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  • 2007
  • Article

Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process

By: Amy C. Edmondson, James R. Dillon and Kate Roloff
The emergence of a research literature on team learning has been driven by at least two factors. First, longstanding interest in what makes organizational work teams effective leads naturally to questions about how members of newly formed teams learn to work together... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Practice; Groups and Teams; Research; Adaptation; Cooperation
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  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

volatility, whereas shadow banks tend to hold relatively liquid assets. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/banks_20150305_FINAL.pdf March 2015 Production and Operations Management Managing the Performance Tradeoffs from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

Does Gender Diversity in Management Enhance Performance? Why? A variety of explanations for the positive correlation between gender diversity and better business performance found in a recent McKinsey study were advanced in responses to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Curriculum - Business & Environment

KHC/3G's offer undervalued Unilever and its long-term value creation strategy. Engine No.1: An Impact Investing Firm Engages with ExxonMobil Key concepts: Impact Investing; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance Invest or... View Details
  • 2012
  • Other Unpublished Work

Selection, Reallocation, and Knowledge Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Productivity Gains from Multinational Activity

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie X. Chen
The impact of multinational activity on host-country productivity has been a major topic of economic research. A positive impact can be attributed to knowledge spillovers from foreign multinational to domestic firms or a less stressed, alternative explanation—firm... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Productivity; Supply and Industry; Knowledge; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

broadly consistent with theory. Quantitatively, the network-based propagation is larger than the direct effects of the shocks. We also show quantitatively large effects from the geographic network, capturing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

of capitalism, and it demonstrates the unsettling effects of the rise of the United States on European powers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53430 2017 Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

president of the company's e-commerce business, a key strategic initiative for the future success of the company. The best managers are those who have an appetite for learning and are willing to work on themselves. This manager, like the other View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
  • Web

People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

economics at Columbia Business School. Professor Di Maggio’s current research focuses on financial intermediation with a particular focus on how new technologies have disrupted financial markets and its effects on firms and individuals.... View Details
  • August 23, 2018
  • Article

Using a New EHR System to Increase Patient Engagement, Improve Efficiency, and Decrease Cost

By: Katy French, Barbra Bryce Speer, Alexis B. Guzman, Tayab Andrabi, Iris Recinos, Keith A. Shook, James R. Incalcaterra, John C. Frenzel and Thomas W. Feeley
Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own medical information into the EHR. Prior to the implementation of the new EHR we... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Efficiency; Cost Management
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  • April 2019
  • Article

Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence

By: Andrea Blasco, Olivia S. Jung, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael Menietti
Understanding why employees go the extra mile at work is a key problem for many organizations. We conduct a field experiment at a medical organization to study motivations for employees to submit project proposals for organizational improvement. In total, we analyze... View Details
Keywords: Field Experiment; Innovation; Contest; Incentives; Free-rider Problem; Healthcare Organizations; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Performance Improvement; Perspective
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  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

are associated with a large positive influence on the foreign direct investment that flows between them. Moreover, we show that this effect occurs not only in the case of IGOs that focus on economic issues, but also on those with social... View Details
  • April 2011
  • Case

Designs by Kate: The Power of Direct Sales

By: John A. Deighton and Sarah Abbott
The sales representatives at Designs by Kate (DBK) sell private label jewelry at hosted parties and through online social media channels. They are also responsible for recruiting, training, and managing new sales reps. CEO and founder Kate Creevey designed the... View Details
Keywords: Direct Sales; Consumer Marketing; Marketing Management; Personal Selling; Sales Compensation; Sales Organization; Motivation and Incentives; Marketing Strategy; Salesforce Management; Performance; Compensation and Benefits; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • October 1992 (Revised December 1992)
  • Case

American Connector Company (A)

By: Gary P. Pisano
American Connector Co. is forced to reexamine operations at its Sunnyvale plant when a Japanese competitor announces plans to build an "ultimate" plant in the United States. Case examines issues related to benchmarking a competitor's manufacturing capabilities and... View Details
Keywords: Production; Infrastructure; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Policy; Strategic Planning; Performance Productivity; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance Effectiveness; Sunnyvale; Japan
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  • March 1996 (Revised February 1999)
  • Case

Vistakon: 1 Day Acuvue Disposable Contact Lenses

By: Alvin J. Silk, Bruce Issacson and Marie Bell
Vistakon, an independent and entrepreneurial subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, pioneered the production and marketing of disposable contact lenses with the 1987 launch of Acuvue, the first disposable extended-wear lens--a soft contact lens that patients wear for a... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Business Subsidiaries; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Price; Risk Management; Marketing; Product Positioning; Production; Performance Effectiveness; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • 18 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

some of the tasks a marketplace needs to accomplish to perform well. In particular, marketplaces work well when they provide thickness to the market, help it deal with the congestion that thickness can bring, and make it safe for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

that more intensive people management is a worthwhile investment of a founder’s time.” Effective human resource management is more than just keeping the paperwork flowing. “You also need to focus on the strategic part of managing people... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • August 2008
  • Article

Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion

By: William R. Kerr
This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Ethnicity; Production; Integration; Knowledge Sharing; Patents; Employment; Performance Productivity; Entrepreneurship; Change; Developing Countries and Economies; Immigration; China; United States
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  • Web

Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

conscience into a professional field. Order article at Harvard Business Online This article is also available in the book On Competition . Feb 2002 Center for Effective Philanthropy Foundation Performance... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

Nineteen years ago, Harvard Business School professor Linda A. Hill wrote the first edition of her book Becoming a Manager, detailing the experiences of several first-year supervisors who were making the daunting transition from star View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel