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- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
narrower span. She must focus on compliance with standard operating procedures, and she is monitored through detailed input and process measures. The span of influence. The third span corresponds to the width of the net that an individual needs to cast in View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
frequently the case in Latin America, such a license should not be taken for granted, especially when collection of tolls appears to be a rather unpopular means of funding, as revealed from several of our interviews.6 Another example... View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
she befriended the descendants of coffee entrepreneurs, interviewed local historians, and pored over old documents in the backrooms of rural municipal buildings. Click on image to view slideshowProduction Zones and Collection Points for... View Details
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
members could publicly announce their weekly savings goal. At subsequent meetings, members showed deposit slips to verify how much they had saved. Those who showed proof of savings received a sticker in a booklet. Those who collected... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
system. Business leaders know that what is measured will improve. A critical step is to expect outcome measurement by providers for each medical condition, adjusted for patient population. Over time, outcome measures should be defined and View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Putting the Project Puzzle Together
critical. Q: Most large organizations manage their portfolios as a collection of projects, rather than as an integrated portfolio. Yet, as you write, the practice of using investment portfolio management techniques to manage project... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
these suits are being brought by nonpracticing entities (NPEs), firms that don’t actually generate products, but collect massive amounts of patent portfolios. Lauren H. Cohen, the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance Unit at HBS, said... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
provided for needed reinvestment in city services, but low recoveries for unsecured creditors. The city's plan also proposed that the Detroit Art Collection be transferred to a trust funded by philanthropists, with the proceeds accruing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
managers, and the company ends up as a collection of feudal baronies. This is a recipe for long-term failure, say the authors. Their research of 12 top management teams at major companies suggests that firms thrive only when senior teams... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
learning. Instead of one teacher delivering the entire math curriculum to a class of 20-25 students, School of One utilized a technology platform that allowed several teachers to collectively oversee the learning of a larger group of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
there are a few for-profit charter school companies. The schools have their own boards of directors, and usually are not obligated to abide by any collective bargaining agreements that exist for teachers and principals in their local... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
fronts. He persuaded Melvin Copeland, a noted marketing professor, to change his planned textbook to a collection of business "problems." Published in September 1920, it became the first business casebook. Donham also... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
more directly to gender inequality in organizations by incorporating insights from research on gender in intra-household and collective bargaining. Taken together, these literatures illuminate how negotiations at the individual,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
being in second place, it’s a pretty good place to be.” Consumers end up paying more To study how pricing algorithms affect competition, MacKay and Brown collected detailed pricing data from five large, multicategory retailers selling the... View Details
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
typically lease a large fraction of their assets, and for steel- and automakers that have large unionized workforces, which will give them greater leverage to renegotiate collective bargaining agreements. But Chapter 11 will be less... View Details
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
schedules and to avoid the possibility of more companies pulling out of the project. "We just hung on for dear life and moved as quickly as we could after they said yes," Margolis says. Collecting and processing data from a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
(coauthored with Joanna Radin), Perspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100, has just been released. The book collects views on the work and challenges of the agency from FDA officials past and present, as well as from executives... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
collection on an American consumer and how credit agencies share the information to determine proper credit risk and worthiness of a consumer. The American system as defined in this note can be contrasted against the lack of developed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
problem is that these managers don't know what metrics to measure or how to interpret the results. They may collect all manner of plausible marketing-performance metrics, from customer satisfaction to retention, but if these can't be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
calculations also indicate that book-tax conformity could reduce tax rates considerably, as a 15 percent tax on book-pretax profits (just for public companies) would provide the same amount of corporate tax revenues being collected today.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen