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- 12 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Break the Rules of How Business is Done
or managers to report to. Many other companies have taken similar approaches not only to attempt to operate more efficiently, but also to attract and retain talent by differentiating their companies from the mainstream. Whether View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Moreover, close to half of older workers do not know which type of pensions they have and the large majority of workers know little about the rules governing Social Security benefits. Notwithstanding the low levels of literacy that many individuals display, very few... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Lisa Gunther Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Harvard Social Enterprise Conference: 25 Years of Spurring Dialogue for Social Impact... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
of it. Among many other things, it must produce consistent financial results against a difficult economic and sector outlook so that its market capitalization can grow to ensure that taxpayers will eventually get their money back. It's a... View Details
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
call in sick to retain eligibility. Second, employees with perfect pre-program attendance or high productivity suffered a 6% to 8% productivity decrease after program introduction, suggesting they were demotivated by awards for good... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
Summing Up Hard-wiring Performance Is Great In Concept...but.... The responses to the concept of promising and delivering results rather than selling products or services are in, and you've agreed that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
the capacity burden and reduce the spread of infection. Across the care spectrum, nearly everyone is implementing telehealth in some way now. Most of these providers have been dabbling or have had various initiatives around telehealth in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
encompassed a wide range of applications, including products, services, and development tools for both commercial and individual users. Because the undertakings were so diverse, the researchers couldn't measure each project against the same performance criteria -- such... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Making a Statement
doctors were quite competent, but the group wasn’t working together. “We brought in a comprehensive, integrated system, with a better flow of information, and patient outcomes improved dramatically,” says Paul. The company that grew out... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
balanced budget requirements instead force them to save up in advance or beg Congress for federal support.” Is there a better solution? The results of Green's and Loualiche’s research point to the potential... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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HBS Alumni Research Tips: Target list of companies
it can be broad (regions, countries, states) or narrow (cities or counties). 3. Click Size to specify parameters, e.g. sales ($millions) or employees. 4. Click... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) spent the first 10 years of his work life as an hourly wage earner, moving from one minimum wage job to the next, often unable to transfer learned skills or... View Details
- 28 Apr 2008
- HBS Case
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, sold $315 billion worth of goods in 2006. With its single-minded focus on "EDLP" (everyday low prices) and the power to make or break suppliers, a partnership with Wal-Mart is either the... View Details
- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
Summing Up Our forward projections often reflect what we have just experienced. Responses to the question, "What will be the single most promising area of research or study in the next 10 years?," reflect issues that fall into... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
One of the most essential roles of the general manager is to be the person who can move an organization forward through the most tangled of circumstances, says Professor Amy Edmondson, “where there is uncertainty, different points of view, and high stakes, whether... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
the sustained, excellent business results achieved during his tenure leading General Electric. Bill Schleyer, AT&T: I would also pick Bush, as well as Prime Minister Tony Blair. I think their unequivocal, immediate, ongoing response to... View Details
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
monitoring management. While the Economist magazine recently suggested that we are in an era of the "imperial shareholder," our results indicate that activism tends to be most successful when there is a high probability of a... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
analytic methods in a series of experiments across a range of hedonic products. The results suggest that hedonic learning follows a sequence of stages whose order matters and that the holistic stage is facilitated by attending to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
overweighted in probability judgments but are underweighted in repeated decisions under uncertainty. Two laboratory studies examine both decisions and probability assessments within the same paradigm. The results reveal overweighting and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem
RELATED LINKS Survey results Survey methodology Watch Porter discuss the survey findings More US Competitiveness Surveys RELATED LINKS Survey results Survey methodology Watch Porter discuss the survey... View Details