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- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
perform their jobs more safely and effectively. The latter required that workers engage in mutual expressions of vulnerability: they acknowledged their physical limitations, learned from their mistakes, and attended to their own and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
epitome of the Aston Martin Grand Touring car. Comfortable for two, it has few frills and a high level of luxury and yet is capable of heart-stopping performance and superb handling on the racetrack. Candee examines in detail the history... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
clear; 4) Taking the wrong approach to performance assessment. Milestones relevant to each stage of an initiative's development should be established, and key assumptions in the business plan should be linked to the financial forecast; 5)... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
generation moving up the corporate ranks. Stimulate Creativity by Fueling Passion Authors:Teresa Amabile and Colin M. Fisher Publication:In The Blackwell Handbook of Principles of Organizational Behavior. 2nd ed. London: Wiley-Blackwell,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
difficult to make the best hiring decisions because of their own preexisting biases. Battilana explains the problem in a yet-to-be-published paper, tentatively titled "Neither Corporations Nor Not-For-Profits But a Combination of the Two:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
that the division might be in trouble, that corporate support is wavering, and that potential buyers are lining up. He wants to know what you know. Though the rumors are not altogether accurate, they do contain more than a few grains of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
Harvard Business School with the hope of returning to his banking career. “Harvard showed me a whole different aspect to banking,” he says. “Professor Charlie Williams, who taught Commercial Banking, was my mentor. He made banking exciting. He was interested in View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
outsourcing, and integration services company that he founded in 1965. First in a Wall Street Journal ranking of one thousand companies listed according to best stock performance from 1987 to 1997, Keane Inc is considered among the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
MAYO: Since the 1970s, the MBA has become a necessary credential to pursue the inside track to corporate power. So much of what business schools teach is focused on making the right managerial decisions at a particular moment in time,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
Obviously, when your organization is in the business of saving lives, you can’t intentionally be “bad” at anything. But you can decide to not perform as well in areas that patients care less about, with the understanding that it will give... View Details
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
Every bet—large or small, corporate or personal—puts you into a game. And whatever the game, at some point your participation ends. Sometimes it ends because the game is over for all the players, sometimes because your participation is... View Details
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
that ethnically Chinese firms in China do not outperform non-ethnically Chinese firms by a set of conventional profitability measures. We also find that the performance of ethnically Chinese firms deteriorates over time. One hypothesis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 The Coming of Managerial Capitalism Entrepreneurial Management Tom Nicholas Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) Finance C. Fritz Foley Fall 2024... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
corporate officers in Fortune 500 companies are women, such an opportunity is indeed rare for female executives, most of whom have always worked in male-dominated workplaces. "While they're able to perform... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
performance data, in their decisions. These decision-making patterns are associated with large and systematic differences in learning rates across business units. Learning is concentrated in business units with "loose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design
By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal
In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Education; Training; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Production; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement; Programs; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Rank and Position; Safety; Attitudes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Trust; Well-being; Consulting Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
Graeber, Thomas, Joshua Schwartzstein, and Amram Migdal. "Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design." Harvard Business School Case 923-026, March 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
corporate positions, not from academia. Studies have documented that, for these individuals, the attractiveness of entrepreneurial activity is very sensitive to tax policy. Also important is ensuring that the law allows firms to enter... View Details
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated with increases in the share of that firm's affiliate activity in its native... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
actually built by these firms? Many would argue that answers to these questions are irrelevant. As long as services are performed and products manufactured, they say, such organizational configurations are beneficial. They allow companies... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
systems in the software industry. Our sample includes 1,286 software releases taken from 19 distinct applications. We find that 75%-80% of systems possess a core-periphery structure. However, the number of components in the core varies widely, even for systems that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace