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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
world’s fastest-growing free market democracy” read posters and banners all around the Swiss resort, while Indian success stories such as Infosys Technologies were the talk of movers and shakers at swank soirees. The spotlight continued... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
University. In the United States, the immigration of skilled workers is particularly prevalent among firms in the technology fields. In 2008, immigrants represented 16 percent of the US workforce with a bachelor's education, and they... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
Stream insisted that their projects were aimed at fulfilling goals of the EU's energy policy (reducing the use of fossil fuels to combat climate change and guaranteed physical availability and affordability of imported fossil fuels). But, as the case demonstrates, both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
extract maximum value from technologies such as point-of-sale scanners and customer loyalty cards. Highly readable and compelling, The New Science of Retailing is your playbook for turning all that data into a wellspring for new profits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
learning that will be useful to future missions. This might include decisions on how much telemetry data to provide in flight, a useful source of fault-finding data should things go wrong, as well as the choice of when to fly a new View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
the world after COVID-19 and will perhaps expand further. I believe that startups that offer technology and software that enable physicians to confidently practice medicine from afar will become more valuable. My sense is that this trend... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
America Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr Abstract— Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
employees are working in remote or hybrid environments far from the eyes of watchful supervisors. Attempts to reassert the “butts in seats” metric by using awareness technology software to measure computer keystrokes or monitor time spent... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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future information and knowledge management needs and staying abreast of state-of-the art technologies and practices to best meet them. Business & Environment Initiative The Business and Environment Initiative, launched in 2010, seeks to... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of intermediate progress and solutions or of completed innovations. We present experimental evidence that links intermediate versus final disclosure not just with quantitative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
employees tended to be most engaged by regular, incremental progress toward the accomplishment of a meaningful goal—a phenomenon Amabile calls The Progress Principle, which is also the title of her new book.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
little progress has been made in reducing cost overruns even though more than 20 reform proposals were launched during this time. "Despite the focus and effort dedicated towards reform in the past fifty years, important systemic... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
total. In 2007, corporate R&D spending was $6.43B, or almost 17% of net sales. Novartis executive leaders believe in scientific progress and that large-scale investments in science will therefore result in long-term pay-offs in terms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)
regulations. We then interviewed partners leading the climate change practices at major management consulting firms including Deloitte, Bain, and McKinsey, the latter resulting in one of our most listened-to episodes. We rounded out 2022 with a series of episodes on... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
once as strong as dinosaurs, all now just as extinct. Destruction of businesses, fortunes, products, and careers is the price of progress toward a better material life. No one understood this bedrock economic principle better than Joseph... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
amazing what they were able to do with market-based economic experiments and progress on infrastructure and food security once they put the Cultural Revolution behind them. Postwar Japan had begun to rise in the 1960s. The four Asian... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
international expansion strategy. Despite significant progress in the literature, we have identified three areas for extension and enhancement in understanding strategy beyond markets. First, we currently have limited understanding of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
commitment to another level. Our goal is to do everything we can to achieve progress on each of the targeted pillars, and we will work tirelessly to make real change.” The 10-year initiative, comprised of $20 million in cash and $5... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Loews Corp., Michigan State University, Cornell University’s Hotel School, Bank of Hawaii, HR Spinner, the NCAA, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles illustrate how effective teams drive progress in business, associations, and education. The six... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
reaping the benefits of FDI (which relate to when FDI will generate growth) and (2) the mechanisms by which FDI creates positive externalities (which relate to how FDI generates growth). Technology and Innovation Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne