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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
2019 Journal of Medical Systems Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Demonstrate Value in Perioperative Care: Recommendations from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
What's a Boss Worth?
they are hired, Stanton recommends companies think carefully about the screening procedures they put in place, including longer trial periods to measure performance before officially hiring a new manager. “You need to have provisional... View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 2
Evidence from a Field Experiment Authors: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Tony Hollenberg Abstract We present the results of a field experiment conducted within the Harvard Medical School View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Strategist?
reinforcing parts. Rich in organizational detail, and anchored on purpose, such systems of value creation "make strategy the animating force in a company," says Montgomery. "They're the crucial link between lofty ideas and action." To... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11
formulate recommendations going forward. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710414-PDF-ENG Organization and Strategy at Millennium (A) Julie M. Wulf and Scott WaggonerHarvard Business School Case 710-415 This case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23
recommended by theory, top marginal income tax rates have declined, marginal income tax schedules have flattened, redistribution has risen with income inequality, and commodity taxes are more uniform and are typically assessed on final... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
As described in the first article in this series, the "Three-circle" family business system is composed of three overlapping subsystems: those employed in the business, the shareholders, and members of the family that has a... View Details
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
P. Norton aims to make strategy a continual process. The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage shows managers how to weave organizational principles into a more effective management system that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
through three examples: the design of medical residency matching programs, a scrip system to allocate food donations to food banks, and the recent "Incentive Auction" that reallocated wireless spectrum from television broadcasters to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
a sale through. And if a customer didn’t buy after browsing, the team asked questions: What information was the customer missing? Was there something in the customer’s purchase history that Target should have known that would have blocked the sale? “Only searches that... View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
come from diverse sources Chief among the recommendations from Grushka-Cockayne and her colleagues is aggregating several probability forecasts, typically from between five and 10 experts. Ideally, those experts should have some... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
NOV 2020 In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial and legal system will need to deal with a surge of financial distress in the business sector. In this paper, the authors try to size up the coming surge of financial distress,... View Details
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
profound impact on the inclusivity of the systems you are creating," says Luca, who has also coauthored a new case study, Racial Discrimination on Airbnb: The Role of Platform Design. "Platform companies should think through the... View Details
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Git and GitHub - Research Computing Services
Software Tools Git & Github 24ms What version control systems are available to you? There are many different version control systems available, but one of the most widely used is Git , which is the program... View Details
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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
business owner and tech entrepreneur from Arizona Programming & System Analysis, Biomedical Engineering, Estrella Mountain Community College Small Business Administration, Northern Arizona University Apply tools and frameworks to... View Details
- 14 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
It was exciting to see how to apply what we learned in a real-life context. Many of my classmates felt they actually understood statistics for the first time thanks to the incredible faculty. 5. Systems and Controls A little more... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
in America, and Work in Progress (co-authored with Michael Eisner, chairman of the Walt Disney Company). Schwartz is now president of LGE Performance Systems and co-created its Corporate Athlete training program, which aims to apply the... View Details
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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
systems for every dimension of business performance Identify and manage risks that could derail strategy execution Empower employees through proprietary frameworks like the Job Design Optimization Tool, which helps design high-performance... View Details