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20 Oct 2020
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Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital

to legal, to tax, to portfolio management – which created a great preamble before Harlem Capital.” While working at ICV, Tingle and Pierre-Jacques were also part of the Management Leadership for Tomorrow career program, an organization... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital / Private Equity

October 2002 (Revised March 2013)
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Intermountain Health Care

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman

Intermountain Health Care (IHC), an integrated delivery system based in Utah, has adopted a new strategy for managing health care delivery. The approach focuses management attention not only on the facilities where care takes place but also on physician decision making... View Details

Keywords: Ethnicity; Innovation Strategy; Cost Management; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Technology Adoption; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Adoption; Change Management; Cost vs Benefits; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Utah

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November 2012
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Teaming at GE Aviation

By: Rakesh Khurana, Jeffrey Polzer, Willy Shih and Eric Baldwin

Describes the challenges and successes encountered by GE's Aviation business in implementing a teaming work structure and culture in plants across its supply chain. GE Aviation leadership had seen dramatic gains in productivity, quality, and worker satisfaction in... View Details

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06 Aug 2018
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Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

components that support IoT will almost certainly face this pressure. Again, we’ll see this primarily at the level of intermediate goods, and that will pass through to lower selling prices on a range of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

13 Feb 2024
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Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

to draw more women to apply: Make it easier for candidates to know whether they are qualified. Instead of using vague language about the experience or skills candidates need in job postings, be more precise about expected qualifications.... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

14 Jul 2020
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Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

As economies reopen after forced shutdowns caused by COVID-19, managers around the world are faced with a dual challenge: keep the workforce safe while preserving business viability in an evolving and volatile market. How should... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

06 Jun 2024
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How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

individual anonymized career trajectories, implied by job titles and income, with far more specificity than previously available, Kerr notes. State Department data suggest that from 1989 to 1995, two-thirds... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog

contending with this challenge, the designer of an incentive system—or someone trying to motivate themselves—faces an important tradeoff between inducing high levels of motivation View Details

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Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog

familiar with key concepts and terminology that others who have taken an earlier negotiation course will already bring to the course. Purpose : Take your negotiating ability to the next level by matching... View Details

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

their menopausal health and wellness is overlooked by their employer. One in five women report having left or considered leaving a job because of their menopause symptoms. Women are vital to the U.S.... View Details

08 Jul 2015
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Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

long hours, most folks are being forced to do that with minimal compensation." Patrick Coomans placed some blame on "the weak job protection employees have in the US." Sid Mehta, who reminded us that Greece has the longest... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

26 Feb 2025
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Know Your HBS Staff: Avital Brodski

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Classroom and Field Work: Methods of Instruction | Baker Library

Metropolitan Life Insurance, and R. H. Macy. Sponsoring companies also benefitted from the apprenticeships, and the long term relationships between the firms and the program... View Details

20 Mar 2000
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No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

difficult to build sound but less costly housing because of constricting regulations, building codes, and bureaucracy. "When all the various levels of subsidiary costs are added up," Poorvu... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

17 Sep 2024
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Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

communication levels in their paper, “Communication Within Firms: Evidence From CEO Turnovers,” published in Management Science. And when corporate communication breaks down, it can lead to confusion View Details

Keywords: by Ami Albernaz

04 Sep 2021
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Companies Need More Workers. Why Do They Reject Millions of Résumés?

14 Feb 2011
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Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing

conforming to particular segments. Rather, they take life as it comes. And when faced with a job that needs doing, they essentially "hire" a product to do that job. To that end, Christensen suggests that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Service; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

02 Aug 2013
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J. Richard Hackman (1940-2013)

Keywords: by Ruth Wageman & Teresa M. Amabile

01 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Josh Latson and his Fellowship: “It’s like a pie eating contest.”

after a year. I felt comfortable having an exit option.” As it turns out, neither party has wanted to exercise that option. Now entering his fourth year at BMC, Josh has been able to leverage his fellowship into an in-depth exploration of operations View Details

Keywords: Health Care

22 Dec 2015
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