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02 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

It’s a sticky but common dilemma for managers: A valued employee finds out that a coworker earns more, gets upset, and demands a raise. If gender or race figure into the wage gap, tensions can escalate fast.... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

Performance Pressure as a Double-edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation but Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge

In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing the team’s motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I... View Details

25 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

Prominent among them were Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and MIT. Together, they have evolved to share common institutional traits, a sort of university DNA. Much as the identity of a living organism... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

individual is an increasingly common issue. Industrial Revolution thinking tries to get around it by trying to extract expertise from individuals and systematize it; the golden goose doesn't exist because... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

and processes are likely to lead the merger of such activities as logistics and financial services. This can provide large-scale platforms with common protocols (the precursors of digital platforms and what... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Web

A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

common end. A manager’s effectiveness, therefore, could be measured on the extent to which those in the organization internalized a common... View Details

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective of nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

23 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

companies within most industries adopted an increasingly similar set of sustainability practices. This study by by Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim examines the interplay between common and strategic... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

06 Sep 2005
What Do You Think?

What are the Lessons of New Orleans?

to action. Andrew Williamson sounded a common call for a "blue ribbon committee similar to the 9/11 Commission to study all the sources of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Decarbonization and Sustainable Production: Immersive Field Course in Denmark and the Netherlands

sites ranging from industrial manufacturers of plastic and machines to shipping companies and producers of food, flowers, and other consumables. Across all these companies, the one commonality was low-carbon... View Details

15 Sep 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

teach men [and women] to think in the presence of new situations." This requires a bifocal perspective: the ability to characterize quickly both the View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

executives in his classroom. While they come from countries around the world and from a variety of industries, they share a common characteristic. "They're at a point where it's valuable for them to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

19 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Moving to the U.S. With a Family

activities and provides the flexibility to switch gears very quickly with such a rigorous schedule. We have also benefitted from activity days with the Graduate Commons... View Details

January 1996
Background Note

Creativity and Innovation in Organizations

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Creativity, the production of new and useful ideas by individuals or teams, can appear in many forms and many functions within firms of all kinds--from entrepreneurial start-ups to well-established enterprises. This note describes the varieties of creativity in... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Design; Situation or Environment; Creativity

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Educators

Purchase

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

supplier thinks about ways to get the product/service out to the customer. If the company achieves its sales goals, it lulls the company into... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell

are willing to face the challenges common to post-liquidity business families that can pose threats to unity of the family and the owners.... View Details

Keywords: by Jonathan Pellegrin; Food & Beverage; Retail

14 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing

It is part of the same family of impairments as classic autism and Asperger syndrome. While psychological and medical experts do not agree on its precise contours, nor on how common it is in View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services; Computer

29 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites

advance, and they even create the original information in a large percentage of the situations. Often, the press is way out there before the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News; Publishing

09 Jun 2017
News

Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China

of commonalities among people. April White: So your approach to travel seems very different from the sort of sightseeing that some people do. How do you approach travel? How do you think about discovering a... View Details

Article

The Inpatient Discharge Lounge as a Potential Mechanism to Mitigate Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding

By: Brian Franklin, Sharif Vakili, Robert S. Huckman, Sarah Hosein, Nicholas Falk, Katherine Cheng, Maria Murray, Sheila Harris, Charles A. Morris and Eric Goralnick

Delayed access to inpatient beds for admitted patients contributes significantly to emergency department (ED) boarding and crowding, which have been associated with deleterious patient safety effects. To expedite inpatient bed availability, some hospitals have... View Details

Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Emergency Room; Operations Improvement; Operations Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Operations; Management; Performance Improvement; Service Operations