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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
restore service to the headquarters as well as all of the corporation’s telecommunications. I felt like an imposter, but I decided that I didn’t need to share that info. I chose to set an aggressive goal for restoration. The fire started...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
marriage license or death certificate. “It’s a sense of euphoria,” he says. As he constructed a family tree that stretched back to the early 18th century, Diamond also began to think about how the process could be improved. His own search...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
Journal with the headline “Autism Research Should Be Financed Like Venture Capital,” arguing that the concentration of capital in autism research was sti ing innovation. “Researchers should be rewarded for stretching beyond conventional...
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Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
their caregivers targets two years in a row, but Dr. Mihaljevic still thought it was best to set stretch goals for 2023. As they thought about the need to attract and retain caregivers, they recognized how...
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
Mihaljevic still thought it was best to set stretch goals for 2023. As they thought about the need to attract and retain caregivers, they recognized how imperative it was to accelerate their digital journey....
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
(OKRs) for 2023, particularly for caregivers. Dr. Mihaljevic and his executive leadership team grappled with the latest pressing issues in their weekly team meeting. They had missed their caregivers targets two years in a row, but Dr. Mihaljevic still thought it was...
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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting
she said, “and I saw engineering as an opportunity to stretch myself and take me out of my comfort zone.”Several years into her career at Shell, Nneka noticed that the intellectual challenge of chemical engineering and her work in the...
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- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
different time from operational review meetings. In that way, each meeting has its own frequency, agenda, information system, and participation, as best meets the goals for that meeting. Q: Given the proliferation of tools, how should...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
deals with individual politicians, powerful organizations, other firms, and armed (or potentially armed) factions. The goal of these deals was to defend their property rights by raising the political costs of interference with their...
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- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
socialize and exercise rather than work longer hours, add up to a lot of time. And our choices powerfully shape whether we’re happy or not.” Here, Whillans shares six research-based strategies for managing the minutes on the clock, all with the ultimate View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)
stretched financially. My parents went through the transition in 1989 from the Soviet Union and lost their savings overnight. Fortunately, I had a great education. I was on scholarship in high school and then moved to Canada at age 18 for...
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- 22 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)
was interested in the oil and gas industry, and was drawn to engineering because of the challenge. “I always want to push myself,” she said, “and I saw engineering as an opportunity to stretch myself and take me out of my comfort...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
trucking-tech company, has a simple goal: Get goods where they need to go as efficiently as possible with a limited labor force. For TuSimple, that means a focus not on the cities themselves, but rather on the long stretches of highway...
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Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by;
energy;
environment;
sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transportation;
Water, Sewage and Supply Systems;
Utilities;
Construction of Buildings;
Construction;
Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Corporate Services
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
supply chain problem space to include, among other things, the assignment of roles and decision rights among the coordinating partners, the selection of partners, the design of incentives, and the design of processes to monitor performance, set View Details
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by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
changes,” Turner notes. “The quality then is inferior, but some producers mix it in with their better grades to stretch yield. We decided not to do that.” Turner also links his brand’s flavor to a purification process inspired by his...
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Deborah Blagg
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
efficient. Entering patient data into a computer can cost doctors valuable patient time.Photo: iStockPhoto However, several studies indicated that when physicians spent extra time entering data themselves, it cut down time spent with patients and View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
fabricated or real crisis is an essential ingredient for effective change management, as an existential threat breaks down many barriers to change. With such an unprecedented crisis, it is stretching and breaking apart even the strongest...
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- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
them interact with their peers. I strive to help my students feel it as we chat one-to-one in my office or anywhere on campus. Third, students must feel like they are learning and growing and developing. They need to know that they are being View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
would stretch the entrepreneur in a direction that, at least at this stage, would not be helpful in building the business. What I like about this approach is that it's very sensitive to building the organization. So you're not applying 50...
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by Julia Hanna
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
community, see this new government as the now-or-never chance to finally set the country on solid footing. But Mitsotakis is clear that his goal is not growth at any cost, and it’s not just about business interests: To truly transform...
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Jen McFarland Flint