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- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
that led to the financial crisis. And while the intricate details of pay plans don't evoke the outrage of multimillion-dollar paydays, curbing the risk-taking incentives embedded in those plans is key to resolving the current crisis and preventing another. That View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
improper trading practices. He is charged with the task of managing the crisis, repairing the company culture, and putting the firm back into a pattern of growth. Haldeman realizes that nothing less than a radical change in the culture of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
organizational scholars, we were interested in organizations as social and cultural contexts that shape how men make sense of themselves—the stories they tell themselves as men about what it means to be male—and in the effect this... View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
feedback. Specifically, providing relative performance feedback improves the mean performance of participants compensated under an individual incentive scheme regardless of the precision or specific content of the feedback. In contrast,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
corporate confessions presents something of a behavioral paradox. Tasked with monitoring the legality of its own operations, why would firms that identify violations turn themselves in to regulators rather than quietly fix the problem?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
that the appropriate leadership style did depend upon the nature of the task, specifically how certain or uncertain it was. However Vroom and Yetton defined the task as decision making, while the others were not so specific about the type... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
solutions for myriad tasks that previously were performed in traditional, non-tech ways. In this way, they have improved the productivity of many traditional industries (just look at all the industries that use PCs today) and created... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
variability in productivity means the marginal productivity of labor depends substantially on which new workers are hired—which requires not an estimate of a causal effect, but rather a prediction. We demonstrate that there can be large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
psychological contract between themselves and employers. They work to make a living, but also they aspire to find purpose and meaning in what they do. We in the academy have much intellectual capital to develop to help organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
transformation and connection are spreading across even the most traditional industrial segments and creating a staggering array of business opportunities and threats. The digitization of tasks and processes has become essential to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
own childhood leads people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the experimenter with a supplementary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
To confirm causation and explore the mechanisms underlying the effects, we replicated the results in a laboratory experiment. We found that individuals working temporarily as part of a research team were more engaged and satisfied with their work, performed their View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
call center operations are described in detail, as are its decision-making and business processes. At the end of the case, executives are considering whether Ctrip should actively pursue either the budget or luxury travel segments, which would View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
channel stewardship, as we define it, is anchored in the principle of evolutionary change. This should not be confused with incremental change. Stewardship means constantly guiding and directing changes in channel design and management to... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
appearance of prejudice during social interaction is to avoid talking about race, or even acknowledging racial difference. Four experiments involving a dyadic task investigated antecedents and consequences of this tendency. Observed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54599 When Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender By: Coffman, Katherine B., Christine L. Exley, and Muriel Niederle Abstract—We use an experiment to show that employers prefer to hire male over female workers for a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209029 The Restructuring of Daiei Harvard Business School Case 209-060 In 2004, the Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan (IRCJ) was given the task of restructuring... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He used examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall into traps that lead to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
for the working class. First, welfare reformers in the interwar period embraced private credit as an alternative to an expansive welfare state. Second, U.S. organized labor in the wake of World War II embraced credit access as a means to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
of Pennsylvania, is codirector of the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management. An excerpt from their book follows our interview. Martha Lagace: In a nutshell, what is rocket science retailing? Ananth Raman: It means... View Details