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- 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008
survey. We find that the end-of-month inventory significantly increased in four of the six retail segments studied and that, after controlling for sales and macroeconomic factors, the positive time trends for the end-of-month inventory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
happens about 50 percent of the time. In cases where employees thought they would be rewarded but weren’t, Gallani and Cai called that an “implicit punishment,” while in the opposite case, in which employees thought they would be punished... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?
Brown University, detail their findings in the working paper Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency. When employees talk about their pay A labor economist, Cullen noticed while conducting research in 2014 that workers with comparable... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
ERM, but the studies are inconsistent and inconclusive, due, we believe, to an inadequate specification of how ERM is used in practice. Based on a 10-year field project, over 250 interviews with senior risk officers, and 3 detailed View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
Summing Up When Is Listening Not a Good Strategy? Like a good case debate, the discussion of the question of whether listening is a lost art was not one-sided. What was clear was how important people felt listening is to effective... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
and sustain high-performing K–12 public school districts in the United States. These efforts have resulted in more than 30 case studies focused on adapting and applying management concepts within urban... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
a relatively young, upstart company. The case is framed from the perspective of an emerging markets financial analyst presented with the financial statements and operational data for both companies. The analyst has to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Mireya Iglesias Ayala
self-discovery. What is your most memorable classroom moment? One of my favorite cases last semester in Financial Reporting and Control (FRC) was “OXXO's Turf War Against Extra,” which is the largest convenience store chain in Mexico.... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
a one-fifth reduction in the likelihood of losing their board seat and in the likelihood of losing other directorships. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-048.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsDasher Company Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
companies, taking as our point of departure a particularly energetic debate during a symposium at the 2007 Academy of Management meetings. We surface the assumptions that underlie such debates, compare them with findings from our research... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
Anita Elberse, a Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, studies high performers in creative industries—from basketball superstar LeBron James to pop diva Lady Gaga, from actor Tom Cruise to... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
show that this aggregation of information is not only a leading indicator of violations of rules and regulations, but it’s even a leading indicator of the whistleblower complaints themselves,” Campbell says of the study that resulted,... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Business School Case 615-009 American Airlines in 2011 (A) The "American Airlines in 2011" case set was developed to provide a setting for the comparative analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
estimate the value of the right to determine duration to the buyer, compared to a standard duration. Finally, a counterfactual analysis illustrates why quantifying transaction costs is important for the accurate analysis of welfare.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
some responsibility for that. Most of them are neither studying nor teaching emerging best practices in asset valuation and risk management. They need to begin exploring the interior of leading-edge companies to provide detailed,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
books that purport to be balanced and coolly analytical raise questions about the company's economic impact. A case in point is Charles Fishman's The Wal-Mart Effect, which describes the company as having a "decidedly mixed economic... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
roles are uncertain, goals are shifting, expertise and organizational cultures are varied, and participants have clashing or even antagonistic perspectives. I have studied more than a dozen cross-industry innovation projects, among them... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
“Initially, the pictures weren’t graphic enough. I kept saying, ‘I need rotting teeth!’” The in-your-face images indeed affected study participants. Not only did they reduce soda consumption, but many also reached for a healthier option... View Details
- 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009
communication. We propose that a barrier to the sharing of ideas pertinent to innovation in inter-cultural relationships is low affect-based trust, which arises from individuals' deficits in inter-cultural capability. Results from a study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace