Performance Effectiveness - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

methods—and with attention to ecosystems—we are watching “up close and personal” as managers build innovation labs or corporate accelerators to facilitate innovation in their companies. We are interested both in understanding how to most View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Mar 2016
First Look

March 15, 2016

approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet the View Details

21 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 21

the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-002.pdf Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity Author:Eric Van den Steen Abstract This paper develops an economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture—in the sense of shared beliefs and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jan 2018
First Look

January 30, 2018

role of telecommunications firms in providing content. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53774 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Customer Loyalty Programs That Work

contact those rewards customers who had purchased the tainted pet food. Loyalty program data can be enormously advantageous in other ways, such as helping a retailer perform market research, set pricing strategies, and decide whether and... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Retail

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

stagnating sales, accounting losses, or a falling stock price. In extreme cases such poor performance may cause the company to default on its debt, resulting in bankruptcy. Restructuring the debt can be difficult and costly, although in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

Current research, with Ernesto Schargrodsky: "Using a Terrorist Attack to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime." Rafael Di Tella Di Tella: "We are writing a paper using Argentine data. One of key questions in criminology... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

from activist investors. Danaher, by contrast, had performed strongly in the years leading up to the spinoff. It had spent the previous decade strengthening its portfolio in sectors such as life sciences and dental products with... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

effects of their submissions on the other individuals in the workplace. We also find that offering employees project funding to implement their own proposals potentially backfires, undermining participation. And solicitations emphasizing... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

Moving on to the specific drivers at play in our sample cases, we identified two powerful utilitarian motivations: risk-management and competitive advantage creation. Risk Management A common reason for engaging in cross-sector collaboration has been to make use of it... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

maximizing shareholder value as the primary focus and motivation for a corporation's existence” Topics tackled include how boards can most effectively oversee company strategy, CEO succession, and executive compensation. Also considered... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

interference when identifying an object from others' spatial perspectives, and relied more heavily on privileged knowledge when inferring others' beliefs. Using both experimental-causal-chain and measurement-of-mediation approaches, we found that these View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

historical background, Retsinas said that prior to the Depression, people who wanted to buy a home were typically required to make a 50 percent down payment. They were issued a 5-year interest-only note, and effectively crossed their... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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