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- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
breakthrough technology. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606114 Adrian Ivinson at the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair Harvard Business School Case 406-111 Adrian Ivinson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
ultimately reach some sort of agreement on transportation funding. The current two-year highway bill is set to expire Nov. 1, and the trust fund that relies on the gasoline tax is expected to run short of money during the summer highway View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
thrive? Bhaskar Chakravorti: Let me start with a replay of a conversation I had recently with Frederick, the person who runs the auto repair shop where I regularly take my 1998 and 2002 vintage cars. I asked him if he was experiencing a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
open competition. If you were to divide up the Japanese government's energies between repairing ailing industries and spurring on new ones, how would you do that? Not to be too provocative here, but I would say that this is the wrong way... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
productivity, says Professor Gail J. McGovern. In this Q&A, she discusses what executives can do to repair the split and introduces a new diagnostic tool for measuring marketing performance used in the HBS Executive Education program.... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
American business are plainly visible for the whole world to see, Mills warned. Repairing the infrastructure is critically important to restore trust in American business, and tinkering with the rulebook is not enough. The process of... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 22 Feb 2010
- Op-Ed
Tragedy at Toyota: How Not to Lead in Crisis
subject himself to intense questioning by regulators and the media. Then he should make a personal commitment to every Toyota customer to repair the damage, including buying back defective cars. 7: Go on offense; focus on winning now.... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
with idiosyncratic copiers for which no repair manual was of any help. This has led to subsequent efforts to develop organizations that are "leaky" when it comes to knowledge that needs to be shared and simultaneously... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
repair a CAT scan machine that had not yet failed. As he was confronted by puzzled hospital administrators, the machine indeed stopped functioning. More recently, many of us have heard the story about the Target customer who was sent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
is) a disconnect between the identity (employees) experience in their workplace and the identity valued in their organizations' business models." Dr. Kervokian asks, "What exactly is the new American dream ?" Mark Clark worries that " in the rush to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Highway: Technology and Mobility Trends and Opportunities Technological innovation is considered a competitive strength for America, but the nation does not score as high in deploying its technology. U.S. transportation systems are in need of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
managers The study’s findings can be applied to customer-supplier contractual relationships in general, says Perez Cavazos, providing a lesson for managers about ways to repair the reputational damage caused by accusations of company... View Details
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
maintenance and repair parts and equipment in the U.S., had just held its November 2014 board meeting. The meeting had been productive but not without some soul searching for both the company’s management team and financial sponsors. Was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures. Methods: Utilizing a prospectively collected retrospective database, we identified patients who underwent isolated CABG (n=3726), AVR (n=1626), MV repair (n=731),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
"we have a worldwide mission: to become leading corporate citizens." In several cases, this mandate was the result of traumatic experiences or scandals that required huge efforts on the part of companies to repair damaged... View Details
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
of return to the economy that the government has ever realized" What if the proposed investment in infrastructure were split into two major programs, one for physical repair and construction and one for human development? Let’s... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
leader—"Builds enduring greatness through a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will"—except for the fact that he has been plagued with bad decisions regarding his choices for senior management positions and a reluctance to View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
operational challenges affecting quality and threatening customer relationships. Furthermore, senior leadership had completely turned over three times in the five-year period. Now, the new—and young—leadership is attempting to navigate that crisis and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810123-PDF-ENG Myelin Repair Foundation: Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Collaboration Karim R. Lakhani and Paul R. CarlileHarvard Business School Case 610-074 This case presents the Myelin... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace