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- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
with the overall district strategy. The case emphasizes the details of implementation and documents the challenges and achievements of the program over four years. The key issue in the case is achieving high performance in all schools,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
violate the accepted norms and rules of engagement. If someone clearly engages in personal attacks or withholds a dissenting view only to obstruct the implementation later, they need to be held responsible for such dysfunctional behavior.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
elaborated on the importance of these themes for large organizations as well as startups, citing the need for leaders to support what he calls "lean experimentation," centered on the rapid testing of a lot of ideas rather than the slower View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
seeking to double her budget for social media and other digital marketing initiatives for 2011. A number of digital efforts implemented in the past two years seem to be bearing fruit, and there is a desire to intensify Sephora's social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
at Harvard Business School, where she studies performance management systems in health care and value-based health care implementation strategies. Lidia Moura is a clinical neurologist and director of neurology population health at... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
increase the employment-based allotment. Implementing such a shift could be quite politically controversial depending upon technique, especially if policies shifted visas from family-based channels and diversity programs rather than... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
by democratic institutions as they implement their demand management programs or dictate the design of whole new cities to meet energy targets. Yet, even with all of China's "advantages," the EIA/IEA reports tell us the same story. In... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Membership? Harvard Business School Case 707-032 China has been a member of the WTO for more than five years. Its implementation of requirements has been a mixed bag. While China's growth is still spectacular, many institutional problems... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
"black box." Peering Into The Black Box In a new working paper written with Adam M. Kleinbaum (HBS DBA'08) of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, titled Inside the Black Box of Corporate Staff: Social Networks and the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Break the Rules of How Business is Done
of our team. I imagine neither the window extension or transparency tactics were very time consuming or distracting to implement (well, perhaps the former took some selling to their investors!), but they certainly make this company stand... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
individuals who incorporate for business purposes. Implementing such a tax would require measures to prevent some unintended consequences. A large fraction of corporations' excess cash--as much as two-thirds, according to some... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
prevent you from actually being good at anything. Dafny: Right, success in either strategy or implementation requires making trade-offs. In the absence of those trade-offs, you have a lot of mediocrity. Sadun: I would also tell the CEO... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
implementing a national evaluation system of green GDP, and before forming the system complexity model, the easiest issues first can be taken to establish the evaluation system of economic, environmental, and social responsibility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
attaining quotas; and (3) quarterly bonuses help improve performance of the weak performers by serving as pacers to keep the sales force on track to achieve their annual sales quotas. The paper also introduces two main methodological innovations to the marketing... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
metrics. Unfortunately, the effects of different types of coupling are somewhat hard to distinguish. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52349 Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
inadequate updating of the customer database. Also, the budgeting data in the case may be used to teach regression model selection and R-squared. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109070 The Posse Foundation: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
other numbers. They turned to HBS’s Information Technology group to implement the model, with versions going back and forth as they calibrated and set hundreds of parameters for the game. About 20 people worked on the project, and... View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
company's sources of advantage over time. The analysis suggests that the effectiveness of a particular business model depends not only on its design (its levers and how they relate to one another) but also, most importantly, on its View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
Absent of these it's bound to fail." These and other comments provided grist for the question: When and where will Holacracy work best? What do you think? Original Article Recently it was reported that Zappos.com, the online clothing retailer, is in the process of... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
precise customer targeting to a major US wireless carrier—a company not identified in the study. They found that the approach led to, on average, a 115 percent improvement in profit compared to traditional targeting methods. These extra profits came with no additional... View Details