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- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
world-beating performances out of some good-but-not-great players and even to motivate others to take pay cuts in order to play for him, an anomaly? Can unusually gifted managers improve employees’ performance to such an extent that it is... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
essentially enumerating the qualities that we should look for in a leader without suggesting how we identify and select for them. Some of the more interesting ones included Kapil Kumar Sopory's suggestion that we look for "... the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
at the data, you'll see that improvement is possible," she said. "The clinical training of managers really matters for management practices." The data also showed higher quality of management... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
retail outlets, such that stores with membership fees are more popular even when they offer the same goods at the same prices as stores without fees. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-029.pdf Dynamics of Platform Competition: Exploring the Role of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
facility management. To improve scalability and production efficiency, they installed a chip system throughout the rose garden. Before cutting the roses, the growers use a chip sensor that helps monitor the View Details
- Profile
David Gellis
Care Center. Under the tutelage of center director Laura Esserman, MD/MBA, David examined ways to leverage information systems to improve breast-cancer treatment. "Dr. Esserman used her clinic as a lab to test ideas for View Details
- 02 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic
can redefine the Health care industry and sparked my interest in exploring how the public and private sectors can work together to improve patient outcomes. With the summer internship search heating up, I am excited to explore... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
if outlet stores were closed down, while variable profits would decline by 23%. These results imply that the existence of outlet stores may enable firms to improve quality in their regular channels, thus... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Student-Profile
Filippo Mezzanotti
recommendation on how to improve the organization of the banking sector. The Business Economics Program There were three elements that attracted me to the program: the rigor and the prestige of the program, the cultural richness of the... View Details
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Profile
Yi-An Huang
Where are you now and what are you doing? I’m a director of strategy at Boston Medical Center. We have a small team, directly under the COO, that explores strategies in every area from operational projects like O.R. improvements to... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- Profile
Marco Crespo
Marco Crespo's story is one of continuity. Before attending HBS, he had been active in the Ayrton Senna Foundation, a Brazilian nonprofit founded by a world-famous Formula 1 race car driver, dedicated to improving public education. While... View Details
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Marco Crespo
Required Curriculum is the same for the whole group. The RC program guarantees that everyone shares a foundation in business administration.” In the race for better education in Brazil As driven as he is to succeed in business, Marco is also committed to View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
They spend much more time paying attention to reviews of other people like them and trying to understand and gauge in an unbiased fashion what the real quality is of these products and services, particularly those in which you can’t... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
command? Or for business? For years, W. Edwards Deming, the father of modern continuous quality improvement, had trouble convincing U.S. (as opposed to Japanese) auto manufacturers to implement the keys to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
system did not have a significant effect on any outcomes. However, it significantly improved the quality of creative work in stores that had accessed the system more frequently and in stores with fewer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
Children in the United States today are at risk to live shorter lives than their parents. This sobering assessment is one reason big box retailer Target is investing $40 million this year to improve the health of communities around the... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
financial crisis. The trouble is that investment value and asset volatility are simply the wrong measures if your goal is to secure a particular future income. In this article, Merton explains a liability-driven investment strategy whose aim is to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?
percent of new products fail within five years ... To the extent that a few, well-chosen customers might provide valuable insights into what would improve the quality of life, Professor Zaltman's ideas might... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Maxeme Tuchman
By her junior year in high school, Max Tuchman was a hair's breadth away from dropping out. At issue were neither her grades nor conditions at home, but her disgust with the "poor quality of the Miami-Dade public schools," says... View Details