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- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
groceries and stocks have to do with public health? Quelch believes, for one thing, the market for public health could learn an important lesson from these other markets: There’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution, largely... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
very much of their profits in new technologies, instead returning profits to shareholders or holding cash? Or is too much of our innovation devoted to "cool apps" that actually reduce productivity? Yet others still argue for patience. There is a View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
planned to stay in Boston after graduation; part of her learning curve has been getting up to speed on the ins and outs of state and local government, as well as zoning regulations and other hurdles to... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
Black’s original conjectures, and the author highlights refinements and additions to the original list. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50338 November 2015 Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Influence of Experience and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
is bilingual, acted as interpreter.) Staffing For Peak Occupancy For many restaurants, some nights of the week attract more customers than others. A bistro packed with customers on the weekend might be half empty on a Tuesday. For Michelin-star restaurants, that... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
market—and we have to electrify it. And to do that, we have to solve the storage issue. “So, given that technology is going to change, I think the most important things to learn at HBS are how to manage teams and interface with others in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
that cases on subjects such as patient-driven health care and complexity and error in the medical field are now "seeded throughout the first- and second-year MBA Program." Pisano, who is working with Edmondson and Bohmer on a project examining View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
Campus roads are strategically curved so that no extended stretch of asphalt is visible from any point on campus. Such visual shielding of the bystander's perspective helps provide "as much domestic feeling as [is] reasonable"... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
attention has been given to how managers can effectively allocate work across tasks and time to improve workers' performance. In this paper, we use the learning curve framework to investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
There is a two-way learning curve between the traditional firms and those that are grounded in the Internet. Certainly the Internet-only operations have proved that online financial services are viable. The... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
confidence in security measures. In the meantime, firms must be careful not to push their customers into a realm where they are not comfortable. Two-Way Street There is a two-way learning curve between the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
TQM, which have worked in other sectors of the economy, without thinking about what's different about health care in terms of the knowledge base. Amy Edmondson, Richard Bohmer, and I did a study looking at learning View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
we’re selling them Coke Zero, Jettas, and GTIs. We’ve grown up with them, and that experience gave us a leg up on the learning curve about this cohort’s acceptance of the Internet, instant messaging, and... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
conclusion that's different than mine? They have some level of experience, some level of wisdom that I haven't learned yet, and there's something that I can take from this person. So how do I bring that out of this person so that I can... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
relentlessly. The learning curves point to improvements of 20% every time the globally installed capacity doubles. And already, in many parts of the United States and beyond, wind energy and even, solar... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
you to confront reality, grow capacity, fuel curiosity, and create change so you can bring fresh eyes and fresh thinking to your leadership approach; increase your confidence in your ability to make a difference; lead at levels you never thought possible, and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
same across the entire region, and we soon realized there was a huge opportunity. In 2010 we returned to Nigeria to set up AACE Foods, and subsequently Sahel Capital, which provides capital and technical support to agribusinesses within the region. We had a steep View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
footsteps." After five years of managing Uncle Dave's, Lyon left its day-to-day operations in the hands of his father and stepmother and entered HBS at the age of thirty. "I felt I had hit the top of the learning View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
chooses not to. As the would-be disruptor grows, it sharpens its ability to do what the competitor cannot do. This hamstrings future competitive response because the disruptor has the advantage of accumulated learning and knowledge. In... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Diffusion Curves Authors:Diego Comin, Bart Hobijn, and Emilie Rovito Periodical:Journal of Technology Transfer (forthcoming) Abstract This paper documents the sources and measures of the cross-country historical adoption technology (CHAT)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace