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- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
or services, recruit new business, and provide constructive feedback resulting in product, service or process improvements. Employee/owners recruit talent to an organization while also providing ideas for new or View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24
and Frances X. Frei Publication:Chap. 8 in Operational Control in Asset Management: Processes and Costs. 1st ed., edited by Michael Pinedo, 154-168. Denmark: SimCorp StrategyLab, 2010 Abstract This chapter examines patterns in the cost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Program
Public Education Leadership Project
Summary Improved student performance depends on strong leadership, a culture of collaboration, and a dedication to accountability across a school district. This program helps leaders from U.S.-based urban school systems apply proven... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
decreases participants' short-term debt by about 20%. In addition, participants who experience an economic shock have less need to reduce consumption, and subjective well-being improves significantly. Precautionary savings and credit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2011
- Working Paper
Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing, American, Japanese, and German firms are the best... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Business Ventures; Public Sector; Private Sector; Country; Performance; Motivation and Incentives
Bloom, Nicholas, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Management Practices Across Firms and Countries." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-052, December 2011.
- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
Summer Fellowship) NetaCarbon is the TurboTax for carbon credit – a carbon credit issuance platform that digitizes and streamlines the process of how carbon projects are created and managed. By reducing the time and cost for project... View Details
- 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007
with Abernathy, Rebecca Henderson and Carliss Baldwin, Clark placed product and process designs at the center of his explanation of how innovation determines the structure and evolution of industries. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2008
- Working Paper
Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem
By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation in experience on performance. While some studies find a positive relationship between these two variables, others find no effect or even a negative relationship. In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; India
Huckman, Robert S., and Bradley R. Staats. "Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-035, September 2008.
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
differentiated exploratory subunits and meta-routines that modify underlying processes. Ambidexterity requires operational processes that combine high levels of efficiency with the flexibility to evolve and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Business Model . Designing organizational structures and processes that allocate responsibilities, promote cross-functional integration, recruit/develop/promote employees, acquire critical resources and financing, and budget/monitor... View Details
- 29 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 29
processes that enable such a resolution, have been proposed in various literatures. Attempting to synthesize relevant works on pluralistic control and collaborative heterarchies, this paper proposes the foundations of what might be called... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008
Revelation Authors:Pradeep Bhardwaj, Yuxin Chen, and David Godes Publication:Management Science 54 (June 2008): 2007-2008 Abstract Sales presentations are the core of the selling process where salespeople provide information to prospects.... View Details
- 2023
- Article
Building the Business Case for an Inclusive Approach to Digital Health Measurement with a Web App (Market Opportunity Calculator): Instrument Development Study
By: Mitchell Tang, Yashoda Sharma, Jennifer C. Goldsack and Ariel Dora Stern
Background: The use of digital health measurement tools has grown substantially in recent years. However, there are concerns that the promised benefits from these products will not be shared equitably. Underserved populations, such as those with lower education and... View Details
Keywords: Demographics; Product Development; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Tang, Mitchell, Yashoda Sharma, Jennifer C. Goldsack, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Building the Business Case for an Inclusive Approach to Digital Health Measurement with a Web App (Market Opportunity Calculator): Instrument Development Study." JMIR Formative Research 7 (2023).
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
and society at large. To do that, it has to increase shareholder value while at the same time improving the firm's performance on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) dimensions. This article outlines a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2007
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First Look: May 15, 2007
Formation and Decay of Economic Networks, edited by James Rauch. Russell Sage Foundation, 2007 Abstract This chapter will offer a literature review and some thoughts on processes that may systematically account for the formation of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Innovation also holds the key to solving many of the world’s most pressing social challenges such as health care and improving the quality of the physical environment. The institute works with U.S. and international leaders to assess... View Details
Roy D. Shapiro
Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details
- 24 Feb 2021
- Lessons from the Classroom
What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace
understanding to the unique challenges you confront. The process is crucial in business as well as war and diplomacy because, as Malhotra says in his course syllabus, “being smart and well-intentioned is not enough.” For Malhotra, who has... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
frog design, LUMA Institute), we have developed a semester long, cross-disciplinary, “doing” course that presents students with a conceptual framework for a human-centered innovation process and provides them with tools for engaging in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008
Bodie Abstract This paper proposes a new approach to improve the way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne