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  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

For Education Reform, PELP Is on the Way

“Leading and managing in the complex and dynamic environment of an urban K–12 school system is an incredibly difficult challenge,” observes HBS Dean Kim B. Clark. “One of the toughest problems is that although there are many excellent... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit

of large corporate databases. A management information systems specialist, Professor James I. Cash, Jr., focuses on how companies use information technology to improve... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure

transition back to our original policy can be managed — with careful consideration of the implementation issues many of you have raised — to minimize any such adverse effects.” HBS allowed students to disclose their grades until 1998, when concern about the two-cohort... View Details
Keywords: grades; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Adapting to Meet Changing Needs

program participated in an intensive summer seminar on systems engineering before beginning their first-year studies in the MBA Program. HBX Course Development Stretches and Energizes Faculty In developing new Leadership courses for the... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Short Takes

companies with such plans do not perform better financially. Further analysis prompted Beer and Katz to conclude that the real role of bonuses is simply to attract highly qualified executives to a corporation. "Companies are forced into incentive View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Eight Join HBS Faculty

teaches the first-year course Technology and Operations Management. His research focuses on techniques to evaluate and improve the performance of complex systems in the airline and sports industries. Fearing earned his Ph.D. from MIT in... View Details
  • 25 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8

Software giant Microsoft is launching the Windows 8 version of its operating system this week, and suffice it to say that it's radically different from Windows 7. The familiar Start button and menu are gone, for example, replaced by a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Computer; Consumer Products
  • 03 Mar 2017
  • News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based cognitive-computing View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
  • October 2013
  • Article

Barriers to Completion of Patient Reported Outcome Measures

By: Elizabeth H. Schamber, Steven K. Takemoto, Kate Eresian Chenek and Kevin J. Bozic
Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) are commonly used in total joint arthroplasty (TJA) to assess surgical outcomes. However certain patient populations may be underrepresented due to lower survey completion rates. The purpose of this study is to evaluate... View Details
Keywords: Patient Reported Outcome Measures; PROM; Total Joint Arthroplasty; Hip; Knee; Electronic Survey; Equality and Inequality; Demographics; Surveys; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning

employees are concerned, the problem in their organization had to do with the fundamentals of management and leadership, not the quality or commitment of the people nor the quality of management systems and processes," write Beer and... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 15 Apr 2014
  • News

Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names Deans' Health & Life Sciences Challenge Prize

the world's health care system by advancing new cures and therapies, developing new ways to apply information technology, and designing new health care systems to deliver... View Details
Keywords: i-Lab; Harvard Medical School; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Exploring the Relationship between Architecture Coupling and Software Vulnerabilities: A Google Chrome Case

By: Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Dan Sturtevant and Lee Doolan
Employing software metrics, such as size and complexity, for predicting defects has been given a lot of attention over the years and has proven very useful. However, the few studies looking at software architecture and vulnerabilities are limited in scope and findings.... View Details
Keywords: Software; Architecture; Coupling; Vulnerabilities; Applications and Software; Complexity; Measurement and Metrics
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  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

An Excerpt from The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

“The current health-care system generally is modular. Specialized companies operate hospitals, process paperwork, negotiate blanket service contracts, and manage outpatient and retail clinics. Most doctors’ offices are set up as... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • July 1996
  • Article

Executive Succession, Strategic Reorientation and Performance Growth: A Longitudinal Study in the U.S. Cement Industry in Stable Environments

By: Michael Tushman and L. Rosenkopf
Keywords: Management; Strategy; Performance; Growth and Development; Information; Balance and Stability; Construction Industry; United States
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  • 1 Apr 2005 - 4 Apr 2005
  • Conference Presentation

Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code

By: Alan MacCormack
Keywords: Applications and Software; Product Design; Complexity
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  • 5 Nov 2005 - 8 Nov 2005
  • Conference Presentation

Exploring the Architecture of Complex Software Products

By: Alan MacCormack
Keywords: Product Design; Applications and Software; Complexity
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  • January 2002 (Revised May 2002)
  • Case

Digital China Holdings Limited: ERP as a Platform for Building New Capabilities

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Guoqing Chen and Kai Reimers
This case analyzes a complex ERP implementation that takes place in one of the leading companies in China. The issues are indistinguishable from those facing a U.S. organization. View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Information Technology; Complexity; Problems and Challenges; China
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  • Fast Answer

International land development resources

Where can I find information on land development? Land Matrix:  Information about large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) in low- and middle-income countries.  Explore the geographic View Details
  • 31 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Not to Trust Your Gut

Unfortunately, most people—especially busy managers and executives—fall back on System 1 thinking during their negotiations. Reliance on intuition increases when a situation is complex and negotiators reach a state of cognitive overload.... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Books

all, though, he encourages investors to be wary of reentering the market until there is real evidence that the systemic flaws that created this catastrophe are being addressed. — Laura Singleton (MBA ’88) When You Say Yes but Mean No by... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Information; Information