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- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Michael Beer and Lynda St. ClairHarvard Business School Case 913-521 A new Dallas-based health and beauty spa aims to use a highly distinctive human resource system as the foundation of its competitive strategy. By encouraging employees...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field experiment in which agents hired by a public View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
creating an environment that's beneficial to both." Lacking the pressures of a major label, such as overhead costs and stockholder expectations, independent labels sometimes have greater flexibility than the majors to nurture cutting-edge...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
through signature—e.g., at the end of tax returns or insurance policy forms. Yet even when people care about morality and want to be seen as ethical by others, they sometimes transgress when beneficial to their own self-interest, at great View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Businesses in Agribusiness, New Opportunities in the Health Care Industry, and Managing in the Marketspace. "This cooperation among various units has greatly enhanced EM's ability to deal with the cross-disciplinary research required to...
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- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
413-094 Beth Stewart: Navigating the Boardroom After rising through the ranks of Corporate America, Beth Stewart has become a corporate director on the board of General Growth Properties. Stewart is struggling with how to address her mounting concerns over the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
world-class business. Following modern management practices, keeping sharp attention to cost control and capital operations, making aggressive entries into international markets, and maintaining a special corporate culture, Chairman Chen...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
the team. Have key technical skills so you can advise the team. Collaborate across the company. And finally, be a strong decision maker. Plant the greener pastures. Ensure that high-revenue employees have options within the company for “intrapreneurial” activities,...
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- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
treating platform systems and step processes as mutually exclusive architectures sets up a false dichotomy. Creating any good requires carrying out a technical recipe, i.e., performing a series of steps. Step processes in turn can be modularized (at the View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
vertically integrated, local market. In technology, capital flows to the location where products can be produced most quickly and cheaply for the moment; our model focuses on the long-term sustainability that comes from the health of the...
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- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
companies, hoping to empower black workers. In 1999, it had purchased a 5% stake in LeisureNet, a white-owned and -run South African company that operated health clubs globally and was seeking a BEE partner. Surve hoped to eventually...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
influence when the vast majority can't? The authors tracked 68 change initiatives in the UK's National Health Service, an organization whose size, complexity, and tradition can make reform difficult. They discovered several predictors of...
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Anna Secino
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
The choice is that we live in the Marina in San Francisco and we have health insurance and I work for Goldman Sachs—and people would give their left arm in this economy to have this job.” And she said, “Oh, just leave that job.” You could...
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