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- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
illusions and overcommitment, as well as the tendency to stick with the status quo and to discount the future. Organizational vulnerabilities arise because of structural barriers to the effective collection, processing, and dissemination... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
throughout the ranks; everybody in the organization must understand what they're doing and why they're doing it. In Managers as Teachers, we use a couple of examples — Alcoa and Toyota — to show how to disseminate the lessons of the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- February 10, 2015
- Article
Nonprice incentives and Energy Conservation
By: Omar Isaac Asensio and Magali A Delmas
We investigate the effectiveness of nonprice incentives to motivate conservation behavior. We test whether tailored information about environmental and health damages produces behavior change in the residential electricity sector. In a randomized controlled trial with... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Energy Conservation; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Health Disorders; Knowledge Dissemination; Behavior
Asensio, Omar Isaac, and Magali A Delmas. "Nonprice incentives and Energy Conservation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 6 (February 10, 2015): E510–E515.
- November 2017
- Case
Loss Prevention at Mac's Convenience Stores (A)
By: Francesca Gino, Katherine DeCelles and Olivia Hull
Faced with a persistent robbery problem at his convenience store company, Sean Sportun, security and loss prevention manager at Mac’s of Central Canada, looked to standardize safety measures and devise a new way of preventing employee injury. But as a 32-year old with... View Details
Keywords: Public Relations; Community Relations; Change Management; Working Conditions; Leading Change; Training; Knowledge Dissemination; Crime and Corruption; Law Enforcement; Legal Liability; Business and Community Relations; Retail Industry; Canada
Gino, Francesca, Katherine DeCelles, and Olivia Hull. "Loss Prevention at Mac's Convenience Stores (A)." Harvard Business School Case 918-001, November 2017.
- March 1, 2022
- Article
Widespread Use of National Academies Consensus Reports by the American Public
By: Diana Hicks, Matteo Zullo, Ameet Doshi and Omar Isaac Asensio
In seeking to understand how to protect the public information sphere from corruption, researchers understandably focus on dysfunction. However, parts of the public information ecosystem function very well, and understanding this as well will help in protecting and... View Details
Keywords: Reports; Surveys; AI and Machine Learning; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Use and Leverage
Hicks, Diana, Matteo Zullo, Ameet Doshi, and Omar Isaac Asensio. "Widespread Use of National Academies Consensus Reports by the American Public." e2107760119. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, no. 9 (March 1, 2022).
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
encourage employees in an acquired company to "preserve and internally disseminate the knowledge that made the smaller (acquired) company attractive to the larger one." Vladimir Pavelko expressed his support for such a bonus,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
This could involve cultivating a role as a “thought leader” by finding ways to engage the public on these issues including participating in public forums and congressional hearings, disseminating messages in mass and social media, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
the new market leaders." Even if many things have to happen before fundamental organizational changes occur, it still leaves us with questions: Is this kind of change worth pursuing? If so, what changes in information technology and policies of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
Abstract Often considered one of the major forces behind economic growth and development, the entrepreneurial firm can accelerate the speed of innovation and dissemination of new technologies, thus increasing a country's competitive edge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
also am working on a few studies that look at the role of the media in disseminating and interpreting financial information. The media has been largely ignored in studies of financial information intermediaries. Given the importance of... View Details
- September 2002 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
Managing Knowledge and Learning at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
By: Dorothy A. Leonard and David Kiron
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) faces a serious loss of knowledge--both because of the "faster, better, cheaper" mandate for Mars missions and from the retirement of key personnel. An extensive knowledge management system for NASA/JPL includes formal knowledge-capture... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Management; Knowledge Dissemination; Leadership Development; Internet and the Web; Risk and Uncertainty; Organizational Culture; Retirement; Human Resources; Human Capital
Leonard, Dorothy A., and David Kiron. "Managing Knowledge and Learning at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)." Harvard Business School Case 603-062, September 2002. (Revised October 2002.)
- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
dissemination of these ideas bodes well for companies able to execute them anywhere in the world. Tom Davenport, one of the authors of the study in question, commented, "... while most gurus come from the U.S., idea practitioners can... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
Badaracco says. Furthermore, the "new invisible hand" of the markets is even more intense than the old one due to rapid global dissemination of information. Badaracco's vision suggests it's more difficult to be a responsible leader today... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
choice, and consumers fight back by rooting out and disseminating pricing policies that seem unfair. The problem is that companies generally think of value as a pie that is rightfully theirs. But value is not fixed, and it neither... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
new product plans. Such decisions are either centralized near the top of the corporate ladder or decentralized and delegated to the top of a particular business unit. And the decision makers often depend on ERP software, which facilitates the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
the Cemex Way, a set of "best practice" principles and processes developed over the years to help people succeed in the Cemex family, the company disseminated its culture across its increasingly far-flung global network.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
to apply it and disseminate it," she says. "That seems kind of wrong." Recognizing the importance of knowledge co-production can lead not only to successful products and services, but also to improved supply chain and delivery strategies.... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
of the same trial. Drugs that aren’t working may be more quickly eliminated; patients can be moved over to the arms of the trial that are seeing a response. Challenges are also addressed more immediately and published in real time in order to optimize the View Details
- 05 Dec 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
The Salary Taboo: Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information
- March 2022
- Case
The Future of Start-Up Chile
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ruth Costas and Pedro Levindo
In 2021, public accelerator program Start-Up Chile, which ten years earlier had created a global buzz, might be losing its competitive edge to similar programs or one-year visas for digital nomads offered by other countries. The case follows SUP’s CEO, Angeles Romo, as... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Leadership; Disruption; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Sharing; Business Education; Emerging Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Administration; Recruitment; Job Design and Levels; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business and Government Relations; Groups and Teams; Networks; Social and Collaborative Networks; Public Administration Industry; Latin America; Chile
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ruth Costas, and Pedro Levindo. "The Future of Start-Up Chile." Harvard Business School Case 622-080, March 2022.