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- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
more than 250,000 invitees, resulting in 150 research ideas and hypotheses. The goal of opening up idea generation and disaggregating the different stages of the research process was to expand the number and range of people who might... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural analysis is complete without a... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
of control), (iii) increase DM total and performance-based pay. The results are generally consistent with the explanation that firms redesign their organizations through a set of complementary choices in response to changes in their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
and desires of customers, employees, and investors sets them apart from the bulk of competitors that routinely emphasize one constituency to the detriment of others. Aisner: What are some of the skills that great service leaders must... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
was developed elsewhere, such as a digital form of DNA. The goal now is to redefine disease based on the underlying biological mechanisms, Lander said. By that token, diseases are going to surprise us. Reclassifying them means that some... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Nikhil G. Thaker Abstract—The goal of a health care system should be to deliver the most value to patients: the outcomes achieved for treating a medical condition relative to the costs incurred over a complete care cycle. We have found... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
aspect of business is up for re-evaluation as a result of the pandemic, from the most granular to the most overarching level. Two executives shared vivid descriptions of the early days when the reality of the pandemic set in. It was like... View Details
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
Set Harvard Business School Exercise 807-036 Purchase this exercise: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807036 PublicationsDisruptive Innovation for Social Change Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Heiner... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
advancing her enterprise's goals and objectives through a faster and ever-larger-reaching set of media. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54007 Winter 2018 Journal of Economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
which actions support progress—such as setting clear goals, providing sufficient time and resources, and offering recognition—and which have the opposite effect. Even small wins can boost inner work life tremendously. On the flip side,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
algorithms developed for the same setting. More broadly, our paper contributes to the literature on the multi-armed bandit problem with resource constraints, since our algorithm applies directly to this setting when the inventory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
of its pricing, the strategic interaction between prices set by the content provider and by the platforms leads to a non-monotonic relationship between exclusivity and content quality: both high- and low-quality content will multihome and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
literal and practical sense of the word) field? How should one even "think about" the challenge of "teaching leadership"? This Handbook is intended to be a foundational reference for educators who teach primarily in traditional classroom View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
completely aligned with managerial needs. Therefore, our goal is to draw on previous research and current practice to provide insights on managing retention and identify areas for future research. This examination leads us to advocate a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
wisdom of the crowd, with each product being reviewed many times (some with more than 1,000 reviews). Because of this, the way in which information is aggregated is a central decision faced by consumer review websites. Given a set of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
learn the unvarnished truth from relevant stakeholders about how the design and behavior of the organization is misaligned with its goals and strategy. The Strategic Fitness Process (SFP) was designed to enable leaders to overcome... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
algorithm, with the goal of implementing a version for actual use in the field. In principle, many areas of city operations could be made more efficient through this type of approach, says Luca. Using Google searches keyed to specific... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
the description? So are CEOs who are new to the role. Just when an executive feels he has reached the pinnacle of his career, capturing the coveted goal for which he has so long been striving, he begins to realize that the CEO's job is... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
considerations seem central in the demand for redistribution, and because in several settings (as in some ultimatum games) such preferences for fairness can lead to large (material) inefficiencies. In this note we report a difficulty we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne