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- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
consultancy firm that broadly rated management practices in three areas: monitoring—how well managers keep track of what's happening in a firm and make good use of that information; targets—how well organizations set appropriate goals and outcomes, and whether they... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
example, he argues, fashion industry competitors could agree among themselves to collectively manage resources to reduce the water pollution caused by their manufacturing processes. The beef industry could agree to collaborate on... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
this way: "When the world is full of surprises bosses can hardly control drastic actions to keep surviving and that means employees will get their share of surprises However a good leader will always communicate all possible outcomes... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
research has focused on the underuse of incident-reporting systems. After all, the thinking went, a system used to collect and report incidents will only help an organization learn from its mistakes and lead to better safety results—to... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
take the ideas further, starting with The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action (1996) and The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment (2000). Most recently,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
Costa Rica, recommends a course of action sure to anger banks and fund managers: absolute sovereign immunity, which is the way things were done before 1976. Argentina's escalating financial crisis is taking on the look and feel of 2002,... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
The book What's Fair: Ethics of Negotiators is a rich collection of pointers from professional dealmakers, attorneys, academic specialists, and, not least, ethicists. Michael Wheeler, an HBS professor and editor of Negotiation Journal,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
the design process and to approve the school's design. In the natural resources literature, commons theory predicts that, if a robust governance structure is created, this complex form of organizing gives claimants incentives to contribute to the enterprise whilst... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
theoretical frameworks arrived at via in-class discussion; 3) identification of a set of core issues vital to practice that collectively approximate IS management as a business discipline; and 4) design for student engagement, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
California, policy mattered a great deal. However, Danish firms, building on inherited technological capabilities and benefitting from a small-scale and decentralized industrial structure, benefitted more from Californian public policies.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
own ethicality. We argue that the temporal trichotomy of prediction, action and evaluation is central to these misperceptions: People predict that they will behave more ethically than they actually do, and when evaluating past (un)ethical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
time to run young biotech firms; and so preferred people coming out of Baxter to those who had worked at Abbott or other firms, such as J&J and Merck. This preference is reflected in the archival data I have collected over the past... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
the new president take aim at streamlining financial regulation, they should consider our six point Regulatory Action Plan, outlined in our Harvard Business School working paper released today, Small Business Lending: Innovation and... View Details
- 28 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
dramatically, particularly over the last decade. Our alumni are delighted at this increased attention by the School because it corresponds to their experience of high engagement in social sector activities subsequent to graduation. They see the School's View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
an increase in state-level unemployment benefits. Cross-sectional tests suggest greater unwinding of prior upward earnings management when other upward earnings management incentives are weak and when unemployment risk is a relatively more important determinant of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
expertise We all know that only collective action can bring lasting solutions for chronic social challenges. It is often the government that sets the rules of play, the social entrepreneur who creates the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
that would define the world of technology and transform our lives. At their peaks, Microsoft, Apple, and Intel were collectively worth some $1.5 trillion. Strategy Rules examines these three individuals View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
drugs? How frequently do physicians prescribe advertised drugs when other drugs or treatments may be equally effective? We surveyed a national probability sample of 643 physicians practicing in a wide variety of specialties. Data were View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
spread of epidemics, reducing congestion on highways, or finding ways to detect fraudulent transactions.The trend toward people analytics, Polzer says, is a logical extension of the era of big data, as the science of processing and identifying patterns in large... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand