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- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
say, "When we tried to create poverty intervention programs in third world countries, the exchange paradigms don't work because these people aren't even at baseline level. They don't have basic necessities of housing, sanitation,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Article
Assessing the Food and Drug Administration's Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study
By: Noy Alon, Ariel Dora Stern and John Torous
BACKGROUND: As the development of mobile health apps continues to accelerate, the need to implement a framework that can standardize categorizing these apps to allow for efficient, yet robust regulation grows. However, regulators and researchers are faced with numerous... View Details
Keywords: Mobile Health; Smartphone; Food And Drug Administration; Risk-based Framework; Health Care and Treatment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Framework
Alon, Noy, Ariel Dora Stern, and John Torous. "Assessing the Food and Drug Administration's Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study." JMIR mHealth and uHealth 8, no. 10 (October 2020).
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
deposit; in the fifth, the control group, no intervention took place. As background, Rigol and her coauthors note that the federal work program featured in the study transitioned from cash to electronic payments in 2008. In late 2012, the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Teaching Note
Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
value, rather than by any perception that symmetrical organizations and systems are important. Top managers are integrally involved in deciding where to impose links; strategic integration is not a natural bottom-up activity. Intervention... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
to provide a much better balance between productivity improvements and private profitability gains. Importantly in the current context, policy interventions that raise productivity do not create macroeconomic imbalances. Policy View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
on; beginning an intervention with the offender early on; providing an opportunity for attitude improvement, possibly with the engagement of a counselor or coach; and then terminating in a timely fashion the employee who is unable to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
new chapter on the conduct of industrial governance and American capitalism." - Malcolm S. Salter But the President left the door slightly open for selective intervention when he pledged non-interference "in all but the most... View Details
- 06 Dec 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?
life is to maintain competition to prevent market failure, as we did by breaking up the railroads and Ma Bell. This type of intervention is not an attack on capitalism, but full-throated capitalism. It’s time.” Should any of the Tech Big... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
standards. Some public intervention is necessary—and that public intervention manifests itself as institutions operate not through a competitive market process, but through a democratic political process.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
they possess or in the ways they are treated. While interventions derived from these approaches, such as training and executive development, affirmative action, and work-family policies, have achieved significant equity gains for women,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
randomizing, of necessity, involves a trade-off. Focusing on short-term cost-effectiveness often leads managers to implement new programs at sites or at times when they think they will do the most good. But such targeted interventions... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
Performance and Productivity, more money will be spent and should be spent on fans, filters, ductwork, chillers, heat exchangers, and dehumidifiers—and on the energy to run them. The next wave of intervention will be in the collection of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
effect," Luca says. In this case, however, it took the direct intervention of government to persuade restaurants to reveal this information which hadn't been done voluntarily. According to game theory, however, that shouldn't be... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 2011
- Working Paper
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details
Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, Kenneth Kimura, and Marion Fourcade. "How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-070, January 2011.
- 25 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
points, not to supplant the ethical considerations, but to provide a more complete picture.” For those ready to deal with the problem, says Goh, a range of interventions have been shown to be successful, including mindfulness exercises... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
types of process. Unfortunately, just identifying biases is not enough to get rid of them. We humans are resilient in our beliefs and assumptions. Intervention needs to be at the processes(roles, activities) and structural levels... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
rationalizations for the failures. Specifically, managers attributed large failures to uncontrollable events outside the organization (e.g., the economy) and to the intervention of outsiders. Small failures were interpreted as flukes, the... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
for managers to openly express support for wellness initiatives and encourage people to use them, Whillans says. For example, managers can ask their staff to block off one hour every week during office hours to work on their own wellness—whether it’s using an online... View Details
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
likely to take risks. The audit giants might decide that their dwindling numbers make them increasingly visible targets for regulatory interventions and litigation, and they might become more risk averse. Additionally, with just a few... View Details