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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About
about. First, I think implementing with speed and urgency the ambitious agenda of the Dean’s Anti-Racism Task Force that the Dean had initiated in the summer, and on which a tremendous amount of work has been done. I am very aware that we... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
simulate it, which means, on the computer, you would launch a golf ball at it and watch it come off. And the simulation program would measure the speed the golf ball was moving at, its spin, all that. And it would give you a really good... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
Health's MegaBLAST. The best achieved both greater accuracy and speed (1,000 times greater). Here we show the potential of using online prize-based contests to access individuals without domain-specific backgrounds to address big-data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
of, like, when you actually make the leap. And so I was in that limbo for a long time and met an entrepreneur who told me that he thought of making the leap in terms of an airport runway. And he said when you're flying a plane, you're headed down the runway. There's... View Details
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
exponentially increasing the speed and flow of that information, making the system that much more transparent. And we have social media restoring democracy with free speech. Before all of this, the information flow was much more... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
today most often is associated with good management practice. It is thought by some to generate the trust that fosters everything from cooperation to speed in decision making and execution. It forces managers either to deal with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
potential partners, all of whom are extremely busy. Networked incubators have sprung up now because of the critical need for access: The Internet economy is very much a network economy in which access and connections can help quickly launch businesses, increase the... View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
of speed Technology. Although people have been talking about the idea of the integrated supply chain for a long time, it's only been in the last decade or so that information technology has made it possible to bring many concepts to life.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
later for $500 million, our software product was built by three people. If it’s software, or high tech, or the Internet, then it doesn’t matter whether 10 people use it, or 10 million, or 100 million: It’s the same amount of work to build the first product. You... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
driving the M&A; boom of the 1990s is companies' need - in response to today's highly competitive global economy - for both speed and brawn. Firms must be imposing enough in terms of size and resources to hold their own in the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
not suggesting that we can establish causal relationships, but it certainly gave us a deep intimate look at the attempts to grow expertise in a short period of time, and that's where I think there's a lot of applicability to most companies. The View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
Its early milestones—comparative product tests launched by Consumer Reports in 1936, the Kennedy administration's Consumer Bill of Rights in 1960, Ralph Nader's critique of the U.S. automobile industry in Unsafe at Any Speed in... View Details
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
changes in incentives for achieving integration. Examining a systemic tradeoff consciously acknowledged by the organization, we further argue that alignment encouraged by this collaborative engagement can be more important than achieving superior performance along such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
accountability and speed up decision making—and thus to support the strategy of focusing on a few promising businesses—was to switch to a matrix structure. Members of the senior team strongly disagreed. A matrix would not work, they... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 16 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
The Rituals of Case Method Teaching
traffic, getting a coffee and a bite to eat at Spangler, and “hermiting” herself in her office for a few hours allows her to arrive in class ready to teach and engage in discussion. “I speed read the entire case, consult my teaching plan,... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
again, no one apologizes for this-is that patients can't choose their caregivers. They will get a Mayo Clinic diagnosis, and they will get it quickly, but it may not be a diagnosis from a specific, renowned doctor X. The system has been designed to favor View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
take action to speed up economic growth and improve the standard of living by providing a stable and effective legal environment for business operations; equal opportunities for the public and private sectors; investment in better... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
with them. They had all sorts of concerns. What happened is they instituted a mandatory sabbatical policy. The senior partners had to get the junior partners and the junior staff up to speed on how to deal with these clients, which gave... View Details
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
more, expanding companies are hiring high-functioning groups of people who have been working together effectively within one company and can rapidly come up to speed in a new environment. These lifted-out teams don't need to get... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
ahead. It’s not their fault: holiday season mayhem is often at odds with the clean start many desire when the calendar changes over. It’s easy to throw up your hands and give in to routine once the first few weeks of the year speed by,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne