Respect For Improvements - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 15, 2019
Editorial

Getting Your Team to Do More Than Meet Deadlines

By: Laura M. Giurge, Charlotte Blank, Laurel Newman and A.V. Whillans

When it comes to our to-do lists, many of us prioritize checking off tasks that are easiest to complete or are due first, regardless of importance—a phenomenon that scholars describe as the “mere urgency” effect. This tendency becomes stronger the busier we are. But... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Time Management; Performance Improvement

Research Summary

Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and Management

The current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

competition, the study of how each actor leverages its own position ("with the obvious answer," according to Narayandas: "the more powerful you are, the more you're able to improve things for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Fundraising - Alumni

Volunteer Fundraising Raise Funds for HBS Alumni support is critical to the School's continued excellence and impact. If you would like to learn more about this and play an active role in securing support from fellow alumni, please check... View Details

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

Chances are you've got a story like Andrea Zintz's. Now president of Andrea Zintz & Associates, a consulting firm in Pennington, N.J., she was working for a health-care concern in 1997 when the firm's executive committee decided to... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

media, would need to be rethought. Recognizing that their existing brand creative might strike the wrong tone with people fearful for their own and their community’s health, and anxious about their personal and the world’s rapidly... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

to HR to help improve the workplace for everyone.” AGE 38, SOUTH ASIAN, TECHNOLOGY, UNITED STATES 2 ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS Prior research has found that a set of organizational norms known as “masculinity... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Western Economic Association International Best Economic Inquiry Article Award for “Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life” with Edward L. Glaeser, Michael... View Details

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20 Oct 2016
News

Smart Moves

cause is pure congestion—too many vehicles trying to occupy the same stretch of road at the same time—but accidents, breakdowns, construction, bad weather, and potholes all take their toll, not to mention time that is spent looking for... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Support Activities for Transportation

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

different: Her research suggests that a more powerful lever to increase a nonprofit's social impact might be to focus on building network relationships like-minded groups—even competitors. Organizations as unique as Guide Dogs for the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Sep 2019
Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

change both small and large: improving how operating rooms function, and “instituting changes from an administrative perspective” that would address socioeconomic inequalities. All with the goal of changing how health care is delivered. A... View Details

06 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die

examples of high strategic intelligence. What do they have in common that makes them successful? A: If I had to summarize very quickly, I'd say they have a pretty clear strategy, but they are not satisfied with it. They are always trying to View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Oct 2014
Webinars: Trending@HBS

Can China Lead?

Can China sustain its remarkable emergence of the past 35 years? Surely No, for multiple reasons. China will be a leader, but not the leader. Professor McFarlan will talk about both the challenges and opportunities for those seeking to do business with and within China... View Details

02 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

the relentless quest for adaptation and improvement in the so-called technology sectors seems to fuel the need for experimentation, the nature of experimentation in other... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

02 Aug 2016
Blog Post

The Making of An Internship: What Drives Students’ Interests

Join HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) as we follow three students throughout their summer internships, and learn best practices for creating a successful summer program. Meet three Class of 2017 students who share the... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

Are auditors becoming too big to fail? For over a decade, there have been articles and op-eds in the popular and business press arguing that the auditing industry, currently dominated by Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

Co managed to serve clients profitably, transferring most of the additional costs and getting a bump for improved service-level agreements and number of orders managed similar to the one they usually get... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

enable efficient response; and an infrastructure for daily management and continuous improvement of the chain's performance. Furthermore, we find that employees on the service delivery unit spent 12% of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

how new products or services would perform at various prices or with different characteristics. The machine learning algorithms that might power such a device are, at least for now, incapable of producing such promising results. But what... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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