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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
assets; they aren't hamstrung by substantial resource allocation decisions, giving them remarkable flexibility. Now incumbent firms are seeing their competitive position eroded by technology, alternative staffing models, and other forces.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
talent, and resources of the leading organizations in an established system always are absorbed in improving their best products, which are sold to address the most demanding applications in the industry. Why? Because the high end of most... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
several very large companies cannot, on their own, get us there. In fact, historically, no big environmental problem, from air and water pollution to acid rain or ozone depletion, has ever been solved by businesses volunteering to do the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
"teammates." The case gives students the opportunity to explore how a mission-driven Fortune 500 company can leverage its own resources and HR expertise to partner with non-corporate entities to create social value and support... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
create a course of action. She acknowledges that this is easier said than done, especially when a bad boss has created a culture of fear. But teaming up to effect change need not require a palace coup. "If you test the waters in very... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone to pull in the same direction. How do you accomplish all this? Continually ask the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
challenges that the food system of the future presents: a changing climate, booming global population, the need for increased production of nutritious foods, and scarce land and water resources among many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
resources to meeting that customer's needs. This article will show you how to identify the best primary customer for your business by analyzing perspective, capabilities, and profit potential; allocate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
Christopher Parsons Abstract—The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
phrase "tragedy of the commons" to describe a system in which people acting rationally and in their own self-interest destroy the very resources they all share for their livelihood. His original example was of colonial farmers.... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
businesses that scale undergo a graduation process in which they meet the varying expectations of multiple organizational resource providers. At the unit level, they convince established core units that the potential value from combining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in consistently hiring people aligned with company values, it can also neglect unit managers’ knowledge about which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
and Sarah E. FarrellHarvard Business School Note 412-050 This note provides background on the complex issues regarding the supply and consumption of water and how this natural resource is at increasing risk,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
several proof-of-concept tests and for which Rey foresaw a clear market in nutritional supplements and functional foods. The case provides context on the company; describes advances in crops genetics focused to climate change and associated View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
Southeastern Pennsylvania University Hospital. He must balance his time taking care of patients, running a practice, managing up, down, and laterally, managing stars with little formal authority, allocating resources fairly, developing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
happiness is even bigger than would be predicted if income was the only argument in the utility function. In other words, introducing omitted variables worsens the income-without-happiness paradox. A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
examine whether centralized hiring (in this study, by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (by store managers) leads to better employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman