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- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
is not statistically significant at conventional levels. However, we also find that the effect is moderated by employee engagement, such that the gamified training platform improved performance in offices with high employee engagement and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
or are reluctant to risk carrying bad news up the chain of command, making a bad situation worse. What if the NSM concept was extended downward, to entreat managers not to surprise those reporting to them? The potential benefits were suggested by research I carried out... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
director and chief investment officer at Peony Capital, which operates in China. "They're in a new era of the green race, and it's all about the companies understanding the huge amount of commercial benefits in being green. It's not... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
artistic merit therein. The crowd identified breakout theater hits the experts sometimes ignored, but also backed a box office bomb. ©iStock.com/jganser "Crowdfunding has enabled a democratization of access [to funding]," Nanda says in... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
marketing pitch made to study participants by our project staff. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/aamy_SavingsinTransnationalHouseholds.pdf August 2013 Journal of Finance Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
easier and faster being 'on call' 24/7 is now viewed by many as the norm." Phil Clark faulted leaders for failing to provide "healthy leadership" on this issue, saying "We have created a 24/7 world that is not necessary." The costs of this... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
HBS case study mentioned in Bower's book, Mulcahy drew counsel from a wide constituency of friends and acquaintances at the company to help set its future direction based on color printers and office services. Xerox has since rebounded... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
high turnover, waning commitment, missed recruiting goals, and officer retention nightmares. By studying the development of professional identity over time within the Army's career structure, we hoped to identify a conceptual leverage... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
challenge widely accepted generalizations made about entrepreneurship. The selected articles cover the best historical research on the role of entrepreneurship in creating global capitalism; the cultural and institutional explanations for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
on Chicago-based clients. They agreed. She did not tell them she was pregnant, however, until it was fairly obvious. By then she had built up quite a large client base in Chicago so she was asked to open a Bain office there. What luck,... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 17 Nov 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?
office or leading the family are less likely to foster a culture of growth, risk taking, and wealth creation. According to Jeremy Dean, a researcher at University College London, optimists prefer to think... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
people in rural areas who don't yet have computers," he continues. "This company's service allows e-mail messages to be sent from anywhere in the world to a post office near the addressee's home, printed out as a letter, stuffed... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Read the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38648 The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
the risk of making snap judgments about people based on the wrong clues. For example, research refutes the street wisdom that poor eye contact is a sign of deceit. Shyness, lack of confidence, and cultural norms can all explain an averted... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
participants have led higher-ambition efforts at their companies for years. Office supply company United Stationers started a foundation to connect employees with charitable activities, including raising money for a children's hospital... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
performance decline when they move from one team to another; they operate fairly independently. (In the corporate world, the somewhat autonomous position of the chief financial officer is analogous to that of the punter, Groysberg says.)... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
officer described the importance of the innovation as follows: “Hilti developed many very innovative and successful products over the years, but they paled in comparison with the fleet management business model, which was the most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
colleagues on the Harvard Business School faculty, legendary teacher and thinker Tony Athos. In an organization with a culture of long hours and FILO (first in last out) norms (borrowing from David Physick's comment), Tony liked to sit... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
performance. Combining network analysis with experimental methods, two studies using different samples found that networks' degree of cultural heterogeneity positively predicts creativity on tasks that draw on varied cultural-knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne