Respect For Improvements - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 May 2016
HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

decision Blue Origin can afford to take lightly, given its founder’s respect for NASA and the future funding at stake. “Amazon is an amazing company and Bezos has changed the world with it,” Weinzierl says.... View Details

Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

emphasize their strengths, give to others, and empathize with their own troubles through self-compassion. A second group was given educational materials about how to improve their mental well-being—the equivalent of handing people a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

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

05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

contributed 50 percent to 70 percent of distributions in the industry in the past ten to fifteen years. With so much global liquidity, he added, it will become even more difficult to earn a respectable rate of return as too many dollars... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

and not always at the forefront of sustainability practices. “It can take a while to improve these processes, and I think the industry is moving in that direction. But, during the 1960s and 70s, the palm oil cluster was a huge engine of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

created the world, he made data only available about the past. As teachers at HBS, we're trained to nail students to the wall if they ever make an assertion in class discussion that is not backed up with data and evidence in the case. So our students come out of here... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

06 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Takeaways from the Peek Women's Colleges Cohort

my peers in the Women’s College cohort shared, and it was certainly a crucial element to the success of the weekend’s activities. The eagerness to share and respect for each other’s views that every member... View Details

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

Abdelal examine the flaws in Levitt's ideas while making their own case for the article's ongoing importance to managers. "With Levitt's work, the medium is the message," they write. "He does not offer a 'ten step program'... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

Research Summary

Overview

By: Vincent Pons

Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details

June 2010
Teaching Note

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (TN)

By: Anita L. Tucker

Teaching Note for 609109. View Details

Keywords: Quality; Performance Improvement; Management Practices and Processes; Strategy; Business Units; Science; Health Industry

Citation

Purchase

03 Feb 2017
Blog Post

The Making of an Internship

share the career criteria that drove their internship searches and how their respective organizations aligned with their passions. An effective onboarding process can have many benefits for both employers... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

25 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine

a new study coauthored by Harvard Business School Professor Shai Bernstein. “Attracting high-quality talent is an important challenge for any young firm, and it’s critical to establishing reputation and growth.” “One of the key challenges... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

Mar 2012
Report

Enriching the Ecosystem

outlines an agenda for strengthening the links between key institutions. Leaders, she argues, should focus on four goals: 1) Linking knowledge creation to venture creation to speed the conversion of ideas into market-ready enterprises; 2)... View Details

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

information, and even price. Consumers can shape the marketing interaction, making it more relevant for themselves, and this should lead to greater involvement and responsiveness. The hope is an improvement... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Jul 2021
Blog Post

From Colombia to the District of Columbia: Making an Impact with Paulina Llano (MBA 2022)

difficult, but when feedback is provided it can be viewed as a learning opportunity. Llano said, “Feedback adds to our two-year experience as students and helps us understand where we didn’t meet expectations as candidates and improve... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

balance internal resources. On the one hand, they need to focus some of their people on continually improving and growing the core business. On the other hand, they must free others to break all the rules in the name of growth and... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

03 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 3

1997). The current model of performance, while having produced many improvements in performance during its 100-year reign, has been essentially exhausted, leaving in its wake little more than a labyrinth of explanations View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Blog

Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean

can have very meaningful interactions over long distances when presented with the right tools for collaboration and discussion. Whether presented online or in person, our programs are designed to facilitate communication among... View Details

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

terms of increased business" for its environmental stance. A second possibility, more plausible according to Reinhardt, is that BP hoped that improved government relations, thanks to its policy, would... View Details