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- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
Editor's note:When it comes to improving your leadership abilities, Professor Robert Steven Kaplan is a big believer in starting with a look in the mirror. In fact, he wrote a book on that subject: What To Ask The Person In The Mirror: Critical Questions For Becoming A...
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- January–February 2024
- Article
The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion
By: Joy Bredehorst, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through a...
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Bredehorst, Joy, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion." Organization Science 35, no. 1 (January–February 2024): 364–386.
- June 1993 (Revised May 1997)
- Case
SKA (Sweden)
By: David F. Hawkins
Management is debating a proposal to capitalize R&D. While Swedish GAAP permits capitalization, the general practice is to expense R&D as incurred.
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Keywords:
Financial Statements;
Financial Reporting;
Framework;
Balanced Scorecard;
Policy;
Accounting Industry;
Sweden
Hawkins, David F. "SKA (Sweden)." Harvard Business School Case 193-166, June 1993. (Revised May 1997.)
- September 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Compilation
Max Green: Work Patterns at Ditto (C)
By: Leslie A. Perlow
According to his managers, Max, a software engineer on a product development team, is an organizational superstar. Describes his life and provides a log of how Max spends his time. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
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Keywords:
Product Development;
Time Management;
Groups and Teams;
Work-Life Balance;
Information Technology Industry
Perlow, Leslie A. "Max Green: Work Patterns at Ditto (C)." Harvard Business School Compilation 404-057, September 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
- March 2010
- Article
Matching with Preferences over Colleagues Solves Classical Matching
In this note, we demonstrate that the problem of "many-to-one matching with (strict) preferences over colleagues" is actually more difficult than the classical many-to-one matching problem, "matching without preferences over colleagues." We give an explicit reduction...
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Kominers, Scott Duke. "Matching with Preferences over Colleagues Solves Classical Matching." Games and Economic Behavior 68, no. 2 (March 2010): 773–780.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Stable Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts
By: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Markus Walzl
We consider several notions of setwise stability for many-to-many matching markets with contracts and provide an analysis of the relations between the resulting sets of stable allocations for general, substitutable, and strongly substitutable preferences. Apart from...
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Klaus, Bettina-Elisabeth, and Markus Walzl. "Stable Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-046, September 2008.
- August 11, 2023
- Article
How CEOs Can Navigate the Emotional Labor of Leadership
By: Nitin Nohria
Although the CEO role comes with power, pay, and privilege, it also involves emotional labor, as leaders feel the toll of making divisive and unpopular decisions. This aspect of the job has become more challenging the last few years. This article offers leaders four...
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Nohria, Nitin. "How CEOs Can Navigate the Emotional Labor of Leadership." Harvard Business Review (website) (August 11, 2023).
- May 17, 2023
- Article
Don't Let Passion Lead to Burnout on Your Team
By: Joy Bredehorst, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Passion is often heralded as the key to a fulfilling and successful career, but the authors’ recent research suggests that it can also come at a cost: Feeling passionate about work can lead to exhaustion and even burnout. Through studies with more than 700 employees...
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Bredehorst, Joy, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "Don't Let Passion Lead to Burnout on Your Team." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 17, 2023).
- 2009
- Working Paper
Smith and Rawls Share a Room: Stability and Medians
By: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Flip Klijn
We consider one-to-one, one-sided matching (roommate) problems in which agents can either be matched as pairs or remain single. We introduce a so-called bi-choice graph for each pair of stable matchings and characterize its structure. Exploiting this structure we...
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Keywords:
Fairness;
One-Sided Platforms;
Two-Sided Platforms;
Marketplace Matching;
Mathematical Methods;
Balance and Stability
Klaus, Bettina-Elisabeth, and Flip Klijn. "Smith and Rawls Share a Room: Stability and Medians." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-111, March 2009.
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
Are Investors the Ultimate Antidote to Gender Inequality in Leadership? Once respondents came to terms with my use of “gender equality” in the title of this month’s column they described several ways in which it might be achieved in our discussion of gender inequality...
