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- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
Talismark, which helped its customers manage their waste, was considering re-engineering its business fundamentals to dramatically increase profitability by changing its sales and information processes. Implementing the changes would be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
influence them. More specifically, this approach steers attention away from the political processes whereby administrative policies are formed and implemented . . . . These difficulties are compounded by the typical simplifying device of... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
investments in digital capabilities and on-the-ground community-orientated health care resources. Will it work? Can he implement it? The case explores both the strategic issues inherent in this potential transformation and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
benefiting their performance irrespective of whether these decisions negatively affect other profit centers. However, the firm implemented a third system that would potentially lead managers to benefit other profit centers. The firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
examine whether and how team scaffolds facilitate teaming in a dynamic, knowledge-intensive work environment. Although team scaffolds were implemented with little or no membership stability, their introduction triggered significant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
States, the approaches are reasonable. The task is to translate a theoretically reasonable approach into a workable policy. Implementing any of these approaches will require negotiations between the federal and the local governments, to... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
development of Kvadrat's retail sales operations, the implementation of new Human Resources practices, and the execution of a new organizational design. Was such an extensive growth, turnaround, and internal development agenda feasible?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
Abstract Many scholars and practitioners have recently argued that corporate awards are a "free" way to motivate employees. We use field data from an attendance award program implemented at one of five industrial laundry plants... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
this setting. There are a number of nontrivial complications associated with such a change. Implementing such a change will require thinking through if the timing of taxable events for individuals and corporations can be separated and if... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
successful only if everyone in the organization understands the strategy and helps to implement it. The Balanced Scorecard provides a simple, clear message about organizational strategy that all employees can understand and internalize in... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
development of novel, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of creative ideas." In other words, she says, creativity is the "front end" of the process, while innovation is the "back-end"... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 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
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
of the self-created time management systems they put together as young adults." Suggested remedies were varied, with responsibilities for their implementation in the hands of both individuals and the organizations for which they... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
8 to 10 percent are more than .25 stars" from optimal. Their finding suggests that large gains in accuracy could be made by implementing optimal ratings and getting rid of bias. Luca thinks "consumers will benefit more from optimal... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
highlighted in the case for discussion include the following: How can committed employees implement an innovative sustainability initiative within a large corporation? How can ESG data be more strategic for both Bloomberg and investors?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
yield lessons for the management of creative workers and for the implementation of competitive procurement mechanisms for innovation. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49445 A Welfarist Role for... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
implementation of radical routines and resource configuration. Structural arrangements, pre-set change routines, and existing decisional priorities are insufficient to fashion relevant capabilities into new core activities. Ad-hoc problem... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace