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- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
performance improvements during the incentive period but are relatively short lived, while implicit incentives facilitate a longer persistence of the organizational behavior modification. Innovation Policies...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
clear, our research is aimed at the organizational level. And in that context, the idea of tradeoffs is nothing new. Peter Drucker and others have said it, and people accept the concept when you are talking about companies that make...
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- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
likely to perform effectively those functions. We describe the concept of integrated reporting and why integrated reporting could be a superior mechanism to perform these functions. Moreover, we discuss,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
associate professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. And yet, investors take chances over and over often with great success when they hit it big with a game-changing...
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- May 2017
- Case
Vicki Fuller: Chief Investment Officer of New York State's $150+ Billion Employee Pension Fund
By: Steven Rogers and Valerie Mosley
Vicki Fuller traveled from a four-room tenement bordering Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects to speaking at conferences around the world and typically holding court wherever she went. As a teenager, she helped raise her siblings. As a Wall Street...
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Rogers, Steven, and Valerie Mosley. "Vicki Fuller: Chief Investment Officer of New York State's $150+ Billion Employee Pension Fund." Harvard Business School Case 317-044, May 2017.
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
that revealing the “submerged state”—ensuring that citizens can see the often-hidden work that government performs—enhances both perceptions of and engagement with government. In Study 1, viewing a video highlighting the work performed by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
corporations need corporate boards that are also ambitious and accommodative of them. According to the authors, good corporate governance and financial performance are the main requirements for good board-CEO relations. Topics including...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
greater customer satisfaction and employee retention after six months as compared to (a) socialization that focused on organizational identity (emphasizing the pride to be gained from organizational...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
compared to a simple deficit rule that limits the maximum amount of deficit per period. Whereas the deficit rule does not perform well, the debt rule yields welfare gains virtually equal to the optimal rule. Download working paper:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
that individuals who are given time to reflect on a task improve their performance at a greater rate than those who are given the same amount of time to practice with the same task. Our results also show that if individuals themselves are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
as organizational effectiveness. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-063.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 214-005 Stock Pitching at Freelin Capital No abstract...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
powerful insights and practical guidelines that allow managers to bridge professional divides and organizational boundaries in order to work together effectively, this is a new exploration of the challenges involved in today's global...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3
Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-ups, and the Growth of Venture Capital By: McDonald, Rory, Y. Sekou Bermiss, Benjamin J. Hallen, and Emily Cox Pahnke Abstract—This paper investigates the social context of entrepreneurship in View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016
assisting buyers with the move and with their decisions about what to keep and to discard. Sales took off. The key to successful innovation is identifying jobs that are poorly performed in customers’ lives and then designing products,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
December 19, 2018 NEJM Catalyst It's Time to Reform the Orphan Drug Act By: Bagley, Nicholas, Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite, and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55448 January 2019...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
culture on post-pandemic employee engagement and organization performance in his book Win From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage. References: Natasha Bernal, “Remote workers are...
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by James Heskett
- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
endogenous vertical differentiation concerns. We discuss how our study helps improve our understanding of notions of strategy, business model, and tactics in the field of strategy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-026.pdf Specific Knowledge and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
relatively soon? How will the Metaverse affect productivity? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. Editor's note: Heskett explores the leader's role in his upcoming book, Win From Within: Build Organizational...
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by James Heskett
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
frustrated employees among Japanese speakers, but also affected their work performance and promotions. The Favored Side Of The Strategy Her most recent research, though, flipped the question on its head. Her research team delved into how...
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by Roberta Holland
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
do all they can to uplift the performance of others, the focus changes and the behaviours improve. This is a collective responsibility. Leadership is a position you collectively occupy on the excellence ladder, not a person or a role “...
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