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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Determinants of Top-Down Sabotage

By: Hashim Zaman and Karim R. Lakhani
We investigate the conditions that motivate managers to impede the growth of talented subordinates due to fears of future competition for their own positions. Our research expands on existing tournament and contest theory literature that considers peer-to-peer sabotage... View Details
Keywords: Succession Planning; Organizational Hierarchy; Compensation; Promotions; Tournaments; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Structure; Employee Relationship Management; Performance Evaluation; Organizational Culture; Management Skills
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  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

performance, even after controlling for current performance, and that this relation is driven by the perceptions of middle management and professional staff rather than senior executives, hourly, or commissioned workers. Taken together,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

An Anatomy of Performance Monitoring

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
Performance monitoring is a mainstay management tool in most organizations. Yet we still know little about whether—and why—better monitoring yields better performance in practice. To shed light on these questions, we study the introduction of a performance monitoring... View Details
Keywords: Performance Monitoring; Worker Skills; Skill Depreciation; Managerial Inattention; On-the-job Training; Productivity; Multitasking; Quick Serve Restaurants; Performance Evaluation; Employees; Competency and Skills; Training; Performance Productivity; Management; Information Technology; Food and Beverage Industry; Puerto Rico
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  • March 2019
  • Case

HOPI: Turkey's Shopping Companion

By: Sunil Gupta, Donald Ngwe and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in 2017 as Onur Erbay, CEO of HOPI, a multi-vendor loyalty platform, is contemplating a critical decision. The case chronicles the origins of Boyner Group, the parent company of HOPI and a major retailer in Turkey, and development of retail and customer... View Details
Keywords: Loyalty Programs; Multi-vendor Platform; Retail; Big Data; Customer Relationship Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Business Model; Analytics and Data Science; Competitive Strategy; Decision Making; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Turkey
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  • 30 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

company computer systems is often left unclear. Managers need to ask, "Who should have remote access to the corporate network? What safeguards must be in place before employees can connect to the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby
  • Web

Case Development - Faculty & Research

purpose and may arise as the result of a past relationship with an executive, a former student, or from a professor’s interest in exploring with a company’s management team a situation that would provide a... View Details
  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

2025 | Climate Rising Alexia Kelly, Managing Director of the Carbon Policy and Markets Initiative (CPMI) at theHigh Tide Foundation, joins host Mike Toffel for the fifth episode in our series on voluntarycarbon markets. Alexia has worked... View Details
  • 05 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance

day than the other groups, who had spent that time reflecting and sharing instead. Gino hopes that the research will provide food for thought to overworked managers and employees alike. "I don't see a lot of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

years. It has evolved from a system in which employees relied mainly on Social Security and professionally managed defined benefit (DB) pension plans sponsored by their employers to provide for their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2016 (Revised July 2017)
  • Case

Diageo and Mey Icki: Turkish Delight or Turkish Hangover?

By: Dante Roscini and Gamze Yucaoglu
In September 2013, two years after its $2.1 billion acquisition of Mey Icki Sanayi ve Ticaret AS (Mey Icki), the principal spirits company in Turkey specializing in the local beverage, raki, Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks company, was concerned about new... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Emerging Markets; Government Legislation; Taxation; Valuation; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; Risk Management; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Middle East; Turkey
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  • August 2011 (Revised February 2012)
  • Supplement

Ockham Technologies (B): Building the Board

By: Noam Wasserman
Describes the issues facing a founder-ceo regarding building a board, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing development work. View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Management Teams; Groups and Teams
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  • 25 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Developing the Global Leader

development," says Professor of Management Practice William George, the former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic. “We're looking to companies to create a global cadre of people who are comfortable operating anywhere... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 12 Nov 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley, Pamela J. Hinds & Catherine Durnell Cramton
  • 14 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

What I Learned at SVMP

The Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) at HBS is a one week management training program for rising college seniors. It’s designed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education, and... View Details
  • August 2021
  • Article

A Mixed Methods Study of Change Processes Enabling Effective Transition to Team-based Care

By: Michael Anne Kyle, Emma-Louise Aveling and Sara J. Singer
Team-based care is considered central to achieving value in primary care, yet results of large-scale primary care transformation initiatives have been mixed. We explore how underlying change processes influence the effectiveness of transition to team-based care. We... View Details
Keywords: Team-based Care; Primary Care; Health Care and Treatment; Transformation; Groups and Teams; Change Management
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  • 09 Jul 2021
  • News

Three Ways Employers Can Best Support Caregivers Returning To Work

  • 02 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 2

the parties. Thus, even after controlling for various attributes of the exchange relationship and the dispute, the choice of contracting structure has important strategic implications. The Globe: The China Rules: A Practical Guide for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

leaders on work, "it is extremely naive to expect that stereotypical ideas about what women in general are like will have any meaning for the behavior of women in senior management positions. Women who arrive in such positions will... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 27 Dec 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Team Learning Capabilities: A Meso Model of Sustained Innovation and Superior Firm Performance

Keywords: by Jean-François Harvey, Henrik Bresman, and Amy C. Edmondson
  • September 2, 2020
  • Article

How to Pay for Public Option Without Tax Hike

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard Boxer
A bipartisan combination of the two parties’ most popular initiatives can expand health care coverage, significantly reduce costs, and enable freedom of choice, without raising taxes. Along the way, we can revitalize competition between public and private plans. Our... View Details
Keywords: Health Insurance; Public Option; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost Management; United States
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