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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
service to others. In the intensely competitive world I live in now, that’s good grounding to have.” Why VC is so much fun: “The entrepreneurial energy is irresistible. Working with startups, and investing in smart people with boundless... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
services that simultaneously provide greater customer value and higher supplier profitability. We constantly strive to move elements of the relationship from the zero-sum conflict side to the win-win cooperation side to achieve business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
rate—the amount of waste that it recycles and composts—has for years lingered below 18 percent, a fraction of what some other major American cities have achieved. And DSNY has been slow to adopt tools such as rat-proof containers and real-time analytics that could... View Details
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
(September 2009): 90-95 Abstract As a business broadens over time, it can lose the operational edge that led to its original success. Core strengths atrophy, efficiency or quality suffers, and sharper rivals close in to take advantage of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
projects conducted by clinical managers at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. My findings suggest that social position is an important enabling condition for divergent organizational change, and is a determinant as well of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Jana Kierstead | About
Executive Director, Jana leads a team of over 300 full-time professionals who manage the lifelong relationship students have with the School, from admissions and financial aid to student life and career services to reunions and lifelong... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Hongchoy faced on whether the strategic shift would dilute Link's mission of servicing the local community with affordable yet quality retail experience, while balancing his responsibilities to his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5
professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting "reliability" and "relevance" of proposed standards. Notably, we find FASB members with backgrounds in financial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Solara Solara provides an on-demand solar irrigation service to Indian farmers, increasing their access to affordable, reliable, and clean irrigation. Team: Rea Savla, MBA 2024; Vishesh Mehta Play Elisa: Grand Prize Winner 2024 New... View Details
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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
questions intrigued me throughout my career.” Another request for help came from Harvard President Derek Bok in the mid-1970s regarding the quality of teaching throughout the University. Building on his work at HBS, Christensen responded... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009
philosopher John Rawls) can be reconciled for roommate problems. Finally, we extend our results to two-sided matching problems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-111.pdf Lean Principles, Learning, and Software Production: Evidence from Indian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
can't seem to get innovation right. When companies keep improving their existing products and services to meet their best customers' needs, they eventually run into the "innovator's dilemma." By doing everything right, they... View Details
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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni
companies that facilitate project-based and/or flexible-work opportunities. iRelaunch Co-founded in 2007 by Carol Fishman Cohen (MBA 1985), iRelaunch is a full service career reentry company, providing programming, training, conferences,... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
confidence in their mastery of what they had already learned. We conclude by discussing the implications of these findings, such as encouraging further learning or harming teaching evaluations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55850... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
differences in either the quality or the nature of the output. But when a benchmarker like Hackett extends this methodology to support services or shared service departments,... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania Authors:Diego A. Comin Abstract Tourism is a tradable service activity that could allow some African countries to generate significant growth. Tanzania, given its unique natural assets, is an ideal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
care for specific events.... June 2021 The CMS New Rule on Ambulatory Surgical Centers Earns Only Partial Credit by Junaid Nabi and Robert S. Kaplan The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that it will be... View Details
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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
full-service hospitals. Traditional geographic expansion has been focused on acquiring health care facilities that merely reproduce the same services in the different areas without regard to value. In these expansions, care remained... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016
During Recessions By: Lazear, Edward P., Kathryn L. Shaw, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—Why did productivity rise during recent recessions? One possibility is that average worker quality increased. A second is that each incumbent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015
the closer one gets to the customer in responses from sales and service personnel. This article outlines the issues and explains why withholding information about strategy for competitive reasons often results in greater risk for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne