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- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
like budgeting, should be part of the annual governance cycle. Whenever plans are changed at the enterprise or business unit level, executives likely need to realign the organization with the new direction. The alignment process, View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
new jobs that were created in early-withdrawal states totaled roughly $900 million. Yet some 3 million workers lost $7.6 billion in benefits—cash that no longer flowed into state economies—the researchers found, citing US Department View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
CEOs have never had so many ways to communicate with their employees. But despite the availability of Slack, internal newsletters, and virtual town hall meetings, organizations can still go quiet. One of the... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
Bezos was still working on Wall Street. After decades of tax-free sales, ecommerce was just 11.4 percent of US retail sales in 2019, according to the Department View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
In the late 1970s, the Chicago Police Department noticed that the city's crime rate increased when cops stopped walking the beat and started driving around in patrol cars instead. They wondered why, and asked the political scientist... View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
predict the health care needs of patients, continually enhance patient outcomes, and drive transformative solutions to import community access to health care. For example, using patient data including emergency View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
subcommittee planning the direction of future research efforts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He has also been asked to head task forces... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
there are two enormous statues of Hamilton and Gallatin that stand on either side of the US Department of the Treasury. It's hard to imagine... View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
wrong in terms of deal process design. Back in October 2008, when the EESA [Emergency Economic Stabilization Act] was passed by Congress, the Treasury Department intended to buy back the so-called toxic... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
being a beacon for business." 5. Closer Ties To The University Nohria noted that in its formative years, HBS was well served by developing across the Charles River from the Harvard campus. "We didn't want to be a department... View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
available, you're much more likely to be able to compare different attributes of the shoes." Next Steps The researchers are currently testing their theory at a large company. Instead of submitting... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
than 14 million people employed in personal selling in the United States alone represent about 10 percent of the entire country's labor force, according to the US Department of... View Details
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
manager’s back to get the CTO’s opinions on their work or they try to undermine a decision made by the new head of a department by complaining to the CEO. Even finding time to just chat with the founder is a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
parties," he says. However its impact may be felt, technology can no longer be shunted along to segregated departments or individuals. It has become fundamental to even the most traditional aspects of... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
international labor affairs in the U.S. Department of Labor during the administrations of Eisenhower and Kennedy. It was a time when many countries in Africa and Asia were... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
being described is the savings bond program." Unfortunately, recent changes to the program have made it a less attractive, less accessible product for LMI families. In January 2003, for example, the Department View Details
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
might be working with peers in pharmaceuticals or defense to accelerate the development of virtual reality capabilities. In my work, I use the ethnographic methods of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
thinking about where to hold them, specifically, inside or outside of tax-deferred accounts. "Getting this decision right can be pretty close to a free lunch," says Bergstresser, who with colleague James Poterba, a professor at... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
hospitals and didn't in others. And it actually had a lot to do with the kind of power their cardiac surgery departments had. It didn't take off in places with politically strong and well respected cardiac... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
buildings, a joint program of the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency; the National Association of Home Builders'... View Details