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- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
Lakhani, and Michael E. Menietti Abstract—Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
company posted a net loss of $954,410, and employee numbers hovered around 300. 6 “With the falling-off of military income, we have reduced the number of our employees substantially, preserving the essential effectiveness of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
notes. “This mutual adjustment eventually becomes the norm within an organization.” At Philip Morris International’s Beijing office, Andy Klump says, “There is an emerging international business style, but it varies dramatically by company. While Dell China’s View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Psychology/Health/?view=usa&ci=9780199734610 A Positive Approach to Studying Diversity in Organizations Authors:Lakshmi Ramarajan and David A. Thomas Publication:Chap. 41 in The Oxford... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
making the widgets that the tool produces. And these days, those tools are not only for production, but they are also the tools for designing things—the computerized design and modeling systems for sophisticated electronic and mechanical parts. They make it View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
vehicles far outstrips the currently available supply. On the federal front, President Biden has issued an executive order asking every agency to have zero emissions vehicles in their fleets. However, Erika warned that those agencies... View Details
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
demonstrate this special kind of Energy, I am reminded of Jim Cash, who was the head of our MBA program when I joined the school 30 years ago. As many of you experienced this year, we tend to have long winters in Boston. To celebrate the much-awaited arrival of spring,... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
Manage yourself: Learn that management isn't about getting things done yourself. It's about accomplishing things through others; 2) Manage a network: Understand how power and influence work in your organization and build a network of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
a new sector on top of existing infrastructure and industries is in fact the best way for a city to accelerate the growth of an entrepreneurial ecosystem—better by far than attempting to replicate the Silicon Valley model, which developed... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
lack of data about the actual returns of a specific set of companies in this early-stage category has resulted in an ongoing philosophical debate that to date has been based largely on anecdotal investor experience. As far as we could... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
ineluctable advance . In a speech from late in the 1990s, George Stalk Jr. MBA ’78, arguably BCG’s leading thinker on strategy over the prior fifteen years — and certainly the firm’s most prolific — neatly summed up the main themes of the era, in the process making... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
what we have done thus far and think about, ‘How do you make this a truly transformative experience if we need to continue with online learning in the fall?’” says Kim, who teaches the second-year MBA course Transforming Education through... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-113.pdf Key Drivers of Successful Implementation of an Employee Suggestion-Driven Improvement Program Authors:Anita L. Tucker and Sara J. Singer Abstract Service organizations frequently implement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
building trust in intercultural negotiations with an emphasis on cultural intelligence-the capacity to adapt effectively across cultures. From the Outside In: The Negative Spillover Effects of Boundary Spanners' Relations with Members of Other View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
Rewards Of Channel Stewardship The concept of channel stewardship is meant to appeal to any organization in the distribution channel that wants to bring a disciplined approach to channel strategy. As mentioned, a channel steward might be... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
how to manage vendors, equipment suppliers, and customers; how to conduct research, and so on. The final section surveys how to take the organization to a different level and sustain it: How do you make the transition? We discuss several... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
fixing market capitalism? Business—not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death rates than a matched control group of non-adopters. Among surviving employers, ISO adopters had higher growth rates for sales, employment,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
Geographic Region Author:Mukti Khaire Abstract Most of what organizational scholars know about new industry emergence and entrepreneurship in new industries comes from studies of completely new industries that were born out of technological innovations. We know View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace