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- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
managerial attention—if that—is focused on the problems of employee capability and motivation. Somewhere between theory and practice, precious human capital is being misused, wasted, or lost. Having studied more than twenty companies in... View Details
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
The $2 trillion health care system is one of the United States' largest industries—but one of its worst performing by almost any measure other than technological innovation. The problems are painful,... View Details
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Latin America - Global Activities 2020
“action research,” through which faculty members deeply engage with organizations and their leaders over an extended period of time to test and implement new ideas and approaches to problem solving. What types of projects have you worked... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
in concentration levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services industry using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's quinquennial Economic Census and the Service Annual Survey. These data, heretofore largely ignored, allow us to redress some of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
Nohria after stepping down. “They truly are the measure of the School, and I am deeply grateful for their wisdom and their support. So much of the progress we made together during this last decade can be linked to the strength and talent... View Details
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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog
the critical insights, frameworks and tools needed. Graduates will be well-positioned for roles that demand a deep understanding of leading and scaling social enterprises and designing and implementing solutions that drive measurable... View Details
- 11 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Kel Jackson, MBA 2019: "[My Job] Matters. I Didn't Want a Role that Would Box Me In."
[aviation] acronyms.” says Jackson. “For me, it was a really great combination. I ended up getting a lot of autonomy. I didn’t want a role that would box me in. It gave me an opportunity to jump in the ocean and use the skills I had and figure out the View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
success,” Bowen said. “An important part of that process is developing systems and measurements to ensure that the people you hire, beyond their résumé qualifications, will fit the firm’s culture. That’s a big View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
that confrontation was not to be avoided. In this way, employees gained experience in working through their problems on their own. Performance, of course, is the ultimate measure of a successful turnaround.... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
managerially substantial increases in current retailer orders (i.e., demand, not just sales). Specifically, a one percentage point increase in fill rate, measured over the prior year, is associated with a statistically significant 11%... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
of the Tobin Project, a nonprofit research institute focused on catalyzing scholarship on important governmental problems. “The question is how to do that. My teacher, the Nobel economist James Tobin, told me that it’s better to build our scholarship around pressing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
how research can benefit from cross-University collaboration." While Bazerman thinks that overt bias against individuals or groups is less of a problem than it was a couple of decades ago, "that does not mean we've solved View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
through social learning) and costs (lower maximum solution quality due to a reduction in individual exploration for novel answers) relative to independent problem solving. In contrast to prior work, which has focused on how the presence... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
that addresses part of that challenge—with a particular focus on predicting customer churn. However, several other equally important aspects of managing retention have not received similar level of attention, leaving many managerial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
And that's the biggest gift you can get in the middle of a windstorm. Hanna: What do you think it is about not having money that frees people, or it changes the dynamic at Burning Man? Raiser: Unfortunately, money has become all too much a View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine
about top investors increased the volume of applications, there was no evidence that the quality of applying candidates has deteriorated. In fact, the quality of the talent pool remained, on average, the same, as measured by the amount of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
should be informed early on of such things as expected shortfalls in performance, changes in tactics, new information impacting a business, and the like. The intent is to flag potential problems early on so that help can be provided in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Jan 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?
students. Manohar Kamath put it this way: "We need to extend transparency. If grades do not predict work performance, then there is a problem in the design of management education." Michael Robbins wrote, "We need schools... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
for the region. HBS's focus on problem solving, its links to real practice, and its broad experience in training managers will also be our "value-added." What effect is the recent financial crisis having on your work and on the work of... View Details