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- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
Cases & Course MaterialsAcelero Learning: Building a Culture of Performance Harvard Business School Case 307-048 No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307048 Cintas y... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
widening the generational gap in using cryptocurrency, buying and storing art and wine with nonfungible tokens, trading new kinds of securities on new internet investment sites offering new features, and thinking up new applications for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
Performing Arts: Alternative Futures Allen Grossman and Coleman RadellHarvard Business School Case 311-099 Ren Levy took over Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts when it was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
Can the art and science of management help public schools improve student performance? In the fall of 2001, faculty and staff from the Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) began to discuss how... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
performance of the district's lowest performing schools. But, relatively few BTR graduates joined these schools-they were free to pursue teaching openings at any school in the district. Solomon knew the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
information flow through social media " Respondents described what increasingly will be required of leaders. Kapil Kumar Sopory said that "Leadership these days has become a complex art people with bias for listening, testing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
engineering development and construction projects. In what ways are the challenges of managing large, complex projects different from the challenges of managing other large industrial activities? How is it possible to evaluate the reasonableness of manager's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
value for customers, and extraordinary returns to investors. Neither had extensive schooling in business administration. John Bogle earned a liberal arts degree from Princeton. Herb Kelleher received his from Wesleyan, with majors in... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
arrangement and a commitment contract that made the $30 payment conditional on both attending the provider visit and meeting an ART adherence threshold. Third, the passive control arm received routine care and no incentives. Participants:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
performance of procedures rather than for accurate diagnosis and effective prevention. Aspinall and Hamermesh call for coordinating regulation and reimbursement so that incentives are provided for the right outcomes. Finally, the authors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Stephan Heblich, and William R. Kerr Abstract We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
desirable part of an employee’s day, our theory and results point to the benefits of viewing it as a useful time period to engage in goal-directed prospection. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50419 Diversity and Team View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
Summing Up "Good attitudes supercharge organizational performance beyond what the skill/talent level would indicate," according to Perry Miles. "Attitude is one of the strongest determinants of performance," added... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
future.” Book Excerpt Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies Ranjay Gulati Chapter 2: The Art of the Tradeoff If you buy Gotham Greens’ fresh produce, you’ll notice that it comes packaged in single-use plastic... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
These findings challenge previous recommendations for optimal advice-seeking behavior. Harvard Business School Case 617-059 Flashion: Art vs. Science in Fashion Retailing Kate Wilson, retail analytics manager at Flashion, a fashion... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
contribute to citations listed in issued patents—and that this could complicate interpretation of findings in this literature. In 2001 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) began reporting examiner and applicant citations separately. In this paper, we analyze... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
the rating system. He said that federal financial aid should go to those schools that perform the best. The President eventually abandoned the idea after hearing from many college presidents that there is simply no way to reliably rate... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
performance and health outcomes will mean that 2022 will be a year of learning and reflection. Digitization in health care should be seen as a means to an end—improving the quality, patient-centricity, equity, and convenience of the... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
makes huge investments to acquire, develop, and market concepts with strong hit potential, and then banks on the sales of those titles to make up for the middling performance of their other content. Today's leading film studios,... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
ensure accountability, cultivate collaboration, and encourage initiative. Individual and system accountability. Jim Kilts said it best: "A promise made is a promise kept." As we have seen, confidence is enhanced when people are held accountable and accept... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter