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- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
Case 512-036 In November 2011, just days before the holiday shopping rush, the senior leadership team of The Home Depot, Inc. (Home Depot), the world's largest home improvement chain, discussed how best to navigate the new interconnected... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Mar 2019
- HBS Case
The Ferrari Way
and rewards longtime loyal customers with first chance to buy limited edition cars. On the surface, that scarcity-generates-demand model seems destined to clash with becoming a public company. Ferrari decided to go public, in part, to View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
accountability at the project and policy levels, particularly through the establishment and enforcement of social and environmental safeguards and complaint and response mechanisms. But they have been much less successful in changing staff incentives for accountability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
invest in platform quality in open-source and proprietary two-sided platforms. Open platforms have open access, and developers invest to improve the platform. Proprietary platforms have closed access, and investment is done by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
an outsourcing firm complete radiological reads for hospital customers. We find that customer-, domain-, and technology-specific experience—as compared to other experience-leads to improved productivity. We discuss the implications of our... View Details
- 17 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
The Art of Perseverance and Resilience: Reapplying to HBS
persevere and continue to grow and improve are often the ones who have what it takes to succeed. My path to HBS – including my two rejections – allowed me to experience failure, grow to overcome this... View Details
- Web
Increasing Value in Care Delivery - Health Care
develop the managerial skills required to identify and implement change, drawing upon a range of approaches for improving healthcare delivery, including the value-based health care framework, continuous... View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
information environment relating to IFRS adoption that is more likely to reflect changes in comparability versus information quality. If IFRS adoption improves financial statement comparability across firms, we predict this should reduce... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2022
- HBS Case
Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?
responded to these brewing forces with an improved encryption system that put privacy in the hands of the consumer. The company no longer possessed a master key to devices that government officials could request. Instead, when a user... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
best aligns with where they live, a move that has increased enrollment in GMP because of the improved work, life, and learning balance. “GMP helped me immensely. Because of the global diversity of the executives attending the program, I... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
it, he bemoaned decisions (for which he accepted responsibility) that improved efficiency and increased economies of scale but robbed stores of some of their essential magic, such as the smell of roasting coffee and the sights and sounds... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- What Do You Think?
What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?
suggestions for how to improve them. Typical of these were Thad Juszczak's recommendation that "The process of performance feedback should be continuous." Continuous feedback is an antidote to Hany... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- HBS Seminar
Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
Course MaterialsBASIX Harvard Business School Case 207-099 BASIX, an Indian microfinance corporation, must decide whether to continue to sell weather insurance to its clients. A brand-new financial product, weather insurance pays if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
even pharmacists are being asked to take on more initial assessments for minor illnesses in some settings. “Innovation will continue to be a really powerful way to help improve health care systems globally... View Details
- Program
Public Education Leadership Project
Summary Improved student performance depends on strong leadership, a culture of collaboration, and a dedication to accountability across a school district. This program helps leaders from U.S.-based urban school systems apply proven... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49445 Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Performance feedback is ubiquitous in competitive settings where new products are developed. This paper introduces a fundamental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- Web
Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
social benefit for comparable cost, or achieves an equivalent social benefit with fewer dollars. Foundations create value in four ways: selecting better grantees, signaling other funders, improving the performance of grantees, and View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
one a loser—it consistently underperformed against its competitors; one a climber—it started off poorly but dramatically improved its performance once it applied the 4+2 formula; and one a tumbler—it began the decade in good shape then... View Details