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  • 10 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

things, they can resolve it internally more quickly and in a more efficient way than if it goes to regulators. Although we don’t study this, I think it could also empower employees to feel ownership of the company because they’re helping... View Details
Keywords: by April White
  • Web

Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

driver of wealth creation and economic growth. Partnerships to foster the translational processes from public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, to private firms are a policy tool that has attracted increased interest. Yet questions about the... View Details
  • Research Summary

Corporate Restructuring and Business Insolvency: Economic Impact and Best Practices

By: Stuart C. Gilson
Stuart C. Gilson is studying how severe financial distress impacts corporate policies and economic resource allocation. He is also studying how managers can best respond to financial distress in order to preserve and grow value. He is undertaking this research... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Returning to the Roots

It’s not a role he sought or expected. But when his brother died of a brain tumor late last year, Florent Latour (MBA 1999) became CEO of Maison Louis Latour, a winemaker established in 1797 in the Burgundy region of France. The 11th generation of his family to lead... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; wine; entrepreneurship; family business; innovation; climate change; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • Web

Aligning Reimbursement with Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Payments? Patients receive proven and effective care for their medical conditions. Providers earn a positive margin for efficiently treating patients and producing good outcomes; over time, they attract more patients in their area of... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

From Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark

Keywords: by Sylvain Lenfle & Carliss Y. Baldwin; Manufacturing
  • 2011
  • Article

Scalable Detection of Anomalous Patterns With Connectivity Constraints

By: Skyler Speakman, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
We present GraphScan, a novel method for detecting arbitrarily shaped connected clusters in graph or network data. Given a graph structure, data observed at each node, and a score function defining the anomalousness of a set of nodes, GraphScan can efficiently and... View Details
Keywords: Biosurveillance; Event Detection; Graph Mining; Scan Statistics; Spatial Scan Statistic
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  • Web

Leadership - Faculty & Research

of caring for not only the corporation and shareholders but also the patients and medical professionals. How should leaders of health-related businesses weigh the demand for efficiency and profit alongside the care of patients and the... View Details
  • January 2025
  • Case

GE Appliances 2025: Energizing Change

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
At the turn of 2025, Kevin Nolan, CEO of GE Appliances following its acquisition by Chinese appliance giant Haier in 2016, is reviewing progress toward his net zero carbon vision for homes, which would otherwise exacerbate the global warming climate crisis. An... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Product Development; Organizational Culture
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    Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest Trade-Offs

    How leaders can recast innovation’s toughest trade-offs—efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose—as productive tensions.

    Why is leading innovation in today’s dynamic business environment so distressingly... View Details

    • 24 Apr 2017
    • Op-Ed

    Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

    lagged PepsiCo’s. Since 2011, PepsiCo stock is up 70 percent, while Coca-Cola’s has increased only 15 percent. The courage cohort There are literally thousands of competent managers who can run organizations efficiently using... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage
    • 21 Mar 2019
    • HBS Case

    The Ferrari Way

    As the head of design told Thomke: “Form follows function, but there is always a large margin for artistic freedom. The difference between an efficient shape and a beautiful and efficient shape can be quite... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto
    • 23 Apr 2024
    • In Practice

    Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

    With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 2022
    • Article

    Towards Robust Off-Policy Evaluation via Human Inputs

    By: Harvineet Singh, Shalmali Joshi, Finale Doshi-Velez and Himabindu Lakkaraju
    Off-policy Evaluation (OPE) methods are crucial tools for evaluating policies in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, where direct deployment is often infeasible, unethical, or expensive. When deployment environments are expected to undergo changes (that is, dataset... View Details
    Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Research
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    • July 2000 (Revised September 2005)
    • Case

    Madison Avenue: Digital Media Services (A)

    Introduces a "new-economy" company, Madison Avenue, facing challenges of mega-success. In the two years since its founding, the company's revenues have grown from zero to nearly $30 million, head count has swollen from the start-up handful to more than 200, and the... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Online Advertising; Advertising Industry
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    • 24 Jan 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

    the company to incorporate estimates of the practical capacities of its resources, allowing the ABC cost drivers to provide more accurate signals about the cost and the underlying efficiency of its processes. Analyzing and reporting... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
    • May 21, 2020
    • Editorial

    Primary Care Is Hurting: Why Aren't Private Insurers Pitching In?

    By: Leemore S. Dafny and J. Michael McWilliams
    Primary care clinicians are the front line for patients with suspected infection. We rely on them to diagnose, triage, and manage patients with potential or confirmed COVID infections. They are also responsible for keeping non-COVID medical conditions under control... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Primary Care; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Financial Condition; Insurance
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Business and Green Knowledge Production in Sweden 1960s–1980s

    By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Kristina Söderholm
    This working paper contributes to the burgeoning historical literature that has transformed our understanding about the relationship between big business and the environmental regulation. Previously, it was believed that corporate managers resisted the extra costs... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Research and Development; History; Sweden
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    • 19 Jan 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

    choices, resulting in more efficient organizations. “It’s about how we think about talent and resource allocation,” Paik says. You Might Also Like: When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions Delivering a... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 12 May 2023
    • Blog Post

    Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

    regions. However, while heat pumps have historically been known to be more economical in warmer regions, recent studies have cited improvements in newer heat pumps, such as inverter technology, making them effective and efficient at... View Details