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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
key performance variables (sales growth, profit margins, working capital turnover and long-term asset turnover) as well as financial leverage and cost of capital. Users can judge whether their forecasts are reasonable by comparing them... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
data from a large law firm, we examine the influence of demographic match with workgroup superiors and workgroup peers on attorneys' likelihood of turnover and promotion. Survival analyses reveal that higher proportions of same-sex and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
the long-term vision and short-term realities of the need for performance. Mike Flanagan asked, "Why have goals that are strived for in 10 years when the CEO and others will be gone?" And Kathryn Alexander asked why, in those... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
Christopher Stanton Abstract—Wage rigidity creates real and financial frictions, though the real-world drivers of rigidities remain largely unstudied. We use staggered commission reductions at a sales firm to estimate effects on worker View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
with tools for identifying and solving these problems, engage their employees and suppliers in their improvement efforts. Q: Your book notes that typical stores experience staff turnover of 100 percent each year. How do you see successful... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
likelihood of turnover and promotion. Survival analyses reveal that higher proportions of same-sex and same-race superiors enhance junior professionals' career mobility. On the flip side, we observe mobility costs accruing to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms. Pay for performance sensitivity for non-founder CEOs in founder-director firms is higher and the level of pay is lower than that of other CEOs. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
sees 65 percent turnover, Turkasset became choosy about its employees, hiring less than one in 100 applicants. Once hired, it paid them higher salaries and performed more in-depth training. The investment paid off, dropping the turnover... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
"truth in giving" policies are highly responsive to recipient heterogeneity and biased against more generous giving. Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
less likely to be aligned with company goals. However, the plan was associated with lower sales and gross profits and higher incidence of bad audits, absenteeism, and turnover in some situations where employees could have perceived the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
average quality) or on its costs (lower quantity). Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-094.pdf Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India (revised) Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
turnover in sales is 25% to 30%, while direct replacement costs for a telesales employee ranges from $75,000 to $90,000 and other sales positions cost as much as $300,000. Moreover, these figures do not reflect the lost sales while a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
downtime. Departmental specialists can assist customers during busy periods and order merchandise and arrange their sections during slack hours. The results? Customers receive better service. Employees have more predictable schedules, one reason why View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
than that of other CEOs. CEO turnover sensitivity to firm performance is also significantly higher in founder-director firms compared to non-founder firms. Overall, the evidence suggests that boards with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
for growth become a primary objective, pulling these firms away from their foundational north star: CEO and C-suite management consulting. In pursuing additional opportunities, consulting firms have widely diversified the industry breadth... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
James E. Heppelmann Abstract—The evolution of products into intelligent, connected devices is revolutionizing business. In a November 2014 article, "How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition," Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
The Wall Street Journal. We find no evidence that compensation is related to earnings forecast accuracy. But consistent with prior studies, we find analyst turnover to be related to forecast accuracy, suggesting that analyst forecasting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
"platform") around the rapidly expanding online video industry. Simultaneously, CEO Jeremy Allaire was completing a major funding round that would enable the company to make strategic investments in some or all of several... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
Chairman and CEO of KPMG, the firm made a number of changes in compensation, governance, and culture in order to address the underlying reasons for actions that occurred prior to him becoming CEO that led to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/118054-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-108 Hikma Pharmaceuticals Governance Journey The case opens with Said Darwazah, chairman and CEO of Hikma Pharmaceuticals, the multinational generics... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman