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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
hospitality. Offices and health care facilities could both offer the company access to huge sectors of the $80 billion lighting market. The Question: Hoskins describes the competitive landscape as “a land grab.” He’d love to do some pilot... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
not only experience project-level success with the implementation of new work practices, but also organizational-level success as indicated by overall measures of performance. We tested our hypothesis in a longitudinal study of 23 hospital neonatal intensive View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
possible. Next time the target may not be Iran.) Getting back to my misstated question, none of you aimed your criticism at the technology, even lauding it, as Mark O'Connor did, as the "great equalizer." In Bev Stehn's words,... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
research on the outcomes and cost-effectiveness of various approaches to treatment. The case allows for a critical analysis of the Spine Center's unique approach to care delivery and provides an opportunity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
commanding her legions to prepare to abandon their far-flung work spaces and return to Yahoo! offices for important collaboration essential to innovation. What this minute sample perhaps suggests is that we should be careful about jumping... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
there were some dissenters. According to Peter Schaible, "A careful reading of Blink reveals that snap decisions can just as often be incorrect, even dangerous." August Specter expressed a clinical concern when he commented,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
could do it.” What are three pieces of advice you might give to those who are focused on leading companies through an economic recovery? First, be thoughtful about how you treat all your stakeholders, because the actions of those in power are being watched and noticed... View Details
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
to help organizations better access, integrate, and leverage the talents and insights of their employees. An earlier career as an organizational change consultant led me to realize how many thoughtful, caring individuals were stymied in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
how to become one of the winning companies: how to attack competitors’ lock-ins, make their success formulas obsolete, and create the space needed to invent formulas for success. He shows how disrupting your company is critical to reaping... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
goals for Arctic research is to put in place an environmental observing system that helps us understand changes in the Arctic, a critical component of the global system. We can’t get a fix on climate change just by focusing on what comes... View Details
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
thought to myself how can it be that the president of the University of Vienna cares so much what the Shanghai Jiao Tong University says about his university, but he does. These rankings have come to define what individual institutions do... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
and emotion is, thus, critical to designing organizations, control systems, and governance structures that promote desired behaviors. Teaching Purpose: Some model of human nature, implicitly if not explicitly, guides any manager's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
on that day,” Bernard clarifies. For those employees whose work often requires a Friday presence, as in customer care teams, they work with their managers to take another day of their choosing. As the teams felt their way through the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
internships that, as with previous internships, proved pivotal to her career. As a 2016 HBS Summer Fellow, for instance, Kyarisiima received the critical financial support she needed to focus on a fledging business venture that she had... View Details
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
MaterialsColgate Max Fresh: Global Brand Roll-Out Harvard Business School Case 508-009 In February 2005, Nigel Burton, in his third year as president of global oral care at Colgate-Palmolive Company (CP), had every reason to feel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
around the world. I had a fantastic childhood and deeply caring parents. Born from Peruvian & Chilean origins, we lived in New York, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Panama, and Boston before coming to HBS. I wasn't a typical Latinx kid, and it... View Details
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
studies were less likely to criticize the actions of others when their behavior eroded gradually, over time, rather than in one abrupt shift. We refer to this phenomenon as the slippery slope effect. Our studies also demonstrate that at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
Andreas Haas How Does an Organization Like Boeing Coordinate Work Under Intense Competitive Pressure? Our case study on Boeing this month unfolded in real time, leading up to a second critical glitch on one of their products, this time... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
What are the first things you should do in your new post? In this e-mail Q&A, Michael Watkins offers strategies that he researched while preparing his new book, The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
will really take off when it attains a critical mass of user activity concentrated in time and space,” says Clough. The Las Vegas Strip is located in Paradise, Nevada, an unincorporated desert city. Vegas is “a vibrant, 24-hour... View Details