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- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
concerns. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-047.pdf PublicationsOptimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz Publication:American... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the headlines and provokes the most public and... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
Let’s face it: 2020 was a tough year, as COVID-19 surged across the world, killing more than 1.5 million people, shuttering companies, causing widespread job losses, and fundamentally altering the way people work and live. Given the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
offerings that people truly want to buy, firms instead need to home in on the job the customer is trying to get done. Some jobs are little (pass the time); some are big (find a more fulfilling career). When... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
Nine out of 10 CEOs mentioned that their employees were worried about their job security and health, as well as their loved ones’ health, and their stress level was high. When asked to rate the stress of their employees on a scale of... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
"By emphasizing some aspects of the job over others, you can draw a different pool of candidates and potentially create different levels of performance," Ashraf says. "And as a leader you can help every individual to accumulate more stock... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
done to fix it—in the following interview, first published in Harvard magazine's Can America Compete? report. “That great American job machine started sputtering around 2000” Porter and Rivkin lead the School's U.S. Competitiveness... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
We suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level—from CEO to business unit head to project manager—based on what we call "right stuff" thinking, borrowing the term from Tom Wolfe's famous book and the 1983 movie of the same name.4... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
people: 1) those who "will never agree with the CEO and are always in the minority," 2) those who help "clean up the decision-making process," and 3) "true 'yes men' ... [who] get the job done." Cheryl Price... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
option leads to a fourteen-fold increase in the ex-post licensing rate. Two additional experimental interventions are designed to reduce search costs for (i) price and (ii) product information. Both intervention—immediate price comparison... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
its sales channel (because it creates jobs and entrepreneurs), Barnett wished to take the business model to sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Purchase the case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
developments in a changing market. Says Cespedes: “Value is created or destroyed with customers, and good leaders know that interpreting market data is not just a search for truth and insights. It’s also about actionable dialogue with the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
companies are already starting to find ways to combine incentives for performance with measures to create more loyalty and employee affiliation with the company. Japanese companies created a very extreme version of such affiliation. The company provided a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
by passively while these great companies imploded? Why did they fail to select CEOs who could run these vaunted companies more successfully? Choosing the right person for the job Before examining the root causes of these succession... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
may not be illegal, but can cause enormous amounts of reputational damage.” A good code can also help workers do their jobs better. Most employees want to follow the rules and do the right thing, but may not understand how to comply with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
continuously inspire the passion and confidence for every employee to perform their role at the expected level or better?" (from Barry Cohen), "Will the world be a better place if I do my job well?" (from Mo Bjornestad),... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
demonstrates that when employees can see their customers, the beneficiaries of their efforts, the quality and efficiency of the service they deliver can actually improve. Studies in food service show how revealing customers to employees can lead employees to feel more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
perform their jobs more safely and effectively. The latter required that workers engage in mutual expressions of vulnerability: they acknowledged their physical limitations, learned from their mistakes, and attended to their own and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
the public record—articles, speeches, and views from those with direct knowledge—that the CEO was concerned with developing a people-centric, high commitment culture. In effect, we searched for CEOs who were leading high commitment, high... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Dharmapala Publication:The Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace