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- April 2019 (Revised January 2022)
- Case
Clear Link Technologies, LLC: Driving Sales with Peer Effects
By: Christopher Stanton, Richard Saouma and Olivia Hull
The importance of a good peer or coworker is widely discussed, but understanding the glue that makes coworkers valuable is less understood. This case sheds light on the importance of peers and the practices and environments that make a group greater than the sum of its... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Interactive Communication; Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Training; Design; Compensation and Benefits; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance; Performance Improvement; Research; Sales; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives; Telecommunications Industry; Utah; United States
Stanton, Christopher, Richard Saouma, and Olivia Hull. "Clear Link Technologies, LLC: Driving Sales with Peer Effects." Harvard Business School Case 819-072, April 2019. (Revised January 2022.)
- 2010
- Working Paper
Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster
By: Nelson P. Repenning and Rebecca Henderson
Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"—delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer-term investments—makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Performance Improvement; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Management Practices and Processes; Revenue; Quality; Competency and Skills; Motivation and Incentives; Auto Industry; United States
Repenning, Nelson P., and Rebecca Henderson. "Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-033, September 2010.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Product Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges are the Benefits
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard
The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the interdisciplinary nature of the work and industry trends necessitate that professionals from different functions work together on development projects to create the highest quality product in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
At Work in the Fields with the Lord
In California’s Coachella Valley, Sister Marsha Allen (MBA 1976) is spearheading a coalition of nonprofits and charitable organizations in an effort to build a tent city for the 20,000 migrant farmworkers and their children who come to the valley every year to harvest... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
Parker Imagine having a conversation with the head of HR that goes something like this: Over the past several years with the company, I’ve helped turn around an ailing division. Now I’d like to try my hand at managing a growth business. Anything available? When you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Jay Light, the School’s ninth dean, retires in June after a distinguished forty-year career at HBS. As a young mission analyst at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, Light applied to the MBA Program... View Details
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Competing in a Globalizing World (A) Juan Alcácer, Rasmus Molander, and Rakeen MabudHarvard Business School Case 710-430 The Finnish brewer Hartwall and the Swedish brewer Pripps had to decide how to react to the rapidly changing European... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
might be important. You have competing technologies, but at the same time, there are competing ways of making sense about what that technology is. Q: To look at this through a more entrepreneurial lens, it... View Details
- 27 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Opportunity Abounds
consulting and non-profit work in Africa. Getting to know them personally and witnessing their competency during an acute project timeline was another slice of this massive talent exchange called the HBS MBA experience. From Dharamsala,... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
expensive, and many observers were questioning the ability of this country to compete in the world economy. Convinced that the postindustrial era had arrived in America, the chairman of the Ogden Corporation, a giant New York-based... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Charting the Year Ahead
succession, competing for volunteers’ and members’ scarce time, and maintaining their distinctive connection to the School. Fifty club leaders convened at HBS in June at the annual Clubs Officers Leadership Conference and offered... View Details
- Profile
Marie Kyle
Pitch for Change competition for the Social Enterprise Conference, an opportunity for social entrepreneurs to compete for $6,000 in seed capital and three free hours of nonprofit consulting time. "Ultimately," Marie says about... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
Video Embed At the 2016 New Venture Competition finale 12 teams competed from 3 tracks for more $225,000 in cash prizes. The opening video portrays inspiring companies founded by HBS graduates and students to show that one simple idea can... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
University Elections
institutional excellence to which Harvard aspires; to provide advice to the Corporation; to give formal consent to major initiatives as referred by the Corporation and to appointments; and to bring a long-range perspective to Harvard affairs through the varied View Details
- 06 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Art of American Advertising
Professor of Marketing, Emeritus, and an adviser on the exhibit. "Many firms competed for the attention and affection of customers. And, whole new kinds of media burst on the scene. This meant that marketers needed to be particularly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
competitiveness-losing out in 8 out of 10 actual cases. Alumni had considered moving their US facilities to a total of 146 countries, clearly showing that America is competing with virtually the entire world, not just a handful of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2011
- News
My First HBS Class
classroom case discussions, the students were models of decorum and probity. I attended two different classes, a second- and a first-year course. I came completely unprepared to a popular second-year Strategy course called Competing with... View Details
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
nonprofitsneed to be able to compete on a level playing field. "So much of theirability to compete is based upon the availability of capital and how theyacquire it." Jed Emerson Social Return On... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
job postings than unemployed people in that space. WK: Add to that how quickly the technology and demographic forces are changing many parts of the workplace, and it’s clear that there’s a need to ensure that the middle skills workforce has the View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
In the course of their outstanding professional careers, this year’s five recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award — the School’s highest honor — have had an enormous impact on the world of business. A surprising key to their success? Understanding the importance of... View Details