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- 26 Apr 2023
- In Practice
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
Furthermore, I expect a bifurcation of the workforce in the near future: individuals who embrace AI to enhance their productivity, potentially yielding substantial gains, and... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
overall effects of workplace practices on health. We conclude that 10%–38% of the difference in life expectancy across demographic groups can be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
their first year in the role. I reveal the complexity of the transition, highlighting the expectations of these managers, their subordinates, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
effective management of these five attributes allows not only organization-level benefits, but also team-level benefits in the form of new capabilities and team member... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
Some may shrug at the inevitable passing of the local newspaper, writing it off as a dinosaur that doesn’t have much to offer in our modern world of blogs, social media sites,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 03 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed With Your New Boss
of the boss in a startup is very different than in turnaround, realignment, or sustaining success situations. So you need to gain consensus on the type View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 20 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It
their $2; 86 percent rolled the die in the high-power group as opposed to 60 percent of the low-power posers. Previous research established that situational role changes can... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
work design and compensation and to understand the differences between compensation and motivation. The case frames the role of the general manager in setting up work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Research Thrust
By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Fiscal Policy under Convex Supply Curves
By: Shlok Goyal, Avi Lipton and Borui Niklas Zhu
Recent empirical evidence suggests that supply curves are convex. Supply curve convexity is at odds with conventional Phillips curves, which rely on an infinitely elastic underlying supply curve. This paper explores the effect of supply curve convexity on the... View Details
Keywords: Fiscal Stimulus; Fiscal Policy; Inflation; Inflation and Deflation; Macroeconomics; Policy; Mathematical Methods; United States
Goyal, Shlok, Avi Lipton, and Borui Niklas Zhu. "Fiscal Policy under Convex Supply Curves." Working Paper, August 2024.
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 14 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?
overload.” “When you’re in meetings all of the time, that’s a reduction in productivity, not an increase in productivity,” says McGinn.... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- Research Summary
Overview
My research lies in the intersection of economic growth and political economy focusing on the role of historical legacies, biogeography and culture in shaping contemporary economic performance. As growth economists our understanding of comparative economic development... View Details
Keywords: Institutions; Ethnicity; Economic Growth; Development Economics; Macroeconomics; Culture; Religion; Africa; Asia
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
strived for the formal integration of risk management with performance management (the risk function as 'Strategic Controller'). The achievement of the Strategic Advisor role... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
analyzing the case, students will learn about the role of information in markets-how investors get it, how they process it, and why it matters. The case asks students to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
willing to approve continued sales of a drug known to be lethal to some customers in fulfilment of their assigned role to maximise value for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Unilever—A Case Study
that the two companies should at all times pay dividends of equivalent value in sterling and guilders. There were two head offices—in London and Rotterdam—and two chairmen. Until 1996 the "chief... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
union's members. Over the past 17 years, she has worked to create a culture of innovative thinking and member-oriented service. Horowitz sees a more active role in managing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
office to go to and no work to do. Managers were told to expect the five stages of grief from their upset subordinates—the Kübler-Ross model typically associated with handling death. Senior leaders told... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
co-movement (or pay-referent sensitivity, PRS) to be more pronounced in geographically concentrated firms where we expect divisional proximity to facilitate information sharing about pay and magnify peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne