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- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15023 Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Evidence from Indian Software Services Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract In settings ranging from product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
together to facilitate visibility. The idea was that watching the workers would help managers improve operations and replicate innovations on one line across others, thus increasing productivity and driving down production costs. A research View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
nonpartisan press rights organization Reporters Without Borders. They found that for every 10-point increase in the press rights score, countries averaged nearly 10 percent fewer violations in their factories. The team attributes this... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
for a company with Palm's record and prospects. Handspring's birth, in July 1998, was huge news in the high-technology industry. Dubinsky and her colleagues had made an enormous success of PalmPilot and its operating system, and that core management View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
no way out of the conundrum—that established companies simply lack the flexibility to explore new territory. Some have suggested that big companies adopt a venture capital model, funding exploratory expeditions but otherwise staying out of their way. Others have... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
They include some of the country's largest cities, including Boston, Chicago, Memphis, and San Francisco. Based on a rigorous selection process, the Harvard team invited the districts because each had a performance-improvement strategy... View Details
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
categorize the world, emphasizing some values or activities over others. In other words, languages shape the way people think. After hearing about one such theory from visiting doctoral student Hao Liang from Tilburg University, Harvard Business School Associate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
trading and investing being particularly controversial. We focus on the role of banks in the private equity market. We show that bank-affiliated private equity groups accounted for a significant share of the private equity activity and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
unease, and high turnover rates. Now, many health care organizations are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) as a potential solution to physician overwork and burnout. After all, AI offers long-sought-after benefits for clinicians, such as reduced clinical... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
combined into one “industry” in which those teams compete, independent from the other industry groupings. With each round, teams can see how they’re faring and how their rivals are performing, altering their... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
characteristics (competence, ambition) and is scarce and in demand on the job market. This research uncovers an alternative kind of conspicuous consumption that operates by shifting the focus from the preciousness and scarcity of goods to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2024
- Book
Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead
come to the team with their own ingrained ideas about how the game should be played and what roles everyone ought to play. (With eleven-year-olds in particular, everyone thinks they should be the one to run the ball and score touchdowns!)... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
individual factors that might influence co-donation by married couples. Focus On Hawaii The team set out to analyze and classify 1,746 archived records of registered donors to the University of Hawaii's... View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
Working PapersProduct Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges Are the Benefits Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard Abstract The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
Shapiro and Kash Rangan bring us up to date on their pioneering research that helped ignite today's intense focus on the customer. The key? Know your order cycle management. Key concepts include: The order cycle provides a window through... View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over product decisions being made by the regional View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
why managers may respond to the demand for dividends from local seniors. Overall, these results are consistent with the notion that the investor base affects corporate policy choices. Utilizing Team Member Expertise Under Pressure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
global marketplace, we have done extensive research and found that names can play an enormous role in a product's success. Teams Have Changed: Catching Up to the Future Authors:Heidi K. Gardner, Ruth Wageman, and Mark Mortensen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Gardner Abstract Hierarchies are pervasive in groups, generally providing clear guidelines for the dominance and deference behaviors that members are expected to show based on their relative ranks. But what happens when team members... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace