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12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

titles such as chief financial officer, chief marketing officer, chief technology officer, and chief human resources officer. “In companies that have more related businesses, it makes sense to have these positions toward the top with the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

the labor market but do not result in weaker political preferences for redistribution. August 2013 Harvard Business Review 15 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer By: Malhotra, Deepak Abstract—The author, a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports - Course Catalog

seeking to advance their knowledge of general management, strategy, and marketing in the context of a challenging, rapidly changing, and fun environment. Educational Objectives The course starts with an examination of the properties that... View Details

June 2017
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Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency

By: Ryan W. Buell, Tami Kim and Chia-Jung Tsay

We investigate whether organizations can create value by introducing visual transparency between consumers and producers. Although operational transparency has been shown to improve consumer perceptions of service value, existing theory posits that increased contact... View Details

Keywords: Operational Transparency; Service Management; Production Management; Organizational Performance; Behavioral Operations; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Consumer Behavior; Labor; Organizational Design; Operations; Service Industry; United States; Kenya

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11 Mar 2014
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Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’

markets. They have shown that the second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a deeper globalization than ever seen previously using that criterion. By 1914 world capital, commodity and labor markets... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones

12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

http://papers.nber.org/papers/W15551 Labor Regulations and European Private Equity Authors:Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2013
News

Double Vision

The rise of the "second screen"—watching TV while also surfing on smartphones or tablets—would seem to be bad for advertisers, stealing precious eyeballs from their pitches. Not so, says Thales Teixeira, an assistant professor in the View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Visual Collections

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of... View Details

01 Apr 2001
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Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore

At the PSA Corporation’s Pasir Panjang container terminal in Singapore, the cranes operate automatically: no drivers, just operators remotely controlling up to six of the lifting machines with a single joystick. Welcome to the most advanced port in the world — and the... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Transportation

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Evelyne White

Bookalokal is a social dining platform that launched in Brussels in 2012. The initial concept: Connect travelers with locals through home-cooked, gourmet meals in people's homes. Prospective diners search through Bookalokal's online... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Services

01 Jun 2020
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Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom

the pandemic? Because the virus scares the crap out of everyone.” April: Rachel, you've studied a lot about conversation styles. Are there particular conversation styles that are either helpful or harmful in the online environment?... View Details

Keywords: Zoom

29 Jan 2021
News

Holding Business to Account

idea of being a passive investor, along for the ride, no longer appealed to me,” Aiyer says. Shareholders were owners, she realized, and they had a say in how a company ran as well as the ability to influence everything from labor... View Details

27 Jul 2011
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Customer Loyalty Programs That Work

Loyalty In Retail Self-service retail, which started with customers selecting their own merchandise in the 1930s and evolved to modern conveniences including self-checkout lanes, has saved businesses labor costs and customers time. But... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Retail

13 Apr 2020
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Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

of respondents reported optimism about their chances of surviving the crisis. However, only 70 percent of them expressed interest in pursuing such government subsidies. Cullen, an assistant professor at HBS who researches labor View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

01 Sep 2020
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Elevator Pitch: First Byte

employees and customers.” Heard: “We’re working on a pilot with a foodservice provider in the Boston area. For us, the biggest milestone will be putting a robot in the market so we can become a more proven concept before we start... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; restaurants; food prep; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

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Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project | Information Technology

future? The multimedia case was produced in partnership with Professor Rick Ruback for the EC Course Market Perspectives. Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project was honored with a 2024 Gold Telly Award in the Education & Discovery category and... View Details

Robert Brozin

Keywords: Restaurants; Fast Food Franchises

05 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

professor in Harvard Business School’s Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. Beshears is an expert in behavioral economics, which uses insights from psychology and economics to explain individual decision making and help people... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

25 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

there is much more domestic outsourcing, you might have an all-white firm outsourcing for work with an all-black firm. For these workers, there’s a downside to having separate labor markets divided along... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008

cluster size and degree of specialization is measured along 3D: absolute number of employees (>10,000 jobs is used as cut-off for a regional cluster), degree of specialization (regional sector employment is at least two times expected levels) and degree of regional... View Details