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The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2024 | Working Knowledge
amid murky economic signals. The most-read articles about Harvard Business School research reflect questions many leaders are wrestling with — such as how to build a disciplined culture, improve communication, and retain psychological... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Health Care a Top Priority at HBS
that focus on health care and health-care delivery. Simply put, we want to improve the performance of global health care and make an impact on the industry worldwide.” Related Links Model Patient View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
What HBS Learned from West Point
“Knowing—competence—is obviously important if you want to lead,” says Snook, who came to HBS in 2002 after over 22 years in the military. “No matter what your occupation, you can always improve your knowledge. But with leadership, we know... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
companies identified through a review of industry journals. The final sample contained data on 29 projects from 17 companies. The most remarkable finding was that getting a low-functionality version of the product into customer's hands at the earliest opportunity View Details
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Product Management - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Product Management Course Number 1765 Senior Lecturer Sara McKinley Torti Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits Career Focus: This half course provides an introduction to product management, focused primarily on improving and scaling... View Details
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
experimentation will improve performance over time. However, the benefits of experimentation vary. Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
command? Or for business? For years, W. Edwards Deming, the father of modern continuous quality improvement, had trouble convincing U.S. (as opposed to Japanese) auto manufacturers to implement the keys to improved quality. They include,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
firms are the management arsenals of many public companies — strategic due diligence, blueprints for action, tying compensation to performance — but they are not applied with sufficient consistency, rigor, or thoroughness. In short, what... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
traditional services on the telephones and in local offices, and offered new electronic services for filing, paying, and information. Why did you change the way the IRS measures employee performance? Performance measures have an enormous... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
related to improved project performance in some cases. Our results highlight a need for more nuanced approaches to leveraging experience in team management. Deed, Clear Conscience: When Cheating Leads to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
While improving the fulfillment of any one drive enhances employee motivation somewhat, the key to a major employee-motivation advantage relative to other companies comes from improving all four drives in... View Details
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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
While improving the fulfillment of any one drive enhances employee motivation somewhat, the key to a major employee-motivation advantage relative to other companies comes from improving all four drives in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
it seems that if you work hard and keep your nose clean, they'll get rid of your division." Stevenson believes that many of the remedies prescribed today for enhancing competitiveness - organizational innovations such as restructuring, matrix management,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
focus instead on improving the performance of existing products - what I call sustaining technologies. For this reason, good companies have little difficulty succeeding in sustaining innovation - even... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
in late 2005. He thought the evaluation program was critical for permeating the vision and values throughout the bank and was eager to roll out the program to a larger number of employees next year. Pedersen wondered how he should improve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2013
- What Do You Think?
Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?
failing MBA students are about helping the students overcome their fears of engaging in classroom discussion, to improve the frequency of their classroom contributions.) These are all points made in a new book by Susan Cain, Quiet: The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
At the HBS Executive Education program Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations (BCAO), executives charged with leading and building operations and manufacturing strategies enhance their understanding of operations performance... View Details
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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
the performance standards, and replacing those managers who weren't prepared to measure up. This took several years and a number of managerial changes. Eventually, most people realized how important these cultural View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
booksellers have survived. How Disruptive Innovation Changes EducationChristensen advocates for innovation to spur much-needed improvements in public education. Using Fintech to Disrupt Eastern Bank from Within When Eastern Bank decided... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
and manage patient-level costs over complete cycles of care for a variety of medical conditions. This innovative approach links costs to clinical outcomes in order to identify opportunities for value improvement and develop reimbursement... View Details