Best Practices Transfer - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

both the exchange and the acceptance of ideas-people really hear your message and become open to it. Cultivating warmth and trust also boosts the quantity and quality of novel ideas that are produced. The best way to gain influence is to... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

Research Summary

Overview

The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details

04 Feb 2015
What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

to several of the responses. As Carl X. Parks put it, "Organizations can utilize tools from Google's best practices to enhance or redevelop their own (where applicable). But as a whole, this may not... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

05 Sep 2012
What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

especially for emergencies. A byproduct will also be the transfer of best practice among larger groups of practitioners working in teams. These forces may elevate the role of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

organizational knowledge." Joe Violette raises a more practical issue: "Knowledge coaching ... cannot be effectively accomplished on a one-on-one basis. Too few people will benefit ...." Respondents provided possible... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

Cohly was skilled in Ayurveda, the ancient Indian practice of herbal medicine, and suggested they try using turmeric to heal the wound instead. The spice worked, and Das and Cohly later conducted Western medical trials to prove that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

14 May 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How does a team leader win the confidence of the group? What's the best... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

04 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

can obtain both benefits: fierce focus on individual business units, which produces solid performance in each of the businesses, and an appropriate level of cross-unit interactions, which produces extra economic value through things like cost reductions, View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

30 May 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?

trade in IP other than for purposes of national defense? First, it has proven difficult to do. Second, it can be argued that IP in the long run should benefit of the world’s inhabitants. To restrict its transfer or sharing across... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

08 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Colloquium: The Future of Social Enterprise

changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars, and organizations measure performance. Our paper traces a growing pool of potential funding sources to solve social problems, much of it stemming from an intergenerational transfer... View Details

Keywords: Re: V. Kasturi Rangan & Dutch Leonard

15 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

has to be implemented across a large, distributed organization. "Large firms definitely had some work to do to adopt," says McElheran. "But it seems that the best firms had practices in place to deal with... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations

participants are generally concerned with questions such as: How do I improve quality in my service operation? How do I make my organization become more innovative? What should we do about the Internet? How do we deal with globalization? and, What can I do to View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

being created, while in others, the stock of technical knowledge that can potentially be transferred into new ventures is locked up in companies. The best example is Japan, where most innovations are... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

Radiation therapy can be lifesaving for lung cancer patients. The first step, though, is having a trained, skilled oncologist who knows how to best segment or mark off the tumor for radiation. This expertise is vital for targeting the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

research, started in the year 2000, was aimed at understanding how an innovative team working together in a creative act managed the process of knowledge transfer between the more experienced and less experienced members of that team. The... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

integration of best practices from past lessons into existing programs and innovations for large-scale, long-term market and policy solutions that can get to the root of rental housing challenges. Book link:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology

for the study of technological adoption and performance. On a more practical level, we chose the hospital industry because of its sheer importance to the overall economy. For example, in 2003 total hospital spending in the United States... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Health

08 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation

dollars of inventory sold during the liquidation of chains such as Borders (2012), Circuit City (2009), and Linens 'n Things (2008) is considered. Their technique optimizes key decision variables, such as the markdown of products; inventory View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

controls in all three of the American companies we studied. GE's use of strategic planning systems became the model for companies worldwide, as did Procter & Gamble's use of clear policies and practices (the Procter way) and one-page... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

transfer pricing, this present study pointed to acute problems of control and managing U.S. affiliates as an important factor. Q: What are the key themes you have discovered among foreign multinational companies in the United States? What... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace

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