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  • 02 Mar 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

from government. Suggestions of causes of the current challenge of rapidly rising costs in relation to quality of outcomes, at least by the imperfect measure of life expectancy, included waste in the system (Julie Maire, Edward Hare, and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 18 Mar 2013
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: LEGO

management, product demand was so high at times that executives actually found themselves discussing ways to slow sales. A Shock To The System That all changed in the early 1990s as seismic shifts pounded the toy market. Big Box toy... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 30 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 30

Taiwan-based HTC Corp. faced difficult times by 2012. CEO Peter Chou, who drove HTC's transformation from an unknown manufacturer of PDAs for other companies to a well-known global player in smartphones, faced an uncertain and complex... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

With Us or Against Us? Networks, Identity and Order in a Virtual World

By: Magnus Thor Torfason
Social networks and social groups have both been seen as important to discouraging malfeasance and supporting the global pro-social norms that underlie social order, but have typically been treated either as pure substitutes or as having completely independent effects.... View Details
Keywords: Social Norms; Social Networks; Triadic Closure; Social Groups; Group Identity; Groups and Teams; Boundaries; Organizations; Identity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Societal Protocols
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  • 25 Jan 2021
  • Book

In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

systemic challenge, of course, not just to business, but to education, law, policy, and culture. Moreover, business and government leaders, working together, also face massive challenges that they have not sufficiently confronted before,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • 19 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022

Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message? It takes more than grit to succeed in a world rife with systemic inequity. So why don't we tell children that? Research by Ashley Whillans and colleagues shows how honest talk... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

presence of entrepreneurial peers strongly predicts subsequent entrepreneurship rates of students without an entrepreneurial background, but in a more complex way than the literature has previously suggested: A higher share of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

fact that despite careful attention to the importance of neighborhood priority, Boston’s implementation of its 50-50 reserve–open seat split was nearly identical to the outcome of a counterfactual system without any reserves. Transparency... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jan 2018
  • Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

hundreds of individuals spanning physical, organizational, cultural, geographic, and professional boundaries. Engineers, geologists, drilling specialists, and more came together from different organizations, sectors, and nations to work on the immensely challenging... View Details
Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining
  • 2012
  • Chapter

Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and Political Economy in the Accademia dei Pugni in Austrian Lombardy, 1760–1780

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Jani Marjanen
This essay focuses on the Accademia dei Pugni, or The Academy of Punches, a celebrated institution which flourished for a few years in 1760s Austrian Milan, and its journal Il Caffè (1764–1766). It does so to revisit one of the cardinal questions... View Details
Keywords: History; Culture; Economic Systems
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  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

Book: http://store.elsevier.com/Handbook-of-Safeguarding-Global-Financial-Stability/isbn-9780123978752/   Working PapersLeading Amidst Competing Technical and Institutional Demands: Revisiting Selznick's Conception of Leadership... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

Musk either needs to agree to some of the demands of the advertisers, or he needs to more aggressively experiment with and grow the alternative revenue streams that he seems to aspire to. He’s proposed things like premium memberships, as well as a financial payment... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

topic of global talent management. It can be used to analyze the performance measurement, incentive, and talent development system used at a major multinational company. This case can also be used to analyze the extent to which this View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

New Jersey, and the New York metropolitan area, providing a wide range of services from primary care to complex specialty care. In 2016, U.S. News and World Report had ranked CHOP as the number 2 pediatric hospital in the nation and among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

focus, setup minimization, etc. The products and services characteristic of our modern economy are far too complex for any one person to understand how they work. It is cognitively overwhelming. Therefore, organizations must have some... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 24 Oct 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

team.” Izzy Azeri & Dan Belcher, co-founders, Mabl They may also be too used to having teams of people and systems in place to cover the more mundane duties of running a company and don’t want to get their hands dirty. On the flip... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

study highlights the small-world system's evolutionary dynamics at both the macro level of the network and the micro level of an individual actor. This dual analytical lens helps establish that, in competitive and information-intensive settings, a small-world View Details
  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

to democratic systems as a whole. Now, with ChatGPT and other gen AI tools, the questions regarding data privacy have become more complex: “Where is the data coming from? Is it sensitive to someone?” If regulators or customers ask this... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

innovation in open systems is an important trend in the modern global economy. In general, distributed innovation is made possible by the modularity of the underlying product or process. But despite the documented View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

  PublicationsTeaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy Author:Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Jossey-Bass, in press Abstract Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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