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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
"Soul." "Spirit." A host of organizations - among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines - have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
providers are beginning to offer unique services, creating the facilities and organizations to effectively deliver them, and gathering the data to show superior performance and to continue to improve. Public policy can help accelerate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
research findings, including highlights from an unprecedented HBS alumni survey on competitiveness, are presented in a special March issue of the Harvard Business Review. “The extensive data we’ve reviewed show that US competitiveness is eroding, but its further... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
teaching, in the Harvard Business Analytics Program. I also think we'll find the boundaries across these different learning modes far more porous, as I just described, because while we value greatly the residential learning experience on... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
long-term impact on the practice and thinking in this field will reach its full potential. From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management Author:Anette Mikes Publication:Accounting, Organizations and Society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
organized systems for improvement. Traditional structures and cultures within AHCs, although well suited to the tripartite missions of teaching, research, and clinical care, are not easily adaptable to the tasks of measuring, reporting,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
It’s a problem that is “capitalism’s Achilles heel,” declares Raymond Baker (MBA ’60), executive director of the Washington, D.C.–based organization Global Financial Integrity (GFI). This month at the G20 conference in Canada, Baker will... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
employee departure rates in stores where the manager is likely to be more informed than headquarters (e.g., in stores that are far from headquarters or that serve repeat customers). Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
diversification into the technology intensive TFT-LCD flat panel display industry. Because the diversification is far away from its core competence in petrochemicals, it is an opportunity to examine how the firm was able to become a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
not seen as making progress when you don't have solutions to show. I would argue it's just as important as solving problems. Organizations can do a wonderful job at solving the wrong problems." Figure out how to solve the problem. "The... View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
conversations with people at the company. Not every cleantech startup I talked to had opportunities that were a good fit for an early-career MBA like me; some were too far from commercialization and too focused on solving technical... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
driven people as quickly as it’s hiring them. The diversity discussion has so far mostly been centered on how to get diverse talent in the door. This is a start, but we also need to talk about how to set this talent up for success once... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
medicine. In 2000, Platanus opened the Yoga Urban Clinic. They logged 47 visitors on opening day, many of them supportive friends and family. Day two: 17 patients. Even as the numbers sank far below their break-even goal of 60, the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
in the strength of agglomeration economies in Silicon Valley, but historically its origins lay in the East Coast. Notably, immediate post-WWII efforts to establish the American Research and Development Corporation created a precedent for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
shoulder. “What the hell’s the Navy doing here?” asked one American airman as five more men emerged. Despite Green’s uniform, the men weren’t there under the auspices of the Navy, but instead at the direction of the Office of Strategic Services, a nimble new... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
highlighted in Chapter 1. In this case, newly competitive technology of open platforms not only shaped individual organizations but changed the structure of the entire industry. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
Coalition, an organization coordinating business, government, and nonprofit efforts to improve India’s water quality and health outcomes. Naina Lal Kidwai: This was not a sexy business. You don't want to put your name to toilets. You're... View Details
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
Leadership: Advancing the Field By Scott A. Snook, Nitin Nohria, and Rakesh Khurana It has been more than twenty-five years since a handful of intrepid associates in West Point's Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership published their pioneering work,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Fabio Consoli One year after the pandemic mandated an abrupt shift to working from home for millions of people, organizations are taking a long, hard look at how and where employees work—and why. In... View Details