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- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
investigating the effects of psychological safety on process improvement in a number of hospital intensive care units. One future research goal is to study multiple voice episodes for a given individual, so... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
[ought to] have a clearly defined set of purposes or goals which keeps it moving in a deliberately chosen direction and prevents its drifting in undesired directions" (emphasis added). As shown in the case of Alfred Sloan at General... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
90 students to break into multiple small groups or reassemble as a whole. Moon calls the hives a breakthrough in how to foster a different kind of teaching and learning. While the FIELD course has garnered most of the attention,... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
nonbanks to sell loans and re-lend the cash proceeds multiple times. The volume of new issues of securitized loans has fallen off a cliff, from $100 billion a month in 2006 to almost zero at the end of 2008. To revive the process of... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
Bureau of Business Research, a dedicated group of scholars under Copeland's direction that, from 1920 to 1925, developed and wrote cases for multiple courses. (Once a critical mass of materials was developed, Donham disbanded the bureau... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
open up within them, giving companies a powerful mechanism for arbitrage across national financial markets. Managing these internal markets to build an advantage requires that CFOs must balance new financial opportunities with the managerial and institutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
HBS model proves successful at achieving its goal is for others to decide. That said, I hope my book will open our model to broader scrutiny and jump-start that conversation. A few conditions are nonetheless needed for vocal silence to... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Organizational Behavior 31 (2011) Abstract The goal of this paper is to promote research about organizational errors-i.e., the actions of multiple organizational participants that deviate from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
many tradeoffs Barge must make in balancing the benefits of the former organization with those of the new structure to achieve the firm's strategic goal of becoming more customer-solutions oriented. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
6 I got to work in my basement on starting FreeMarkets. The first thing we did was raise some money, and then we built some software. We found some pilot clients and started to develop market-making skills, a supplier database, rules for the market, and a call center... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
advancing her enterprise's goals and objectives through a faster and ever-larger-reaching set of media. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54007 Winter 2018 Journal of Economic Perspectives Frictions or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
globe. “Change had to start with our faculty research,” explains Palepu. “If we don’t have theories that are more globally robust, and materials that are developed using multiple contexts, and innovations that are captured wherever... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
multiple sectors. But I also continued to have this desire to look for ways to have impact and to make a difference. And in building businesses, we do that. We create jobs. We create economic growth. We do have an impact. I continue to be... View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
Ibarra, Herminia, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb Abstract—Even when CEOs make gender diversity a priority-by setting aspirational goals for the proportion of women in leadership roles, insisting on diverse slates of candidates for senior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
organizations transition to these strategies, there may be tensions and multiple conflicting institutional logics. Additionally, we consider four strategic leadership topics and how they relate to transitions to platform, open/user... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Sendhil Mullainathan Abstract—Economists have become increasingly interested in studying the nature of production functions in social policy applications, with the goal of improving productivity. Traditionally, models have assumed workers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
stroke, multiple sclerosis, or other ailments. More than 80 percent of stroke survivors live with residual gait impairments, and helping patients in clinics involves manual, labor-intensive work. The lab is not only developing equipment... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
goal — getting the task at hand done right. This convergence among a new generation of international business practitioners has a parallel at the institutional level: International businesses increasingly are conducting themselves on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
society) than any other development in the past decade. The western dominated economy and society of the past century has yielded way to a new global century, in which no one country or region enjoys an undisputed advantage. Instead, we are seeing View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
Airlines' daily operations meetings and multiple voicemail updates, or the North Carolina women's soccer team. With many facts on the table and many communication channels open, denial is difficult if not impossible. Communicating... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter