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Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19 - MBA
The idea is simple. Volunteers are pinged if a neighbor is in need of groceries or a prescription, and they pick those things up the next time they’re making a trip out of the house. Volunteers then follow a “no contact” delivery...
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- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
that affect groups of people engaged in collaborative product design affect groups of people engaged in the collaborative production and delivery of goods and services. As with complex technical systems, there would be cognitive overload...
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
friendship. To learn. To express feelings. To convey complex information. To laugh. To pass the time. To make decisions. To persuade. To solve problems. In this session, participants will learn a framework to understand their...
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- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
cultural model and undermine their own positions with inappropriate use of symbolic market-creation actions. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50701 Harvard Business School Case 916-026 Express...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
As the newly elected president of the HBS Alumni Association, I am very excited at the prospect of leading this important organization and representing your interests to the School over the course of my two-year term. I would like to View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?
its culture as an amalgam of “freedom and responsibility.” By freedom, the company doesn’t mean a free-for-all. Yes, workers have the freedom to express opposing viewpoints, and they also have wide leeway with their vacation and travel...
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- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
statistical simulations to analyze drivers’ work patterns and pay. Their findings suggest that the ability to set one’s own work schedule has a significant impact on quality of life—not just for gig workers, but for everyone—and that that impact can be View Details
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Consumer Products
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
it’s not drug problems or throwing a stapler at the assistant. It’s missing a delivery date. A veteran I worked with told me, ‘Your job isn’t to make it great; your job is to get it in by Tuesday.’ ” Dick’s prime-time résumé includes The...
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- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
significant changes, but the engineering and economic challenges of the industry made any move into that space a risky bet. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716401-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 616-003 SF Express: From View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
Amazon of Africa”; at the time of its IPO last April, it was valued at $1.3 billion. A year later, Kehinde and fellow Jumia executive Ercin Eksin went on to found Africa Courier Express (ACE), a logistics company meant to meet the growing...
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Dan Morrell
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
panel data. Expressive Voting and Its Cost: Evidence from Runoffs with Two or Three Candidates By: Pons, Vincent, and Clémence Tricaud Abstract—In French parliamentary and local elections, candidates ranked first and second in the first...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation
that will determine success. Another way unconscious bias can present itself is in the delivery of recruiting materials. For example, video-based events that aren’t accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing candidates may unintentionally...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
Leaders Program, which he helped to develop. A Supplement to Manual Tracing See more from the online-only December Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s exploration of how the digital revolution has improved health care delivery and discovery....
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- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50625 February 2016 Harvard Business Review The Harvard Contest That’s Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery By: Hamermesh, Richard G., Robert S. Huckman, Barbara McNeil, Joseph P. Newhouse,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
entire cycle of acute pain medicine delivery for these patients. TDABC was used to identify possible improvements in personnel allocation, workflow changes, and epidural placement location and to model the cost savings of those...
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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
believe I had the skills to turn around a troubled technology company," says the Long Island native, who had worked at McKinsey and American Express before becoming chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco. "Over time, the IBM board members...
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- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
larger implication is in the delivery of any sort of undesirable news that an audience doesn't really want to hear. If you deliver it all at once, a person will tune out mentally. A better strategy would be to deliver the information bit...
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- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
hypotheses underlying the firm's balanced scorecard and strategy map reveal problems with the strategy on a timelier basis. We also test alternative hypotheses to those underlying the firm's formal strategy map and scorecard that are consistent with concerns View Details
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Martha Lagace
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Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation - Recruiting
itself is in the delivery of recruiting materials. For example, video-based events that aren’t accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing candidates may unintentionally indicate a company’s bias against these individuals. Including closed...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
examine a prominent justification for capital income taxation: goods preferred by those with high ability ought to be taxed. In an environment where commodity taxes are allowed to be nonlinear functions of income and consumption, we derive an analytical View Details
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Sean Silverthorne