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- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
hosting contests to find solutions to problems ranging from automotive design to cleaning up oil spills. Karim R. Lakhani has spent the past five years working with NASA, Harvard Medical School, and TopCoder to determine the most... View Details
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
Colgate University designed a study to compare the work environments surrounding two distinct sets of projects, one producing a much higher level of creativity than the other. Implementation of the initial research (which was funded by... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
an experiment almost a decade ago in which the company allowed a randomly selected subset of employees to work from home for nine months while the rest of the team stayed in the office. As it turned out, the employees who worked from home... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
which these issues can be addressed. The course provides students with a framework for analyzing how family ownership, control, and management affect value and whether and how more value can be created for the various stakeholders in family firms. The course is View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
crash at a major U.S. airline that has never suffered an accident-related passenger fatality. Executives were assigned to "battle stations." A command post was established. Along with the CEO, teams were View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
airports come at a premium, however; securing space depended on financing, a credible design for Polished's stores, and leasing managers' belief in Rhyne's ability to hire people and satisfy customers—neither of which was possible, of... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
the footprint are outsourced—module boundaries are redrawn and interfaces designed for this purpose. The result is an invested capital advantage, which can be used to drive the returns of competitors below their cost of capital. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
from less than 10 hours in the 1960s. What’s more, the meetings are often poorly timed, badly run, or both. We can all joke about how painful they are, say the authors, but that pain has real consequences for teams and organizations.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
To equip students to effectively work in and lead these teams, FIELD begins with a five-week foundations module, in which students undertake a series of workshops on communication, feedback and coaching, emotional intelligence, and team... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
difficulties in designing incentive systems, including the tradeoff between objective and subjective performance metrics, how to design incentive systems in team environments,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
of both their consumers and regulators. “Usually, with debt collection, the object is to dial for dollars—collect as much as you can in the first phone call, and then outsource the work to the legal system,” says Campbell, whose research focuses on how companies can... View Details
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
equity in startups in exchange for development work in India. They also evaluate the managerial challenges that Grinna will face if his team becomes spread across two countries at such an early stage. And there is an opportunity to... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
2017 Emerald Group Publishing Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
pricing mechanism, capitalism must have the administrative capability to regulate the behavior of economic actors within those markets and the political capability to redesign their institutions; regulation and the design of market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
sector. In a second section, a multidisciplinary team of sociologists and an economist map how reforms in economic and social policies have produced declines in the social standing of some specific groups and economic mobility for others.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
initiatives more closely to specific objectives: preventing misconduct, detecting it, or aligning policies with laws and regulations. Then, using careful model design and some creativity, firms can develop better metrics to measure what’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2009
- Chapter
Creating Common Ground: Propositions about Effective Intergroup Leadership
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Creating Common Ground: Propositions about Effective Intergroup Leadership." In Crossing the Divide: Intergroup Leadership in a World of Difference, edited by T. Pittinsky. Harvard Business Press, 2009.
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Along with co-founder Stacey Abrams, the pair had designed NOW's business model three years ago, and the company was at a critical juncture. NOW offered a program—called NOWaccount—that provided working capital to small businesses by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
of decision makers, options can slow things down considerably,” says Weiss. Bigbelly is swiftly moving towards a subscription-only model that, if it alienated some municipalities, would make up for that fact by speeding sales to others. Just as crucially, the company... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
Using a sample of commercial logo design competitions, and a novel, content-based measure of originality, I find that intensifying competition induces agents to explore novel, untested ideas over tweaking their earlier work, but heavy... View Details