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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
be such a big information tradeoff,” she says. For the NIH, the benefits of more expertise at the judging tables are likely to far outweigh potential bias. “Expertise vs. Bias in Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH,” by Danielle Li, HBS... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Leading Quietly
instance. "Preparation, caution, care, and attention to detail are usually the best approach to everyday challenges," writes Badaracco. "What usually matters are careful, thoughtful, small, practical efforts by people working far from the... View Details
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
company's mission on behalf of customers. They should be given full responsibility for performance, quality, achievement of goals, and compliance with company standards. To realize this change, organizational structures need to change. Dramatically. For starters,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
the company-and never left. The original business model reflects how far the world economy has come in just over two decades. "Mainland China was just opening up," Yang says. "Although joint ventures, not to mention private ownership,... View Details
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
drew attention to the resource allocation process (RAP) with his seminal study of four organizations in 1970. He concluded that a bottom-up process of idea generation begun by operational managers and shaped by middle management works best when top management (too... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
paper concludes that savings contributes to growth in locations where entrepreneurs and companies lack access to necessary technological advances, in countries far away from the "technological frontier." To overcome this... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
"take it or leave it" proposition. Amazon and eBay don't renegotiate Web services standards with each seller; they simply publish their standards and wait for other companies to adopt them. So far Web services are being used to... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
company pressed forward with launches of GMO food products in Europe, giving far too little weight to the fact that Europeans were still reeling from the mad cow disease crisis, reports of dioxin-contaminated chicken, and numerous other... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
instead, it has become integrated with the whole manufacturing process—David Upton But once that decision has been made, "sitting" is far from the operative word for IT systems, which require the same kind of continuous... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 03 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
HiHome Sweet HiHome
out in their user interviews was the complicated spreadsheets compiled by potential buyers. On these spreadsheets, buyers listed every home they were considering, along with relevant data such as price, square footage, number of rooms and other features. Some even went... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
ensure adequate liquidity. Recall that after New Deal financial regulation was put in place in the 1930s, the country didn’t suffer another major crisis until deregulation commenced nearly fifty years later — by far the longest stretch of... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
The Supreme Court has spoken, and its ruling last Friday has evoked myriad responses from across the United States—from the far right to the far left, from small businesses to giant corporations, from... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
Scratching the surface
as many people as these two years will allow. Meeting others is by far what I was most looking forward to. Before this, I worked primarily in insulated, small-team environments where opportunities to branch beyond your project or group... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Exploring Global Business Practices
development, teaching, and the dissemination of ideas that enhance global understanding. HBS is committed to extending the School’s intellectual impact far beyond its campus. With more than a third of MBA students and two-thirds of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons from a Megacity
of formal public transportation options and informal, private buses (combis) that struggled to serve the capital city of a far more economically stable Peru. In interviews with residents, the team learned that Limeans used as many as four... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
A Man without a Pause
it into a far more effective organization, championing such causes as debt relief for poor nations and the opening of rich countries’ markets to exports from developing nations. For him and his wife, Elaine, the service was “the most... View Details
- 27 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right
are provided on how to return recalled products (including downloadable application forms and shipping mailers), which suggests strong contingency planning. Where Mattel has fallen short so far is in compensation. Mattel is offering... View Details
- Fast Answer
Real estate: emerging markets
href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/go/wdi.html" target="_blank" title="World Development Indicators">World Development Indicators Statistics for almost 600 development indicators (including public health, environment, education, and labor force) dating as View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
some HBS classes, including those in which edu.com was developed as a business plan. After moving back home to launch his company, Adam didn't look far for his first partner. "I was doing some consulting work and considering opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 Feb 2011
- News
Rebooting the Human Condition
looking for quirky characters, with extraordinary visions, who can make people feel that what they do should make you smile and think.” The epitome of an outside-the-box thinker, Enriquez boasts a lineage reaching far back into prominent... View Details