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- a measurement of the efficiency of production, taking the form of a ratio of the output of goods and services to the input of factors...
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- The Death of the Informed Decision
- To make a critical decision, we often siphon in as much raw data as possible, listen to expert advice, run scenarios, and then place our bet or bets on the most logical course of action. But if you notice, the captain of the Starship Enterprise was not...
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Tick Tock: Tips for Allocating Your Time
- Do you spend your work time as effectively as you could? Let me answer for you. No. Everyone from CEOs to front-line managers squander their most valuable resource -- time -- like an untuned automobile wastes fuel. Our opportunities to create real value for the organization are...
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Why Don't More Companies Use Prediction Markets?
- The basic idea behind James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds is that a collection of complete strangers in aggregate can make a better decision than a single expert. A crowd at the county fair, when polled in aggregate, can guess the weight of a giant pumpkin unfailingly within a few...
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Tools for Assessing Your Organization's Learning Capabilities
- Every organization must learn or die -- learn about itself, the competition, the market, the world. A new Harvard Business Review package on organizational learning wraps together an article, assessment tool and video interview to help you judge your own organization's learning capabilities. What does a...
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Why Nintendo was a Wii Bit Off Forecast
- For the second holiday season in a row, Nintendo has botched forecasted demand for the Wii game system, leaving frustrated potential buyers clutching at -- well, nothing. Is it really this hard this hard to forecast? In a new blog on Harvard Business, Yossi Sheffi...
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- The Biggest Management Challenges in 2008
- Seven years into the 21st century the world of business and management is certainly going through, if not revolution, at least evolution on a speedy scale. Traditional business models are getting turned on their heads (Anyone seen Google's share price lately?), resources and markets are available on...
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Stop the Meeting Madness! Tools for Simplifying Your Company
- Is more than half your time soaked up in company meetings? How many layers of management sit between your CEO and front-line workers? Do you understand how to get a capital expense approved? The answer to these questions and 7 others in a new Harvard Business diagnostic...
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- The Internet-based Manager
- I once interviewed Alan Shugart, the founder of disk drive giant Seagate Technologies, in his dark office at corporate headquarters in Scotts Valley, California. He had a PC on his desk, so I asked Shugart, as head of then one of the most powerful technology companies in the world, how...
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
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