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- February 2017
- Case
Dick's Sporting Goods
By: Rajiv Lal, Jose B. Alvarez and Matthew G. Preble
Edward Stack, chairman and CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS), faced a rapidly changing sporting goods landscape in October 2016. Two large competitors—The Sports Authority and Sport Chalet—had folded earlier that year, and DKS had to contend with increasingly robust... View Details
Keywords: Sporting Goods; Retail; Employees; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Product Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; E-commerce; Retail Industry; United States; Pennsylvania
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
withstand a brutal cash crunch will support the broader economy, Mills says. “This is the number one thing that we can do to keep our economy going during this particular crisis,” she says. “This is about helping small businesses, but it’s also about helping their... View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
one country, India. Chinese citizens are the next most frequent recipients. The largest recent recipients of the visas have often been American subsidiaries of Infosys and Wipro, Indian-based companies that provide outsourced services and use the visas to introduce... View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
to better pair employees on teams to improve idea quality, according to Koning. Consider team composition. Whether or not they actually administer a personality test, supervisors generally have an idea of where team members fall on scales... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
Wawa Inc. Retailing requires attention to detail and customer and employee loyalty. Wawa is a 50-year-old food retailer with an almost cult-like following. With $9 billion in revenues, Wawa is the 50th largest privately held company in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
(with or without MBAs) in their efforts to build similar careers. As employees of these organizations, will we notice a difference? How will female leadership influence the way we work? Should I even be asking the question? What do you... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
European countries where vacations are mandated, most employees take their prescribed amounts of time off. In America, where vacation time is not mandated, roughly half of workers last year had vacation time left over and failed to take... View Details
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
people with the right attitude (one that fits with the organization's culture), and proper training and organization (often in teams). Financial targets are given no more or less emphasis than targets associated with employee and customer... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
warehousing industry in the Southwestern U.S. as "by and large dependable and hard working, and their children will probably have better jobs than they have." As Irv Williamson put it: "Why would anybody consider limiting access to the best View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
the long-term vision and short-term realities of the need for performance. Mike Flanagan asked, "Why have goals that are strived for in 10 years when the CEO and others will be gone?" And Kathryn Alexander asked why, in those companies in which View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
powerful, but in a centralized, technocratic system, will be very powerful, because somebody has to do the research that informs all of this. The final group is the human resource people in corporations. They turn to limiting the choice of health care programs for... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
must overcome severe individual and organizational biases that prevent managers and employees from thinking deeply and analytically about their risk exposure. In this paper, we draw lessons from seven case studies about the multiple and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
rates of public sector employment, the crown jewel of the Jordanian regime’s patronage. Interviews with over 60 of the surveyed firm owners across four strategically paired districts illustrate that business owners covet forbearance and that kinship ties to public... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
role of telecommunications firms in providing content. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53774 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Through Social Media: Passable Trust and the Paradox of Non-work Interactions By: Neeley, Tsedal, and Paul Leonardi Abstract—Despite the recognition that knowledge sharing among employees is necessary to enact knowledge strategy, little... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
employee learning into changes in individual and organization behavior or improved financial performance. Put simply, companies are not getting the return they expect on their investment in training and education. By investing in training... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
cancel company events that would have required customers or employees to travel to Indiana. And Apple CEO Tim Cook authored an op-ed in The Washington Post to oppose the legislation. The public outcry against the RFRA seemed to make an... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
case considers the challenges professional service firm employees face in terms of work-life issues. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410112-PDF-ENG Purchase this Supplement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
middle managers and line employees attempt to execute the explicit strategy. Unfortunately, these strategies often diverge. They are not aligned. And so the potential of the enterprise becomes unrealized. "Strategy therefore becomes... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
I test for learning vs. effort allocation effects of promotion-based incentives. I find that promotion and demotion decisions for store managers of a major U.S.-based fast-food retailer (QSR) are sensitive to nonfinancial performance measures of service quality and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace