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  • 08 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

rotations, or peer mentorship opportunities. The fact that sales was on the third floor and R&D on the second isn’t quite as relevant as it once was. Comprehend/Challenge On the organizational level, this drive is usually satisfied through job design. Best... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • June 2017
  • Article

Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency

By: Ryan W. Buell, Tami Kim and Chia-Jung Tsay
We investigate whether organizations can create value by introducing visual transparency between consumers and producers. Although operational transparency has been shown to improve consumer perceptions of service value, existing theory posits that increased contact... View Details
Keywords: Operational Transparency; Service Management; Production Management; Organizational Performance; Behavioral Operations; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Consumer Behavior; Labor; Organizational Design; Operations; Service Industry; United States; Kenya
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  • September 2017 (Revised December 2019)
  • Case

Miami Price: Bidding on an Iconic Transit-Oriented Development Site

By: Charles F. Wu, Aaron Stolear, Vitali Bourchtein and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
13th Floor-Adler, a partnership of 13th Floor Investments and Adler Group, was compiling a response to a Miami-Dade County Request for Proposal (RFP). The RFP's prize was the opportunity to develop a 7.5+/- acre parking lot, adjacent to a heavy-rail rapid transit... View Details
Keywords: Land Valuation; Real Estate Development; Real Estate; Land Markets; Land Investment; Property; Design; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; Miami
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  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

Negotiation Game simulates the experience negotiating the sale, purchase, or financing of a property. The class competes as either a lender, buyer, or one of two groups of sellers, Raleigh, North Carolina and Las Vegas, Nevada. This is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

minority shareholders fare poorly after listing. Parent firms often repurchase subsidiaries at large discounts to valuations at the time of listing and experience positive abnormal returns when repurchases are announced. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

August 2024. With Achyuta Adhvaryu, Jean-François Gauthier, and Anant Nyshadham. Designing a Successful Reskilling Program , Article, Harvard Business Review (website), July 10, 2024. With Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, Orsolya... View Details
  • Web

Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

online programs are designed to bring the Harvard Business School classroom to you, and are built around three key characteristics: Real-World Cases Apply your learning through real-world examples and View Details
  • Web

Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

the committee has steadily broadened its purview, now advising on a broad range of issues including innovation and acquisitions in addition to labor practices and resource sustainability. A close examination of Nike's experience has led... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Thus the hypothesis predicts that developers with few or no organizational linkages will design independent system components, while developers with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?

intelligence, IQ, personality, values, and experience A demonstration of executive intelligence must lie in the demonstrable ability to act and execute." Paul Jackson took us to the next step in commenting, "Once defined, how do... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 30 Jun 2022
  • News

Scaling Hope

trained as a parent peer coach for families, is using his years of business experience to build the tools he wished had been available when his family was confronting addiction and is sharing his own View Details
  • 17 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208148   PublicationsExperiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950 Author:Aldo Musacchio Publication:Cambridge University Press, forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Program

Public Education Leadership Project

designed for teams of eight participants who are responsible for urban school systems with at least 20,000 enrolled students. Read More The district's superintendent must always be among the eight team participants. Other members of the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 09 Apr 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

changed how those loan officers perceived reality. The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator Money isn’t always the most powerful work motivator. In this field experiment participants were willing to pay money to be ranked higher. Why? How to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

power of its own wheels. On the contrary, McLean saw several stackable trailers in the hull of the ship. The trailers would need to be constructed of heavy steel so that they could withstand rough seas and protect their contents. They would also have to be View Details
Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace
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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

are responsible for completing a full diligence report and bringing their investment recommendation to the Investment Committee for discussion and approval. The course is designed to provide students with hands-on View Details
  • 12 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

first time. Get help—don’t try to figure it out yourself. You will spend more working hours than you ever imagined learning how to navigate people things while running your business, fundraising, etc. Hire a coach or find friends with management View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

The “Manila Water Company” case made me feel even more strongly about designing a career with social welfare as a goal, not just as an option. It also made me think differently about investing and want to encourage investing in businesses... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services