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  • 26 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 26

health care professionals, physicians are challenged to minimize the likelihood of errors that could harm patients while simultaneously making efforts to understand the causes of illnesses and develop better ways to prevent, treat, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

understand why it isn’t in the best interests of their organizations to weigh in on all issues facing society, but this is one that can have a direct impact on the performance of their organizations. It is controversial. But to a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 28 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

the right times. They'd done it by implementing techniques and technologies at an unprecedented pace; among them, the lean production method introduced by W. Edwards Deming, just-in-time manufacturing, single-source suppliers, and global... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Full Court Press

reporters in the media room inside BK Arena. Wearing a black dashiki and black-framed glasses, he sat next to the president of the Rwanda Basketball Federation and the country’s Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Sports, who had gathered to sign a memorandum of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 24 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

Enterprise Balanced Scorecard: The Enterprise Scorecard is the source of essential information for executive management and the board, providing a concise but thorough understanding of the business and its key drivers. This tool describes... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
  • 15 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

of organizational capabilities, technological innovation through R&D, problem solving, knowledge, and continuous learning—investment in human capital and technology that only firms could generate. Chandler placed the issue of managerial coordination squarely in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 26

technical champion, trusted advisor, and engaged toolmaker-and trace the movements of experts between these positions. Our empirical findings and theoretical framework contribute to our understanding of the nature of expert influence and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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  • 18 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Emerging Markets

dialogue, allowing us to delve into and learn from each other's viewpoints on complex business issues. This aspect of the HBS educational approach, particularly through the case method, has enriched my understanding by exposing me to... View Details
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The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room | About

research papers, rare books, ephemera, and visual materials—provide the documentary evidence that allows scholars to investigate firsthand the important business theories, organizations, movements, and individuals that have shaped our nation’s history and View Details
  • February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
  • Supplement

Jieliang Phone Home! (C)

By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators - bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Compensation and Benefits; Surveys; Innovation and Invention; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Manufacturing Industry; Telecommunications Industry; China
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  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

  PublicationsSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcácer and Paul Ingram Publication:American Journal of Sociology (forthcoming). Abstract Global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

With global markets in turmoil over the last several weeks, leaders throughout the world are starting to think about how they should respond if confronted with an economic downturn. Yet what do we know about how leaders decide what to do... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics
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By: Vincent Pons
Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

cost reducing behaviors relative to those insured under a traditional plan with deductibles and coinsurance and measures consumer preferences between the two plans. The surveys provide strong evidence that consumers do not understand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

his tuition by trading his own stocks. This fall, Ameen will begin classes at Harvard Business School, where he says he hopes to strengthen the financial, analytical, and leadership skills that will help him understand how to work within... View Details
  • 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

trace the theory’s evolution from a technology-change framework—essentially descriptive and relatively limited in scope—to a more broadly explanatory causal theory of innovation and competitive response. This assessment reveals that our View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

collective practice has led us to understand that the individual development has to take place in the context of a larger change process motivated by the senior team. Just calling HR to say we have a strategy, we want to be more safe, do... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education
  • 22 Apr 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Where is the Pharmacy to the World? International Regulatory Variation and Pharmaceutical Industry Location

Keywords: by Arthur Daemmrich; Pharmaceutical
  • 17 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

willing to go above and beyond in their roles. All this while inflation spirals. Abdelal, who is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at HBS, and DeLong make the case that the remedy is understanding the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding