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- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
course, referred to a type of analytic data that might suggest nontraditional indicators designed to provide a competitive edge in everything from investments to selection of talent. One such example is the use of puzzles to select... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
and Society, is interested in analyzing and designing social computing systems to meet economic goals. With regard to the interaction of humans with machines, Chen asked: When thinking about social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
part of a much larger problem, as I've tried to suggest, and will require new thinking about the design of compensation systems and processes within the boards through which compensation is determined. Yet... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
will be the next logical step [in managing human resources]. I think it is win/win for employers and employees to move in this direction. The hard question is not really how can we modularize people — this can be done with testing and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
the cost and schedule overruns. In general, I think the project would have benefited from more "for-profit" incentives—if there's not clear incentives to be efficient and make profits, people won't. To address this concern in... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
and are highly work-engaged. All of this suggests a multi-pronged solution to contagious presenteeism: Remove financial incentives for it by providing paid sick leave, audit work designs for features that evoke undue pressure for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
think [later], 'Thank the Lord we missed that one.'" Mohan, who recently completed his second year of teaching, noted that colleagues including professors Deepak Malhotra, Guhan Subramanian, and Andy Wasynczuk View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
policy, resulting in even stricter immigration restrictions—with potential negative consequences for the economy. The US government and business leaders should instead seek a coordinated approach to design an open, but flexible... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
ideas to a wider audience. The chapter looks at the origins of Porter's interest in clusters, which turns out to be a natural extension of his earlier work on companies. It identifies the key characteristics of Porter's conceptual View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
that they'll design businesses that we want to acquire and will fit the niches in our portfolio of product or in the innovation trajectory that we've designed.' "Frankly, I think a smart corporation... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Raising the Level of Abstraction This technical note discusses abstraction as a way of generalizing a process or component for wider application. By hiding complexity inside a module, abstraction enables system designers to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
things have gotten better. Primarily due to the 1986 Act, we have lower rates and larger bases. At the first approximation that's a good thing. That's the one thing that we've learned over the last 100 years about how to design these tax... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
required employees to uphold all regulations and “act with integrity in all that we do.” When the panel of three judges took a look at the argument, however, they threw it out of court as irrelevant. “We think the statements in Cigna’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
for any individual companies to succeed, and valuations got pushed up…I wonder if you think that phenomenon has gone away?" Marc A. Friend, a general partner with twenty-year-old Summit Partners, said the reason you see... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
think the chances of a government plan supplanting private options are slim," he writes. But the existence of both public and private insurance plans might provide enough competition to improve overall value for patients. Professor... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
Superwoman Thanks to intense discussions over dinners with alumnae—the first of which was hosted by Welsh in New York—and to later conversations with faculty and other colleagues at HBS, Hart came up with a plan. The result is Charting Your Course, a new program View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
quite brief (a total of 4 pages) so the balance between thinking time and reading set-up time for students is quite attractive. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211067-PDF-ENG ABICI Mukti Khaire, Elena Corsi, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
His second-year elective, Commercializing Science and High Technology, is designed to attract business, science, engineering, law, and medical students from across the University. Deborah Blagg: What is it like to teach a course where the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
of the twentieth century, the first twenty-two years of my life seemed to revolve around an unending series of tests designed to rank me versus my peer group. At the end of each grading period, my mom would ask me if I had made the honor... View Details