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  • 26 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

high demand, particularly at large, multinational, and information-intensive organizations, the research suggests. Those companies see social skills in the C-suite as more important than more traditional operational and administrative abilities, such as View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

an answer to key questions for privacy protection, such as: What is the compliance framework for accessing and using data in various tasks? Essentially, the person is responsible for developing and regularly updating a framework to View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 15 Jul 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

    we're seeing in all sectors of health care is some movement away from these centers and toward the periphery. So instead of people going to the downtown medical center they might go to a retail clinic. They might increasingly have their care View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
    • 14 Jul 2023
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

    go-to-market strategy. Simin received her BA, MD, and MBA from Harvard University. Morgan Moncada, (MS/MBA 2023) is the CEO and co-founder of Willow Health, an AI platform for holistic brain health monitoring and intervention. Willow... View Details
    • Web

    The Caring Company

    outbreak Liz O’Donnell 23 Mar 2020 | Fast Company Caregiving crisis? Employers slow to catch up to ‘sandwich generation.’ Mark Trumbull 05 Mar 2019 | The Christian Science Monitor How Businesses Can Support Their Caregiving Employees... View Details
    • 28 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels

    deliberate—and therefore not always easy to eliminate. “There’s not one silver bullet,” says Feldberg. “In reality, companies need to approach these issues from multiple angles and be persistent in and consistently monitor their efforts.”... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 13 Dec 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

    2020 murder, minority-owned funds gain visibility. To test this theory, the researchers looked at periods after high-profile police killings to monitor the performance of minority-owned funds. “Indeed, you do see this temporary blip where... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services
    • 21 Aug 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

    which surgeons receive information from direct sensation, MICS calls for team members to supply the surgeon with vital information displayed on digital and visual monitors in the OR," write Edmondson, Bohmer and Pisano. "The... View Details
    Keywords: by Hilah Geer
    • 15 Nov 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: November 15

      PublicationsTrue North Groups: A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership Development Authors:Bill George and Doug Baker Publication:Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2011 Abstract All too often, we find ourselves forced to confront life's challenges on our own. What... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Article

    Healthy Buildings in 2070

    By: John D. Macomber and Joseph G. Allen
    Fifty years seems a very long time in the future for most industries. Not so in buildings and real estate; built structures routinely last decades if not hundreds of years, as long as they are economically competitive. Any discussion of the 50-year future has to... View Details
    Keywords: Health ＆ Wellness; Real Estate; Architectural Innovation; Public Health; Health; Buildings and Facilities; Well-being
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    • February 2013 (Revised March 2013)
    • Case

    Agero: Enhancing Capabilities for Customers

    By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred

    This case illustrates the importance of choosing a primary customer as the basis for organization design. Cross Country Group managers adjusted resource allocation, organization design and performance measures over time to transform Cross Country Group from an... View Details

    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Gap; Entrepreneurship; Auto Industry; Insurance; Performance Management; Performance Measurement; Performance Measures; Performance Pressure; Decisions; Family Business; Resource Allocation; Organizational Design; Customer Focus and Relationships; Performance Evaluation; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry
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    Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade

    of pounds of Chinese tea were exported annually. The Portuguese, the first European traders to enter China, leased and controlled Macao; by the 1700s the center of Western trade shifted to Canton (now Guangzhou). The Chinese government closely View Details
    • 17 Dec 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

    authorized by the United States government to monitor financial firms. The data included all employment information for financial advisors from 2005 to 2015, including when employees were hired, when they left each firm, and whether they... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • 09 Nov 2023
    • News

    From the Brink

    Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
    Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
    • 01 Nov 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

    John H. Patterson created an intricate system of management to monitor and train company salesman. He gave them scripts to memorize and assigned them territory to cover. He held conventions and thematic sales contests, and pressured... View Details
    Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
    • 09 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

    a hierarchy that flows from the most enduring element, the corporate mission, through values, vision, strategy, and, ultimately, the implementation and monitoring of that strategy via tools such as balanced scorecards and key performance... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
    • 22 Aug 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

    were often the instruments used by governments to screen or monitor FDI flows. The world-wide controls over capital movements were related to balance of payments concerns and the system of fixed exchange rates established at Bretton... View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
    • Web

    Health Care - Faculty & Research

    that the independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) had called for the early termination of the trial. His 2010 scramble to determine how to proceed had massive implications for the company, requiring the company to publicly disclose... View Details
    • 17 Aug 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1910

    Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio