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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
flaws, antitrust policy over the years has had powerful effects in controlling collusion, stopping cartels, preventing anticompetitive mergers, eliminating resale price maintenance, and encouraging entrepreneurship. Perhaps most... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
and - much as in word processing - efficiently, with minimal keystrokes." Bricklin made good use of the School's computer resources as he struggled to germinate the seed that would grow into today's ubiquitous spreadsheet, and he found near unanimous View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
Possibly taking a page out of the USAA playbook, several Wall Street organizations are trying to enforce a policy to prevent employees from working seven-day weeks, encouraging them to take either Saturdays or Sundays off. There is little... View Details
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
farm to improve resource efficiency, creating and discovering new game-changing planet-friendly raw ingredients, reducing waste across the value chain, and designing compelling brands to educate consumers and shift consumption behaviors.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
to improve resource efficiency, creating and discovering new game-changing planet-friendly raw ingredients, reducing waste across the value chain, and designing compelling brands to educate consumers and shift consumption behaviors. Or... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
rate. Our results suggest that low pay rates are, in and of themselves, unlikely to promote dishonesty. Instead, it is the salience of upward social comparisons that encourages the poorly compensated to cheat. September 2013 Empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
encouraged his whole executive team to become leaders, and it was that large cadre that vowed to continue Dyke's programs after he left. The reproduction process involves finding and empowering natural leaders, regardless of their titles... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
Harker, "it sometimes proves difficult to justify additional investment into an entity that is typically thought of as a cost center." An organization that cares about its customers also cares about its employees, and vice-versa. For example, when a company... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
tax policy. Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations Authors:Bruce J. Fried, Sharon Topping, and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:In Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior. 6th ed., edited by Lawton... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
campus is closed to most motor vehicles, a rule that encourages face-to-face encounters along the walking paths. Taxis, and often black limousines, patiently wait for their clients on the campus' margins. As the campus master plan... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
Healthcare, and Leadership. "The Initiative designation is meant to acknowledge a new phase of activity: one that we hope will engage the faculty, students, staff, and alumni in enhancing and extending both knowledge creation and... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 06 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
Foundation (DRK) – a venture philanthropy firm. The Initiative also partially funded my internship through its Summer Fellows Program, a sponsorship designed to help students explore career opportunities in social enterprise. In... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 31 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent This Summer Coding
The summer between RC and EC year represents a great opportunity for risk-free exploration. Encouraged by our outcome at the New Venture Competition and the funding I would receive as a Rock Summer Fellow, I forwent a business internship... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
dinner, lively conversation, and encouragement at the Christensens' home in Lexington.) Christensen earned his MBA from Harvard in 1943 and shortly thereafter enlisted in the Army Quartermaster Corps, where he worked as a field research... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
years, numerous students and young faculty enjoyed dinner, lively conversation, and encouragement at the Christensens’ home in Lexington.) Christensen earned his MBA from Harvard in 1943 and shortly thereafter enlisted in the Army... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
and New York. Cummings asked readers for their thoughts on how to design a fulfillment system that would suit their complex process. Their path: The company switched to an assembly line from a pack-to-complete system with two key... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Marc Duranteau (MBA 2019)
offers. What projects/roles/opportunities did you pursue during or after the 2+2 Program? The 2+2 program encouraged me to pursue my mentoring activities. During my college years and during my first position, I always tried to mentor... View Details
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School
back to school if things didn't work out. As an aside, I encourage all 2+2ers do go try something crazy before you get here - why the heck not? When my deferral period expired in the fall of 2014, I returned to campus. I thought I'd... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
universities. Based on a national survey the company undertook on the assumptions college students hold about sex, relationships, and sexual assault, the program is conducted in a group setting to encourage roommates and classmates to... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
behavior is in fostering collaborations and translations between science and technology and encouraging riskier projects rather than purely increasing patenting. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2197876 The State of Small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne