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- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
through organizational slack, and a tight coupling of evaluation with job tasks. The findings suggest that funders and nonprofits might gain more from investing in internal grantee capacities for lateral communication and coordination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
However, there is also considerable good news. More women are on career paths with high earnings potential today than ever before.7 They have yet to close the earnings gap completely, but their increasing capacity to create wealth allows... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
what.” I think this new information landscape has gotten completely beyond our understanding. The main actors running the show are private companies that work in ways we don’t totally understand, and I think the capacity of the United... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
made, not born. These primary qualities of leaders are formed in the "crucible of leadership" (as Bennis and Thomas define it, anything from an important mentoring relationship to a near-death or war-time experience). Leaders have the adaptive View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
math whiz,” Traill says. “I thought he had all the capacity to be an engineer, but his environment didn’t give him the opportunity to make the most of his gifts.” Traill recalls his arrival at HBS as a dramatic culture shift and one that... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
trained for a mass-casualty event but had never envisioned the magnitude of what they now saw. This case describes how they rapidly expanded the critical care capacity available so as to be able to handle the unexpectedly large number of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
South Carolina's Council on Competitiveness, New Carolina, is an organization with significant capacity to mobilize regional actors in various task forces and cluster initiatives. Showcasing the complexity and organizational challenges of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
weakening its capacity to achieve espoused goals and eroding public trust. In the private sector, institutional corruption typically entails gaming society's laws and regulations, tolerating conflicts of interest, persistently violating... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
the capacity to curb its influence. Empire-Building or Bridge-Building? Evidence from New CEOs' Internal Capital Allocation Decisions Author:Yuhai Xuan Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
Capacity to Do New Things Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih Periodical:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008) Abstract Most companies aren't half as innovative as their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
the area it covers on a city map, the mark would hardly be visible. Developing the infrastructure to sufficiently increase our oil capacity would be the equivalent of someone telling us we have to expand Boston by 30 percent over the next... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
high quality to think about. What does that do to the mix of students on our campus? What makes American universities great, and what makes American businesses great, relative to any other institutions in the world historically, has been a View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
employees. Yet with several important R&D projects still under development, and capacity needed in factories for many more months, Nokia's board and leaders wanted to avoid the mistakes the company had made in a plant shutdown in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA
employee, or a consultant. Faculty members can provide referrals to investors, firms, individuals, or other organizations as long as the referral does not represent a conflict of interest or result in personal financial gain. Faculty members serving in any advisory... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
stadium crowds cheering live sports? Angela: Well, I think you're one going to see sports played without fans first, then we'll see the six-feet-apart model where we'll go down to 20 percent capacity and maybe the private booths are... View Details
- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
such as new product launches, across business units and functions, and the focus has been much less on KM. Whether it is sharing knowledge, coordinating activities, or doing joint work across boundaries, the essence of a collaborative approach is the same: to instill... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 03 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen
a plant to grow a new flower. The total capacity of the 4.5-hectare greenhouse is 400 roses/m² per year. The growers use a mix of extensive experience and technology to efficiently grow a high-quality product. Throughout the greenhouse,... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
to be the best version of themselves. Indeed, Rodríguez’s colleagues at Gentera—a financial services firm focused on underserved communities—can’t imagine running the firm without his involvement. Working in various capacities over the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
Carolinas, many hospitals don't have the resources, commitment, and management capacity to build and oversee a complex data analytics system. Insurance companies: Large insurance companies, such as UnitedHealth and Humana, are... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
http://hbr.org/product/rail-transportation-in-the-united-states/an/314084-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-098 Flying High, Landing Low: Strengths and Challenges for U.S. Air Transportation The U.S. air transportation system flies high on some indicators,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne