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- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
workforce is not a quick fix to control costs or improve the quality of care. A poorly planned redesign can even result in increased costs and decreased quality. Changes in skill mix and role definitions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
forecasts to align investors' expectations with their own, we predict that managers increased the quality of their earnings forecasts during the 1990s in order to keep pace with the improved forward-looking... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
international general manager. "After the earthquake, I was asked to serve on the government commission charged with improving Japan's IT and telecom emergency preparedness and responsiveness," he says. "Over 500 central and local... View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
with lower quality ratings from the incumbents: rating levels went up, the correlation between ratings and market-implied yields fell, and the ability of ratings to predict default deteriorated. We offer several possible explanations for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
of collective action. While the available evidence is generally consistent with these theories, there is a dearth of quality evidence. Moreover, a large part of the variation in access to public goods seems to have nothing to do with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
seem unlikely soil for agribusiness, the School actually had an ag industry course before I arrived. And Dean David, who himself came from an agribusiness background, wanted to improve the relationships in the value-added food system.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
Performance of Indian Manufacturing By: Ghani, Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
check without sacrificing quality overall. "My class gets a big bang out of the sheer volume of the notes," comments Arthur W. "Artie" Buerk (MBA '63), who is serving a second term as the HBS Alumni Association's chief class... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
"these businesses realize that their home markets alone aren't big enough to let them grow their companies." For nearly four decades, Greylock has remained true to its founders' principles of "establishing a quality reputation, proving... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
contextual features influence the expression of these needs, sustaining or undermining the positive emotional experiences that fuel work engagement. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53578 December 2017 Mayo Clinic Proceedings:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Schools (NLNS) is a national nonprofit organization devoted to improving education for all children by attracting and preparing the next generation of outstanding leaders for urban public schools. NLNS aggressively recruits extremely... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
shift from risk-averse studios to smaller, independent entities. He believes the low quality of recent movies is responsible in part for decreasing box office receipts, a situation that he says will correct itself as smaller producers... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
communication technology that works with the same cellular spectrums that telecommunications companies use. Since that first experiment four years ago, Project Loon has improved balloon steerability, connectivity, and stamina—the balloons... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
Germany. However, they improved on the process, patented it, and one of the engineers moved back to the United States to introduce the innovations back there. The one who had gone in the 1930s remained in Germany and licensed the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
products but erroneously expect others to dislike dissimilar ones (Studies 1 and 2). While people readily select dissimilar items for themselves (particularly if the dissimilar item is of higher quality than a similar one), they fail to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
the elements of our Credo focused on creating a community unified in its mission to improve quality of life.” The release goes on to note that Edwards has partnered with firms that have expertise in using... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
improve productivity and efficiency in their daily operations, so did HBS faculty find themselves in the position of trying to determine if and how information technology could add value in a curriculum deeply rooted in a tradition of... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
and directed care as needed. The model aimed to improve care quality by enabling early interventions and reducing adverse events and to cut costs by allowing clinicians to care for a larger number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
short-term success and long-term innovation Build your organization’s architecture by understanding the relationship between its hardware (structure, processes, and systems) and its software (capabilities and culture) Discover how to set strategy, View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman