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  • 21 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

accident-free. “If people are skeptical of OSHA, it's likely based on anecdotes. The difference in our study is we are looking at hundreds of companies over a long period of time, and we find that those anecdotes are not typical."—Michael... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

with Irene Padavic and Erin M. Reid. Boris Groysberg : “Keeping Google ‘Googley’ (Abridged)” with David A. Thomas and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld (HBS Case 409-099) was added to The Case Centre Classic View Details
  • 15 Mar 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

so the happiness gains that they experience, whilst not permanent, can still be relatively long-lasting. Finally we study a cross section of nations in 2005 from the World Gallup Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic growth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

and CEO, and that salaries of the executive leadership team, senior vice presidents, and directors/vice presidents would be cut by 30 percent, 20 percent, and 10 percent, respectively. In a letter to employees, Aon CEO Greg Case announced... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • 26 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

happens about 50 percent of the time. In cases where employees thought they would be rewarded but weren’t, Gallani and Cai called that an “implicit punishment,” while in the opposite case, in which employees thought they would be punished... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
  • 15 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021

if employees have the psychological safety to reflect on these close calls, says research by Amy C. Edmondson, Olivia Jung, and colleagues. 5. How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves Aggressive downsizing at France Télécom culminated in 19... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 13 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

show that this aggregation of information is not only a leading indicator of violations of rules and regulations, but it’s even a leading indicator of the whistleblower complaints themselves,” Campbell says of the study that resulted,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • 29 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

for example—in addition to commodity products. It describes how the firm's sales strategy—including changes in structure and compensation—changed as its overall product line evolve. The case also offers an interesting contrast for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Managing Marketspace Service Interfaces

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

Jeffrey F. Rayport is focusing on the strategic challenges that face businesses selling information-intensive products and services. A key strategic issue in such businesses is the dematerialization of information-intensive products and services as a consequence of... View Details

    Overcrowded – Designing Meaningful Products in a World Awash with Ideas

    We live in a world awash with ideas. Thanks to the web and to powerful ideation approaches such as open innovation, design thinking, or crowdsourcing, organizations have today easy access to an unprecedented amount of novel concepts. In this context, what... View Details

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    K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    and sustain high-performing K–12 public school districts in the United States. These efforts have resulted in more than 30 case studies focused on adapting and applying management concepts within urban... View Details
    • 22 May 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: May 22, 2007

    evaluate their theory by looking at the design evolution of two software product platforms through the modeling lens of design structure matrices (DSMs) and design rule theory. Our analysis shows that DSM models and options theory can explain how real-world... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 22 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 22

      Working PapersMixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services. In addition to tactical... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 04 Feb 2022
    • Book

    Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

    Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 18 Apr 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

    supplemental, qualitative investigation, we propose some potential interpretations for our findings. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54356 forthcoming Psychological Science The Effect of Graphic Warnings... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Blog

    Is the Digital Transformation Certificate Right for You?

    case studies on industry pioneers, provided practical insights, and sparked meaningful conversations among peers. Participating in these programs amplified my understanding of the strategic decision-making... View Details
    • 24 Dec 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: December 24

    differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 CEOs of listed firms yields three sets... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 24 Sep 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

    clearly valuable, there are now questions and concerns about how best to employ it. For example, team members are concerned that the data could be misused or misinterpreted. The case study quotes Dr. Joia... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
    • 06 Oct 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    The Problem with Hedge Funds

    While investors are still learning what happened to them in the 1990s and are trying to get their money back, they find themselves facing a new set of dangers—in some cases from the same people who victimized them before. And while it's... View Details
    Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills