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- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
more to their lower status parent group. Why? The present paper begins to establish the role of individual differences and social context in hypodescent, the process of assigning multiracials the status of their relatively disadvantaged... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
acute and chronic stress). Both hormones are found in men and women. Men naturally have more testosterone than women do, but the researchers were measuring the levels relative to gender norms. The normal level of cortisol is the same for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
in this primary group have interlocking tasks, their bonds of trust will facilitate their joint task performance and they can be officially recognized as a work group or team. The more extended bonding drive of employees will also... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
general competencies into company- and job-specific expertise, develop relationships, and make a contribution to organizational performance in relatively short order. Once they begin to make a contribution... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 08 Apr 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It
maker better off emphasizing performance over luxury? Are luxury and sustainability mutually exclusive? And just what is the “new aspirational lifestyle?” Here is what they found. A Good Place to Start The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
variability than was the case historically. Under the new policy, dividends would be tied to the company's underwriting results, its performance relative to predetermined goals, and a target payout ratio.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
Financial performance is the result of operating performance. Operating performance includes all the things that a company must do to win the competitive battle in its industry to attract, retain, and... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
securities laws. If someone promises to do something and knows that they can't perform that promise, that's considered fraud. In a business plan, one must make an honest appraisal of what's doable and set forth their assumptions, so the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 27 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding
to address ever-changing challenges. "Companies struggle to onboard employees even when times are good and relatively predictable." The only way to fast track onboarding and enable those workers to reach peak View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg
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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Haiti. It devises a simple approach for tracking the resources... September 2016 (Revised October 2018) HBS Case Collection Springfield Hospital by Susanna Gallani and Robert Kaplan One of the key roles of costing systems is to support the evaluation of View Details
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Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Clusters, Convergence, & Economic Performance by Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter, Scott Stern This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in the economic performance of industries,... View Details
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate from the incumbent following increased service quality (price) competition only when the incumbent offers... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jun 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?
Summing Up Strategy, execution, and culture: Do we have our priorities right? First, my thanks to all of you who weighed in on the issues of the month regarding ways of thinking and asking questions about the relative importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
military school in Brasilia, Brazil knowing this was my path to college and, more importantly, absolute financial independence from my family. While I succeeded, that came at a price: my identity could be summarized as just a high-performance student and displaying the... View Details
- 04 Jan 2022
- What Do You Think?
Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?
cause or not. Each situation is different. It may depend on the nature of the CEO’s shortcomings and the terms of their contract. Was the problem merely poor company performance (rarely regarded as “cause”), poor judgment (a borderline... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
Abstract—We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
years, but their performance is somewhere between a C and C+.” Gazette: Why do you think Amazon decided to plunge further into health care, an area they haven’t had a lot of success in? Chandra: When Amazon looks at health care, they... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52718 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Relative TSR... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
what the boss is doing all day. For all of the minute-to-minute monitoring of employee performance from the time of Henry Ford onward, it's amazing how little any of us really know about how CEOs of major companies spend their time.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
when other approaches would produce better results for customers, employees, and shareholders and foster better long-term performance of the company. “I’ve been a leader during three recessions, and I’ve never heard a management team talk... View Details