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- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
success to the success of its engines in delivering valuable up-time to ultimate customers. But it did much more than that. By guaranteeing up-time at a given cost, GE's management created a built-in incentive to improve the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
productive in it. On the other hand, phenomena that didn’t live up to expectations, at least for many years, were improvements in productivity, to the extent they can be measured. There are many... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
their IT problems, Upton explained, managers are faced with a "spectrum of solutions." At one end is packaged software available off-the-shelf to all comers, including your competitors. Trouble is, when the same product is in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
In Africa, shea butter is sometimes known as “women’s gold.” Used for everything from skin care to stretch marks to diaper rash, it’s a go-to product in high demand. And it offers employment opportunities for women willing to survey... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
and society at large. To do that, it has to increase shareholder value while at the same time improving the firm's performance on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) dimensions. This article outlines a process that can be used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis
prairies west of Houston to mitigate the environmental impact of development through investment in conserving water-absorbing grasslands. THE BLUE-GREEN REVOLUTION Synthetic Genomics Inc., a private biotech company co-founded by Juan Enriquez (MBA 1986), is at the... View Details
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
they pursue internally, while relying heavily on outsourcing many of those activities to strategic partners. At the same time, they seek to increase the number and nature of product offerings, many of which are also offered by their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
innovations in management practices and production technology in the Thyssen firms. Restoring Trust in American Business edited by Jay W. Lorsch, Leslie Berlowitz, and Andy Zelleke (MIT Press) HBS professor Lorsch, Zelleke (PHDOB ’03),... View Details
- Profile
Evan Rachlin
targets—companies, drugs, and licenses—while applying game theory to improve the way Pfizer makes decisions. Satisfying as it was, the job whetted Evan's appetite for a larger role. "I believe I can make a difference if I work... View Details
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
that perform poorly (suffering from the performance gap) and good teams that under-perform (suffering from the opportunity gap). In both cases, teams need quality coaches to improve their on-field performance. Teams planning changes on... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Springboard Boosts Funding Prospects for Women Entrepreneurs
According to a recent study by the venture capital research firm VentureOne, even in average economic times, women CEOs typically receive just 6 percent of the $69 billion available in venture capital in the United States. In an effort to View Details
- Portrait Project
Lauren Park
learn Algebra in this room today. Without chairs. We already operate with too few textbooks and a consistently-jammed copier. I take a deep breath. ... The day was a resounding success. We were productive despite our missing resources.... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
in the Philippines, Jaime “Jim” Ayala (MBA ’88) decided to put his considerable business experience to work improving the lives of some of his native country’s poorest citizens. Explaining his 2009 decision to leave Ayala Land, which had... View Details
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
maintaining or improving medical outcomes. Better measurements also allow payers to offer bundled payments, based on the costs of using efficient processes and contingent on achieving superior outcomes. The end result will be a more... View Details
- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can innovation and creativity be managed? Where do creative ideas come... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
HBS Professor Clayton Christensen sees disruptive innovation as a threat to everything from Microsoft to Japan—and even to a certain prominent business school. But through that disruption comes improved quality of life—and major... View Details
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
landscape of possibilities, while a product development team struggles to understand customers' changing needs and to invent new ways to serve them, and a production team seeks to View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
the new market leaders." Even if many things have to happen before fundamental organizational changes occur, it still leaves us with questions: Is this kind of change worth pursuing? If so, what changes in information technology and policies of disseminating its... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
a competitive factor. In a three-year study of pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, Pisano shows that the development of distinctive and superior process technologies can lower costs, improve quality, and increase flexibility. He... View Details
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
a social loss function. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13622 New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability Authors:Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton, and Zvi Bodie Abstract This paper proposes a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace