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- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
can, under certain conditions, yield immediate post-break performance increases. We test our hypotheses using productivity data from 212 fruit harvesters collected over one harvesting season yielding nearly 250,000 truckloads of fruit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
history. What was Hansi Flick's secret recipe for success? Despite pressure to improve the team’s performance immediately after taking the leadership in Munich, Flick surprisingly made Small C changes... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself
Frances X. Frei, UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management. Too often, people are advised or feel pressured to bury the special or quirky aspects of their personalities, recalibrate their speaking or personal styles, or think twice... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
architecture to it Perform a root cause analysis Explore the value of learning from mistakes to develop a culture of innovation Term 2 Course Elective (Term 2) CLIMB features two electives: one finance elective (any course in the Finance... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
performed best on a creative task in terms of fluency, flexibility, and novelty-three classic dimensions of creativity-when both dyad partners had high levels of multicultural experience. These results show that when it comes to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
Westergren. The company's founder-CEO recently left due to pressures both at home and within the venture. Dozens of investors turned thumbs-down on the venture; salaries had been cut; and, tensions had risen within the founding team. Now... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
at a price. The 70-hour work weeks, constant travel, and intense pressure from his players and their corporate partners took Norton away from his family and ultimately led to divorce. At the same time, in an effort to protect his players... View Details
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
overseeing all strategy-related activities—from formulation to execution. It is not intended to perform all of this work, but to facilitate the process so that strategy execution gets accomplished in an integrated fashion across the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
workers may feel guilty staying home. “Leaders underestimate how much what they do is mirrored by their employees,” Austin says. “Hypocrisy degrades them. Employees not only want to be told what to do, they want their managers to follow through on everything they’re... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
architecture in their own organizations. Slides Improving Performance with Operational Transparency Professor Ryan W. Buell (MBA 2007, DBA 2012) + More Info – Less Info Conventional wisdom suggests that the more contact an operation has... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
seat," the pressure to provide the analysis and judgment spills over to the senior executive team members, and, in this case, the CIO. Our advice to CIOs and other senior executives is to build a foundation of trust with a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
dimension with particular relevance in outsourcing-is the end customer for whom it is produced. The performance benefits of such customer experience remain largely unexamined. We explore this dimension of volume-based learning in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
jobs is not expanding,” says Simons. “People feel more pressure to own their roles and they’re stressed because they’re being pulled in a lot of different directions, but they’re not getting the help they need.” The idea that an... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
Some of these barriers are related to inefficiencies in the domestic business environment, for example those captured in the World Bank's Logistical Performance Index (Arvis et al., 2010). Others are related to market access abroad, for... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
customer vehicles at higher rates and are more likely to lose customers whom they fail, suggesting that competition intensifies pressure on facilities to provide illegal leniency. We also show that, at least in markets in which pricing is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
independent. "Firestone's historical excellence and disastrous response to global competition and technological innovation," writes Sull, "posed a paradox for industry observers: Why had the industry's best managed company turned in the worst View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
2020 Journal of Financial Economics First Place Jensen Prize for “How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?” (January 2020) with William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev. John D. Macomber : Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
returning to Atlanta." If the business climate can force Coke, which historically was (and is) more profitable internationally than domestically, to seesaw back and forth on globalization in this way, think of the pressures on the... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
firms must understand how changes in service affect customer demand. Supplier reliability tracking is a process whereby customers use past supplier performance to build beliefs about supplier capabilities and hence about future supplier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. After all, 2007 was the year that Twitter was founded; Airbnb formed the following year. For startups jockeying for position in nascent markets, pressure is intense to... View Details