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- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
(b) the organization's traditional approach, which focused primarily on skills training. To confirm causation and explore the mechanisms underlying the effects, we replicated the results in a laboratory experiment. We found that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Blog
Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean
in-person learning. We know the experience we offer in on-campus programs—where participants get away from their work/home environment, reside together in living groups, share meals and social activities, and have intensely fruitful one-on-one discussions with peers... View Details
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
unlimited potential for the university's schools, including HBS and the GSD, to work together researching and devising practical, replicable solutions for an environmentally and economically sustainable global built environment. Harvard's... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
began selling one of its beer brands in Argentina five years ago, executives believed success lay in replicating the methods that had led to a strong business in Brazil, said sales officer Carlo Alves de Brito. "In the first year [in... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
it was enlightening to see China and Vietnam through the eyes of the students. “So many of them were experiencing these places for the first time that I began to see them differently as well,” she says. “You definitely can’t replicate... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
of information in those meetings is not replicated by even the most detailed summary report coming out of an EHR," Huckman says. "My guess is that the size of many larger organizations allows for fewer natural opportunities for this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
discredited by what happened to LTCM in 1998, went on to be replicated by a 100 or even a 1,000 different hedge funds. And so we actually have a 1,000 LTCMs out there right now at death’s door. It’s a curious case of nothing quite... View Details
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
as we replicate analyses like this one in a variety of different settings, we will establish benchmarks that can be used to compare one organization with another. Q: What are you working on now? A: A variety of extensions of this project.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
when consumers got the chips right after seeing the film. That was really neat. It wasn’t really replicable on a larger scale, but certainly with this focused film festival audience it was very effective.” Terra also tapped its... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
India By examining Ekal Vidyalaya (Ekal), a nonprofit network of schools in India, this case focuses on the classic challenge faced by organizations that grow through replication (e.g., McDonald's, Starbucks, Walmart, Whole Foods): How... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
organizational practices. Production and innovation are different activities. While the former seeks to replicate an existing product at low cost, the latter seeks to discover something entirely new and valuable. Similarly, outsourcing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
also be detrimental to some. Specifically, we examine in detail the relation between religious involvement and subjective well-being. We first replicate prior findings showing a positive relation between religiosity and subjective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
programs, although I haven't yet had that conversation with [School administrators] so I can't say if that's going to happen. But I think in terms of numbers, the program has to reach out, or we won't be able to sustain it. I also think we really have a responsibility... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
months, totally immersed in a humanitarian project in someplace like Africa or India, it engages you in ways that are difficult to replicate when you come back to a corporate context. That can make reentry pretty challenging for everyone... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship
situation. Students with particularly positive experiences often remark that they felt integrated into the work of the team and that people in the organization cared about what they were working on.” To replicate this integration,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
outcome can be replicated by a licensing scheme in which innovators sell complete patent rights, and (2) they are dynamically unstable. We find that none of the above regimes can reach first or second best. Finally, we consider patents of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
America analyzes U.S. foreign aid and poverty in Africa. With an interest in development issues in the Third World generally, America works with African business schools in particular. He has helped create the Southern Africa Business School Network, which he plans to... View Details
- 14 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team
are treated as free agents who can take their top performance to work for the highest bidder. Our study debunks that myth. Star analysts rely a lot on the quality of the colleagues that their organization provides to sustain top performance. They cannot simply View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
their non-connected holdings. A replicating portfolio of connected stocks outperforms a replicating portfolio of non-connected stocks by up to 8.4% per year. Returns are concentrated around corporate news... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
competition can impede the reputational mechanism. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-051.pdf Scale without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace