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  • 14 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

problems from (in)convenience to price to congestion, he says. “Robust computer control is at the core of a successful PRT.” The concept is well known—you have likely encountered automated, driverless people movers in cities such as Detroit, amusement parks (Disneyland... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation
  • 30 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

The $2 trillion health care system is one of the United States' largest industries—but one of its worst performing by almost any measure other than technological innovation. The problems are painful, including escalating costs, expensive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

knowledge to solving the problems of individual patients—offer enormous potential to help patients and the U.S. health-care system overall, says HBS senior lecturer Richard M.J. Bohmer, a physician and researcher on the intersection of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 30 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

If capitalism was a stock, the market would appear rather bearish on its future. Bank failures, economic crises, and middle-class riots across the globe appear symptomatic of large systemic weaknesses in the market system, highlighted by... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan & Vadym Volosovych
  • 17 May 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews

in a quick scan of a resume,” DeCelles says. “They whitened their resumes because they wanted to appear more mainstream.” Different minority groups use different whitening techniques Asian applicants often changed foreign-sounding names... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 6 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 1: Mapping Functional Relationships

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
Organizations are formed in a free economy because a person or group perceives value in carrying out a technical recipe that is beyond the capacity of a single person. Technology specifies what must be done, what resources must be assembled, what actions taken, and... View Details
Keywords: Language; Information Technology; System; Relationships
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  • September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!

By: Willy Shih
This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Standards; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Information Technology
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  • 17 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

looking to boost morale. “People are quitting, and companies are noticing that it’s harder to get people to join the company and hold on to them, so they’re going back to the drawing board.” Hall is working on a how-to guide about HR View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 02 Sep 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

First-Party Content, Commitment and Coordination in Two-Sided Markets

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Daniel Spulber
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

technology was used illegally on 70-80 percent of the soybean area in southern Brazil. Under pressure from U.S. soybean growers, who were paying to license the technology, the firm implemented an innovative delivery-based collection View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2023
  • Op-Ed

How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

potential, it commissions a small order from one of its factories, often just a few dozen pieces, which it floats on its channels to see if consumers are interested. If they are, the company reorders more products. It calls the system... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 2011
  • Book

Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business

By: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard and Lynn S. Paine
The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly triggered another Great Depression, economies in Europe are still teetering, and powerful... View Details
Keywords: Business And Society; Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Leading Change; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Strategy
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  • November 2007
  • Article

Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders

By: Joseph L. Bower
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Planning
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  • 26 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out

and Roberto M. Fernandez, Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. To study how recruiters looked for candidates, the scholars examined initial calls and emails to 166,000 prospects from 2017 to 2019 by an outside recruiting... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Research Summary

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Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

  • 29 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

research agenda to systematically address the social welfare implications of financial innovation. To complement existing empirical and theoretical methods, we propose that scholars examine case studies of systemic (widely adopted)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2024
  • HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

write a case study about how Sanders, known as “Coach Prime,” applies a military commander’s approach to motivating his team. “Deion reminds me of military officers I’ve served under because of the clear way he communicates and the unapologetic way he holds people... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

codes of ethics that addressed the unique problems of defence procurement. In my work for the initiative, I learned about the origins of these problems and saw that, contrary to public belief, they could not be chalked up simply to unethical individuals—they were View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

performance in public and private performance domains by decreasing anxiety. Belief that a specific series of behaviors constitute a ritual is a critical ingredient to reduce anxiety and improve performance: engaging in behaviors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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