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- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
and operators with other clients. However, Emergia also needs to think about how Fonaveu will react and whether these tactics will endanger the collaborative relationship the couples have been working toward. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
gender identity in dual-career couples with Jennifer Berdahl of the University of Toronto. McGinn is involved in three related projects: The first, with HBS colleague Mukti Khaire, studies self-employed women in India and their different... View Details
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
[PDF]. "There are many detailed case studies of conflict, and many broad-brush, cross-country studies. Within-country studies, such as we conducted on Nepal, fill in the gap between the two different approaches. Our econometric analysis tells us whether what you... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
relations director, weighed the advantages and disadvantages of incorporating information from the financial markets into the firm's planning and operations activities. What were his goals, and what sorts of obstacles did he face? Miller: I heard from a View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
had a "system" of hiring MBAs in cohorts of ten to fifteen. These young MBAs were generally placed into "assistant to" positions (assisting the head of a division, for example) for a couple of years to learn the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
coupled with this delivery system that was, wittingly or not, heartless. And I've been at it since then. I wrote Market-Driven Health Care, which was a very popular book. But the part of it that I thought was the most important, which is... View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
democracy may be a requirement of mandatory service-social service, infrastructure construction, teaching/mentoring or military according to individual talents and interests A couple years contributed in the late teens or early twenties... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
in Large Markets By: Kojima, Fuhito, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract—Accommodating couples has been a long-standing issue in the design of centralized labor market clearinghouses for doctors and psychologists, because View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
Robert Lagerstrom, David Dreyfus, and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—We propose a network-based methodology for analyzing a firm's enterprise architecture. Our methodology uses "Design Structure Matrices" (DSMs) to capture the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
engineers—they love to build things, and they are very good at it. Their progress on infrastructure projects in the last couple of decades is remarkable, but in keeping with their natural strength and the will of a one-party government.... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
your customers value most, you must underperform on dimensions they value less. This means you must have the stomach to do some things badly. The concept can seem immoral at first blush. We recently did some work with a major health-care provider. The CEO wasn't able... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
start reassessing one's life and asking the big questions like 'Why am I here?' Coupled with this, you have many people looking for a renewed sense of community. They're searching for a sense of belonging." The "s" Word For... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
orientation around learning—instead of mere task completion—can create a space for debate, dissent, and deliberation. Such team processes are only achievable when there is a collective agreement on their value, coupled with support in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
O'Reilly, Amy Elliman Fenollosa, Adam Michael Kleinbaum, and Dan McGrath Periodical:Academy of Management Learning & Education (in press). (Special Issue: Challenges and Opportunities for Executive Education.) Abstract As professional schools, business schools... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
professional background. Her partner, Antje Danielson, was a PhD post-doc at Harvard. They had met at the nursery school where their children both went. I put a couple of lines in the case that Danielson was about six-months pregnant... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
is preparing for meetings with two clients. His first clients are Peggy and David Bartley, a professional married couple of moderate wealth. His second clients are Ray and Michelle Polanski, a couple that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
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Business, Too Couples with deliberate rituals feel more satisfied with their relationships. Can businesses also benefit? The Ferrari Way Secretive sports car maker Ferrari opens up about how it has bucked industry trends to achieve... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
costs, benefits, and risks from the proposed policy or project in a just and equitable way and Accountability mechanisms, including penalties or sanctions for failure to comply with the standards, coupled with guarantees of access to... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
"ghost" condominiums, coupled with immigration, fuel the demand. The supply of housing is limited, due to the topography of the nation, the need to live near jobs, and the fact that the government owns 90% of the land. Add to... View Details