Output - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 11

and the growth of shadow banking. While recognizing some of the benefits of professional asset management, we are skeptical about the marginal value of active asset management. We then raise concerns about whether the potential benefits of increased access to household... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

31 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Setting Interns Up for Success at a Startup

around what the output is going to be is key to success for both the intern and for the company. The team at Mori has also found it important to be intentional about integrating interns into the company, whether they are joining remotely... View Details

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

ghostwriter, and there's only one of these six books that's coauthored and that's the casebook, which is Strategic Dynamics. High Output Management is a book that's gone through at least two editions. It's a book people still refer to,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

06 Mar 2013
What Do You Think?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

time management is a shared responsibility." Frode Hvaring suggested that " in order to enable employees to mange their output in terms of priorities, quality, resources available and best work flows, the company needs to train... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 May 2019
News

Cure All

US economy has made on so many other fronts, that is really shocking. LD: And that variation in management practice is also supported by enormous variation in output prices. Given the lack of positioning, prices should be a lot more... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 1999
News

Short Takes

They also must create value when their inputs and outputs are valued at prevailing market prices: otherwise they cannot stay in business. "Realistic assessments of a country's or firm's sustainability need to consider its economic... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Mar 2004
News

David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003

artificial bottlenecks that should quickly have added several hundred thousand barrels production - for example, from destroying wreaks that hampered tanker access. Urgent reform is necessary. Without boosted oil output there is... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

29 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

addressed in the future through excellent research informed by and communicated to insightful practitioners of creative entrepreneurship in organizations of all types. What will be published or other output from your colloquium? The... View Details

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire

11 Jul 2013
News

The Good Writer

Studios’ film distribution division in Burbank. “A friend told me that people in Hollywood would think I was Einstein because I could work with spreadsheets,” he half jokes. “I’m one of the few writers who gets excited about reading the page 6 item in Variety about... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

13 Oct 2015
First Look

October 13, 2015

set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper 10% of boss quality increases a team's total View Details

04 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

in the timing of individual examiners’ transition to WFA. We observe mixed results of WFA across experienced and new hires: for experienced hires, WFA results in a 3.9% increase in output and a 24% reduction in turnover, without affecting... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

job quantity and quality is a function of growth and productivity. If growth occurs that is roughly equivalent to increased productivity, little change occurs in the number of jobs although the quality of those jobs (assuming that higher View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity

managers must understand the long-term impact on creative output and do everything possible to expedite the process and return the operation as soon as possible to a stable work environment. Second, while downsizing is under way, managers... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

07 May 2008
Research & Ideas

The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School

certain set of remarkable people. There is nothing automatic about this particular magnetism. Judging from the history of the School, the challenge of the future is to find new ways in a new era to remain a special institution. Will there be publications or other View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Education

01 Sep 2011
News

‘Green’ Trailblazers

Oakville, Ontario Energy management applications Paul Grana (MBA 2009) Tigo Energy Los Gatos, California; Munich, Germany; and Osaka, Japan Hardware and software that brings new levels of power output efficiency, management, and control... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

16 Aug 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

purchasing life. The CLV formula incorporates metrics that capture the outputs of three key customer strategies that firms employ: asset acquisition (attracting new customers to the firm); asset maximization (maximizing the value the firm... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

06 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

limited reserves—Sinopec was struggling to increase output rapidly enough to keep pace with the rapid growth of their automobile sector. And it had to make money soon. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Students learn to (1) carefully articulate the business ask; (2) reason carefully from the ask, through metrics and models, and outputs; and (3) evaluate outputs from models to (4) develop a plan for action. This case gets students to... View Details