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- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
leaking outside the factory,” says Toffel. This all indicates that improving working conditions through social monitoring is a learning process that depends on both the quality and the quantity of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Visits NYC
suburbs and as environmental consciousness grows. My mission is to pursue a career improving public transportation, and this summer experience, which is more operational than my previous management consulting and transportation analytics... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
Companies need to have smart technicians who stay abreast of emerging digital threats and defenses, of course, but the technicians shouldn't be calling the shots. General managers need to take the lead in building processes that will... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
production facility that are different from typical original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). And the vehicle’s design allows for an efficient production process at low volumes and with manual labor. Because of these innovations, Yong says... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
sentence structure.” Synthesis borrowed the use of narrative psychology from the IDF, which uses it to understand team dynamics and improve unit cohesion. If a company chooses Synthesis’ premium products, the results are analyzed by a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
transaction data from a Japanese bank's home loan application processing line. We find that over the course of a single day, specialization, as compared to variety, is related to improved worker... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) - Course Catalog
spring course, Strategies for Value Creation - Abridged (SVC-S) 1418, students cannot take both of them. Career Focus This course provides a general management perspective on corporate finance and is designed to improve your ability to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
compensation does not result in improved performance in American companies, they conclude, corporations abroad should resist pressures to tie incentives to individual and unit performance. Two Best Ways? When HBS assistant professor... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
focuses on incentives, responsibilities, and structures, we adopt a process perspective and find that integration was achieved despite an incentive structure which did not support it. By drawing a distinction between the incentive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
valuable product. “Nature, through photosynthesis, has figured out how to convert carbon dioxide and water into all types of things, from wood and fibers to fruits and grains,” he observes. Surely humans could use this natural process—one that’s worked for 3.5 billion... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
experience and performance fails to find a consistent effect of diversity in experience on performance. The problem is that diversity in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
assets. Once people understood the need to deal with order cycle details, they were able to process more orders with greater satisfaction with less inventory. This significantly improved return on... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
between the FASB and the IASB would allow GAAP to better respond to market forces. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1413775 The Effect of Market Leadership in Business Process Innovation: The Case(s)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
acre) greenhouse. Currently in its fourth generation, the company is run by three Van den Ende brothers: Sam, Tim and Bob. They gave us a quick overview of the greenhouse and the processing hall with an automated production line capable... View Details
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Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
demonstrated the negative effects on decision-making under distress. We are conducting a series of experiments to better quantify the impacts on service operations and to identify ways that the operating design could improve both the... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
productivity implications from increased information technology. "We often look at systems on the basis of their technical capability, the fact that they can store this many records or process that many requests in this period of time.... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
and the needs of his or her new employer.Not all managers are equally suited to all business situations. The strategic skills required to control costs in the face of fierce price competition are not the same as those required to improve... View Details
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
alternative to advance the decarbonization journey in steel and cement. However, seeing the combination of different projects JSW is deploying and the sustainability culture permeating all levels of the organization was very heartwarming, as well as encouraging, and... View Details
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Marco Crespo
Marco Crespo's story is one of continuity. Before attending HBS, he had been active in the Ayrton Senna Foundation, a Brazilian nonprofit founded by a world-famous Formula 1 race car driver, dedicated to improving public education. While... View Details