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  • 05 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

between 2007 and 2021. He also gathered and analyzed 1 million newspaper job postings, 6 million manager resumes and job reviews, and 430,000 Indeed.com job reviews. The data shows: Managerial job postings that required collaborative... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

among those working closely with Japanese employees highlights intergroup contact as a factor in shaping the unearned status gain experience. Supplemental analysis of data gathered from 66 Japanese employees provided the broader... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Building a Business in the Context of a Life

they have the same goal of allowing participants to evaluate what's important to them both personally and professionally and creating a "life plan" for getting where they want to go. Some MBA students, most of whom are in their 20s, have... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

conduct laboratory experiments that explore how gender stereotypes shape beliefs about ability of oneself and others in different categories of knowledge. The data reveal two patterns. First, men’s and women’s beliefs about both oneself... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

    Unanticipated Gains

    Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because they enjoy larger, more supportive, or otherwise more useful networks. But why do some people have better networks than others? 

    Unanticipated Gains argues... View Details
    • 02 Feb 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs

    disentangling the underlying factors that impact the success of venture-capital-backed start-ups. The data that lies at the heart of our performance persistence papers was gathered from multiple sources over a three- or four-year period.... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
    • June 2016
    • Article

    Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics

    By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds
    Background: Routine annual influenza vaccinations are recommended for persons 6 months of age and older, but less than half of U.S. adults get vaccinated. Many employers offer employees free influenza vaccinations at workplace clinics, but even then take-up is... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Employees; Health Care and Treatment
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    • 30 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

    How do you reach the person on the street?" says Khanna, who was raised in India and still visits the country several times a year. "The case is a pretty dramatic illustration of the difficulties in doing that, but it also makes... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • October 1996 (Revised January 1997)
    • Case

    MacTemps: Building Commitment in the Interim Workforce

    MacTemps is a provider of temporary workers skilled in computer graphics and database management. Unlike many temporary agencies that treat temps as a commodity, MacTemps has attempted to build relationships with temps through offering benefits and training. This case... View Details
    Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Organizational Design; Personal Development and Career; Information Technology Industry; Employment Industry
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    • 08 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

    conditions. While such reviews are published anonymously, Zhang cross-referenced the data with a government database from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that lists the racial percentages of employees at all US companies with... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • October 2003 (Revised December 2003)
    • Case

    Managing a 401(k) Fund

    By: Richard S. Ruback and Kathleen Luchs
    Focuses on an individual's decision to participate in his firm's 401(k) plan and how to invest his contributions. Plan participants have a choice of 10 mutual funds with different investment strategies. Includes data from Morningstar on the composition and performance... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment; Saving; Asset Management; Financial Management; Decision Making; Personal Finance; Financial Services Industry
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    • 12 Mar 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia

    candidate; Rachel Mural, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School; Jerry Thursby and Marie Thursby, visiting scholars at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard’s Laboratory for Innovation Science; HBS View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Education
    • 14 Nov 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections

    helpful to your company.” The study’s findings also underscore the growing possibility of mining “nuanced and granular” social media data to understand how and why employee networks form and what advantages they provide to their larger... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • June 2002 (Revised November 2004)
    • Compilation

    John Maynard Keynes: His Life, Times, and Writings

    By: Huw Pill and Ingrid Vogel
    Discusses the life, times, and writings of John Maynard Keynes. Consists of three parts. First, it summarizes Keynes' life by reproducing his 1946 obituary from The Times of London. Second, it recalls the dramatic economic events of the times in which he lived by... View Details
    Keywords: History; Personal Development and Career; Economics; Theory; Macroeconomics
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    • 12 Jun 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

    agents over eight weeks to examine how differing types of guidance and training impact the agents' inventory management. We find agents who are trained in person and receive an explicit, personalized, daily text message recommendation of... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 19 Dec 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

    emphasis on personal relationships. "It's taken to a different level in China," says Chua. "Because of the lack of a strong legal infrastructure, people have to rely on those they know very well to get things done."... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • Web

    Placement - Doctoral

    Evidence from Field Data Advisors: Eugene F. Soltes (Chair), Krishna G. Palepu , and Aiyesha Dey Close Business Economics 2025 Maxim Alekseev Business Economics, 2025 Placement: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Finance... View Details
    • 12 Jan 2016
    • First Look

    January 12, 2016

    utilize such data are of considerable interest. Unfortunately, existing methods for analyzing the data in such systems ignore the open-ended exploratory nature of such systems that requires the assessment of... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • Web

    Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

    1907–1958 John Pepper Procter & Gamble Company, 1995–1999 Guy S. Peppiatt Federal Mogul Corporation, 1950–1969 Franklin P. Perdue Perdue Farms, 1953–1988 H. Ross Perot Electronic Data Systems, 1962–1979 Christopher J. Perry Philadelphia... View Details
    • Web

    Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    outcomes to increase patient value. Patients Participate actively in managing personal health, and, when faced with care and treatment options, seek assistance in understanding the expected outcomes. Health Plans Maximize value for... View Details