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- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
practices which encourage managers to use accounting information to improve performance. In contrast, government organizations are publicly governed and are constrained in their compensation practices because hospital CEOs are...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
particular use their talents flexibly; (3) encouraging the growth of good companies that can replace imperial excess with values-based capitalism; (4) restoring respect for government by ending decades of contempt for the public sector...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
has to know the answer to four basic questions. Your setting for this span is determined by the kind of behavior you want to see. To ensure compliance with detailed directives, hold managers to narrow measures. To encourage creative...
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by Robert Simons
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
centralized fulfillment center instead of selling from a large number of decentralized pharmacies, and then encourage those people—essentially by cutting the size of their co-pay—to place their orders by phone, renew their prescriptions...
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- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
The authoritative style is both demanding and responsive. It encourages in equal measure entrepreneurial action and healthy self-regulating behavior. Like authoritative parents, authoritative virtual corporations resist the temptation to...
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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
learning from each other and from outsiders and constantly look for new ideas. H-P exhorted its employees to generate at least 30% of its revenue in any year from new products introduced in the last three years and Jack Welch encouraged...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
More than half of organizations at risk The authors found one somewhat encouraging result: About half the firms fix severe vulnerabilities within a year and routinely make it to the “frontier” of updates, switching to new software...
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- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
residential interest, and has put in place a collaborative governance structure intended to encourage innovation, trust-building, and communication. When the Institute's president is asked to decide who the next tenant in Medical City...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
Retail Chain By: Deller, Carolyn, Susanna Gallani, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—We analyze the effects of a field experiment introducing a values-based 360-degree assessment system at an Indian retailer. The director intended to encourage...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
boards have improved in recent years, the speed at which they were improving lagged behind the speed at which solutions should have been implemented." -Rakesh Khurana That culture, critics maintain, spawned executive compensation plans with incentives that View Details
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by Roger Thompson
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
were up and earnings were beating analysts’ expectations. The #MeToo movement changes everything At the same time, the company’s new management allegedly encouraged a party culture that made some employees—especially women—uncomfortable,...
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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
Sciences is moving to Allston, Mass., across the Charles River from its current location in Cambridge, in 2020. The move will make it a close neighbor of Harvard Business School, and there’s hope the proximity will encourage more...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 13 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales
portion of your full product catalog—and leaving customers to wonder what you’ll offer next? Or is it better to display all your wares at once, in hopes of encouraging a shopping spree? For example, is a customer more likely to buy three...
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- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
Defensive medicine spurs innovation They found, ultimately—and perhaps counterintuitively—that far from being an inhibitor to innovation, the practice of defensive medicine might have actually encouraged it. Legal liability pressure in...
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- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
measuring investmentperformance, and maintaining a long-term relationship — that would benefitboth foundations and nonprofits. The article helped catalyze the thinking of many in the nonprofit field and illuminated and encouraged an...
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by Anne Kavanagh
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
continued to be tested and to evolve based on frequent reviews of work in progress. Leaders Support And Encourage Integrative Decision Making Leaders and their groups can resolve problems, disagreements, and conflicting solutions in one...
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- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
failed to address important measurement and valuation issues that have arisen in the past 40 years of practice. This gap is illustrated with missed opportunities in risk measurement and management and the estimation of the fair value of complex financial securities....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-021.pdf Coerced Confessions: Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, novel...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
non-local investments suggests that policy makers in regions without local venture capitalists might want to mitigate costs associated with established venture capitalists investing in their geographies rather than encouraging the...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
encouraged to stay in the system. Far from it. Stewardship involves careful construction and management of channel relationships so that the valuable members are suitably rewarded and the less valuable members are weeded out. When a...
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