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- 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
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
performance including population density, financial development, and geographic connectedness. We also explore the impact of social structure measured by slavery and religion. We then profile the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
structuring of consumer loans than those who are not. Conditional on using decision-making authority, their decisions are also less risky ex post. These findings demonstrate employee selection as an important, but understudied, element of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
in the 1960s, with research done here in Boston. Stanley Milgram, the renowned social psychologist, randomly chose people from phone books out of Kansas and Nebraska and asked them to forward a letter to a friend of his in Boston through... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
in a culture where it's very difficult for people to tell other people what to do. It's not the usual supervisory manager-submanager structure found in the United States." Before coming to Turtle Island, Evanson was involved in the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
here. But a principal effect of that trend as it relates to radical change in the industry is that, from a policy or social perspective, there’s going to have to be either incredible sacrifice or economic incentive/transfer payments... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and alumni undertook this year have changed the way we understand... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
the University of Rochester in 1977 and served as its director until 1988. From 1992 to 1998, he was a member of the steering committee of Harvard's Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative, an interfaculty effort to study the limitations of the human brain. Jensen is also... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
created through radical diversification is very different from that required for incremental diversification efforts. Our findings have important implications for studying how innovation is structurally accomplished in professional firms.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
develop institutional structures for the industry as a whole. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52613 April 10, 2017 Harvard Business Review The Different Approaches Firms Use to Set Strategy By: Teti,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
knowledge about process and productivity improvements that lower costs while simultaneously maintaining or improving outcomes. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51774 in press Journal of Personality and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
was 24 and an extremely reckless person, especially when it came to driving. Skydiving became a way to channel that recklessness into a much more structured and regulated sport. I’m one of the few people who didn’t start their skydiving... View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
journey from 2003 to 2006. The case describes the changes in the senior team, structure and processes of the organization. It follows two illustrations of a powerful employee engagement process for honest conversations between the senior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
Conference Looks at Future of Hong Kong as a Global Leader The HBS Association of Hong Kong (HBSAHK) celebrated the club’s 45thanniversary in February, with its 2025 Signature Conference at Cloud 39, a rooftop ballroom at The Henderson skyscraper in central Hong Kong.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
options across thirteen studies involving diverse samples (executives, law/business/medical students, adults) and contexts (public policy, business, medicine). These distortions appear to primarily reflect decision biases rather than View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55053 2018 Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556–1818 By: Sheth, Sudev J... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from gay... View Details
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Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online
Innovation Master design thinking principles and creative problem-solving tools to develop innovative solutions to your most challenging business problems. Highlights Structuring Observations Using Journey Maps Opportunities in 2 by 2... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
As much as some employees will crave the return of in-person social connections in the office, they have become accustomed to the flexibility that comes with virtual work—from less time to commute to more time with family and pets. I... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
Creative destruction of a different kind occurred during the political transition in Turkey in 1980, after the military coup. Previous political and social connections lost their value over night. 450 new people sat in parliament, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne