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- 19 Jul 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
by allocating rewards and resources for both traditional performance and for learning activities. What has changed and what hasn’t? The four drives themselves, fundamental to human psychology, have not changed. The COVID-19 pandemic has...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
reason for this difference becomes obvious when we recalculate the quarterly cost of performing the customer service activities. In the exhibit "The Impact of Practical Capacity," time-driven ABC analysis reveals that only 83...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
capacity for each business process? 2) How much resource capacity (time) is required to perform work for a company's many transactions, products, and customers? The book...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders
for people who apply their creative sparks to the insights they gain from data, artificial intelligence, and feedback from colleagues. Learning and performance are twinned, not split as is often the case at companies that have yet to...
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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the patient’s condition in this way unlocks major opportunities to improve efficiency and guide reimbursement. For example, cost rates for individuals performing front line tasks can have as much as a ten-fold difference – a phenomenon...
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- 01 Aug 2022
- What Do You Think?
Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?
the question is extended more broadly to organizations in general, there is little for us to go on in responding to the question. The impact of culture on performance has interested me for several decades, having teamed in 1992 with John...
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Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Recent book: The Arc of Ambition: Defining the Leadership Journey Chair: Organizational Behavior Unit Intrigued by: "Emotional intelligence. Leaders have the emotional capacity to...
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Management
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
Implementation Understanding the Conditions that Enable Change Performing a Stakeholder Analysis Building Legitimacy Understanding the Roles for Leaders of Change Featured Exercises Analyze your environment and assess its readiness for...
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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
Featured Exercises Perform a business model quality assessment Characterize the different types of business models that exist in Startupland 6-7 hrs Module 2 Experiments to Achieve Product-Market Fit Explore the discovery phase of tech...
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Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
thinking about multiple dimensions of the environment and the way they interact. Clusters are concentrations of firms in particular fields, including suppliers, supporting services and related institutions. They enable productivity and new business formation. Economic...
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- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
one a loser—it consistently underperformed against its competitors; one a climber—it started off poorly but dramatically improved its performance once it applied the 4+2 formula; and one a tumbler—it began the decade in good shape then...
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- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
evidence that “short-termism" and “quarterly capitalism" are impairing firms' ability to invest, innovate, and provide good wages. We explain why S&P 500 shareholder-payout figures provide a misleadingly incomplete picture of corporate capital flows and...
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Carmen Nobel
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
(16) Organizations (506) Outcome or Result (35) Ownership Type (8) Ownership (50) Partners and Partnerships (7) Patents (22) Perception (25) Performance Capacity (2) View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
sales, inventory, and gross margin. We show that our model can be used to benchmark retailers' performance in sales, inventory, and gross margin simultaneously. Finally, we show that our model can be used to generate sales forecasts even...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
deficit that drives up interest rates. She cares if we have a huge current account deficit and import everything from elsewhere. Her own business might erode to the point of failure. Finally, the American cares because our economic View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- January 2015
- Article
Collaboration in Multi-Partner R&D Projects: The Impact of Partnering Scale and Scope
By: Anant Mishra, Aravind Chandrasekaran and Alan MacCormack
How can firms design collaboration structures for effective performance in R&D projects that involve multiple partners? To address this question, we examine the theoretical underpinnings of collaboration structures in multi-partner R&D projects—i.e., the scale and the...
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Multi-Partner R&D Projects;
Empirical Research;
New Development;
Collaboration Structures;
Partnering Scale And Scope;
Partners and Partnerships;
Infrastructure;
Performance Capacity;
Research and Development;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Mishra, Anant, Aravind Chandrasekaran, and Alan MacCormack. "Collaboration in Multi-Partner R&D Projects: The Impact of Partnering Scale and Scope." Journal of Operations Management 33-34 (January 2015): 1–14.
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Satisfactory Academic Progress - MBA
inability to meet academic standards resulted from circumstances that are no longer present and are not expected to recur. Evidence exists that the student's academic ability and intellectual capacity are greater than his/her View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
want to develop business organizations that satisfy shareholders and yet have the capacity to adapt and survive as viable institutions in the long run. Theory E In 1994 Al Dunlap became CEO of troubled Scott Paper. Like Champion...
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by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 07 Dec 2021
- Op-Ed
Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge
on the path to lean into more responsibility and more complex programs, projects, or initiatives. What is leadership capacity? At its root, leadership capacity is what the leader can do. Companies tend to gauge View Details
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by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle