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- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Abstract The potential supply of biomass feedstocks in the U.S. and Canada is estimated using a static supply function approach. Estimated total biomass available at a price of $100 per metric ton is 568 million metric tons in the U.S....
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
HBS in 1984. "My biggest priority has always been to ensure that my career and family life function harmoniously together," says Middlebrooks, who is now a controller for Chrysler's MOPAR Parts Division. "I love what I do at Chrysler and...
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- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
source development. We use DSMs to analyze a sample of matched-pair products—products that perform the same function but that have been developed via these contrasting modes of organization. Our results reveal significant differences in...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
it could replace the electrode in the millions of lithium-ion batteries currently in production. The management team needed to decide whether to pursue the breakthrough self-assembly technology or move resources to commercialize the new...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
eliminated zippers, pockets, heavy buttons, and other embellishments that can add up to extra pounds. The company’s apparel and gear stand out for their simple but functional designs, brilliant colors, and, of course, light weight. Soon...
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- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
change initiatives-Predictability, Teaming and Open Communication, and Results Only Work Environment-that alter the structure and culture of work in ways that enable better work and better lives. August 2013 Tax Administration Review...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
prosocial goal (e.g., making someone smile or increasing recycling) felt happier and reported creating greater personal happiness after performing a goal-directed act of kindness than did those who were assigned a functionally similar,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients—DaVita's main function is to provide dialysis services to ESRD patients and Rx provides medication to ESRD patients. Can Paladina succeed simply by following Rx's example, or will it face different...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
only a conscious and concerted effort of group development can harness that strength. Outlines five steps in group development each team must take. Suggests that action learning, the skill the learning group must master to become...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Asian Agri appeared well positioned to capitalize on the growing palm oil market, but the broad-strokes vilification of the palm oil industry was a source of serious concern. In the face of great uncertainty, the management team needed to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
says, to avoid a clash of cultures and agendas—which Arrow Electronics experienced in its attempts to create an online venture. Finally, companies commonly undervalue and underinvest in the human side of innovation—for instance, promoting individuals out of innovation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
field-based cases, notes, and software models have been created for Entrepreneurial Finance. "I started the course to shed light on how individuals and teams identify opportunities, how they marshall the required resources, including...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
purpose.Van’t Noordende: Yeah. That’s actually interesting. We see much more involvement from business leaders and functional leaders in our clients’ organizations in the whole talent agenda, because talent is scarce. Clients—and also...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
those associates who are either not interested or not college-ready, but who want to enhance their skills and want to enhance their prospects within the company? Stomski: So the academy serve a really important function in that you are...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
concurring opinion, the law, as it applies to corporations is functionally indistinguishable of the laws that apply to universities. And if many companies find that the significant investment they’re made in specific programs to advance...
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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
firm maintain a unified focus and operational consistency in new and existing points of sale around the world. One measure that Kompel and his team were considering was the Balanced Scorecard, a tool traditionally used by top management....
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
that expansions abroad reduce a firm's domestic activity, instead suggesting the opposite. The Finance Function in a Global Corporation Author:Mihir A. Desai Publication:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July -...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
managing a distributed team or workforce, but actually to put in place the various performance management and many of the other aspects of being a successful manager in place that work, not only for full-time employees, but also for...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
patterns of bias? Or will job seekers use generative AI to get past robotic gatekeepers? Will HR functions flourish or disappear? But the debate over the use of AI in hiring obscures the extent to which the technology is already being...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
completely changed the mosaic of who was either stepping away from the workforce or changing their hours as a function of the caregiving requirements of Covid. As we go forward, of course, those impacts are going to be relaxed...
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