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- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
managers and supervisors of workers, and their lived experience, and the human resources function is really quite surprising. HR, particularly in big companies, just tends to see data. They’re not talking to supervisors who say, “My best... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
visibility outside its areas of expertise. In their study of these two financial institutions, the authors identified four competencies-trailblazing, toolmaking, teamwork, and translation-that help functional leaders or groups compete for... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
multinationals toward organization-wide rationalization. Efficiencies and commonalities have emerged, particularly with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance and control. In addition,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
second—simply increasing the amount of air brought into an office, something nearly every office can easily do, had a quantifiable benefit to higher-order cognitive function in knowledge workers,” Macomber and Allen write. Macomber is... View Details
- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
internalizing advertising services decreases as the size of its advertising expenditures increases. Q: How long does it take for an organization to establish a fully functioning in-house advertising agency? A: The length of time required... View Details
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in 1997 as a member of the Strategy Unit. His special area of interest is examining the interactions that occur between and across the various functional and product boundaries of the... View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
specific type of "risk talk" as a legitimate, cross-functional language of business. Thereby the risk-management function may be most successful when it resists conventional and conflicting demands to be either close to, or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
how are they borrowing it and how much does it cost? As a function of all of that, it's possible to compute a profitable range of delay and then to compute an optimal point within the range. Typically it seems like a delay between two and... View Details
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the interdisciplinary nature of the work and industry trends necessitate that professionals from different functions work together on development projects to create the highest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
move up-market, there may be increasing opportunities in sales, production, and other functional areas to leverage resources between the old and new businesses. The integrator can help facilitate this process, or a small team from one of... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
personality characteristic, it is a learned skill. Entrepreneurs try to deal with uncertainty explicitly by running experiments, by not taking risks. An entrepreneur doesn't seek risk; he or she tries to minimize risk. By stressing experimentation and risk management,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
functionality the company used, such as a pricing system tied to the company’s commodity hedging positions on a real-time, as well as off-the-shelf systems, for recording financial transactions and reporting, purchasing, warehouse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
(multidimensional) objective functions of executive participants and their organizations and show how the trio of disruptive forces (disintermediation, disaggregation, and decoupling) that have figured prominently in other industries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
well." High-status organizations tend to be buffered from environmental shocks and more likely to survive adverse circumstances and perform better than low-status organizations. Organizational status is usually a function of size and... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
Tony Domit, vice president of a network business unit, began developing a method that used off-the-shelf components to perform the Xerox networked printer-controller functions. Domit's solution used an IBM personal computer, some special chips, and a controller board... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
theoretical framework contribute to our understanding of the nature of expert influence and how and why functional groups, such as risk managers, can become influential. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-068.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
lines," rather than around the functions or disciplines of the care providers. It is equivalent to a product rather than a process focus. Unfortunately, it is not clear whether the benefits of this new healthcare model are sufficient... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
financial capital markets. You can see that the U.S. has less reason to feel the need to move quickly to IAS. However, even the U.S. is feeling pressure to have similar standards to be a fully functioning part of the global economy. For... View Details
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
visual and econometric evidence now backs it up. But it moves the question from how to develop your isolated internal R&D function to how to manage a collection of transient professionals who are constantly communicating and moving.... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
technical champion, trusted advisor, and engaged toolmaker-and trace the movements of experts between these positions. Our empirical findings and theoretical framework contribute to our understanding of the nature of expert influence and how and why View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne