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- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
Frank V. Cespedes, and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 709-441 In 2008, concert producer and promoter Live Nation faces a decision about its strategy in light of the tumultuous changes in the music industry and the increasing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
early 1990s, but foreign brides currently comprise 4% to 35% of newlyweds in these developed Asian countries. This paper argues that two factors account for this rapid increase in "bride importation": the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
Leadership Top-down Participative Focus Structure and systems Culture Planning Programmatic Emergent Motivation Incentives lead Incentives lag Consultants Large/ knowledge-driven Small/ process-driven That is, each of them does promote... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 18 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech
Harvard Business School says. As part of a sweeping executive order aimed at promoting competition in the American economy, US President Joe Biden specifically called out non-compete agreements as hurtful to innovation and workers. Issued... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 26
rates to those facing high tax rates. Evidence from the worldwide operations of U.S. multinational firms indicates that affiliates in low-tax jurisdictions use trade credit to lend, whereas those in high-tax jurisdictions use trade credit to borrow: 10% lower local tax... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
modification; they can try something radically different by making a fundamental departure; or they can stop investing, stop trying to improve their product.” Analyzing data from 122 tournaments on the website, Gross found that designers with high positive feedback... View Details
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
increased insomnia. “The more time-pressed you feel, the lower your well-being,” Whillans says. She hopes the study—Buying Time Promotes Happiness, which was published in the August issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016
range of behavior change models and evidence related to littering, water and energy conservation, and land management. We also discuss the methodology and data needed to answer these questions. We illustrate how these questions have been answered in practice to inform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
people who should not be admitted, and rejecting people who should not be rejected.” Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals paints a picture of businesses repeatedly promoting or hiring... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
international capital flows net of government debt are positively correlated with growth and allocated according to the neoclassical predictions; (2) international capital flows net of official aid flows,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
behaviors, and values of a legacy organization, changing a business model from paper to digital, capitalizing on huge brand awareness and international presence, and promoting cross-functional and cross-divisional collaboration.... View Details
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
environment has resulted in volatility in purchases and productivity across idiosyncratic product categories, resulting in a net economic crisis of a type that has not been witnessed by anyone alive today. Government-imposed quarantines,... View Details
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
receiving creativity scores 23 percent lower than the average of the other conditions. In the other three conditions, creativity was about the same.] "As human beings, we pay more attention to negative information because it is a signal... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Jan 2022
- What Do You Think?
Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?
disappointing to board members who witnessed the turnaround Easterbrook had led at the company since his promotion to CEO four years earlier. The board’s investigation found that Easterbrook’s “consensual relationship” wasn’t physical but... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
welcome counterpoint to the largely hidden involvement of corporate leaders in shaping policy through the hundreds of millions of dollars they direct to Super PACs, trade associations, and think tanks to promote liberal and conservative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
are either promoted or fired. While these systems are intended to spur hard work and high levels of performance, they also introduce potential risks. The determination of winners and losers in a tournament-based reward system is rarely... View Details
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
promoted to vice president and divisional merchandise manager for furniture and decorative supplies. There she had profit and loss responsibility for $350 million and twelve people in an area with poor assortment of merchandise, flat... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
management. In their book, Fred Reichheld and Rob Markey remind us of the simplicity of the Net Promoter Score (NPS). It's the product of answers to one question, "How... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
highest overall management scores in retail, health care, and manufacturing. But US schools scored comparatively lower, coming in fourth behind the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Canada. "US schools in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel