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- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
probably partly allowed the industry to survive. Periods of idleness might coexist with intense overtime. During these times, outcomes that might appear minor—such as these homers—help sustain organizational effectiveness and the capacity... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
traditional businesses should leverage these tech companies to boost their own capacity for innovation. It’s this enhanced ability to innovate that not only provides traditional businesses with a competitive edge against tech giants but... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
of Weak Interests By Gunnar Trumbull Empirical studies have consistently shown a capacity to coordinate when the collective interest is both material and evident. One of the early studies to assess the impact of group size on coordination... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
(defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk-free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory factor is the impact that commodities have on the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
how a social entrepreneur [GDBA chief executive Geraldine Peacock] used an innovative network approach to achieve tremendous mission impact by mobilizing resources and building capacity beyond GDBA's immediate control. The organization... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values - Recruiting
inclusion report to the CEO? Do they have the staffing and budget capacity required to make an impact not only in recruiting but also in creating organizational culture change?” It's also important for companies to understand individual... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
Bank and Gaza. “Claims, grievances, victimhood, and his cause are so much a part of Arafat's life that he's unable to give them up,” Ross stated. “There are revolutionaries who have a very hard time making the transition to being a statesman — what's required is a... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Business School Case 713-083 Valero Energy Corporation and Tight Oil Valero Energy, an incredibly successful U.S. refiner, needs to make some decisions about tight oil. As production of light tight oil increases-from Eagle Ford, Bakken and elsewhere-Valero considers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
facilities, well designed and equipped (parking, transportation, services) and located in key developing zones of Chinese growing cities. In the first 27 years, Red Star had opened 115 shopping malls in 85 different cities. With capacity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
the "institutional appropriateness" of their controls. Importantly, the fate of the competing control systems was contingent, not on how well their technologies addressed the problem of EurInsurance's capital adequacy, but rather on the controllers' View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
rapidly enough to continue to justify our standards of living, at least during the recent decade. JR: The things America is great at—higher education and entrepreneurial capacity and scientific and technical infrastructure—are very hard... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
very tough intellectual problem, because for every story of success, there is one of failure," she says. "In some ways, it's the users who win—the phenomenon makes us all richer in terms of the innovation capacity of our... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/219014-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 618-037 EKOL Logistics: Thinking Outside the Box This case describes Ekol, an intermodal transportation and logistics company, and how it manages View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 May 2025
- Blog Post
The Incredible Land of Ice and Fire: Exploring Iceland's Renewable Energy Model for a Changing Planet
Imagine a place where all electricity comes from clean sources, where most cars are EVs and can be charged on almost every street, where daily hot water for homes and pools is drawn from the depths of the Earth, and where sweet tomatoes can grow even in the starkest... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
even by those who have managed to achieve this kind of balance in their lives. In fact, it requires the capacity to concentrate on one or more dimensions of success up to the point of "just enough," then shift the emphasis to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program
non-western participants are committing significant resources to winning in those markets. The gulf between sophisticated African consumer preferences for products and services and resource and capacity constraints in many African... View Details
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
could replicate the success achieved in renewable energy, with India set to increase its clean energy capacity from its current 157GW to 497GW by 2030, as well as in water treatment, with requirements for decentralized sewage systems in... View Details
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Management Training Program: 1945 - 1955 | Baker Library
to issues they would face in the workplace. Management Training Program Fellowships, 1954-1955. Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Records. Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. The country's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
percent is spent on labor. Those factors inspired Andersen to found Augean Robotics (AGR), makers of an autonomous farm robot called Burro, which has the carrying capacity of a sure-footed donkey and the smarts of a deep-learning computer... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
humility. Multinationals want to exploit the tremendous opportunities in emerging markets, but they need to carefully evaluate the extent to which they have the local knowledge and capacity to fully exploit those opportunities. Segmenting... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace