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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
an especially promising area for studying the effects of top executives' social capital on their ability to secure resources. "In biotech, it can take eight to ten years to developa product and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
Joyce Dias puts it, "People give up what they enjoy doing most in order to submit to the unnatural process of doing something— anything in order to earn their living." Combine this with research that cites a high correlation... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design
circular design to be embedded within its design, engineering, and manufacturing processes so that pumps can be separated and broken down into subcomponents. To enable easier recycling, the company embeds sustainable design, and their... View Details
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
loaded cost basis. If these customers are not contributing to covering the overhead, let them go quietly. The best approach is to raise prices slightly to these customers. Most are "mercenaries" who will quickly, but quietly,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
process was painful, he concedes, but federally insured deposits would make all the pain and suffering worthwhile by clearing a key blockage in the system. While he was building Walden Local and its supply chain of small farms and... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2290658 May 2015 Oxford University Press Entrepreneurial Creativity: The Role of Learning Processes and Work Environment Supports. By: Kanter, Rosabeth M. Abstract— No abstract available.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
necessary for eliciting effort from those affecting the quality of interdependent teamwork. We consider the role of incentives versus social processes in catalyzing collaboration. We test our hypotheses using a unique data set of 260... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
participation of smaller banks in federally guaranteed loan programs, and provided borrowers with improved processes and reduced paperwork requirements. Banks, however, have faced a less transparent scrutiny from a complex group of... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
into ALS research, and removed some critical barriers to the development of treatments. “Our focus, from the start, was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS,” says Kremer, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2004, just weeks into his first year at HBS. “We... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
the patent process you document affected entrepreneurial finance? A: Young, innovative firms are hurt in two ways by a poorly-operating patent system. First, as patents become easier to get, their value for the truly innovative firms—such... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
people and process as much as technology. So there's more to the Y2K problem than technology? Definitely. You can tell a lot about a company by how it's reacting to the Y2K problem. An organization whose people failed to see how it would... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
simplicity of accepting an equal split with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder equity. We test the predictions of the theory on a proprietary dataset comprised of 1,476 founders in 511 entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
relationships when it instead primarily encourages newcomers to express their personal identities. In a field experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing company, we found that initial socialization focused on personal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
healthcare—i.e., patient-centered outcomes achieved per healthcare dollar spent—can define quality and unify performance improvement goals with health outcomes of importance to patients across the entire cycle of care. We describe the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
treating platform systems and step processes as mutually exclusive architectures sets up a false dichotomy. Creating any good requires carrying out a technical recipe, i.e., performing a series of steps. Step View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
managers even as we strengthen our management processes with an eye to future growth.” Africa also looked like fertile ground for the same partnering approach Bharti first developed inside India—blending multinational and local-management... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
the average American hospital loses $80 million a year in neglected patient referrals and other processing inefficiencies. The solution, Jarzabek says, is Trustedoctor’s “E-Link”, a secure online platform which streamlines communication... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
without Losing Yourself in the Process by Andy Molinsky (PhDOB 1999) (Harvard Business Review Press) What does it mean to be a global worker and a true "citizen of the world" today? Beyond merely being aware of cultural differences, it... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
handheld e-readers that can download and carry thousands of books, newspapers, and blogs in one device. E Ink will continue to be based in Cambridge. Wilcox views the injection of resources as essential to speeding up E Ink’s R&D process... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Pundits and politicians point to the burden of pension, health, and union obligations on the cost side. True, but not it's not sufficient just to cut costs. The real game is about revenues. Municipal revenues come from economic activity,... View Details