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by James Heskett
- 2011
- Working Paper
The Three Foundations of a Great Life, Great Leadership, and a Great Organization
By: Michael C. Jensen
I argue here that the three factors my co-authors and I identify as constituting the foundation for being a leader and the effective exercise of leadership can also be seen as the foundations not only for great leadership, but also for a high quality personal life and...
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Jensen, Michael C. "The Three Foundations of a Great Life, Great Leadership, and a Great Organization." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-122, May 2011.
- March 30, 2022
- Article
To Retain Employees, Support Their Passions Outside Work
By: Lauren C Howe, Jon M. Jachimowicz and Jochen I. Menges
With more and more people quitting, leaders need to find new ways to boost retention. One under-recognized way to keep employees on board is to give them the flexibility and resources they need to pursue their out-of-work passions. Drawing on their research, the...
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Howe, Lauren C., Jon M. Jachimowicz, and Jochen I. Menges. "To Retain Employees, Support Their Passions Outside Work." Harvard Business Review (website) (March 30, 2022).
- August 2008
- Case
Sloan & Harrison: Non-Equity Partner Discontent
By: Boris Groysberg and Eliot Sherman
The law firm, Sloan & Harrison, was dealing with some discontent among its junior non-equity partners. These partners were concerned with the transparency of the advancement process, their ability to position themselves as both leaders within the firm and rainmakers,...
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Keywords:
Employees;
Human Resources;
Leadership Development;
Management Style;
Performance;
Work-Life Balance;
Legal Services Industry
Groysberg, Boris, and Eliot Sherman. "Sloan & Harrison: Non-Equity Partner Discontent." Harvard Business School Case 409-033, August 2008.
- 2017
- Working Paper
The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer
By: Marco Di Maggio and Amir Kermani
We assess the extent to which unemployment insurance (UI) serves as an automatic stabilizer to mitigate the economy's sensitivity to shocks. Using a local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household...
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Keywords:
Unemployment Insurance;
Automatic Stabilizers;
Bartik Shocks;
Aggregate Demand;
System Shocks;
Employment;
Balance and Stability;
Insurance;
Volatility;
Insurance Industry
Di Maggio, Marco, and Amir Kermani. "The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-009, July 2016. (Revise and Resubmit to American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.)
- March 2011
- Teaching Note
Sniffing Out Opportunities at PetSmart (TN)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
Teaching Note for #110-025.
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- November 1988 (Revised March 1990)
- Case
Progressive Corp.: Coping with the Problem of Dual Career Parents (A)
By: Shoshana Zuboff
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Progressive Corp.: Coping with the Problem of Dual Career Parents (A)." Harvard Business School Case 489-031, November 1988. (Revised March 1990.)
- June 1998
- Article
The Politics of Monetary Leadership and Followership: Stability in the European Monetary System Since the Currency Crisis of 1992
By: Rawi Abdelal
Despite widespread scepticism, there is a fundamental continuity in the stability of the European Monetary System (EMS) before and after the 1992 crisis. Although speculative pressures provoked European leaders to widen the fluctuation bands of the Exchange Rate...
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Abdelal, Rawi. "The Politics of Monetary Leadership and Followership: Stability in the European Monetary System Since the Currency Crisis of 1992." Political Studies 46, no. 2 (June 1998): 236–259. (Winner of Harrison Prize Awarded each year for the best article published by Political Studies in that volume.)
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
probability of a crisis within the next three years. “Once the bank balance sheet is handicapped, all kinds of other consequences come out.” An ensuing recovery can take longer to develop once a financial crisis abates if commercial...
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by Rachel Layne
- 11 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers
Marissa Mayer's decision to ask Yahoo! employees to work from offices rather than at home has at least two potentially negative consequences, one for her and one for her employees. But she can mitigate both by linking personal and professional identity for herself and...
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