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  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Rounding the Bend

example, the company knows how many of them they’ve sold in the past, how many views the item received before it sold, and at what price. The systems actually drive the process and get smarter with each iteration, although humans are... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

From Crowds to Collaborators: Initiating Effort and Catalyzing Interactions Among Online Creative Workers

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau, Patrick Gaule, Karim R. Lakhani, Christoph Riedl & Anita Williams Woolley
  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

The Musts of 2023

H. Clarke (MBA 1988/JD 1989): Teresa Clarke, JD MBA, MBA class of 1988. I have a good friend who went to the Law School, who ran the Ford Foundation's Global Human Rights Program. And he gave away hundreds of millions of dollars in every... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

entrepreneurship, branding, and innovation expertise. Bluemercury’s innovative retailing and human resource model has been the topic of numerous books, including Shopping: Why We Love it and How Retailers Can Create the Ultimate Customer... View Details
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Curriculum - Business & Environment

and synthetic biology- that have passed commercial viability and are on-track to change the foundations of business and society by 2035. These technologies predict behavior and increasingly create behavior. They learn and improve relentlessly. They make better... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And the top consulting (or law) firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2018
  • Book

The New History of American Capitalism

Since the start of the 2000s, historians have renewed their interest in capitalism, two Harvard professors observe in their new book, American Capitalism: New Histories. One of the primary contributing factors for this, according to Sven... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • 1998
  • Working Paper

CEO Incentives and Firm Size

By: Brian Hall and George P. Baker
What determines CEO incentives? A confusion exists among both academics and practitioners about how to measure the strength of CEO incentives, and how to reconcile the enormous differences in pay sensitivities between executives in large and small firms. We show that... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Size; Management Systems
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  • 27 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

Organizations and Human Resources at Université du Québec à Montréal; and Wharton doctoral candidate Serenity Lee. "Sharing information about one’s personal lifestyle and beliefs online with the wrong colleague may expose employees to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
  • 21 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

communicate them.” The reason might be as simple as employees not knowing about the incentive programs. Leslie John, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and a team of researchers found that a major factor... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 17 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

to be the be-all and end-all of the relationship. They want a personal, human connection, an emotional link. They want you to care about them as individuals. They want you to encourage their growth and development. Research tells us this... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 25 May 2011
  • HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

year visiting stores and employees and personally responds to any e-mail they send him." All of these factors have made QuikTrip a regular on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For. Yet the company's focus on promoting from within... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

and technical assistance in the same period. We interpret this as supportive of the interpretation that technology transfers from the U.S. to Western European countries and Japan were an important factor in driving growth in these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 5, 2016

Influencing Human Behavior By: Reddy, Sheila M., Jensen Montambault, Yuta J. Masuda, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth Keenan, William Butler, Jonathan R. Fisher, and Stanley T. Asah Abstract—Behavioral sciences can advance conservation by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

field of behavioral economics, which economists usually think of as a "new" field, was in fact rigorously studying the very factors that Smith, arguably the "father" of modern-day economics, had always thought were... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

the money, or the need for more big science.) Solutions involving gray (built) or green (natural) infrastructure rely on the human infrastructure – the infrastructure for collaboration. Business leaders – from established companies to... View Details
  • 05 Sep 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

and hire the right people right away, and each time you add a new person to the team, there will likely be a J-curve impact on productivity. Therefore, when you prioritize hiring, factor in how long some roles will take to fill. For... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology
  • 10 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

disciplines most often found in business schools. We have proposed that innovation in organizations be conceived of as a process of co-design: creative abrasion, creative agility, and integrated problem solving. We know much about the kind of contextual View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 11 Jul 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'

sector. Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes It's possible for organizations to reduce costs while dramatically enhancing customer service. The key? Don't try to be good at everything. Research Papers Mitigating the Negative Effects of Customer Anxiety through Access... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Service
  • 02 Aug 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

According to Gallup, those who are engaged are: More than twice as likely to remain on the job as those characterized as disengaged, and more likely to refer friends and family members for employment. These factors lead to lower costs of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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