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Supply Chain Inventory Planning

My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

medical errors tend to have multiple, systemic causes. In addition, she made structural changes within the organization to create a context in which failure could be identified, analyzed, and learned from. To create a forum for learning... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Finance & Investing Understanding risk, identifying opportunity, and managing investments in the context of climate change The global financial landscape is increasingly being shaped by factors associated with... View Details

04 Feb 2010
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What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

information available, history, experience, the number of deciders, and so forth. Nevertheless, several comments reflected an uneasy fondness for a good dose of intuition in the mix. Guy Gould-Davies' comment was particularly insightful: "The idea of using feeling... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Nov 2003
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Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

Board Scorecard, and the Executive Scorecard. These Scorecards clarify goals, priorities, processes, and ownership, and define the linkages between desired financial results and the actions needed to achieve them. Context Professor Palepu... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

01 Jun 2022
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Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?

style: “The topics may be changing and doctrines of the past subject to change or reversal, but well-framed questions and diverse examination of case collateral, done well, creates a discovery mindset and challenges a knowing mindset helpful in the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

might be more efficient to move the patients to where the doctors are as long as we are not compromising the health care of the patients." Khanna recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss the globalization of health care in the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

2015
Working Paper

Competitiveness and Clusters: Implications for a New European Growth Strategy

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

This paper develops policy recommendations on the use of cluster-based economic policies and the adoption of a new concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline.
A first section discusses and derives an... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; Clusters; Economic Policy; European Union; Competition; Industry Clusters; Policy; Economic Growth; European Union

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12 Oct 2017
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Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

all residents,” he notes. Majors emphasizes that he and his colleagues are careful to “listen first and talk later.” “Each neighborhood’s context and assets are unique. There is no cookie-cutter solution. Many clients have been battling... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

13 Apr 2009
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Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

studied in other contexts as part of a larger project on innovation. One of the big problems in innovation is how to free yourself from preconceptions, to get outside your expectations and normal tendencies, so that you can create... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

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What Black Executives Really Want

insecure, and unable to deliver their best work because of the environment in which they were operating. They were surviving, but not thriving. WHAT SOLUTIONS DID YOUR RESEARCH SUBJECTS OFFER? I put it to them this way. "If you were going to create the workplace View Details

18 Aug 2008
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How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

our schools." The ability of these lenses to shed new light on complicated problems has been proven in contexts ranging from national defense to semiconductors; from health care to retailing; and from automobiles to financial... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

connected to a VC Quiz yourself on the key steps of the financing process Practice interpreting the provisions on a term sheet 5-6 hrs Module 4 Scaling Post Product-Market Fit Articulate how the competitive context can influence early... View Details

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Models of optimal experience (flow)

Flow is a state of profound task-absorption, involvement, and intrinsic enjoyment that makes the person feel one with the activity. Csikszentmihalyi's Flow Theory states that flow is more likely to occur in situations in which the person feels that the activity is very... View Details

21 Aug 2000
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From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

this is the positive of globalization—the ability to try and transcend the difficulties of your domestic context in order to improve your competitiveness," Ghemawat said, "then one of the downsides, or at least one of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

perceptions and impede your or others’ ability to earn people’s trust Identify which influence styles will most benefit specific situations Complete the Influence Style Exercise to identify which influence styles and behaviors you use most frequently in various View Details

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld

of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2024 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 14 student essays that... View Details

05 Sep 2018
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The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software

managers with more information to guide decision-making toward increasing social welfare in areas where it makes sense for the firm and in the context of the new tech-driven business ecosystem. “More and more, firms are having to interact... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Computer

13 Sep 2010
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The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

to increase consumers' purchase intentions, brand loyalty, and real choice. We explored the contexts and situations in which these brand biographies are likely to be more effective. Our studies also examined the underlying psychological... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

have too little income. In addition, there is a whole host of reasons why people put off savings, especially in the context of an economy where consumerism is common. A variety of levers can be used to support people who want to save (not... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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