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- 14 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)
another shot and afterward immediately felt how exercise improved her productivity and mindset. Gomih was hooked and started quickly introducing lifestyle changes to make fitness and wellness central to her life. Business School,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
was so bored with the antiquated course offerings that he spent much of his time at Stagedoor, India’s largest professional theater company. There he acted in eleven plays and frequently served as production manager. Following in his... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Nordisk. At United Technologies, whose products include Carrier air conditioners, Otis elevators, and Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, a recent integrated report focused on such nonfinancial metrics as lower fuel consumption and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
from large groups of people is exactly what nonprofits and political campaigns have been doing for more than a century. In today's world, though, the Internet has dramatically altered the ability for companies and independent... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
definition of that for the layman? How long has the concept been around in marketing? Wathieu: The idea involves letting consumers take control of variables that are conventionally pre-determined by marketers: product characteristics,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai
Dalmia Polypro setting a price for raw untreated plastic, and buyers like Hindustan Unilever committed to buying the processed recycled plastic, individual wage workers are supplying their inputs. Independent waste pickers make roughly... View Details
- March 2022 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Innovation at Moog Inc.
By: Brian J. Hall, Ashley V. Whillans, Davis Heniford, Dominika Randle and Caroline Witten
This case focuses on the challenges of incentivizing innovation within Moog, an engineering company based in New York state that designs and builds guidance systems for space, air, and land-based travel. The case enables students to grapple with the challenges of using... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Innovation Lab; Innovation Management; Motivation; Incentives; Culture; Compensation; Compensation And Benefits; Scalability; Business Growth and Maturation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Culture; Performance Consistency; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Performance Evaluation; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Aerospace Industry; Transportation Industry; United States
Hall, Brian J., Ashley V. Whillans, Davis Heniford, Dominika Randle, and Caroline Witten. "Innovation at Moog Inc." Harvard Business School Case 922-040, March 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
record health worker attendance and patient adherence to protocol, and they automatically prompt follow-up treatment. We combine data from surveys, independent field visits, and government registers to identify impacts on TB-control... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
The Fed’s structure The Federal Reserve System is overseen by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, an independent agency with seven members who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The system is composed of 12... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
recent study, which compared funding decisions of startup theater productions made by art-loving masses on crowdfunding website Kickstarter with evaluations by experts in the field. “Most of the disagreements were on projects that the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
As Bernshteyn explains, the prescriptive insights gleaned from the massive amount of community data available worldwide will transform entire industries and break down long-standing barriers to value. The Ends Game: How Smart Companies Stop Selling View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
valid, pay-as-you-go basis would avoiding worsening Medicare’s mammoth unfunded liabilities and could even help address them. The Public Option should also avoid government accounting; independent accountants should verify that the Public... View Details
- Profile
Brian T. Bedol
producer made it a natural transition to actually running a business in the entertainment and media industry without having to learn from scratch. You are coordinating the set, the writers, the editing, the distribution, the marketing; all of the different things that... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
content (as judged by independent evaluators). In addition, our research shows that nostalgia makes people feel more inspired. While on the subject of creativity, it’s worth noting that there is no single right way of inducing nostalgia.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
Pak (MBA 2015) founding member and CMO at Blueland; Alumni track winner, 2019 Forget the Past Sebastian Monroy (MBA 2018) and I launched Zubale as a marketplace to connect independent contractors to consumer goods companies in need of... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
networks or manufacturers to procure goods across complex global supply chains. These standards-shaped by standard-setting organizations (SSOs) and participating engineers, academics, lawyers, and executives-in turn shape how new technologies evolve, specifying rules... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
(shortest expected processing time). Moreover, they exercise more discretion as they accumulate experience. Exploiting random assignment of tasks to doctors’ queues, instrumental variable models reveal that these deviations erode productivity. This View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
Rhetoric and Independence Are Not Enough: Empowering Managers and Directors to Do What Is Right, you challenge the adequacy of the Business Roundtable's assertion that the selection of a well-qualified and ethical CEO is the most... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Sweden, Canada, and the U.S. obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to Italy, Brazil, and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e., government funded but with substantial View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
profitability. Using a sample of 42,337 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that corporate profitability mean reverts faster in countries where product and capital markets are more competitive. Moreover, holding constant product,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne