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- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
pressure to reinvent their performances to stay ahead of the competition. When David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty "disappear," Franz Harary responded with a vanishing space shuttle. The same is true of business managers: They... View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
of the ways in which ideas, images, and other forms of organizational content pass between leaders and employees, or from one employee (or group of employees) to another. It occupies roughly the same space that "corporate communication"... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
that suppliers that extend significant amounts of trade credit hold private information about their trade partners. Trade creditors who are geographically closer or in similar industries tend to lend the most, suggesting that these are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
loss of control and precision of information). Before the 1920s at least, most German industrial firms did not have an extensive middle management staff. Large German firms remained much more diversified and decentralized than unitary,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
industry is desperate for good help. Ben Minden’s Bear Hug Cattle Company proposes a two-birds, one-stone solution. The Golden Thread Teresa Amabile spent decades studying creativity, motivation, and productivity in the workplace. At 60,... View Details
- Web
Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
shines through. Even via Zoom, she can quickly connect on a human level and create space for thoughtful conversation. Over her 35-year career, Sanchez has a track record of successfully scaling large businesses, navigating digital... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Business School Case 707-012 Clearwater was trying to market value-added products in a traditionally commodities based industry while facing supply uncertainties and regulatory, environmental, and foreign exchange challenges. Clearwater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Grupo Beta San Miguel In November 2013, Dr. Jose Pinto, head of Grupo Beta San Miguel (BSM), Mexico's largest private sugar producer, is weighing the future prospects of the Mexican sugar industry as he considers whether BSM should bid on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
is a time-honored approach, particularly in media and entertainment. When space is limited on store shelves and in traditional distribution channels, producers tend to focus on a few likely best sellers, hoping that one or two big hits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
government is building on communitybased care models across the country—as are foreign governments, from Myanmar to Saudi Arabia. Oishi is an unlikely hero for the country’s health care crisis: a marketing expert pushing to enact sweeping change across an View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
engine of the country’s innovation sector is stuck in the past. Professional spaces such as hospitals, law offices, and boardrooms still have significant work to be done to achieve diversity in leadership, but they’ve made great progress... View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
engine of the country’s innovation sector is stuck in the past. Professional spaces such as hospitals, law offices, and boardrooms still have significant work to be done to achieve diversity in leadership, but they’ve made great progress... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
those seven people. It’s clear that the engine of the country’s innovation sector is stuck in the past. Professional spaces such as hospitals, law offices, and boardrooms still have significant work to be done to achieve diversity in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
“Value-stream mapping” in the oncology department standardizes the follow-up process with patients. An improvement strategy called “3P” (production, preparation, process), used to radically redesign space according to workflow, eliminates... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
"Step Change" by Julia Hanna. At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo's former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
the interaction of the number and spacing of a family’s children with the pricing policies of the local school. This within-neighborhood variation in tuition prices allows us to control for unobserved determinants of demand with a fine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
commitment dedicated to online marketplaces. In Greylock's view, 2014 was a special moment in time for online marketplaces, the beginning of a boom in the space that was being catalyzed by mobile technology and social identity. Rothman... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Students Reflect on COP28
startup. There’s value to the sheer scale and network effects of the event, amongst the 100k attendees I was surprised to find many of my friends and contacts in the climate space who are usually spread around the world present in one... View Details
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Iowa Dr. Beth A. Livingston is the Ralph L. Sheets Associate Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, an internal advisor with the Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest, a NIOSH Center... View Details