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- 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015
set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper 10% of boss quality increases a... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
entrepreneurial in spirit. I remember growing up in India and noticing that people always found a way to get things done. But when it came to jobs, people were risk-averse because unemployment was high, and you were worried what would... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
for the Modern Woman (A) Chanel, the iconic haute couture house, founded by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel in 1913, came to embody its founder's philosophy, taste, and style and set a distinctive and influential tone for women's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
shown that roughly 8 percent to 10 percent of the SKUs in a store are stocked out at any given time. Stockouts are expensive for retailers for two reasons. First, they lead to lost sales. A 2004 study that surveyed over 70,000 consumers in 29 countries View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
heart of the enterprise. And that's what I found. For companies like IBM and Procter & Gamble, this is definitely at the heart of the enterprise. The Japanese company Omron has sustained itself since its founding on principles and on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
private capital sources," says Dubrowski, a founding partner of The Lionstone Group, a Houston-based investment firm. They took big risks and hoped for big rewards. The 1980s brought additional players to the table, none driven by... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
"Obamacare"—enjoyed a decidedly lackluster launch. Despite there being 35 million uninsured people in the United States, only 8 million signed up for insurance on the exchange. True, another 5 million people signed up on their own for policies that qualified... View Details
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
entrepreneurial firms in successive generations. These firms became important drivers of innovation and scale, but they also found solar to be an industry in which achieving a viable business model proved a chimera, whilst waves of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
pre-HRRP readmission rates across samples, we found that declines for targeted conditions at general acute care hospitals were statistically indistinguishable from declines in two control samples. Either the HRRP had no effect on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16
individuals, as in a team) and gave them collective responsibility for a whole task. We conceptualized the mesolevel structures as team scaffolds and found that they embodied the logic of both role and team structures. The team scaffolds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
on specific proposals begin the week of June 22.] Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's proposals for fixing the broken financial system closely resemble those found in Moss's own playbook. In this instance, the book is a Special Report... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
calculate dollar-value equivalents for the freedom to work on demand. “We find that assigning them to the shift they drive the least often is equivalent to a 24 percent pay cut for the median driver and a 36.9 percent pay cut for the average driver,” they write.... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
issues. Big accounts drive a disproportionate amount of a company’s revenue (the 80/20 rule), and reliance on large customers has grown. Publicly traded US companies must disclose any customers that account for more than 10 percent of their revenue. A study of this... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
everyone in the class is calculating what each minute of class time is costing them? One study found that between 2015 and 2017, only 16 percent of cases used in the Stanford MBA program featured female protagonists. Another criticism is... View Details
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
that, especially in urban school districts, excellence is found in pockets—terrific schools in underperforming districts or engaging classrooms in terrible schools—but that high performance is lacking across entire school systems.... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
to show how effective and safe the remedy was. The scientists also investigated various questions that came up, such as whether clean water was required. (They found that, although boiled water was preferable, contaminated water was... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
assume the worst. It looks like the company is trying to hide bad news." Cleaning Up The Message Some managers may be tempted to simply hire a translator to help smooth out language issues during calls, but translators have not been View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
down this job before they found someone dumb enough take it. The fact that the guy agreed to do it speaks unflattering volumes about his judgment. Yes, I realize Barton is an SMA board member. That he "knows the company"-at least as much... View Details
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
extent to which the corporate governance practices of Infosys are to be found in other Indian software firms and among Indian firms more generally. Our interviews with the top management of Infosys, and related field research in India,... View Details