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- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
board performance even more difficult. Effective boards are those that take the initiative to design clear and focused forward-looking agendas, concentrating board energy on a company's specific value drivers, and then employing tools and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
of the Contract: How Contract Structure Shapes Inter-Firm Dispute Resolution Authors:Fabrice Lumineau and Deepak Malhotra Publication:Strategic Management Journal (in press) Abstract This paper investigates how contract structure influences inter-firm dispute... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the production of U.S. Steel corporate publications. Writers, editors, and designers worked on the selection and placement of illustrations in a wide range of corporate literature. Fred G. Korth. Nail making machines, Joliet Works,... View Details
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
hiring process is what could be the difference between a great product in the market versus something basic that is slow to ship. Below are some tips on how to be more strategic about hiring: 1. Product prioritization leads to hiring... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
the story. We've had students at undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels telling us that they couldn't stop reading because they were eager to know what would happen next. In addition, chapters of the book are designed like teaching... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research where people have two distinct modes of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
Courses on our course platform are designed to work on an internet-connected desktop or notebook computer running either the Chrome or Firefox browser. Tablet computers and smartphones are not supported for programs on the course platform... View Details
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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products
to make a print. The lithographic process allowed advertising artists greater freedom of design than other printmaking methods. Print curators Sally Pierce and Catharina Slautterback explain, “Never before... View Details
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
recognizing and overcoming impasse? A: In my book I write about 6 phases in the impasse process. The process is not meant to be rigidly linear because obviously there's back and forth between any 2 of these phases or even between more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
when designing compensation plans. Larkin discusses the issue in The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for the Strategic Compensation of Employees, a paper he cowrote with HBS colleague Francesca Gino and Washington... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
much less examples where countries have moved through an analytical process as sketched out above, design policy priorities accordingly, and then implemented them as planned. Broader-based adoption of... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
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Providers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
outcomes, reward excellence and innovation, keep pace with medical advances, and work more efficiently, so they succeed in a competitive health care landscape. Key Action Steps for Providers & Individual Physicians Design medical practice... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
Alternatively, the group may designate "intellectual watchdogs" who are assigned the task of scrutinizing the process for unchecked assumptions and challenging them on the spot. Well-Defined... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 01 May 2020
- What Do You Think?
Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?
where the culture is thought by management to be one of the organization's strengths. A case in point is Critical Mass, a 24-year-old digital experience design agency based in Calgary, Canada, with 950 employees employed in 12 offices... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
to go in the future." Launched in autumn 2006, GMP is a new executive education comprehensive leadership program designed to address the needs and concerns of precisely these managers. GMP's innovative teaching philosophy and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
tinkerers from across the globe led to a process of cumulative innovation unhindered by rivalry operating through the intellectual property rights system. Yet in 1903, the year the Wright Brothers achieved controlled sustained flight at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment
please visit the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship’s website . HBS EC Course - Tough Tech Ventures - Joshua Lev Krieger and Jim Matheson While tough technology has the potential to transform incumbent industries and tackle our most pressing societal issues, the tough... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
years, this paper presents a significant revision of the model of creativity and innovation in organizations published in Research in Organizational Behavior in 1988. This update focuses primarily on the individual-level psychological View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
innovation strategy, design a system for creativity, and build up an enterprise’s cultural DNA. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, shares insights in our Q&A. Martha Lagace: Your title, Creative... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16
Oxford University Press, 2012 Abstract The concept of insurance was introduced to China in the early nineteenth century by Westerners trading in Guangzhou and practised essentially among them. We argue that indigenization of insurance, in particular life insurance, was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne