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- 19 Nov 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans
- 04 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should You Outsource Your Marketing?
benefit considerably by outsourcing, for example, analytical functions to qualified suppliers if those skills are lacking in-house. But some aspects of marketing are less amenable to outsourcing—those that directly drive marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin
- November 2008 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
Stone Finch, Inc.: Young Division, Old Division
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Elizabeth Collins
CEO Jim Billings wants to attract energetic, entrepreneurial talent to Stone Finch, Inc., which comprises an older division that fabricates products like piping and tanks for water and wastewater processing plants, and a much newer division that develops biochemical... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Human Resource Management; Motivation; Business Growth; Motivation and Incentives; Leadership; Business Subsidiaries; Innovation Strategy; Resource Allocation; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Retention; Operations; Recruitment; Integration; Business Growth and Maturation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Growth and Development Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Elizabeth Collins. "Stone Finch, Inc.: Young Division, Old Division." Harvard Business School Brief Case 083-214, November 2008. (Revised January 2010.)
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
Every managerial generation rediscovers the need for innovation to drive growth but, decade after decade, "grand declarations about innovation are followed by mediocre execution that produces anemic results, and innovation groups are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
developed. These metrics must be consistent with and support the objectives and drivers and key success factors already defined. The selected metrics will likely include a combination of input, processes, output, and outcome metrics to... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
entrepreneurs, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn. In Part One of a discussion about her recent book—in the April 16 issue of HBS Working Knowledge—Koehn described the brand-building savvy of three entrepreneurs in the past, as well as their clear lessons for View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
success included, “organization leadership (along with frontline managers that) model the desired culture,” a reason behind the change (that) “is well articulated and understood by the stakeholders and not... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Dec 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
As elegantly described by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen in his 1997 bestseller, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, so-called disruptive technologies are upstart innovations that View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made
its stance on specific issues. Why do we judge government by one standard and the private sector by another? In this book, we argue that the way citizens and government currently think about real-world... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
job? A: The key lesson to boards is that, for compensation and incentive purposes, when management has high career concerns, sometimes less information is better. And, recent evidence suggests that high career concerns in View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
involved with the policy response to the crisis in Spain. As hard-hit as the United States was by the Great Recession, Spain was damaged far worse: Years after the recession, growth was at a standstill and a quarter of the workforce... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
undergird democracy There are several things businesses can do to strengthen democracy. Here are four of them. Encourage voter participation by providing employees with paid time off to vote, thereby addressing the barrier created View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 27 Apr 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach
Keywords: by Werner Erhard & Michael C. Jensen
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
process; all these other elements have an impact as well. Q: What role do customers play? Bower: In the ordinary course of events, when managers of business units make proposals for investments, they are almost always driven View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
brands and/or brands that have managed to nurture strong consumer-brand relationships prior to the crisis. The cocooning behavior promoted by shelter-in-place orders may encourage a return to brands that... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
think most of management is willing to take the long view." These last comments provided a good lead-in to the question posed by Jay Somasundaram: "What types of leadership do we want most?"... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
buyout raiders of the 1980s eventually morphed into the legitimate private equity business, greenmailers of a generation ago are now taken seriously as hard-nosed change agents who may be doing the right thing when they take on management... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
characterize profits to tax authorities and capital markets separately). There is also much anecdotal evidence on the profusion of tax shelters and compensation incentives for managing effective tax rates. View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
information-driven model by gaining a better understanding of product and customer relationships." Dean Vella cited Walmart's innovation in supply chain management and sustainability as ways in which it... View Details