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- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
lack thereof" (Suzette van Aswegen). Social responsibility, sustainability, and globalization were high on the list of ideas for further investigation. Pete DeLisi pulled this together in commenting that "'collective impact' is just now starting to get some... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
Thanks to the pioneering success of Toyota, the concept of a "lean" operating system has been implemented in countless manufacturing companies and even adapted for industries as diverse as insurance and healthcare. With its... View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning from My Success and From Others’ Failure: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
- 12 Apr 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
From Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark
- 17 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Being the Boss
determining an employee's level of engagement with the work. 2 We know of a small-company owner, a warm, decent woman, so pressed for time she consciously decided to avoid small talk at the office. She never opened up to people about... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization
- 11 Jul 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Managing Proprietary and Shared Platforms: A Life-Cycle View
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
proximity that clusters provide, companies can do things together without formal ownership or legal relationships. And this kind of flexibility opens up more possibilities for change and dynamism, which are crucial ingredients in a modern... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 03 Jan 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Banking Deregulation, Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship
- 13 Jan 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Private Equity and Industry Performance
- 19 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
4 Updates About Peek Weekend at HBS
someday.” Given the overwhelmingly positive response to last year’s event, HBS will once again be offering Peek Weekend – but is evolving the concept this summer. Here are four things you should know about 2016 Peek Weekend. 1. Peek... View Details
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
in the book the different roles, frequencies, participants, and agendas for operational review meetings and strategy review meetings. We open the book with a great quote often but perhaps inaccurately attributed to Sun Tzu in The Art of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
"make the numbers" every quarter? Is it dangerous or misleading to give too much emphasis to the idea that profits are a by-product of many other policies and practices? Is it wise to communicate this concept to all levels of an... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
finance." For example, when investors hold onto stock they've received in an acquisition—taking the path of least resistance—it keeps those shares off the open market and makes the price relatively higher than it would have been... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
coordination that resulted in their developing self-regulation programs were sparked by crises, including the chemical industry after the Bhopal accident and the nuclear power industry after the Three Mile Island incident. We also examined new forms of collaboration,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation
Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Feng Zhu
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
trying to discern who influences the target player and to whom that player defers. For example, when we were advising a client who was eager to sell his company, we counseled him against his instincts to quickly open serious negotiations... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
experience. In the fourth phase we begin to listen better and to be open to a new type of information. We are pushed to the edge of our concrete, more purely analytic ways of understanding, and we begin to appreciate complexity and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Monetary Policy and Long-Term Real Rates
Keywords: by Samuel G. Hanson & Jeremy C. Stein