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- 05 May 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?
management. That is, for example, roughly 20 percent of employees experience 80 percent of accidents on the job. And roughly 20 percent of customers provide 80 percent of sales. Focused strategies can be based on this kind of information.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
Black patients and their doctors may be more open to new medications if drug trials included more Black people, new research shows. Currently, Black Americans represent just 5 percent of drug trial participants. Nearly three-quarters of... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
declared. He believed that by winning the support of umbrella organizations that represent many municipalities, such as the U.S. Conference of Mayors, govWorks could quickly go nationwide. But it didn't work out that way. Tuzman and his... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
rather than on oneself. In Experiment 1, we show that prosocial bonuses in the form of donations to charity lead to happier and more satisfied employees at an Australian bank. In Experiment 2, we show that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
during financial crises. A handful of black entrepreneurs (e.g., Oprah Winfrey and Robert Smith) are among the wealthiest Americans, and though they represent the exception, their influence is nonetheless widespread as their businesses... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-099WP.pdf Evaluating the Impact of SA 8000 Certification Authors:Michael J. Hiscox, Claire Schwartz, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract SA 8000, along with other types of certification standards and corporate codes of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
The resourcefulness with which companies dealt with these staffing challenges could be an area of deeper research, Giacomin says, and has ongoing relevance in today’s tight labor market. The internment experience also fundamentally... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment, released in May. The pair used a consumer durable goods business in India as a real-world laboratory for the research. "Running this kind of experiment is not the easiest thing in the world... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
Black’s original conjectures, and the author highlights refinements and additions to the original list. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50338 November 2015 Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Influence of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
masculine leadership position compared to Whites. Study 6 analyzed the NCAA Student-Athlete Ethnicity Report and found Blacks were more heavily represented in masculine versus feminine sports relative to Asians. These studies demonstrate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
that fostered delegation and distributed authority. As a package, these ideas and others had a significant influence on management practice in the mid- to late-twentieth century. They still have a great deal of relevance for business, and View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
of store finance and operations for youth retailer Abercrombie & Fitch, Inc., said his company uses all its channels to magnify its brand message. "For us, it's all about building brands, and branding is just about building an emotional View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
2016 New York: Palgrave Macmillan Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia: A Dialogue Across Continents By: Kirby, William C., and Marijk C. van der Wende, eds. Abstract—This book highlights the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
team, not of just one individual. So there are ways that you might put together a team that actually represents the whole basket of skills and experience needed while you are only a part of it. Q: Are VC's... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
practical experience in order to benefit from the hard-won lessons of those who have gone before you? What are the various theoretical assumptions and pedagogical techniques you might consider in the process of designing and delivering a... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Ceranic Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology 97, no. 3 (2012) Abstract Does power corrupt a moral identity, or does it enable a moral identity to emerge? Drawing from the power literature, we propose that the psychological View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
the individual but eventually brought ruin to all. The culture of Silicon Valley turns that system on its head. The bank of expertise in Silicon Valley represents a triumph of the commons: resources are extracted and replenished in a... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
stock market is overvalued and may experience some volatility as the economy continues to recover, Wang’s research suggests that investors may be relying too heavily on a formerly tried-and-true tool that isn’t paying off as well today.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
drugs,” says Giusti. Working with leaders at direct-to-consumer enterprises and five leading cancer organizations, they drew on the experience of businesses including Keurig, Peloton, and Rent the Runway to develop more effective... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
India is a country where many women struggle for survival from the day they are born. Girls in India are less likely to be breastfed than boys, for instance, and less likely to be immunized. But India also has the highest number of elected female View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish