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- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
that’s essential for creativity and efficiency. Chopped-up schedules interrupt deep thinking, so people come to work early, stay late, or use weekends for quiet time to concentrate. And dysfunctional meeting behaviors are associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
stifle competition, which in turn slows quality and efficiency improvements that would otherwise benefit all patients. Without service-by-service competition, costs spiral ever higher while quality lags. The cost of dysfunctional... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
dysfunction had been tracked. Key factors for integrating outcomes measurement into the clinical workflow include ongoing communication between cross-functional teams composed of clinicians and technical professionals, an iterative design... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
banking sectors with Dodd-Frank, we have failed to execute the new regulations, due largely to a dysfunctional Congress refusing to appropriate the funds needed to write the new rules and have them enforced. We may have missed the... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
hiring and motivating employees, a dysfunctional relationship with lead investors, and shortcomings in Quincy's go-to-market plan. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815095-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
lead to dysfunctional group dynamics) and the perspectives brought to the table by board leaders and director. Finally, the benefits of two opposing leadership structures are debated: one chapter argues for electing a chairman who is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
pair say, is to get the business community to understand the structural source of Washington’s dysfunction and help begin to fix it. They acknowledge that won’t be easy. In the current environment, some business leaders want nothing to do... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
scholarship that has documented how important, fundamental ideas can emerge from “use-inspired” research (see Pasteur’s Quadrant (Stokes, 1997)). The paper concludes by suggesting reforms to overcome the dysfunctional fixation on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
relatively benign forms, such as small acts of nonconformity. But it can also emerge more brutally and with quite dysfunctional consequences. Without meaning, individuals tend to become rigid and hollow. Society itself seems shallow and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
technocratic, top-down oversight of the health care system, as opposed to something organic, entrepreneurial. What I did in Market-Driven Health Care was to say, this emperor has no clothes. Managed care is just not working. But to say that the whole system is View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
US business interests. If you put aside feelings about partisanship and individuals, there were a number of things the Trump administration did that were supportive of business growth and economic growth. But the volatility and View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
become a proving ground for women, with costs similar to those identified for men. A woman social worker, for example, invested in proving her emotional availability (a socially-approved "feminine" trait sometimes required on the job) may foster View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance". Her research on more than seventy audit and consulting teams—combining survey data, hundreds of interviews, and direct observation at meetings—reveals insights into the hows and whys of View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
contrast, the policy-making process in Argentina has been dysfunctional and volatile, as different stakeholders argued and competed for resources. Q: Looking a bit to the future of these areas, much of Chile’s recent growth has come from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
opportunities to test out their own values against what's expected of them as responsible professionals. We don't teach them about the dysfunctional aspects that we've been discussing here, and we should. As someone who's interested in... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
lose your bearings. Q: How pernicious a problem is denial in business today? A: Denial has always been a problem. What is different today is that the cost of denial has become so high. We are living in a less forgiving world than we once did. Here's an example. General... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
gaining ground in banking. In light of the recent financial crisis, several commentators concluded that the continuing expansion of risk measurement is dysfunctional (Power, 2009; Taleb, 2007). This paper asks whether the expansion of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
can also have dysfunctional effects if it is not placed wisely. Though much research has examined conditions that increase individuals’ tendencies to trust others, we know very little about the circumstances under which individuals are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
in Motion In late 2012, the management team of Myomo, a startup that had designed a unique myoelectric arm brace for patients with dysfunctional arms, was deciding which of the three sales models the company had tested to pursue as its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
what are the key drivers of technology; and what are the macroeconomic consequences of technology. We prioritize in our discussion unified approaches to these three questions that are based on direct measures of technology. 2006 pub View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino