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- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
managers do can have great impact on their workers, says Professor Teresa Amabile. In this conversation with Professor Mike Roberts, she updates her ongoing research on creativity in the workplace by investigating how people's intense... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills
Patriots, explores the sometimes intense role that emotions can play in negotiations and when passion is a positive at the table. Send The Right Message before Talks Begin Handshaking Promotes Cooperative Dealmaking Handshakes before... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
and the demand-induced death spiral, which is brought about by a shift in sales mix from labor intensive to technology intensive imaging services. In addition, this case offers an opportunity to develop the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Willums' plane was flying along the Greenland coastline on his way back to Norway after intense discussions with several prominent U.S. venture capital investors, among them Kleiner Perkins and Rockport Capital Partners, about investing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
descent into violence. For Nepal, these factors for study included poverty, social and language diversity, and even geographical conditions. What Iyer and Do found: poverty trumps all, yet in a complex, nuanced way. As Nepal's conflict developed, the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
lead to it, consequences for customers and for Target, and the company's response. Additionally, the case discusses the role of management and the board of directors in cyber security at Target. Target's board of directors was subject to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
contribute to the intensity of violence once conflict has started. Finally, in contrast with some cross-country analyses, ethnic and caste polarization, land inequality, and political participation are not significantly associated with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
batteries. No American battery company comes close to CATL. Under intense political pressure, the project has been delayed and scaled back. A Michigan plant was set to create 2,500 jobs. Ford was to retain 100 percent ownership in a... View Details
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
success hard-wired to results achieved by the machines. The trade-off between service levels, revenues, and profitability became less obvious, particularly given the intense price competition from foreign manufacturers experienced by the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
work of high-tech contractors varies widely from job to job. People who are good at presenting their prior experience can narrow the gap between their past experience and future capabilities. "Film crew work is also intensely... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707002 Patient Flow at Meldon Hospital Harvard Business School Case 608-171 Meldon Hospital challenged a team of physicians to improve patient flow from the Emergency Department to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
was greatly inspired by his contact with Mother Teresa. He wrote, "One day, Mother Teresa, who at that point of time was convalescing in the intensive care unit of the hospital, saw me examining a 'blue baby.' After a few minutes of... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
of a substantial anticipation effect that presents as a gradual decrease in operational performance beginning several months before the actual cohort turnover. We identify higher overall quality of nursing and increased intensity of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
environmental protection was decoupled from regulation. These mechanisms include (a) the intense emphasis on economic growth leading to misaligned incentives and regulatory competition across regions, (b) fragmented bureaucratic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
the Great Depression had a significant negative impact on the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. However, because a sufficient number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
Bangladesh. Hussam—along with Erin Kelley, an economist at the World Bank; Gregory Lane, an assistant professor at American University; and Fatima Zahra, a research fellow from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health—seek to take the research a step further.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
Wang and John Zhou, Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors has become one of the top downloaded papers on the online Social Science Research Network, sparking intense interest in the value of diversification in global... View Details
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
under intense operational pressure is nearly impossible. In addition, the heavy burden of compliance with government regulations and internal corporate requirements is taking a toll on people, limiting their creativity, and causing them... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
stems from the Catholic Worker movement's personalist tradition, which means that Haley House staff and volunteers work intensely with small numbers of people as a way of trying to create deeper change in them. Haley House launched the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details