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  • 07 Jun 2019
  • Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

so many managers are overwhelmed and burned out these days. In our dynamic, competitive environment, speed matters. If managers do not develop their people so they can delegate to them, or if they do not turn their groups into agile teams... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

information and updates through early 2016. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717504-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 618-025 Adaptive Platform Trials: The Clinical Trial of the Future? In July 2017, Dr. Brian M. Alexander, president and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

surprising how few corporate leaders make a genuine effort to foster candor within their companies. Sadly, they lose any chance at building organizations in which speed and transparency contribute to the vitality of their enterprise. Adopting the process we have... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

flexibility has emerged as a divisive issue in discussions about the appropriate design of processes for making software. Partisans in both research and practice argue for and against plan-based (allegedly inflexible) and agile (allegedly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

Organizations Remain Agile as They Grow? This note discusses how multiunit organizations incorporate flexibility into their management control systems, some by authorizing all or a select number of their dispersed units to make input and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

"owners"; and (8) knowing that their current beliefs about the future of services are wrong, great service leaders build agile service organizations that learn, innovate, and adapt. The book explores the ideas and leadership... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

autonomous/dedicated teams, which vary in their capacity to manage integration. More formal product development approaches including the stage-gate process and critical-path method are described, as are agile methods and principles—and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

termed a “freedom from fear.” Amy’s book touches on these powerful themes that are also central tenets of agile organizations. I cannot wait to engage and learn more within the covers of these two exciting books. For listening and iPhone... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 31 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

termed a “freedom from fear.” Amy’s book touches on these powerful themes that are also central tenets of agile organizations. I cannot wait to engage and learn more within the covers of these two exciting books. For listening and iPhone... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

prefer adopting an "agile" methodological approach instead. Compares and contrasts the CMM and agile methodologies, such as Kent Beck's eXtreme Programming. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

can both strategy and execution be consistently superior? How can they support a collective culture yet enable high potentials to thrive as individuals? How can the strategy be global and local at the same time? And how can its policies endure yet be View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

whether improvements to firm operational efficiency aggravate or alleviate the impact of disruptions. Improved operational efficiency may leave firms more exposed when a disruption occurs, or it may improve firms' agility and allow them... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

surprisingly agile with a modest amount of time. The epicenter of inventive and entrepreneurial activity is quite mobile as it is built around people and their interactions, rather than a fixed natural resource like a coal mine or great... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

network—should do to respond to its agile competitor, Facebook. Since its inception MySpace had experienced phenomenal growth, acquiring 20 million members in its first 20 months of operation, and another 70 million a year later, to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Feb 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

Managing Errors in Organizations The Strategic Imperative of Psychological Safety and Organizational Error Management By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Paul Verdin Abstract—Despite discussion in the management literature about agile... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

Prior research remains unsettled as to whether improvements to firm operational efficiency aggravate or alleviate the impact of disruptions. Improved operational efficiency may leave firms more exposed when a disruption occurs, or it may improve firms' View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

to accomplish the following: mine your sales data to identify "homerun" products you're missing; reinvent your forecasting and pricing strategies; build end-to-end agility into your supply chain; establish incentives that align... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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