Short Time Work - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2012
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Taking Time to Make Time

obligations should be as important to those at the organization's highest levels as it is to middle managers. We often find that work obligations overwhelm our best intentions when it comes to spending time... View Details

Keywords: Time management

01 Dec 1997
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Short Takes

their time when contracting out their skills than when permanently employed. "This group clearly chose contracting as a way of working. This is not work of last resort," Bradach notes. The arrangement, he... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

01 Oct 1998
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new working paper, "How Promotions and Stockpiling Affect Brand Competition," HBS assistant professor Samuel S. Chun looks at the ways in which retailers influence competition among manufacturers when they take advantage of special deals... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Feb 1999
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members of a work team believe that well-intentioned efforts, regardless of outcome, will neither be seen negatively nor lead to punishment or rejection? New research by HBS assistant professor Amy C. Edmondson shows that such teams are... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Feb 1998
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Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 1997
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achieve the company's goals at the same time they are competing to enhance their careers. In a working paper titled "Cloaking Self-Interest with High-Minded Principle," HBS doctoral student Justine Fenwick... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Apr 1998
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development cycles and can't respond in mid-project to changing customer needs. But there's a solution to this dilemma, according to HBS assistant professor Stefan H. Thomke and Donald G. Reinertsen (MBA '79) of Reinertsen & Associates in California. In a View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey

30 Nov 2014
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Even Among Harvard Graduates, Women Fall Short of Their Work Expectations

01 Dec 1998
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Ownership Matters: Bringing Owners on Board In his working paper, "The Impact of Ownership Type on Performance in Public Corporations: A Study of the U.S. Textile Industry 1983-1992," HBS assistant professor David L. Kang demonstrates... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 1999
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from company performance as critics imply? Not at all, according to HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch, whose 1998 working paper, "Compensating Corporate CEOs: A Process View," examines the procedures and forces that drive CEO pay packages.... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Oct 1997
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Green Stuff: Value, Risk, and Environmental Management Environmental issues increasingly influence companies in their approach to fundamental business concerns. How these matters play out in terms of corporate behavior is the subject of a View Details

14 Aug 2019
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Is It Time to Let Employees Work from Anywhere?

01 Feb 2000
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two organizations did business in the same countries. A telephone call to a Starbucks official followed, and a short time later, their partnership development process began. "Underlying the sustainability... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 1998
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Who Benefits from Bonuses? Over the past decade, senior corporate executives have been earning record-high bonuses in record-high numbers. What accounts for this striking increase? Do bonuses motivate executives and enhance organizational performance? In a 1997 View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey

01 Apr 1999
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IT Management from 1960 to 2000 "Today¹s managers are grappling with the turbulent dynamics of the Information Age," says Richard L. Nolan, the School's William Barclay Harding Professor of Management of Technology. The author of a new View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey