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- 31 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do
Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. “But that $100 billion figure astounded us.” Amabile co-wrote a paper on the topic, The Downside of Downtime:The Prevalence and Work Pacing Consequences of Idle Time at Work,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
of Keynesian theory in the post-war years gave the subject greater prestige, and the 1958 reports on the state of business education in America by the Carnegie Corporation and the Ford Foundation led to a greater emphasis on the social... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
thing, but like all avocations, you need a firm foundation to really enjoy it, and you never stop learning. Book Excerpt How Finance Works: The Three Mistakes Made in Valuation By Mihir Desai Whether you’re buying stock, acquiring a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
negative reaction, deep metaphors enable us to discover whether shame, guilt, or some other negative feeling is producing the aversive or negative experience. Second, deep metaphors provide the basic foundations for the brand stories... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
depth, and accessibility—it has become clear it is key to helping companies develop sustainable competitive advantage. “The new attention being given to data today is because suddenly, everywhere, it’s become much cheaper to measure,” says John A. Deighton, the Baker... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
Foundation Professor Leonard A. Schlesinger, who coauthored the case, Pho Hoa Dorchester, with 2017 MBA students Michael Raiche and Roger Zhu. Pho Hoa and Pho Linh, a smaller restaurant located in Quincy, Massachusetts, are owned as... View Details
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
as foundational skills, critical business functions, strategy formulation and implementation, and personal leadership. For the organization, according to Sasser and Narayandas, talent is key to competitive advantage. And for the talented... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- August 2018
- Case
Christine Lagarde
By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
For a modular presentation of the same material, please see “Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls” (HBS No. 419-017), “Christine Lagarde (B): Being a Public Servant” (HBS No. 419-018), and “Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF” (HBS No. 419-019).... View Details
Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change
Battilana, Julie, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas, and Noemie Assenat. "Christine Lagarde." Harvard Business School Case 419-016, August 2018.
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
keep up with the demand to treat patients every day. And that’s why Partners in Health turned to the straightforward time-driven activity-based costing system to measure the cost of treating a patient, with the help of a grant from the Gates View Details
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
coordinating role to help bring strategy to fruition. For this e-mail Q&A, Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, teamed up with colleague Andrew Pateman, Principal of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
broader based growth strategy. Overall, the discussion suggests that there are sufficient grounds to be skeptical that exports are the right foundation to build a growth agenda on. Exports play a role in growth but it is doubtful whether... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
retention efforts should incorporate the tenets of cultural intelligence, which address if an individual is consciously aware of others’ preferences, knowledge of norms and practices, a drive to learn about differences, and assessing what individuals do when... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
employers and employees as ones of material benefits.” After all, it’s not all about making money, says DeLong, a Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice at HBS. What employees really crave, the paper argues, is meaning. “You... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
through the writings of Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and Friedrich Hayek among other foundational thinkers. "Many economists think of it as a positivist system that does not impose morality upon society, but this is not the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
sponsored by government agencies, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) or the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Previously, it was possible to figure out what patents came directly out of government research labs,” Yao says.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Jun 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?
are told, for example, that standard telephone service is migrating toward becoming a free service, becoming a foundation instead for the sale of other information services. At least one New York daily newspaper has begun giving away its... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
School Professor Frances Frei has explored that question for years in the retail realm, culminating in her 2012 book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business. This past semester at HBS, the UPS View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
for a company. While necessary, these capabilities do not determine competitive success. An IT department that provides only a basic foundation of technology infrastructure and a standard set of application programs may adequately assess... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 2022
- Article
Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO
By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with
leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a
knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details
Kristensen, Thomas Borup, Henrik Saabye, and Amy Edmondson. "Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 42, no. 13 (2022): 438–481.