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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
interested in hearing your thoughts about is how AI will affect, not algorithmic traders or performance marketers, but everyday working-class Americans.Aguh: I think, for AI specifically, what’s some of the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
revolutionized the way we work, improved productivity. The productivity numbers in the United States went up the last couple of years or two for the first time in a while. It’s giving people the opportunity...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
seven production workers to a customer that would work on a particular product launch. The pilot actually has us bringing in a robot and two people to perform the same functions. One of the employees...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
bottom-line impact, and increase the competitiveness overall of the organization.Fuller: Bill, I think one of the interesting data points in our survey is that C-suite executives express higher levels View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
career.Fuller: Now, this is an era where companies are I think not only expressing, but sincerely embracing a desire to significantly and sustainably improve their performance on diversity and inclusion....
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
alike. Can this earn-and-learn model provide equitable workforce development in a fast-changing digital economy? And can it equip workers with the wherewithal to perform today and develop skills for the long run? Welcome to the Managing...
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- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
markets faster through the existing distribution network of the acquirer, or through the ability to invest quickly in significantly expanded facilities. Compared to an IPO, it allows the careful delineation View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
research that showed that, among consultants in a major consulting firm, the performance of individuals who had been ranked in the bottom quartiles, two quartiles, improved to...
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- August 2020 (Revised October 2021)
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India 2020 – Governance and Growth
In January 2012, the government of India faced significant challenges to achieving three key objectives of high growth, inclusive development, and improved governance. The economy was experiencing a growth slowdown, persistently high inflation, and infrastructure and...
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Vietor, Richard H. K. "India 2020 – Governance and Growth." Harvard Business School Case 721-002, August 2020. (Revised October 2021.)
- April 2006 (Revised June 2008)
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New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc.
By: H. Kent Bowen, Robert S. Huckman and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Considers whether New Balance, one of the world's five largest manufacturers of athletic footwear, should respond to Adidas' planned acquisition of Reebok--a transaction that would join the second- and third-largest companies in the industry. Highlights the unique...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Production;
Supply Chain Management;
Performance Improvement;
Competition;
Consolidation;
Apparel and Accessories Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, Robert S. Huckman, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 606-094, April 2006. (Revised June 2008.)
- April 2001
- Article
Beyond Talent: John Irving and the Passionate Craft of Creativity
By: T. M. Amabile
Although laypeople and creativity theorists often make the assumption that individual creativity depends primarily on talent, there is considerable evidence that hard work and intrinsic motivation-which can be supported or undermined by the social environment-also play...
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Keywords:
Creativity;
Performance;
Performance Improvement;
Motivation and Incentives;
Personal Characteristics;
Situation or Environment
Amabile, T. M. "Beyond Talent: John Irving and the Passionate Craft of Creativity." American Psychologist 56, no. 4 (April 2001): 333–336.
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
neither upsell the customer to a device that may suit their needs better or make complementary sales of cables and ancillary devices that may improve the experience, and that customers are unlikely to buy...
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- 09 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure
- December 2009
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Restructuring Within an Academic Health Center to Support Quality and Safety: The Development of the Center for Quality and Safety at the Massachusetts General Hospital
By: Richard Bohmer, Jonathan David Bloom, Elizabeth Mort MD, Akinluwa Demehin and Gregg Meyer MD
Recent focus on the need to improve the quality and safety of health care has created new challenges for academic health centers (AHCs). Whereas previously quality was largely assumed, today it is increasingly quantifiable and requires organized systems for...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Design;
Performance Improvement;
Quality;
Safety;
Massachusetts
Bohmer, Richard, Jonathan David Bloom, Elizabeth Mort MD, Akinluwa Demehin, and Gregg Meyer MD. "Restructuring Within an Academic Health Center to Support Quality and Safety: The Development of the Center for Quality and Safety at the Massachusetts General Hospital." Academic Medicine 84, no. 12 (December 2009): 1663–1671.
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
first set had to do with the audit team’s training—as measured by the number of audit skill courses they’d taken—and whether the audit was announced or a surprise. They found that the biggest improvements...
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by Michael Blanding
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A Head Start on Succession
By: Joseph L. Bower
Our studies of CEO succession over the past several years have shown some improvements in the trends in CEO turnover, often resulting from outside pressures for improved oversight and better corporate governance. The next step in improving CEO succession—and ultimately...
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Investment Return;
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Leadership Development;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Succession;
Management Teams;
Business and Shareholder Relations
Bower, Joseph L. "A Head Start on Succession." Strategy + Business, no. 51 (Summer 2008): 84–85.
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Competitive Strategy
Anita M. McGahan and Michael E. Porter and are completing a series of statistical papers on the sources of company and industry profitability. Based on a large new database on the profitability of U.S. business segments between 1981 and 1994, their research examines...
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- January 2013
- Case
Luotang Power: Variances Explained
By: Robert Simons and Craig Chapman
The general manager of Luotang Power, a coal-fired power plant located in central China, reviews annual results before a meeting with the board of directors. He thought the company performed well during the year and both plant availability and fuel economy had improved...
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China;
Financial Statements;
Management Accounting;
Variance Analysis;
Environmental Regulations;
Incentives;
Electric Power Generation;
Contracts;
Valuation;
Energy Generation;
Accounting;
Performance Evaluation;
Energy Industry;
China
Simons, Robert, and Craig Chapman. "Luotang Power: Variances Explained." Harvard Business School Brief Case 913-533, January 2013.
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
Not long ago, the senior management of a leading high-tech company was surprised to learn that research showed their R&D groups' creative performance to be in a prolonged slump following a corporate...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 20 Aug 2019
- Working Paper Summaries