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- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
theoretical explanation for workplace silence based on implicit theories of voice. Cases & Course MaterialsASUSTek Computer Inc. Eee PC (A) Harvard Business School Case 609-011 ASUSTek Computer was the world's largest manufacture of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
individual's portfolio to his or her age (young investors should take more risk with stocks) and attitudes toward risk (conservative investors should hold more cash). Research done by Harvard Business School finance professor Luis M.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
at work and in how much time they devote to insiders vs. outsiders. We analyze the correlation between time use, managerial effort, quality of governance, and firm performance and interpret the empirical findings within two versions of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
Starting a job can feel like stepping onto a movie set without a script. Everyone knows the plot; the challenge is figuring out the role. Managers often know what they want from top performers but rarely explain it. That perspective... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. "In an organization, all the employees already have some of this, in varying degrees." “Altruistic capital is the idea that every individual has... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
toss—and the pressure of real-world negotiations probably makes our actual performance even worse. Sometimes we don't realize we're being conned; other times, we wrongly suspect people who are telling us nothing but the truth.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
countries, but by firms realizing a higher spread (i.e., a greater difference in operating performance and borrowing cost) when more domestic credit is available. Also, we find that firms partially substitute trade credit for financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
research. What's more, firms that correlate their international trading activity with the local ethnic community significantly outperform those that don't—a fact that has escaped notice of financial analysts. The findings could help Wall Street make better earnings... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
amount of anxiety for people," says Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. "A lot of times the context of the conversation is around diversity as a problem—isolation,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
pointed out, he justified his assertions by cherry-picking research on gender differences. The real risk of Damore’s generalizations, expressed in a business context, is that they give license to people to behave as if those beliefs are... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
sources of support, both financial and nonfinancial, for such institutions? And aren't these some of the very dilemmas faced by organizations encountering the "innovator's dilemma"? What do you think? Original Article There are few thought leaders in View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
incentive scheme over a linear one, even though this reduces pay for many subjects and despite the presence of clear feedback. Additionally, the linear scheme attracts demotivated, underconfident workers who perform below their ability.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
With cross-sector collaborations on the rise, a new book exploring partnerships between business and social organizations in the Americas comes at just the right time. Social Partnering in Latin America: Lessons Drawn from Collaborations... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
today: the companies themselves. During that period, investor protection laws in Brazil were relatively weak—yet investors bought equity on a "massive scale," according to Harvard Business School professor Aldo Musacchio,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
and their clients," government expansion did little to improve the country's infrastructure or political capacity. Overall, the double-digit fraternity exhibited a worse performance on every indicator of the quality of the View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
Let's face it: in most cases, the stock market knows what it's doing. With millions of people performing their homework and investing money in stocks they hope will pay off, it's hard for any one person to beat the market in a big way.... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
case, a strong link between incentives and performance seems to be present. Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Review Press. Excerpted from The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
chick” and said she performed surgery “like a girl.” Jurors ultimately awarded her $168 million, the largest judgment for a single victim of workplace harassment in United States history. Years later, sexual harassment remains a problem... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
liberal. To double check, the researchers ran the numbers excluding Scandinavia and found they still held up. “The idea that language affects a business strategy is pretty fundamental to our results” Furthermore, they View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
important qualities and capabilities to be sought in a successor to Welch is moot. But as in any good Harvard Business School case discussion, hindsight provides neither a guide to the future nor necessarily the best response. With that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett