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- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
were devastating. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307010 Lincoln Electric Harvard Business School Case 707-445 The case describes Lincoln Electric's business strategy and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
something about the creative process that triggers dishonest behavior. Specifically, we decided to explore the idea that enhancing the motivation to think outside the box can drive individuals toward more dishonest decisions when facing... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
A proposed advertising deal between Internet competitors Google and Yahoo would reduce competitiveness in the Internet advertising market, likely resulting in higher advertising rates, according to Harvard Business School assistant... View Details
- July 2005 (Revised January 2011)
- Case
Understanding Customer Profitability at Charles Schwab
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Charles Schwab is transforming into a customer-centric organization. Central to this cultural and organizational change is the utilization of customer profitability at different decision-making levels. Examines several technical aspects of the ABC cost system, as well... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Motivation and Incentives; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Activity Based Costing and Management; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Profit; Performance Evaluation; Budgets and Budgeting
Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis. "Understanding Customer Profitability at Charles Schwab." Harvard Business School Case 106-002, July 2005. (Revised January 2011.)
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
Editor's note: With the death of Nelson Mandela, the words of the Roman poet Horace (65 - 27 BC) seem particularly appropriate in celebrating his life and achievements in freeing South Africa from the oppression of apartheid View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
press. Understanding what motivates people is the most potent tool and the most challenging aspect of my work, especially in a market such as today's where good people are becoming scarcer. O'Lear: Our... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
Publications In press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes When Doing Good Is Bad in Gift-giving: Mis-predicting Appreciation of Socially-responsible Gifts By: Cavanaugh, A., F. Gino, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
for Auditor Independence Yet? Authors:M.H. Bazerman and D.A. Moore Publication:Accounting, Organizations and Society (in press) Abstract Well before the collapse of Enron and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
differences in the price of capital across countries. Our strategy is motivated by the fact that most countries import the bulk of machinery equipment (from a small number of industrialized countries). We find the price of imported... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
competitors, prize allocation and structure, divisionalization, open entry) as a means of reconciling non-monotonic incentive responses to competition, effectively manipulating the number View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
advice to businesses using affiliate marketing programs. His new working paper, written with Wesley Brandi, is titled Information and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing. The paper offers ways to help... View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
Working PapersOpen to Negotiation: Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination (revised) Authors:Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract Phenomenological assumptions—assumptions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781846142734,00.html?strSrchSql=Civilization%3A+The+West+and+the+Rest/Civilization_Niall_Ferguson Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors Authors: Rebecca Henderson View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
offered proper incentives for standardizing and sharing the information they collect. Even the industry's brightest minds and hardest workers have yet to definitively determine... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
2015 Modern China Studies Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article seeks to understand the motivations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Working PapersThe Global Networks of Multinational Firms Authors:Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen Abstract In this paper we characterize the topology of global multinational networks and examine the macro... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Article
The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for the Strategic Compensation of Employees
By: Ian Larkin, L. Pierce and F. Gino
Larkin, Ian, L. Pierce, and F. Gino. "The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for the Strategic Compensation of Employees." Strategic Management Journal 33, no. 10 (October 2012): 1194–1214.
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
to the educational and developmental processes. Through this alliance, HP has enhanced its reputation in the educational community, and participating employees have enjoyed highly View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 12 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards
Delivery of service, motivating and inspiring staff, and conceiving of new directions for growth are all vitally important. Planning, budgeting, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
the tension between learning and performance, was an attempt to pull together a subset of insights from this longer journey about the challenges for managers who wish to promote learning without sacrificing performance in the short term.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert