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- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
valuable not for any direct benefits they convey but rather because of what they can offer indirectly through their contacts. People judge others' connectedness partially based on the connections they can see. Therefore, Chinese managers should perceive highly embedded... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
how to change it? Designate distraction-free time for ‘deep work’ The first rule is to assign generous periods of time to important tasks exclusively, isolated from distraction (welcome or not). Workers capable of performing what... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
the capabilities they need. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52603 September 2017 Current History China Gambles on Modernizing Through Urbanization By: Looney, Kristen, and Meg Rithmire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven on one side by the proliferation of a new technological, cultural, and economic landscape commonly referred to as “digital disruption” and on the other by a widening gap between the skills and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
renewal. This change process involves disciplined conversations, actions, and associated learning by the senior team, diffusing these learning capabilities to the extended senior leadership team and, over time, to the larger leadership... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
case permits the exploration of how and when companies in developing countries can leverage their domestic markets to build capabilities to serve global customers, by using their home market as a base for learning. The case is also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
mission, says Hill, it is insufficient without creating the ability to innovate as well. As Hill and her coauthors analyzed data from the organizations they followed, they identified three capabilities each exhibited, which they call... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009
firm's capabilities to the client's needs. GEPs must be able to simultaneously manage a larger number of tasks, often under great time pressure. This case describes how a very effective GEP-Miles Everson, who was named one of the top 25... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
the issues that will guarantee overall success. Leaders must ask themselves, "Do we have a coherent and distinctive innovation strategy that key managers believe in? Do we have the capabilities to execute? Is our leadership... View Details
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
change. If we can put an astronaut on the Moon and explore other worlds, we surely can protect the one planet we call home.” Louise Fenn Ruhr MBA 1977 | Steps to Success "We are training very capable people to do things they never knew... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
of executive officers are women. That’s a very wide gap. The women’s movement is over forty years old now. Why hasn’t there been more change? There has been undeniable change. But there are still unspoken assumptions about what women want and what they’re View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-030.pdf Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950 Author:Aldo Musacchio Abstract The early development of large multidivisional corporations in Latin America required... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
underlying reasons for their limited success. Our analysis of American Hospital Association (AHA) data on hospital-based ACOs found that many organizations do not have the capability to track and share performance metrics, including... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
look shows that some of his most valuable managerial capabilities were honed slowly, painfully, over time, and that there is much others can learn from his experience. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
different, right? They're smart. But they're much less trusting of the system, right? DM: Hm. JI: They don't think that the system is capable of necessarily solving problems. So they need to figure it out on their own. So they're more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Multiply that level of commitment by a factor of several hundred million and it’s easy to envision the change India is capable of in the coming years. “Those young people could be the country’s demographic dividend,” says Ravi Venkatesan... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
Customer Compatibility and Service Performance By: Buell, Ryan W., Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Abstract—This paper investigates the impact of customer compatibility—the degree of fit between the needs of individual customers and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Strategic Leadership Development. The mission of the CDC is to improve the capabilities of clients' in-house legal departments, such as by making them better partners with the business units and improving their leadership skills. The CDC... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212006-PDF-ENG IBM China Development Lab Shanghai: Capability by Design Willy Shih, Kamen Bliznashki, and Fan ZhaoHarvard Business School Case 611-055 When IBM shifted from a traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Bloomberg Center: Japan's elderly population is the fastest growing of the OECD nations, but which country comes a close second? Germany. Learn how Global Age Watch ranks different countries in terms of income security, health status, View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance