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- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
person, the "sender," was randomly assigned a number from 1 to 5, and could choose to reveal or hide that number to the other person, the "receiver." If they chose to hide it, then the receiver tried to guess the number as close as possible, using... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
environmental factors created by a persistent virus. It’s as if the success and gains made in 2021 with vaccinations and the incremental return to work and school policies have made leaders at different echelons reluctant to admit that... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
or because coworkers create an atmosphere that encourages theft. Nevertheless, the incremental losses observed when employees work in groups are absent in firms that pay higher wages. And what about the previous study that showed employee... View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
to it. Finally, the format clarifies for all interested parties—including advisors, investors, and employees—the incremental value of the proposed business idea relative to the traditional approach. Further, it reveals the hidden... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- Book
Creating the Experimentation Organization
new ideas and gauge their effects is a game changer, revealing surprising insights that can lead to incremental changes that can have a cumulatively huge effect on business. After research that the checkout experience could be improved,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Video: Inspirational Women in Business
would like to mention that it may not be the case, especially in all parts of the world. And there are lots of demographics where this is still very far from the reality. Eunjin Lee: The small, incremental changes that we make as MBA... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
playing out over the past decade. Our advice to the CEO is to look at IT use through several different lenses. One lens should be focused on improving cost savings and efficiencies. Another should be focused on the incremental improvement... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
scorecards to align the organization? How can we ensure that our people understand our strategy? How do we use the scorecard to improve how we conduct our management meetings? An OSM typically emerges when the Balanced Scorecard team View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
generalists on a team can be even more important. “If you are trying to make incremental improvements on existing technologies, then specialists probably are the most well-suited for that,” Nagle says. “But, if there is at least some... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
company like India's Infosys illustrates both trends. Another big change is that companies are finally recognizing that being global is not just about entering incremental overseas markets. It is also about accessing scarce resources. And... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 28 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld
premium on green real estate or government incentives. In-house sewage treatment plant Figure 5: Importance of downstream pressure to incent sustainable investment:Throughout our site visit, it was clear that RMZ had invested significant View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
is this thinking that incrementality isn't enough. It's not going to move the needle for us at McDonald's. We need the big, bold moves. And so, yeah, with the big, bold moves it does come some risk. Partly, I feel really good about the... View Details
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
rather reveal a pattern of incremental investments approved individually. Although Firestone encountered some production glitches in refining the new process, overall the transition from bias to belted bias tires proceeded smoothly.10... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
the middle, and a broad base of continuous improvements, incremental contributions, and early-stage new ideas at the bottom. For example, Verizon placed big bets on Google's Android for smartphones and on fiber-optics for landlines, and... View Details
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Overview
My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
expand your ROI on the investment. Kenny: Which, obviously, continues to drive the cost up. So, now we're not just talking about advertising. We're talking about the incremental expense of building a social media campaign around this.... View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
this challenging time. This is the time to practice customer intimacy, not only customer centricity. Protect and pivot = exploit and explore Exploiting opportunities to make incremental improvements to existing operations while also... View Details
- Research Summary
The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
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John H. McArthur Canadian Fellowship | MBA
for the second year. Fellowship is a non-need based award and is incremental to any other HBS Fellowship that may apply. Named in honor of the former dean of Harvard Business School, a native of British Columbia, this Fellowship is funded... View Details