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- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
insurance, drug, retail, and medical device companies; deans of medical schools; and employers, who pay the bulk of health-care costs. All these parties interact in an interdependent way inside the current system and need to work together... View Details
- 02 Jan 2013
- What Do You Think?
Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?
teams to fluid groups engaged in what Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson, in the recent book Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy, calls "teaming," defined as "coordination and mutual adjustment during episodes... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
and a totally different personality in his/her private environment." Yedendra Chouksey pointed out that "what is beyond doubt is that the job and the job holder are interdependent the job provides the opening for power but the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
process improvement in interdependent service settings: increasing process capacity at one step in the process can increase demand at that step, as well as for a subsequent shared service, and both can result in an overall negative impact... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
sort out a complex tangle of interdependent contributing factors. Environmental and legal issues muddy the water, for example. In the mid-2000s efforts to save a 3-inch fish called the delta smelt from extinction led to a ruling by a US... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
with far too many features and software based on proprietary and interdependent architectures. "Microsoft has way overshot what the customer needs," Christensen said. Potential threats: Sun's Java technology, the Linux operating... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
Pro-self? Furthermore, Santana borrowed a concept from strategic games and socially interdependent decision-making that divides people based on their "social value orientation" (SVO). When faced with a decision on how to... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
respect to designing and maintaining their costing systems, including the need to keep the costing system in line with the business processes of the firm throughout its life cycle; the setting of transfer prices, which highlights the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
of Search Engine Services: Channel Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors examine prominent placement of search engines' own services and effects on users' choice of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
leadership style: We know that the increasing diversity within business organizations and the growing interdependence of players—from business partners to NGOs—within a business ecosystem mean that leaders need to adopt a more inclusive,... View Details
- 14 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team
"Lift Outs: How to Acquire a High-Functioning Team," co-written with Robin Abrahams, describes the effects of team moves—or lift outs—on performance portability. We found that a successful lift out typically unfolds over four consecutive View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
devastating and saddening human costs, the earthquake in Japan is another reminder of the complexity of the world's supply chains and the great interdependencies in global production systems. The world's supply chains are complex and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
more holistic view regarding financial, natural, and human resource allocation decisions, and the interdependencies between them. It also means taking a longer-term view, since improved financial performance from better use of natural and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
Complementary goods have more value when used together than separately. Complementarity may be strong or weak. Strong complements are specific and unique goods that have no value (or greatly diminished value) unless all are present in use. In the task network, dense... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
whole set of interdependent players—the CEO, the senior leadership team, and managers down the line. This won't happen without a collective, public conversation. By "collective" we mean that several levels of management across... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
of IGOs that focus on economic issues, but also on those with social and cultural mandates. This demonstrates that relational governance is important and feasible in the global context and for the most risky transactions. Finally we examine the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
took root, DIS regained leadership in its market. "The process got things on the table quickly," Ludwig says. 3. Be Open And Inclusive Fundamental business innovations almost always require changing the worldview and the behaviors of a whole set of View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
fact that many large organizations have become much more interdependent and complex; one-size-fits-all no longer works so well. This development is also a function of social, economic, and political change. Leaders now have to deal with a... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
rallying for us. They understand that the world is interdependent and that the US economy is still too large for anyone to profit from a rapid decline in its well-being. Americans may not realize this, but it's true: The world wants us to... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
from the 1920s onward, including geographic, product, and matrix architectures. Market development organizations, global business units, and global business services unit, each of which is heavily interdependent with the others and none... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne