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- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
population of available patient-donor pairs grows, the frequency with which exchanges can be arranged will depend in part on how exchanges are organized. We study the potential frequency of exchanges as a function of the number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
platform-mediated market, stealing share by bundling the target platform's functionality with its own. Purchase this article: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0610F View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
widely to the totality of its functions and processes. How much does it cost us to make our steel? How can the Japanese do it so much less expensively? How can we redesign our whole chain of activities, from purchasing raw materials to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
these curious combinations may have seemed financially attractive at their inception, they were now so functionally ill-conceived that the individual parts were worth more than the agglomerated whole. The M&A; restructuring of those 1960s... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
research; Giusti worried if charging for some of its functions would be at odds with its mission and historical practices. She worked with her executive team to examine potential sources of revenue and to decide if this was the right... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
Saffronart, and food businesses Whole Foods and the James Beard Foundation. Khaire created the course, she says, because these industries function in fundamentally different ways than those in industries more familiar to traditional HBS... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
people could be ready for general management assignments. In one case, Gerstner and his team were discussing the next job for a high-potential female executive. Most felt that she needed a bigger job in her functional area, but Gerstner... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
of Wedgwood's china-was and is critical. But I argue in Brand New that functional quality is an essential, though not sufficient cause or condition of success. Working in the late nineteenth century, Heinz built his brand on quality food... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
connection doesn’t always mean a Zoom call; sometimes even a text message can be enough. Use ‘job crafting’ to let employees modify their roles Jayanth Narayanan, associate professor at the National University of Singapore: Prior research suggests that stress is a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
offered an intensive study of the place and function of advertising in business administration. Designed to “give a viewpoint to those who, as executives, will have to direct the use of advertising in the conduct of business,” 25 the... View Details
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Online AI Course | HBS Online
roles to build an AI-powered organization Learn how generative AI connects to your organization and its impact on business and operating models Who Will Benefit Business Professionals Current and Aspiring Leaders Functional Specialists... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
attic of [classroom building] Aldrich [Hall] and outfitting them with cardboard furnishings to find dimensions large enough for comfort and function but small enough to discourage [students from staying in their rooms rather than... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
psychologists describe groundbreaking research from disparate work settings, and cross-cultural psychologists reveal the variety of ways that envy can emerge as a function of cultures as wide-ranging as the Japanese school system to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Sendhil Mullainathan Abstract—Economists have become increasingly interested in studying the nature of production functions in social policy applications, with the goal of improving productivity. Traditionally, models have assumed workers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
governance regulates the interactions between a family-owned business and the family owning the business, as well as between the members of the owning family. When both are present and functioning well, the prospects of longevity for the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
space they occupy, what they sound like. All these interactions make changes to your brain—specifically in the neocortex, the vast portion (about 70 percent) near the front of the skull that is responsible for giving us logic, reason, memory, and all those other higher... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
source development. We use DSMs to analyze a sample of matched-pair products—products that perform the same function but that have been developed via these contrasting modes of organization. Our results reveal significant differences in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
transplants to restore marrow function after high-dose chemotherapy or radiation. The idea for Viacord, which employs seventeen people, came to Fisher while she was a marketing manager at the Haemonetics Corporation in Boston, shortly... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
technical champion, trusted advisor, and engaged toolmaker-and trace the movements of experts between these positions. Our empirical findings and theoretical framework contribute to our understanding of the nature of expert influence and how and why View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
Francois Brochet and Rakeen MabudHarvard Business School Note 110-070 This note explains the basic structure of the trading floor in a typical financial institution and how the front, middle and back offices interact to ensure a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace