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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
again with respect to some of the issues raised by China.” Innovation and continuous improvement are the keys to moving to a stronger competitive position, he says. “We changed more than the Japanese did.... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Boeing's e-Enabled Advantage Harvard Business School Case 807-011 Examines Boeing's new strategy of offering services to regain market dominance and help its struggling airline customers improve efficiency and profitability. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
We show that, on average, the tournament incentive plan was associated with improved store sales. We also find that such plans can be more beneficial for geographically distant participants, where the potential for View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
find that the interaction of task change with intrapersonal diversity is related to improved project performance, while the interaction of task change with interpersonal diversity is related to diminished performance. Additionally, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Cherian Kurien
professors continue to drive students to think beyond their first five years, post business school. Each professor has his/her way of prodding students to continuously think about what they really want to... View Details
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
examine how the quantity of information generated about firm prospects can be improved by splitting a firm's cash flow into a "safe" claim (debt) and a "risky" claim (equity). The former, being relatively insensitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA (LIFE) - Course Catalog
will have access to alumni and their lived experiences. There are a multitude of interactions with both alumni 10+ years out reflecting on their lives to date as well as the over 300 former students of the course (known as LIFERs) who View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
by author, album, or genre, and provides a better navigation experience. Digital encoding quality varies widely in p2p networks, but it has continued to improve over the years and in many cases surpasses... View Details
- 03 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
The HBS Show Must Go On
not expect to have the opportunity to continue my passion for the performing arts when I arrived at HBS. However, time and time again, I have been proven wrong. There are multiple performing organizations and opportunities on campus,... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
accomplishment there was the restoration of the thousand-acre Appleton Farms, one of the oldest continuously operating farms in the country. “That was the beginning of what is now a major emphasis for the Trustees on community farming,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
successes, the distraction of a later effort to improve gender diversity, the disproportionate number of Black employees laid off in a major downsizing, a drop in the number of Black candidates in the pipeline, and weak retention of those... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
management system that's held together with baling wire. It's an unacceptable situation that will require sustained attention and support over time to correct. Tell us about your modernizing effort and its focus on improving the IRS's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
notably higher entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major highway system, the North-South East-West corridor (NS-EW). Improvements for portions of the NS-EW system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
either from the run of play or impact with the playing surface. Improvements in equipment and rule changes can make things better but probably not eliminate the longer-term danger of life-shortening injury or impairment. Is it possible... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
the Production and Operations Management area and then the doctoral programs. After leaving the active HBS faculty, Stobaugh plans to continue his research on corporate governance. He is looking forward, he says, to "working with... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 10 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis
development and demonstration farm to show farmers and the government how the benefits outweigh the costs of setting up and maintaining these new systems. Furthermore, the demonstration farms showcase that it is possible to simultaneously use less water and View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
difference by continuing to train leaders, supporting each other through transitions, and staying connected. The Alumni Board is committed to those actions, and this is evident in the three committees that will serve this year. (These... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
important, improvements in logistics; cross-border flows of labor, capital, and ideas; weakened intellectual property protection; and improved global communication have helped people, money, products, and... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
BlackBerry's fortunes, though, as the company continued to post disappointing earnings. Heins stepped down on November 4, a few weeks after the company announced it would be laying off 40 percent of its global workforce. So where did... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
continued and expanded, with further empirical exploration of a distributed model of innovation that includes communities and platforms in a variety of contexts and with the development of theory to explain the economic underpinnings of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne