devote a chapter to... View Details
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
tell you that the world of business is not so different. “It really was all about the recognition of and comparison with their peers, and many of them were willing to pay for it.” "This is why MBA programs send out lists of average... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
implicated in recent acts of corporate malfeasance—could have become so depraved, this is probably the wrong question. Given that human nature does not change much from age to age, the real issue is the effectiveness of the constraints... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
the fact that data questions touch every part of the enterprise.” The program drew C-suite executives and senior managers to look at how big data affects the supply chain, marketing, human resources, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule, the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
proteins at work in the business of life. "The book of life" that made dramatic headlines last year—and was really a first draft of the human genome sequence—is destined to change and challenge... View Details