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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... 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
- 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
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
that quickly ferry from one to four passengers with no waiting to a number of possible destinations. PRT is an innovative approach to short-distance transportation, continues Edelman, whose other research interests include the design of... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16
takeovers and/or liberation. Capitalist evolution requires the continuing transformation of its three levels of governance. Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face—and What to Do About It Author:Richard S. Tedlow... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies
specialized arena of MICS, but can be applied, they write, to technologies of a much broader scope, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in manufacturing, or interactive software tools that continue to revolutionize the way... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
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natural environment. At the same time, many large corporations have created positions of Corporate Sustainability Officer with the goal of achieving steady improvements in their sustainability performance. Despite substantial academic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 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
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
in influencing younger generations of leaders. In numerous instances, so did the continuing influence of the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi. “[In India], our protagonists talked, unprompted actually, about a sense of mission for society, the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
thwarting the confident protagonists of an apparently popular project. Actively monitor local currents and cross-currents of opinion. Reportedly, Amazon did not hire a single New Yorker to continuously engage with community groups to... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
relationship that many scholars have claimed could greatly improve governance in many third world nations: the United States ran the currency, provided aid, posted an official inside the Panamanian government, and operated one of the... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
1.5% because it deters entry of new high-type firms. On the contrary, substantial improvements (of the order of 5% improvement in welfare) are possible if the continued... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
dramatically improves outcomes and controls health care costs. By expanding strategically and integrating with community providers, those already renowned for innovation and excellence and patient care can widen access, View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008
performance. First, can it continue to balance organic and acquisition-led growth? Second, what will be the impact of increased competition from private equity players? Third, for how long can its strategy of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
particular context such as a workplace. First explored by pioneering organizational scholars in the 1960s, psychological safety experienced a renaissance starting in the 1990s and continuing to the present. Organizational research has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
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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
- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
continued unabated through 2018. In 2013-14 Nooyi had to fend off activist investor Nelson Peltz, who called for breaking the company in two, never wavering from her strategy. Nooyi may have been ahead of her time, as America’s obesity... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
the technology and where it's going—and while there are a lot of good things It's going to improve our quality of life. It's going to make things easier. But at the same time, it can easily be misused as now we see what has happened to... View Details