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- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
that it is often these same characteristics of goals that cause them to "go wild." High Commitment, High Performance Management High commitment, high performance organizations such as Southwest Airlines, Johnson & Johnson,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
Commission sought to prevent investment companies from extending their control through investment pyramids, as was done frequently in the 1920s. Consequently, one section of the Act stated that an investment company could not own more... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
free-for-alls in which anything goes in the name of “being yourself.” Rather, they clear space for individuality alongside conformity. They even adopt a somewhat paradoxical stance, seeking to generate... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
“and this is true even for those listed on top of the list.” One reason for that, she and her colleagues speculate, is that scripts by well-known authors may circulate among many fewer executives, while new writers may send their scripts... View Details
- 09 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?
has served the purpose of punishing the country, but paradoxically perhaps has given the Russian government a lot less to lose by continuing down this path because it’s all stick and no carrot. So from the... View Details
- Research Summary
The Ownership and Trading of Debt Claims in Chapter 11 Restructurings (with Victoria Ivashina and David Smith)
This paper explores a novel data set that identifies over 71,000 investors holding debt claims of 136 companies filing for U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection during the period of 1998 through 2009. We investigate how concentration in debt ownership relates to... View Details
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
platforms. “How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers” was the most-read story on Working Knowledge in 2016. Other popular topics among our readers included workplace communication, negotiation, white-collar crime, and, View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
- 21 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year
the size of government and amount of state services. Paula Rettl spoke to Working Knowledge about her research examining these trends in Italy, Brazil and around the world. A native View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
homed in on five key strategies that any manager, entrepreneur, or CEO can learn. Each of the lessons reads like a paradox or Zen koan that takes intelligence and practice to unpack. "Look Forward,... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
Editor's note: The economy of Greece is in the depths of despair—a fitting topic for a Greek tragedy. As investor Wilbur Ross (HBS MBA 1961) has poignantly put it, "The country that brought us democracy... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
Asked which institutions must be in place in order for African countries to grow, experts on a panel at the Africa Business Conference had no shortage of suggestions. One panelist, representing the International Monetary Fund, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
Seventeen years after the dawn of social media marketing, this medium continues to be an intriguing puzzle—a place where brands are investing more time and money, but are still struggling to determine what works well and where the returns... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
still represents the largest country in terms of actual representation, its UN-related influence has steadily waned relative to population. At least until the 1980s, that didn't seem to matter, says Werker, since its View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 2025
- Working Paper
Causes and Extent of Increasing Partisan Segregation in the U.S. – Evidence from Migration Patterns of 212 Million Voters
By: Jacob R. Brown, Enrico Cantoni, Vincent Pons and Emilie Sartre
Using data on the residential location and migration for every voter in U.S. states recording partisan registration between 2008–2020, we find that residential segregation between Democrats and Republicans has increased year over year at all geographic levels, from... View Details
Brown, Jacob R., Enrico Cantoni, Vincent Pons, and Emilie Sartre. "Causes and Extent of Increasing Partisan Segregation in the U.S. – Evidence from Migration Patterns of 212 Million Voters." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33422, January 2025.
- November 2018 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Federica Gabrieli
In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to decide whether to seek a shareholder vote at the upcoming Annual General Meeting in April on a proposal to reform the... View Details
Keywords: General Management; Board Of Directors; Executive Committees; Human Resource Management; Compensation; Pay For Performance; Incentives; Bonuses; Incentive Programs; Employee Stock Ownership Plans; Performance Measurement; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Human Resources; Management; Executive Compensation; Change; Performance Evaluation; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Europe; United Kingdom; Scotland
Paine, Lynn S., and Federica Gabrieli. "The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A)." Harvard Business School Case 319-046, November 2018. (Revised July 2023.)
- 23 Feb 2021
- News
Dan Koh Named Labor Department’s Chief of Staff
vote by the Senate has not been scheduled yet, but his nomination was recently advanced by a bipartisan committee vote and is expected to pass. Editor's note: In more news from Boston City Hall,... View Details
- 09 Dec 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Friends in High Places
Keywords: by Lauren Cohen & Christopher Malloy
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
impact of a robust get out the vote effort. The trio visited the country multiple times to develop and roll out a text message campaign to encourage voting, which ultimately reached 2 million—about 40... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson