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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
marketing group, hammering out goals and determining resources, work assignments, measures of success, and even rewards and recognition for a job well done. "It is the only method that works if you want to move in parallel paths and not... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
their willingness to pay for two product characteristics and marginal costs are increasing with the quality level chosen on each attribute. We show that while firms seek to manage competition through product positioning, their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Latin America - Global Activities 2020
conversation with them about the problems they face. One stream of work is thinking about how they manage their internal organization—understanding how changing the ways that they reward their loan officers can motivate them to better... View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
authority has been longstanding, albeit at the margins of scholarly and practitioner attention. Recently, however, organizational experiments in radical decentralization have gained mainstream consideration, giving rise to a need for new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
Executive Education continued to deliver solid operating leverage on sales growth in fiscal 2017. As a result, despite incurring higher expenses and making significant growth-focused investments, each group provided important income... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
"going public" and "going private'" transactions. We then find that majority PE-backed private firms engage in less book-tax nonconforming tax planning than public years; nonetheless, they exhibit substantially lower View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
shareholders, equity analysts, credit rating agencies, and other representatives of risk-sensitive stakeholders of the firm. If that implementation includes derivatives, management should provide assurances that the necessary expertise... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
economic impact of export subsidies by investigating stock price reactions to a critical event in 1997. On November 18, 1997, the European Union announced its intention to file a complaint before the World Trade Organization (WTO), arguing that the United States View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
leaders, yet many professionals are too stressed to know where to start. Burton provides deep insights and easy practices based in neuroscience, brain training, and positive psychology to help professionals thrive in the “age of... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2014
revenue growth in fiscal 2014. As a result, despite incurring higher expenses and making significant growth-focused investments, each group provided important income contributions to the School’s operations for the year. The School’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
subsidiary Entertainment Asylum, an entertainment-related content provider on the Internet. Despite the hefty title, she still spends quality time with her children in the evenings and on weekends. "I think it's actually healthy to have... View Details
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
As a young teacher at Harvard Business School, Brian J. Hall called on longtime professor James Cash for a favor: Hall wanted to study the inner workings of General Electric, and he needed Cash's help to get in touch with top-level executives who could View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
make the job better for them.” The prize money will also allow the cofounders some room to be creative. “We can explore things that we otherwise might not have had the freedom to do,” says Borkenstein. Gruskin says there were other View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
completed the training activities saw a 25 percent boost in resilience, much higher than the second group that was provided reading materials, which saw a 14.8 percent increase. Meanwhile, the group that didn’t use Happify much or at all... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
each situation, the actions he took, the results achieved, and the specific lessons he learned. He provides a helpful, realistic picture of what it means to achieve a rewarding and happy career without... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
psychologist,” she says. “None of this is exotic, but it does require consistent attention. Provide resources, help, and clear goals. Offer opportunities to build camaraderie, give basic respect and recognition—simply support people and... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
of simple quantitative forecasting techniques—share similar consequences: both can result in an increase in internal costs and in the uncertainty and volatility of the system's replenishment orders. Further results of this paper provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
work pace patterns provide evidence for a time discounting mechanism: workers discount idle time when it is relatively distant but act to avoid it increasingly as it becomes more proximate. Finally, Study 4 demonstrates that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
Institute; Amir Kermani, an assistant professor at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley; and Carlo Sommavilla, a doctoral student at the Swiss Finance Institute. “Some managers appear to free-ride on the information View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
for being a competitive aggressor, small brands are rewarded when they compete aggressively. Our findings illuminate how small brands can benefit from the presence of a large competitor and provide a process... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne