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- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
a charity, in the presence of expectations-based reference points or targets. When individuals earn money for themselves, higher wages lead to higher effort with relatively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- News
Last Look - September 2008
Our thanks to Alan Wolfley, Steve Jarislowsky, Arnie Berlin, and Hemen Barooah (all MBA '49), who identified most of the circumstances of the September issue’s Last Look photo. Wolfley wrote: “The person pointing is, I think, King Peter... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
wages—randomly assigned to accrue to individuals or to a charity—in the presence of expectations-based reference points or targets. When individuals earn money for themselves,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Finding & Using | Baker Library
century to the present. We offer an array of tools and services to assist you through the process of identifying, requesting, and working with collections. Library catalogs, guides, curated content, digital resources, and online exhibitions offer entry View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
J. Terry Abstract—We experimentally test how effort responds to wages—randomly assigned to accrue to individuals or to a charity—in the presence of expectations-based reference View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Reunions: Accelerating Climate Solutions with Professor Jim Matheson (MBA 2001)
the challenges inherent in this transition. HBS alumni, faculty and students are well positioned and will be critical in providing this leadership, but we must continue to focus intently to ensure Harvard leads the world forward on this transition. Here are a few View Details
- 22 May 2017
- News
Two On-Track Investments
race—often referred to as “the most exciting two minutes in sports”—was won by Always Dreaming, the favorite at the Preakness. Terry Finley (OPM 45, 2014) owns 25 percent of that horse, purchased for $1.25 million. As president and CEO of... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
of expectations-based reference points or targets. When individuals earn money for themselves, higher wages lead to higher effort with relatively muted targeting behavior. When... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
“Speed Trap” Can Snare Companies
Nelson Repenning of MIT draws on firsthand observations of the meteoric rise and ultimate bankruptcy of a disguised Web-based company referred to as Notes.com. Using information gathered at management meetings during the company's brief,... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
commission on advertisers' outlays for media time and space. As the working paper points out, buying media time and space is a two-step process. The first, which the researchers refer to as the intermedia... View Details
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The Coming of Managerial Capitalism - Course Catalog
of technological change, entrepreneurship, and market evolution on U.S. business, managers, the work force, and government. The history of capitalism in the United States offers students a comparative point of View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
someone’s “baseline behavior,” so you have a reliable reference point for measuring changes later. Don’t point your finger and say, “Oh, your eyebrow twitched, you’re lying.”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
Summing Up Less is increasingly more, at least in the minds of customers, according to nearly every respondent to this month's column. However, some cite product complexity as the cause of rising real and psychological consumer "costs" while others View Details
- 27 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey
of the costliest, according to an analysis of microdata from large retailers by Harvard Business School Professor Alberto Cavallo. In a forthcoming article in the Journal of Monetary Economics, Cavallo and coauthor Oleksiy Kryvtsov, senior research officer at the Bank... View Details
Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua
- Profile
David Kang
example of the power of international perspectives, David refers to a case that compared the way two Indian states are managed by the larger central authority. "That led to a conversation about how the European Union handles its... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
Manufacturing and information technology these days go together like bread and butter. But it wasn't always so. As Professor David Upton pointed out in a Global Alumni Conference panel titled "E-Commerce and the New Operations,"... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
fewer links in their tweets than men. "Women actually say things, guys give references to other things." But even accounting for these differences, the researchers still saw differences between how men and women are followed,... View Details
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
addressed a couple of these points when she said, "The fact that we can name so few leaders as readily as the ones cited in the article is because they are exceptions. There is no question that brilliant, strongly mission-driven... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
important." Scott Lichtman agrees, pointing out that "to be efficient in this fast-moving era rather requires longer-term investment in skills and strategy adoption by longstanding employees ..." On the other hand, Ryan... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett