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- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research. Positive productivity gains are often attributed to knowledge spillover from multinational to domestic firms. An alternative, less stressed explanation is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
all jobs must be knowledge work, or that employees must work at the peak of their intellectual or creative capacity to be fulfilled in this drive. There are two main ways that the drive to comprehend is satisfied on the job. The first is... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
all jobs must be knowledge work, or that employees must work at the peak of their intellectual or creative capacity to be fulfilled in this drive. There are two main ways that the drive to comprehend is satisfied on the job. The first is... View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
usage and costs, the system could require programming and other actions by consumers. "Life is busy," Henderson said, adding that consumers might say, "I don't want to do this whole thing. I might think it's an... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
functions that are thrust to the center of concern during such crisis events. Pursuing Public Value: Frameworks for Strategic Analysis and Action Authors:Leonard, Herman B., and Mark H. Moore Publication:Ports in a Storm: Public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
China were also a chief culprit of the crisis. Policymakers around the world recognized that the scope and scale of the financial crisis required a coordinated global response. Yet there were conflicting views on what kind of action was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
the design process and to approve the school's design. In the natural resources literature, commons theory predicts that, if a robust governance structure is created, this complex form of organizing gives claimants incentives to contribute to the enterprise whilst... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
To what extent does a leader's inner life affect his or her behavior and actions toward other people? HBS professor emeritus Abraham Zaleznik, skilled in the practice of psychoanalysis and an admirer of the insights of Sigmund Freud, is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
because of poor eyesight, McNamara wanted to be close to the action in 1943 and helped man the US Office of Statistical Control in London, where he applied the statistical methods he had honed at HBS to monitor troop and supply movements,... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Republic of Geneva), and other immigrant founders who guided the nation to prosperity. Their expertise with liquid capital far exceeded that of native-born plantation owners Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, who well understood the management of land and slaves but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
and encourages the continued creation of deep knowledge within the field, as well as collaborative research across disciplines that develops and incorporates insights from service operations. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
independent and dispersed contributors made highly interdependent contributions to the design of a single technical system (or sub-system). Based on a detailed analysis of the latter 28, we introduce the concept of actionable transparency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
long-term study of successful CEOs, some of them outlined in the August 2008 Harvard Business Review article, "The Uncompromising Leader," cowritten with Russell A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. He also offers HBS Working... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
like, in your automobile, you have airbags and seat belts. So if you hit a tree today, you walk away from it. If you’d hit a tree 30 years ago, you wouldn’t. Networks had never been built with resilience in mind. They were just built very quickly [over] the last 30... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
was in cahoots with Microsoft. Our model indicates that if buyers are sufficiently forward-looking, such actions may jeopardize the ability of Linux to continue as an effective competitor in the operating system space. We also look at the... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
goes, ‘Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students.’ So, if time is of the essence, how to best think and frame the problems we need to solve with our teams to survive this crisis? What is sequence of those View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
it is also a way of addressing men’s (and Gen Y’s) growing hopes for flexibility and innovative ways of working. This book clarifies the business case for gender balance, explores what men have to gain, and provides the basic knowledge to... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
member of the Mexico City Junior League Environmental Committee (JLCM), explained that in the early 1990s "radical environmental groups arrived [at Tetra Pak] with a trailer full of empty containers and piled them up outside the plant. This type of View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
one’s own knowledge attenuated reliance on algorithms. These tests are important because participants can improve their accuracy by relying more on algorithms (Experiment 4). Experiments 5 and 6 tested a mechanism for reliance:... View Details