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- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
cooptation, resources should be made available to third parties for building the capacities of participants; The Issue Framing and Agenda Setting stage should be preceded by a comprehensive stakeholder analysis, and prioritization based... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
First and foremost, innovators are good at associational thinking, or simply associating. They make connections between seemingly unrelated problems and ideas and synthesize new ideas. I would frame associational thinking by asking this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
law, but now he walks into the new building’s lobby. The carved marble door frame that was once the entryway to the censorship office is preserved here, another reminder of a not-that-long-ago time. For Maj, though, the Free Speech... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
playing all manner of sports, Foster says the fog began to roll in when he started college. He went through cycles of denial, struggling to make peace with his situation. Eventually though, he began to ask the question of "why me" very differently: instead of using it... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
if anybody has purchased them, they're very, very expensive. And they wanted to disrupt that as well. But what they recognize is that the older customer wanted the hipster brand, they wanted the same frames. They did not want their frames... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
that priming relevant networks (e.g., family or friends) makes products associated with those networks more attractive. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/anik norton.pdf The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
the enhancement. Ad taglines that framed enhancements as enabling rather than enhancing the fundamental self increased people's interest in a fundamental trait enhancement and eliminated the preference for less fundamental over more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
315-067 Responsibilities to Employees This note provides a framework to conceptualize managers' responsibilities to employees in relation to economic, legal, and ethical considerations. It also frames the central ethical challenge for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Earnings Call By: Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim Abstract—One of the challenges companies claim to face in making sustainability a core part of their strategy and operations is that the market does not care about sustainability, either in general or because the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
accept such a change because it would cross organizational lines that manufacturers have established for control purposes. The case frames the technical question and poses the organizational question. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Afghanistan’s largest taxpayer and private employer. Starting any sort of company in Afghanistan in that time frame would have been a tall order, but a telecom operation posed a number of special challenges. “There was nothing there,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
under-invest in the new technology. The second suggests that incumbent firms develop organizational capabilities and cognitive frames that make them slow to "see" new opportunities and that make it difficult to respond... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
and managed as investment accounts with the goal of accumulating the largest possible pot of savings. Communication with savers is framed entirely in terms of assets and returns. Ask a saver what his 401(k) is worth and you'll hear a cash... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
[that] have started voluntarily augmenting their annual financial reports with reports on 'corporate sustainability', 'corporate social responsibility', and 'corporate environmental performance'..." This paper provides some conceptual View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
Verdant’s turbines, for instance, sit on a massive steel frame that was custom-built in New Jersey; the entire assembly weighs 105 tons and had to be ferried into position on a barge before it could be lowered to the bottom of the East... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
plus. In terms of the modern framing of it, there’s a golden book that I love, by the author of the Black Swan. It’s called Antifragile. And if you think about the usual way that we go and deal with these setbacks in life, it’s fragile.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
intended to frame the issues for potential curriculum changes at HBS. (To ensure open discussion, comments made during the two colloquia were not for attribution.) For their research project, Datar and Garvin interviewed 30 deans and... View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
faculty colloquium in May intended to frame the issues for potential curriculum changes at HBS. (To ensure open discussion, comments made during the two colloquia were not for attribution.) For their research project, Datar and Garvin... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
rationality; and that permits organizations to change, but within realistic limits. Our perspective employs the variable time to frame the question of strategy's origins in a distinctive way. Over time, the cognitive and physical elements... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
health-care reform in this country, we have to frame it as a managerial challenge. It’s not simply a policy issue. We won’t improve the system as a whole until we’ve improved the performance of individual health-care delivery... View Details