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- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives. Data Sources. Primary data include semi-structured interviews with frontline staff and 1732 staff identified operational failures at 20 U.S. hospitals from 2004-2006. Study Design.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
carved quickly from foam but the shapes need to be exact, to see if they'll fit when people cradle them between head and shoulder. Innovation and process within a firm can coexist and even feed off each other, if you manage their... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
economy and the history of ideas. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53906 2017 Advances in Strategic Management Capturing Value from Intellectual Property (IP) in a Global Environment By: Alcácer, Juan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
decisions of living which has meant the most to me.” By the 1950s, the pulps had given way to the new market in paperbacks. Accordingly, MacDonald began writing for this longer and more lucrative form. He turned his HBS management studies... View Details
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
Effectively By: Casciaro, T., F. Gino, and M. Kouchaki Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51004 February 2016 Journal of Accounting & Economics Labor Unemployment Insurance and Earnings View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative, and even former President Barack Obama. Strategic investors like Nigerian conglomerate owner Tunde Folawiyo and Tope Lawani (MBA 1995), co-CEO of Helios Fairfax Partners and cofounder and managing... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
projects conducted by clinical managers at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. My findings suggest that social position is an important enabling condition for divergent organizational change, and is a determinant as well of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
as academics that rely on using the press. The more interactions I had with managers convinced me that they're always thinking about the press. So everybody's thinking about it, but we know nothing about it, as academics we couldn't say... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
Robert S. Kaplan Publication:Balanced Scorecard Report 13, no. 5 (September-October 2011) Abstract In the second article of our two-part series, we explore the concept of an Office of Risk Management along with a case study of an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
afraid to go deep and specialize if you can identify that intersection point, they said. There are many new areas in the climate arena with a shortage of subject matter experts. Steven Rothstein, Managing Director, Ceres Accelerator for... View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
to the information necessary to make important choices, both the ERP and CAD systems would increase the likelihood that plant managers and production workers would make decisions and act on them without having to consult an executive at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
the highest rates of job loss since the Great Depression,” says co-author Raymond Kluender, an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. “At the same time, we saw a decline in consumer... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Improving Infant Mortality Rates: The Impact of Front-line Staff Collaboration on Neonatal Care (revised) Authors:Ingrid M. Nembhard, Anita L. Tucker, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Jeffrey D. Horbar, and Joseph H. Carpenter Abstract Front-line staff possess immense View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
whether perceived inequity from wealth that is randomly or subjectively assigned leads individuals to cross ethical boundaries through helping or hurting others. The results show that dishonest behavior is influenced by positive and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55132 Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 6 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 1: Mapping Functional Relationships By: Baldwin, Carliss Y.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
leaders manage these conversations effectively. Drawing on our insights and those of others, we offer this guide to help leaders have the kinds of discussions we need to be having right now. The four I’s of conversational leadership The... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
this time. Toward a Theory of Behavioral Operations Authors:Francesca Gino and Gary P. Pisano Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract Human beings are critical to the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
how are they borrowing it and how much does it cost? As a function of all of that, it's possible to compute a profitable range of delay and then to compute an optimal point within the range. Typically it seems like a delay between two and... View Details