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- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
ensure accountability, cultivate collaboration, and encourage initiative. Individual and system accountability. Jim Kilts said it best: "A promise made is a promise kept." As we have seen, confidence is enhanced when people are... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
focused on the issue, corporations are turning the tax function into a profit center, says Desai, an expert on international corporate and public finance. In this e-mail interview, he discusses new ways businesses are looking to shrink their tax obligations, how the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
show that the combination of preference for variety and consumption complementarities gives rise to (i) a commons problem (to better satisfy their individual preference for variety, users have an incentive to consume more applications... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Israel - Global Activities 2021
scale drip irrigation systems to customers. Netafim’s digital farming platform, Netbeat, was designed to “empower farmers to monitor, analyze, and control their irrigation systems,” but the firm, which was acquired by global conglomerate... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
Harvard Medical School. He has shown that detailed checklists can improve surgical patient outcomes. Gawande told the audience that traditional practices with individual doctors can’t meet the complex challenges of modern medicine. “Organizations and View Details
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
worldwide pharmaceuticals spending, according to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Mark McClellan.) One problem, several panelists noted, is that European healthcare systems do not reimburse the high prices charged for new drugs,... View Details
- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
of the sales force, i.e., the degree to which existing consultants recruit new consultants. The company utilizes a range of periodic incentives for recruitment but hopes to build a system of salesforce... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
with academia; and sharing pre-competitive research, Lechleiter said. He made a plea for federal and state policy support in the form of tax incentives and improvements to the U.S. education system to back... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
curb cost increases while ensuring quality treatment. Those goals have not been reached, largely because patient and physician resistance to stringent gatekeeping has led to more relaxed controls and freedom to use out-of-network services, at ever-increasing costs. A... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
The result of that abiding interest is his new book, Innovation and Its Discontents (Princeton University Press), which he cowrote with Professor Adam B. Jaffe of Brandeis University. Why do we need a patent system in the first place?... View Details
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Staff Catering Guidelines | About
in advance by the department Business Manager is required. Non-Harvard staff: HBS will cover any meals, even outside of regular mealtimes, that are provided for non-Harvard staff, when there is a significant incentive to strengthen the... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation
R&D systems for performing experiments that will generate the information needed to develop and refine products quickly. The challenges are managerial as well as technical: Organize For Rapid Experimentation Examine and, if necessary,... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
are (a) "strategic" mergers that are potentially used as mechanisms for competitor pre-emption, (b) systems effects of mergers including the impact of mergers on sector-wide diffusion of technologies, (c)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
market share. Its Mach3 shaving system was a blockbuster product, but the company was suffering the effects of its own reliance on trade loading—the practice of offering discounts to retail customers at the end of a quarter in order to... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Student-Profile
Olivia Zhao
health has such a universal reach in their life. If you can improve the system in some way then you can have a lot of impact. I just knew I would find interesting problems by focusing my research on health care policy.” To learn more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
corporate governance system — management- incentive systems, corporate boards, external auditors, analysts, and professional investing institutions — seem to need some reengineering to deal with these new... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
When lawyers fare better than inventors and entrepreneurs where U.S. patents are concerned, you know injustice is being done. The current system makes patents easier to acquire, sure, but renders them less prestigious as well, and less... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club
Northern California, took place at the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame. In his introduction, Sean W. Jacobsohn (MBA '98) noted, "Siebel Systems was founded in 1993 with no venture capital and needed only $1.8 million in revenues to attain... View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
was anger—"Why are they shoving this 'uniform' nonsense down my throat?" There was pessimism—"We'll waste a fortune on this software and it will never work well." There was cynicism—"I wonder how much commission the slick guy who sold us the... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
other research examines the design of performance measurement systems and incentive contracts for rewarding teams and channel partners. In short, this research explores the idea that career concerns,... View Details