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- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
putting an automated pollution meter at a factory’s fence line—compares to actual inspections in gaining compliance. Toffel agrees: “The question of which approach is more effective is a perfect one for scholars to pursue. I hope someone...
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by Michael Blanding
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
approaching contingent work, Covid-19’s role in driving innovation and flexibility, “hidden workers” and what’s behind the Great Resignation. Joe Fuller: Contingent and flexible work was on the rise before Covid-19 emerged. For many, the...
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assistants for individuals and groups. It requires a reworking of what you might call “muscle memory” in terms of how core tasks are done. It drives pretty substantial incremental productivity. Gen Two for me ends up being process View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
looking to hire. Holding contests to seek advice from the crowd may help companies fill the need for innovative answers more cheaply and quickly. “Contests create incentives and drive parallel search,” Lakhani said. “What you want when...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
managers substantial benefits that would be difficult to realize without the ERP IT infrastructure. Q: Must a company have an ERP system in place to use time-driven activity-based costing? A: Clearly, having an automated data feed...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
scholars who focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task-enhancing port security across the United States. This title considers the challenge of driving change in a complex system involving hundreds of private...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
workforce strategy in ratings and risk analysis. Bill Kerr: Is trust in robo-investment advice misplaced? It may be too soon to tell, but the acceptance of automated guidance helps explain why investment services companies are among the...
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- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
some of the interest rate risk. In the 1990s a couple of things happened that set the stage for where we are today: There emerged automated underwriting and credit scoring. All of a sudden the world of the deposit-taking institution, your...
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India. So in the United States, we need to start thinking about why female workforce participation declined in the last 15 years, why it’s lower for women born in 1975 and 1970 than it is for women born in 1965, in 1960, and 1955. Systematically, what is View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
are some ways forward, says Fuller. Companies might need to embrace automation technologies that can help reduce labor hours per unit, an approach Fuller has seen start to take hold in the garment industry. There could be regulatory aid,...
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- 04 Nov 2020
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The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
Automation in Zurich, Switzerland. More importantly, I love my work every day. It turns out that committing myself to serve others was more important than an impressive ceremony I missed, and somehow, what looked like a detour in my...
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that a company could differentiate itself by embracing this refined definition of the deal between employees and employers? What's at the heart of it, do you think, Nickle?LaMoreaux: I think there are a couple driving forces. One is the...
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of the facets that you’re looking at in that index is, developing people to drive business results, check, foster career growth, absolutely critical as I mentioned. That’s kind of our secret sauce, actually, is having those quarterly...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Forsythe stories feature a talented African American man, wrongfully imprisoned, who becomes a successful drug lord. The Carmichael stories feature two generations of Swedish immigrants in upstate New York, facing—or avoiding—the challenges that industrialization and...
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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
beyond West Wind, he passes the high-tunnel greenhouses that Pine Mountain provides to local farmers. “In many ways, it’s like running a small town,” says Marietta, casting his eye across the potato fields and chicken coop that help supply the school’s kitchen. And...
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playing in employment and what’s next, in terms of policy, technology, and market adoption. Joe Fuller: It’s just about impossible to discuss the future of work without pondering the influence of artificial intelligence. Will automation...
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drives talent scarcity. You might wonder, “Okay, what does that mean for talent?” Well, talent is more demanding, because they know they can be. It’s very simple. And there has been a lot of talk about the Great Resignation just...
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advancement of technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and generative AI is driving unprecedented levels of investment in IT. Globally, IT investments exceed $2.5 trillion, while in the United...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), Chairman of 5F World, Lighthouse Communities Foundation, and Honeywell Automation India. Navaldi’s highlighted contributions include “delivering medicines, oxygen concentrators, and medical supplies to...
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