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- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
What went wrong on Mount Everest on May 10, 1996? That day, twenty-three climbers reached the summit. Five climbers, however, did not survive the descent. Two of these, Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, were extremely skilled team leaders with much View Details
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by Michael A. Roberto
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
The Business & Environment Initiative and the Social Enterprise Initiative deepen business leaders’ understanding of today’s environmental challenges and assist them in developing effective solutions. Business & Environment Social Enterprise The vital connection...
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
effect of a unique mediated funding scheme that combines project grants with active facilitation and conflict management on firm performance, comparing the likelihood of bankruptcy and employee count as well as patent count, publication count and their citations and...
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- 08 Apr 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective
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by Geoffrey Jones
- Research Summary
Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights
By: Debora L. Spar
This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,...
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- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 2022
- Article
Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO
By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with
leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a
knowledge work context for the purpose...
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Kristensen, Thomas Borup, Henrik Saabye, and Amy Edmondson. "Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 42, no. 13 (2022): 438–481.
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers
Artificial intelligence is changing the nature of work on a scale some predict will be as transformative as the Industrial Revolution. It’s also exposing the yawning gaps in a fractured US employment system that many companies and workers...
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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment
climate change is expected to worsen conditions for growing food. [27] Barclays predicts that markets for meat alternatives could be worth $140 billion within 10 years (by 2029). [28] Challenge Agriculture’s contributions to climate change come from a variety of...
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- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
the results provide new evidence of the impact of rank and file employees on firms' financial reporting choices. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49026 forthcoming Strategy Beyond Markets Navigating Natural...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor
In the half-century since his graduation, Theodore Roosevelt IV (MBA 1972) has earned widespread respect as both a forward-thinking investment banker and an influential activist through his efforts to address climate change and preserve public lands. For much of that...
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
saw an unprecedented explosion of venture capital activity worldwide, far eclipsing 2000 and earlier venture peaks. What was behind this dramatic surge of activity? How severe will be the inevitable downturn that followed? How will these events affect the View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
consumer-fitness experience and grounded it in medical science for a chronic disease population?” asks Lee, a 2023–2024 Blavatnik Fellow who will spend her fellowship year developing and testing an on-demand video prototype. Exercise can...
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- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
serving on political councils, political legacy, and financial resources-affect the likelihood of firms issuing CSR reports. Second, we focus on the symbolic nature of CSR reporting and how variance in the risk of government monitoring...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
discomfort, complications, adverse effects) Tier 3: Sustainability of health Sustainability of Health or Recovery & Nature of Recurrences - Recurrences, with arrow pointing back to Tier 1 Survival Long-term Consequences of Therapy (e.g.,...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
you’re the only woman in the room. You don’t have a lot of natural allies to support your view.” Feel the pain: “There should be consequences when companies fail to diversify leadership. If decision makers didn’t get their annual bonuses...
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Deborah Blagg
- 20 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It
We can't be the alpha dog all of the time. Whatever our personality, most of us experience varying degrees of feeling in charge. Some situations take us down a notch while others build us up. New research shows that it's possible to...
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by Julia Hanna
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
anti-trust immunity. Capitalism is not a natural system and it did not emerge or spread by an unguided process like biological evolution; it has only existed since the liberation of the markets for land, labor, and capital, i.e., the end...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
Although it isn't part of the admissions criteria, experience playing with LEGOs can come in handy at Harvard Business School. When Stefan H. Thomke teaches his new case about the iconic toy company, he gives students eight-studded LEGO...
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