Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (7,897) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (7,897) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 143 of 7,897 Results →
  • 15 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

International is increasingly cognizant of the need to adapt to local contexts—as evinced not only by the India entry strategy but by changes in merchandising policies, clearer definition of decision rights, and even the astonishing job-swap between some of the top... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

the firm's predictions. Students develop programs to reduce churn post hoc and then reengineer the company's marketing, selling, and customer relationship management processes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2007 (Revised December 2008)
  • Case

Michael Fernandes at Nicholas Piramal

By: Michel Anteby and Nitin Nohria
Michael Fernandes, the Director of Custom Manufacturing Operations at the pharmaceutical company Nicholas Piramal India Limited (NPIL), schedules a meeting with three of his reports, whose interpersonal conflicts with one another are causing his business development... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Management Skills; Groups and Teams; Conflict Management; Cooperation; Pharmaceutical Industry; India; United Kingdom; Canada
Related
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

Contending with that value maximization approach is "stakeholder theory" which says that managers should make decisions so as to take into account all of the interests of all stakeholders in a firm. (Stakeholders, he notes,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 23 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?

empirically predicted with a machine learning model, suggests work by Shunyuan Zhang, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and collaborators. “Our research represents the first empirical attempt to characterize the View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • June 2007
  • Case

Buddy March

Entrepreneurial general manager (GM) ignores specific directives from his boss (GVP) to discontinue a new venture that the GM is championing. View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Rank and Position; Management Teams
Related
  • 12 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

were "well spent"? Does other work document a relationship between donorship and political favors? A: There is evidence in the paper that the downward earnings management is associated with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

Alejandro Ruzzier Abstract It is often argued that competition forces managers to make better choices, thus favoring managerial autonomy in decision making. I formalize and challenge this idea. Suppose that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ali Evans (MBA 2019)

student business manager within HSA, I gained valuable business and leadership experience managing teams of up to 25 employees and helped launch a startup that was venture funded and is still growing today.... View Details
  • 24 Mar 2022
  • News

Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together

Keywords: Rituals
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

http://www.nber.org/confer/2009/EIf09/summary.html The Learning Effects of Monitoring Authors: Dennis Campbell, Marc Epstein, and F. Asís Martínez Jerez Publication: The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Does Competition Favor Delegation?

By: Christian Alejandro Ruzzier
This paper studies the consequences of product-market competition on firms' decisions to delegate more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the choice of both competitive actions and organizational design, the paper makes... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Competition; Decision Making
Related
  • December 1, 2021
  • Article

Do You Know How Your Teams Get Work Done?

By: Rohan Narayana Murty, Rajath B. Das, Scott Duke Kominers, Arjun Narayan, Suraj Srinivasan, Tarun Khanna and Kartik Hosanagar
In a research study at four Fortune 500 companies, when managers were asked about their teams’ work, on average they either did not know or could not remember 60% of the work their teams do. This is a major problem because it can lead to unrealistic digital... View Details
Keywords: Leading Teams; Work Recall Gap; Machine Learning; Algorithms; Groups and Teams; Management; Technological Innovation
Related
  • January 2008 (Revised March 2008)
  • Case

Glass Egg Digital Media

Glass Egg is an outsource games development firm in Vietnam. They are able to offer brand-name publishers-Microsoft EA, Atari-significant cost savings in the development of art assets for their video games. However, the firm's management find themselves at a point at... View Details
Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Product Development; Organizational Structure; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Related
  • Program

Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation—Virtual

presented jointly by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative and The Hauser Institute for Civil Society at Harvard University. Key Benefits With a stronger performance management strategy in place, your organization will be better positioned... View Details
  • May 2009
  • Article

Authority versus Persuasion

By: Eric J. Van den Steen
This paper studies a manager's trade-off between using persuasion and using interpersonal authority to get an employee to 'do the right thing' from the manager's perspective (when the manager and employee disagree on the right course of action). It... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Managerial Roles; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence
Related
  • 07 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

customer or employee experiences. Some might consider the use of AI in "people decisions" dehumanizing. Again, leaders should prepare to manage the emotions associated with learning to use data to make... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
  • 12 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify

wealth management. The number of financial advisory firms grew 41 percent to more than 15,000 between 2015 and 2021, according to Barron’s. Every April, Dimensional Fund queries hundreds of financial advisers across the globe, who together View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Financial Services
  • Web

Finance - Faculty & Research

Aparna Krishna This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological contribution, we examine whether and in which settings satellite... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

Obstacles facing companies in today's hyper-competitive global markets are seemingly more complex than ever, to the point that managers must rethink many of the basic principles of good operations management, says Robert Hayes. In a new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace