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- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
behavioral indicator of liking. We trained a natural language processing algorithm as a “follow-up question detector” that we applied to our speed-dating data (and can be applied to any text data to more deeply understand question-asking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
a process we term toolmaking (whereby experts create tools that embody their expertise) is central to the way in which experts garner influence in complex organizational settings. We develop a framework that conceptualizes the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
the morning and were told to come back in the evening. At no point were they told that the experiment was about sleep—but that’s exactly what the researchers were trying to test. Past psychological research has shown that sleep benefits memory through a View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
once was considered thinking and will increasingly do so." Bill Barker agreed, in the process offering his solution: In the past, he wrote, the portion of the working population employed in agriculture dropped from 50 percent to less... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
After an overview of Boston Children's Hospital and its local health care market environment, the case presents process maps and financial data relating to patients making office visits to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
services of unknown quality. The lack of transparency protects providers and insurers from needing to compete on the price and quality of their services. Lack of competition, in turn, inflates the cost and probably also diminishes the quality of health care. Some View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
Although clusters are most prevalent in advanced economies, you say that they're one of the essential steps for countries moving in that direction. How are clusters nurtured in emerging nations? A: Many developing countries have... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
market is in its infancy, there is already disagreement over the appropriate level of regulation” The growth is also driven by ways in which alternative lenders are innovating in small business lending, particularly in terms of simplicity and convenience of the... View Details
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
Joyce Dias puts it, "People give up what they enjoy doing most in order to submit to the unnatural process of doing something— anything in order to earn their living." Combine this with research that cites a high correlation... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
Sen, and Willy Shih Abstract—Scientific research and its translation into commercialized technology is a driver of wealth creation and economic growth. Partnerships to foster the translational processes from public research organizations,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
energy, etc.). 2. Confidence and winning is a cyclical process that feeds off of itself, as does lack of confidence and losing. These cycles involve both internal and external confidence. Internally, a good mood and positive work... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
workforce flexibility have followed, including a new case about how Honeywell weathered the Great Recession. The next step of the research will involve interviewing managers who have conducted layoffs—or who have found alternatives to... View Details
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
online shoppers might be intrinsically different from past customers in a key way: how they view returns. We even went a step further and probed three other factors that might explain lower return rates. First, we wondered if new online... View Details
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
collateral design, launches the product, and then “throws it over the wall” to sales and marketing. “This process is product-centric and a bucket-brigade approach where the groups work serially and in silos in a rapidly changing tech... View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
forces, but patterns over time and how markets move and customers buy. They may not know your specific market details or the intimate buying patterns of your target customer, but as Bob Mason, managing partner of Project11 says, “We often ask the right questions... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
Starting a job can feel like stepping onto a movie set without a script. Everyone knows the plot; the challenge is figuring out the role. Managers often know what they want from top performers but rarely explain it. That perspective... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
Innovation happens fast and slowly. The GPS applications so prevalent today to guide us from Point A to Point B took their first baby steps nearly three decades ago when President Ronald Reagan encouraged the release of military GPS... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
their practices. Today's quality movement in healthcare is a welcomed step in the right direction, but it is not really focused on results; it is focused on methods, or processes of care. Q: What about pay... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says... View Details
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
assistant professor at Harvard Business School; Patrick Rooney, an HBS research associate; and Jonathan Smith, a policy research scientist at The College Board. “The effects we see for widely covered scandals are large, which speaks to the decision-making View Details