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Vicarious Learning in Organizations

To advance the study of how individuals learn through their interactions with others, Professor Myers has adopted a vicarious learning theory lens. Vicarious learning allows individuals to learn from the outcomes of others’ experiences, rather than solely their own... View Details

Keywords: Learning And Development; Learning; Health Industry

03 Jun 2002
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How to Succeed With Your New Boss

things fast when you know that the business has serious structural problems. So it is wise to get bad news on the table early and to lower unrealistic expectations. Be careful to assess your new organization's capacity for change before... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

01 Dec 2006
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How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

Philippines, or Brazil, companies should consider knowledge capacities and not price whenever they decide to use such ('cheap') labor . The only companies that still look at labor through the same eyes as during the industrial age are... View Details

Keywords: by by Jim Heskett

24 May 2021
Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

concern took its place as the fourth-largest investment bank in the country. [13] Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. expanded its global financial markets, opening offices in Europe and Asia and serving in a financial advisory capacity in... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

Certificate Courses (6) Disruptive Strategy Professors Rory McDonald & Clayton Christensen Strengthen your capacity to create winning strategies and bring innovations to market by discovering customer jobs to be done and aligning your... View Details

May 1988 (Revised June 2023)
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National Cranberry Cooperative, 1996

By: Roy D. Shapiro

Describes the continuous flow process used to process cranberries into juice and/or sauce. Requires student to analyze process flows to determine where the bottlenecks are and to decide how, and whether, to expand capacity. Original version written by J.G. Miller and... View Details

Keywords: Logistics; Performance Capacity; Performance Improvement; Supply Chain; Mathematical Methods; Cost vs Benefits; Production

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24 Feb 2022
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Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

During the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, many US hospitals could not provide enough beds to meet demand. Solving the problem of inadequate capacity is of utmost importance in the “new normal,” which requires recognizing the... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

July 2007
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Kristen's Cookie Company (A) (Abridged)

By: Roger E. Bohn and Janice H. Hammond

The student is starting his or her own business, baking make-to-order cookies. Basic times of each operation are laid out and the student is asked to determine the consequences for the operating system. Serves as an exercise and review of concepts such as capacity,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; SWOT Analysis; Operations; Outcome or Result; Performance Capacity

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11 Aug 2008
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Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

resource capacity that are necessary to fulfill the sales and production needs of the strategic plan. Without this coupling, operational plans either provide too little or too much capacity for the strategic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

infrastructure, input availability, and the like. The active engagement of corporations is essential to mobilizing these elements. new stakeholder roles & relationships Government and NGOs are facing limited resources and difficulty in scaling social solutions.... View Details

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Environmental Quality - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Research Areas Research Areas Antitrust & Competition Policy CEO Leadership Environmental Quality Innovation & Innovative Capacity Philanthropy Social Progress Index Environmental Quality Environmental Quality In 1991, Michael... View Details

07 Jul 2003
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4+2 = Sustained Business Success

its connections with people at all levels of the company. Inspire management to hone its capacity to spot opportunities and problems early. Appoint a board of directors whose members have a substantial stake in the company's success.... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

and identity of the Native Hawaiian Community while also building the capacity for adaptation, learning, and transformation” in the face of climate change.[43] The IRA includes $150 million for a Tribal Electrification Program,[44] which... View Details

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

Essentials Professor William Sahlman Master a proven framework for building and financing new ventures, and make your entrepreneurial dreams a reality. 4 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Pay by August 21 $1,850 Certificate Disruptive Strategy Professors Rory McDonald & Clayton... View Details

22 Dec 2008
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10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

development of dogmatic cults with little capacity for change. High-performing organizations periodically revisit and reaffirm their core values and associated behaviors. Further, they often subscribe to some kind of initiative that... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Joe Wheeler

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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Research Areas Research Areas Antitrust & Competition Policy CEO Leadership Environmental Quality Innovation & Innovative Capacity Philanthropy Social Progress Index Philanthropy Philanthropy Beyond charity and corporate... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Happier-ness at Work

searching and instead focus on a more attainable goal: We all have the capacity to be happier, no matter our circumstances in life. Brooks teaches courses on leadership, happiness, and social entrepreneurship at HBS and HKS; he also... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

23 Nov 2021
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The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf

of our clients are upping their order sizes. They’ll say, “I only want 2,000 records.” They’ll put the order in and then say, “We sold through that too fast. We need 6,000.” So, all of our capacity planning has been thrown off by how much... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Music

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

upright poles topped by signs, with some chairs at their bases. During the extraordinary “bull” market of the 1920s, the New York Stock Exchange began reassessing its capacity to handle ever increasing amounts of business and moved from... View Details

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