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- 01 Jun 2021
- What Do You Think?
Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?
talent that we know is on the way. A personal experience, however anecdotal it is, may provide food for thought. Last month, a female acquaintance with a long work record, a positive attitude, a high level of motivation, and familiarity... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
professor in Harvard Business School’s Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. Beshears is an expert in behavioral economics, which uses insights from psychology and economics to explain individual decision making and help people make wiser choices. “You’re... View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
Take a seat and hold on tightly. You're aboard the Internet Express, where speed is the order of the day and profit but a remote destination. For firms that ride the rails of the Internet's fast track, getting big fast—whatever its cost—is the strategy of choice. Here... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
Speed Trap, was poised for publication as I came up for promotion that year at Harvard Business School. However, in a reversal of the familiar prescription for scholars, my mentors told me, “If you publish, you might perish.” They were... View Details
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
system testing, and system integration testing. Personal Motivation Specialisterne's founder, Thorkil Sonne, launched the company in 2004 following a high-level career in telecommunications IT. (Specialisterne is Danish for "the Specialists.") Sonne was... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
Examples," Sebenius details how "3-D negotiation" provides practitioners with skills for effective dealmaking that create value on a sustainable basis. According to Sebenius, the first dimension of negotiation is by far the most View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
examine how such changes may affect the accumulation of experience within, and the performance of, teams. We find that the level of team familiarity (i.e., the average number of times that each member has worked with every other member of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
familiarity with a large number of companies. An economist working in a tech company, on the other hand, might mainly have knowledge of his or her own firm. As economists work on questions their companies want answered, one challenge for... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
they’d shopped there before, and one for customers without them. They found little difference in the buying behavior of the two groups. “Both new and existing customers behave in ways that are beneficial to the seller,” Ngwe says, “perhaps because customers are so... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
Software giant Microsoft is launching the Windows 8 version of its operating system this week, and suffice it to say that it's radically different from Windows 7. The familiar Start button and menu are gone, for example, replaced by a... View Details
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
the longer their tenure at a hybrid organization, the more probable it is that top managers hire junior employees. "What we expect is that the more time they spend in a hybrid context, the more likely the managers are to become familiar... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
Is Amazon's growing retail power capable of breaking the "wheel of retailing" theory? Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive? E-commerce is about to deal severe blows to many familiar store-based brands. How to... View Details
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
employers to cut losses by dipping a toe in the water first. “They should start with a small task, and build up experience before trying to do a more advanced project,” he says. “It familiarizes them with the market and the set of people... View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
responding with creative solutions to puzzles posted on the Facebook website are given interviews regardless of what their resume information might contain. Many are hired. Such analytics often represent "deep indicators" of the kind increasingly View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
have observed it in operation. Familiarity breeds contempt. Julie commented, “So, at how many companies have American workers been rounded up, coerced into training their replacements, then terminated? This is not supplementing our... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
program, results pop up in about five minutes, and everyone moves to the next round. “Once you get familiar with the game and once you have strategy, then you can be quite quick. At the very beginning you need more time because there’s so... View Details
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
mine]. Our research found that customers can scarcely imagine how to create uncontested market space. Their insight also tends toward the familiar 'offer me more for less.' And what customers typically want 'more' of are those product and... View Details
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
sets of challenges. For example, in one case study I discuss, participants have to make some decisions about a law firm's overall compensation policies as well as how the firm's partners should be compensated. The participants quickly discover that everyone in the... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we consider how the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
Twitter—establishing an account, getting people to follow the firm, and hoping that those people will respond in kind. Such strategies have allowed firms to engage in an activity that's very familiar to them: broadcasting content to... View Details