Persistence Of Performance Improvements - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jun 2008
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

possibility that " managers are not trained for it." Dianne Jacobs cited the possibility that persisting assumptions borne out of success serve as "roadblocks to act on needed change"... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Florenta Teodoridis in 2020. Ashish Nanda : Named C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in 2020. Maria P. Roche : Recipient of a NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy Doctoral... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

compelling,” says Senior Lecturer John Macomber, coauthor with Joseph Allen of Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity. “In other words, more and more View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings

20 Apr 2021
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A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

confer. At the bottom of the value stick, employee WTS is the lowest compensation a person is willing to accept for performing a particular type of work. Pay an employee less... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

08 Mar 2021
Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

raise awareness of the gender imbalance in unpaid labor and aspire to improve shared parental leave policy. Vyechi Low Harvard MS/MBA Student, Class of 2021 Here I am hauling... View Details

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and sustain high-performing K–12 public school districts in the United States. These efforts have resulted in more than 30 case studies focused on adapting and applying management concepts within urban school systems to drive improved... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

Profile

Ignacio Lartirigoyen

execute plans for improving their financial performance and operational efficiency," says Ignacio. With two years of "real hands-on experience," Ignacio believed... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

25 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

training typically doesn’t yield the return on investment in improved organizational effectiveness and performance that companies expect. “Individual development has to take place in the context View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

and their health.” · In a memo to employees, Morgan Stanley’s CEO, James Gorman, wrote, “While long term we can’t be sure how this will play out, we want to commit to you that there will not be a reduction in force at Morgan Stanley in 2020. Aside from a View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

1990s to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem that could harness its business-minded immigrant population. Strategic investment had given rise to creative events and spaces, like the international Art Basel fair in Miami, new performing... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

of it as superhuman—especially if AI is solving complicated problems such as 100 percent accuracy in self-driving cars and medical diagnosis. You have to help them understand that the performance View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

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Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

focuses on innovative approaches to improving the value of cancer care. MOC Affiliate Network The MOC Affiliate Network is a group of more than 100 educational institutions... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

dollars in lost sales and customer goodwill. Ton is currently working with a nationwide chain to estimate the magnitude of this problem and identify its drivers. "We have found large and systematic variation in View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

As a boy, Soichiro Honda, the eventual founder of Honda Motor Co., was infatuated with airplanes. At age 10 he biked 20 kilometers to see American pilots performing aerobatics near his home in Japan,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

compared the firms' performance over six years. What they found: in the beginning of a relationship, suppliers enjoyed no significant difference in sales, inventory holding and control costs, gross margins,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 May 2020
What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

without too much difficulty. It all suggests that responses to the virus may hasten a trend already in process, that of more delivery of work performed remotely. The pros and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

cost performance of IT technologies over the first forty years changed by roughly 107, and for the foreseeable future will continue to evolve at the same rate. That is in sharp contrast to a train, which... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

disruptions, but to geopolitical risk. We have entered an era of supply chain rebalancing, driven not only by the desire to improve resiliency, but also to mitigate geopolitical risks. In this talk, we will... View Details

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

saying that being aware of your problem is a prerequisite to its solution. However, because individual, and probably by extension organizational, biases are often difficult to self-diagnose but easy to diagnose in others, explicitly... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

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