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- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
and indirectly, by raising new theoretical questions. Deferred acceptance algorithms are at the basis of a number of labor market clearinghouses around the world and have recently been implemented in school... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
patents to find out how past inventions influenced future innovations. Among patents granted to companies in 2010, those that benefited, directly or indirectly, from federal largesse were cited 6.33 times, on average, in View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
Santana: Americans consume more food on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day of the year, other than Thanksgiving. We consume, literally, millions of pounds of potato chips and avocados. Billions of chicken wings, tens of millions of... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
unconditional bonuses. The results have implications for companies trying to use bonuses to more effectively manage their salespeople. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53260... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
diversification. By studying the research that analysts produce about companies that have announced corporate spinoffs, we gain unique insights into how analysts portray diversified firms to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't improve. To fix these problems, senior executives and their HR departments should change the way they think about learning and development, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
with Monster, to which he had sold Military.com. Within its first year of operations, Affinity Labs launched eight vertical portals including PoliceLink, NursingLink, TechCommunity, and IndiaOn. While the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 1991 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Becton Dickinson (D): Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling
By: Michael Beer
Describes a strategic human resource management process applied at the business unit and corporate level. The purpose of the process is to provide a means for aligning human resource management policies and practices with strategy and to hold managers accountable for... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Human Resources; Business or Company Management; Strategic Planning; Corporate Strategy; Health Industry
Beer, Michael. "Becton Dickinson (D): Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling." Harvard Business School Case 491-155, June 1991. (Revised March 1995.)
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
better economic outcomes. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54920 September–October 2018 Harvard Business Review Navigating Talent Hot Spots By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—Innovation clusters like San Francisco and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
What better way to drive people to work harder and more efficiently, you may ask, than to offer them a special carrot: more money for hitting specific company targets? The idea seems perfect. Managers want... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
century. It focuses especially on Beiersdorf, a pharmaceutical and skin care company in Germany. During World War I, the expropriation of its brands and trademarks revealed its vulnerability to political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
Pharmacyclics is a biotechnology company that had received FDA approval in late 2013 for its flagship asset Imbrivica (ibrutinib), a biologic treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia and two other even rarer blood malignancies. Entering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 1993
- Supplement
Otis South Africa (C)
By: Michael Beer
Relates Otis South Africa's management actions in their efforts to transform the company. Students will be asked to judge the effectiveness of the corporate change programs instituted by management. View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Judgments; Business or Company Management; Performance Effectiveness; Industrial Products Industry; South Africa
Beer, Michael. "Otis South Africa (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 493-063, February 1993.
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
number of key aspects of the old deal offered by companies that simply aren’t as compelling to the rising generation born after 1981 as they were to their boomer parents:... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
Beer et al., we examine how the subject has developed. We offer a normative review, based on that model, and we critique the assumption that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2005
- Case
Whitbread PLC (A)
By: Michael Beer and James Weber
Describes the change process Whitbread employed in transforming its organization and culture from a single underperforming business operating in a relatively stable environment to a multibusiness, high-commitment, and high-performance corporation operating in more... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business or Company Management; Leadership; Diversification
Beer, Michael, and James Weber. "Whitbread PLC (A)." Harvard Business School Case 406-007, September 2005.
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
thinking that all our plans can look the same everywhere, that all our brands can feel the same everywhere, and we have made huge mistakes in that regard," he said. Changes Brewing AmBev, one of View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
company SUN Brewing in the early 1990s, decided to partner with Belgian beer giant Interbrew to survive the Russian financial and economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
Michael Beer and his coauthors at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, the executives underscored the importance of higher-ambition goals,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer outlines what the high-commitment, high-performance organization looks like and provides practitioners with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace