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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
According to Herzlinger, although public and nonprofit institutions are entrusted with taxpayer and donor dollars to provide social goods such as education, health, and art, they have few systems and tools for objectively assessing their... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- Web
Art Nature Business
School, 2008.10 Kevin Cooley works with elemental forces of nature to question systems of knowledge as they relate to our perceptions and experience of everyday life, and to delve into our complex, evolving relationships to nature, to... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
Using a sample of commercial logo design competitions, and a novel, content-based measure of originality, I find that intensifying competition induces agents to explore novel, untested ideas over tweaking their earlier work, but heavy... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
Healthcare, and Leadership. "The Initiative designation is meant to acknowledge a new phase of activity: one that we hope will engage the faculty, students, staff, and alumni in enhancing and extending both knowledge creation and... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
arena," Goldman says. "More than a discount transaction house, we're positioning ourselves to compete now as a full-service investment firm without charging the hefty commissions that 'full service' usually implies. Our online presence is just part of a larger... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
immediately for active duty. Andreichuk managed to delay his service for a year after receiving a prestigious Luce Scholars fellowship, which took him to Hong Kong where he worked with an engineering firm designing the city’s tallest... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Understanding Boards of Directors: A Systems Perspective By: Lorsch, Jay W. Abstract—In this essay, my goal is to explore why, despite the tireless efforts of talented people, research on corporate governance has been slow and uneven, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
provide illustrations from the Toyota Motor Company to show how deliberate perturbation enables efficient exploration in the midst of intense exploitation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-011.pdf Employee Selection as a Control View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
volunteers “have helped the city capitalize on the innovation sprouting from Silicon Valley, through specific initiatives such as designing the structure of the city’s startup incubator, developing innovative ways to incorporate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
wear Complete Table of Contents September 2014 Alumni Achievement Awards 2014 Meet the recipients of the School's highest honor Afghanistan’s Hope and Light Can Karim Khoja's communications revolution help save a country from collapse? Groundwork How HBS tradition... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
companies in Turkey. But the world had additional designs on McArthur. By this time, his HBS classmate James Wolfensohn was deeply into the huge challenge of reorganizing the World Bank, and — in need of an ally whom he could trust... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
information. We owe it to those who passed away in the disaster to upgrade our systems to help save lives in any future calamity." —GE AGRICULTURE John Whiteside Grass Farmer, Wolf Creek Farm For years, the résumé of John Whiteside (MBA... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
integration process. All focused on how best to combine the two airlines’ core systems and operating processes as well as the appropriate scope and speed of strategic changes. Now, Parker must decide on the composition of AAL’s senior... View Details
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
leadership at the top. This requires a more complete understanding of the processes of the company from a strategic perspective. That understanding implies that systems cannot substitute for management in the resource allocation process.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
9/11, Jeff Immelt had already built an impressive nineteen-year career at GE in its plastics, appliance, and medical systems divisions. With revenues in 2007 of $173 billion and more than 300,000 global employees, GE has seen significant... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
financial instruments-currencies, stocks, and bonds. The very rootlessness of America's immigrant leaders gave them a better understanding of money, credit, and banks and the way each could be made to serve the public good. The remarkable financial innovations View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
system. In August 2020, Mercy Corps handed over the management of the system and its distribution network to the local utility company. (Ezra Millstein/Mercy Corps) On a Wednesday afternoon in early August, McKenna is Zooming from her... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
that avoids liquidation of human and cultural assets." The book looks broadly at what it takes to build a high commitment, high performance (HCHP) system inside companies. It asks and answers questions such as: What outcomes must... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mrhodeskropf/Partner_Persist_20130115.pdf Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Application Architecture: An Exploratory Telecom Case By: Lagerstrom, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, and Stephan Aier Abstract—We test a method for... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
products. Prior to the acquisition, Whole Foods began rolling out a new order-to-shelf (OTS) inventory management system that many observers believed had led to shortages. For years, store team leaders at Whole Foods were empowered to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman