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- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Accidental Innovator
artists seem to rely on accidents to generate interesting and creative outcomes. How often accidents are involved in important innovations is also difficult to say. How do you define the time boundaries of an accident? What does... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- Web
2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
this session, we will consider the implications of living in a permanent state of elevated turbulence. COVID has been an object lesson in having to continuously reassess changing conditions and adapt both strategy and operations to the... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
deficiencies—for example, that they lacked skills or were objects of charity, and also that they were not to be taken seriously as tech innovators. After establishing Code Fever’s Urban Innovation Lab in Overtown—a neighborhood that has... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- Research Summary
Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Preaching with a Choir
have an undergraduate degree in Italian. I had no professional corporate business experience before I came to HBS. So for me, the HBS experience was transformational. I have been the general manager of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for 16 years. My View Details
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U.S. Healthcare Strategy - Course Catalog
complementing case discussions. Educational Objectives: The course aims to equip students with a strong understanding of the landscape of the US healthcare industry and key strategic challenges within it. Objectives include: Obtain... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
“It’s making corporations question the boundaries of who and what they are accountable for in their communities.” Barrett presented guidelines for cross-sector partnerships to fight the epidemic at “HIV/AIDS and Business in Africa and... View Details
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RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies Course Number 1195 Professor Matthew Weinzierl Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits 13 Sessions Paper Course Overview and Objectives This course is about one question: What is the proper... View Details
- 29 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?
that pettiness as a construct is distinct from generosity and stinginess: Even when people gave objectively larger or smaller amounts of money or time, doing so in a petty manner exerted an independent negative effect on relationships.”... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 2012
- Article
Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank
By: B. Staats and F. Gino
Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition... View Details
Keywords: Motivation; Productivity; Specialization; Variety; Work Fragmentation; Boundaries; Performance Productivity; Organizations; Research; Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Opportunities; Market Transactions; Resource Allocation; Performance; Goals and Objectives; Learning
Staats, B., and F. Gino. "Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank." Management Science 58, no. 6 (June 2012): 1141–1159.
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Launching Global Ventures - Course Catalog
aim to be unconstrained by geographic boundaries in their pursuit of opportunity. It is designed for those who aim to: Build globally minded ventures from day one Lead innovation within multinational organizations Identify cross-border... View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
fail to detect dodges when speakers answer similar—but objectively incorrect—questions (the "artful dodge"), a detection failure that goes hand in hand with a failure to rate dodgers more negatively. We propose that dodges go... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
involved with options. No one change by itself will be enough. CEOs must address the organizational architecture: the planning systems; the performance measurement and evaluation systems; the incentives systems; the boundary systems that... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
building trust in intercultural negotiations with an emphasis on cultural intelligence-the capacity to adapt effectively across cultures. From the Outside In: The Negative Spillover Effects of Boundary Spanners' Relations with Members of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
to developing a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard that places economic, environmental, and social objectives as the highest-level objectives. He faces the challenges of cascading the corporate Balanced Scorecard to operating units... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
Taxes: An Analysis Perspective Harvard Business School Note 107-047 Provides an overview of accounting for deferred taxes. The primary objective is to provide external users with a basic understanding of deferred taxes. A simple... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
boundaries lie.” “Is a product getting ranked at the top because it genuinely has more desired features? Or is it just because I’m putting in some gibberish?” She says some of the urgency revolves around the fact that LLMs word their... View Details
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
parallel on inventions of insistent practicality as well as expansions of human perception," Victor McElheny explains. "Riding a storm of ever-altering customer specifications, Polaroid adapted its innovations again and again." 97 Land had the foresight to look beyond... View Details
- 07 Mar 2005
- What Do You Think?
Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?
advantages to having certification, I believe that it would be impractical...Unlike law or medicine, business knowledge is not easily quantified." Others objected to the idea that certification might somehow be a good response to the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
is an independent foreign aid agency with the mission to reduce poverty through sustainable economic growth in some of the world's poorest countries. "Farmer training was at the heart of the Ghana program," says Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972), MCC's deputy vice president,... View Details