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- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
complicity between workers and management. Perhaps most surprising of all, Anteby argues, is that the practice may help some organizations be more effective. Homer making keeps teams together and skills sharp during idle times in the... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
PhD. in biochemistry, said that even though issues regarding intellectual property and patent rights are ever more complicated by new discoveries, the language of the court remains very broad. However, there are a few basics to keep in... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
they would feel compelled to execute against. Q: Another aspect of collaboration that Robertson discusses in the case is interpersonal harmony. Why was it complicated to get along? A: In business we have the notion that we can create a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
complicated challenge. Early experience suggested that computer-aided case analysis could enhance classroom discussion and bring real-life business issues into sharper focus. Faculty engaged in a continual process of experimentation in... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
valuation of $200 million and debating changes to them that will allow them to grow their business. Ensuring that their marketing dollars were being spent efficiently was critical to the data-driven management team and proving to be View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
long-term proposition that often requires years of complicated research, negotiation, construction, and drilling before a drop of oil or a penny of profit is produced. The capital required to initiate and to sustain this far-flung... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
users have been requesting, but would it be too complicated for routine use? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912019-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement(B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912020-PDF-ENG PepsiCo,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
empirical settings. The organic cluster identification methodology we propose is especially useful when researchers work in global settings where data available at different geographic units complicates comparisons across countries.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
to others. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/314015-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 614-007 Carl Zeiss and Free-Form Production: Can We See Clearly Yet? The prescription eyeglass lens industry was complicated and highly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
least. –Laura Alfaro Jensen: Slovakia previously had a tax system that wasn't particularly supportive of the business environment: It was complicated and distortive, consisted of several rates, and included numerous exemptions and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
marveled at humankind's resourcefulness and success: The chorus notes that without gills, man has devised ways to travel on the sea. He has invented speech, and plows for the earth. With these accomplishments he secures good things such as food, shelter, the rule of... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
we should think long and hard about that developmental aspect, across disciplines and courses. As Jay noted, How do we teach and educate them to help them as professionals make sound decisions with great integrity? That's a complicated... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
issue of making it available to patients across the world, much as it did for its blockbuster HIV/AIDS antiretrovirals. For Erik Musalem, the new general manager of Gilead Mexico, the challenge was complicated by operating in a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
drive-thru. And because our menu had more items than some of the other folks out there, ordering became more complicated—the kitchen became more complicated.” The more complicated things became, the longer the wait times got. But there... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
School and the NASA Tournament Lab, many organizations "are finding that making open innovation work can be more complicated than it looks." Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
and other contexts that pose stiff ethical challenges. Trinh seeks to combine his background in financial services with his desire to contribute to Vietnam's economic development, and he has to decide among four job offers with investment firms. But it is a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
that was targeted at US-born Latino youth, like second and third-generation. So their parents had come to this country and now they're navigating two worlds. We wanted to target that population at MTV, but to do so was a complicated... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100 years of war and dynamic social... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
Molded) grommet, was supported heavily by the product development group because it was simpler to design and improved the leak seat. Process development was against using it because it cost more, complicated the manufacturing process, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
complicated organizational know-how, such as the pharmaceutical and electronics industries.) "The FDI that I'm looking at also has gone into industries in which the local entrepreneurs in these economies started out with some... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace