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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
do business the same way — with identical processes, functions, and operations — while approaching this elevated stage; but by the time they attain it, successful companies do share certain qualities and practices not observed in firms... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
this one theoretical. What if she could invest in a company doing great things for society, but where the board was 100 percent male? "I invest in them, and file a shareholder resolution," she answered immediately. In introductory comments, Hayes noted that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
expectations. Matt Lynch observes that seconds can drag by on some tasks, namely those associated with high tech applications, while "an hour can pass by barely noticed" on other tasks. In order to cope, we multi-task or engage... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction
the area of sustainable development.”[4] Upon her return, she observed the impact of water hyacinth upon Nigeria’s waterways. With warming temperatures, the weed has proliferated – depleting fisheries, blocking navigation, and devastating... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
Winston Churchill's observation that "nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." He also had to concern himself with midair refuelings with huge airborne tankers and with battling even the slightest case of... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
says. Over the next decade he proved that he was up to the task, so much so that in 1993, when the firm hit hard times, Bain CEO Mitt Romney (MBA 1974/JD 1975) asked Tierney to head the company. “The rational response would have been to decline,” View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
C. Gregg Petersmeyer learned about giving back from his parents. He observed in them and their contemporaries a tremendous empathy for their fellow citizens going through the shared hard times of the Depression and World War II. “Today,”... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
through which . . . [to learn] about South Korea and its people,” says Nix Maasdorp (MBA 2020). “Our customer interviews enabled us to approach our objective from a much deeper and more thoughtful perspective.” The students also had to View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
experts have developed over the past 25 years. Jensen and his contributing authors reconceptualize organizations as equilibrium systems that exist in a larger system of markets - such as financial, product, labor, and materials markets. View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
decision score. This allows us to observe the local effect of samples in which we drop the best recipients and the worst non-recipients. Our results suggest that while receiving the grant does bring an injection of funding that alleviates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
has been little empirical evidence on the propensity with which core-periphery structures are observed in practice, the factors that explain differences in the design of such structures, or the manner in which these structures evolve over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
can explain over 660,000 of the state and local government jobs lost in April, about two-thirds of the total observed declines.” In their research, Green, an assistant professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
longer-term success. Q: What personal or professional experiences or observations led you to concentrate your research and thinking on this time period for executives? Why have you found this period to be so rarely studied? A: I started... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision
observe that users extensively mix the two types of software, and that this pattern held in all the countries we studied. Moreover the extent to which open source is used and the degree of mixing between open source and proprietary... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
Greg. They also created a medical advisory board comprised of experts in their respective fields who are not currently conducting research—and, therefore, not seeking funding. “The decision-making process is very different when you don’t have skin in the game,” View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Bringing Out the Best
relatively young leaders. It’s a huge priority to understand what motivates and concerns them,” she notes. Curry says she values great leadership and agrees with Dean Nitin Nohria’s observations about the global crisis of leadership. “If... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
observers perceive employees who express distress as less competent than employees who do not. Across five experiments, we explore how reframing a socially inappropriate emotional expression (distress) by publicly attributing it to an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
observational study included all patients undergoing a head CT between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014 at a large, urban academic ED with over 100,000 visits per year. The primary study outcome was total cycle time, defined as the elapsed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
liquid, the observation refers to her involvement in, first, the 1993 launch of ViaCord, a company that enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells that help treat life-threatening diseases like... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
Shapiro and Kash Rangan bring us up to date on their pioneering research that helped ignite today's intense focus on the customer. The key? Know your order cycle management. Key concepts include: The order cycle provides a window through which to View Details