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Employee Selection as a Control System
By: Dennis Campbell
Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study... View Details
Keywords: Management Systems; Governance Controls; Employees; Selection and Staffing; Motivation and Incentives; Decision Making; Business Model
Campbell, Dennis. "Employee Selection as a Control System." Journal of Accounting Research 50, no. 4 (September 2012): 931–966.
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
in managing business analytics and big data at the enterprise level. It includes key applications of analytics, human and organizational issues in building analytical capabilities, and case studies of the application of analytics in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
joining a bubble. In the recent paper, "Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles," Harvard Business School's Robin Greenwood and Stanford's Stefan Nagel compared the returns of young and older mutual fund managers during and after... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
globalization. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52266 January 26, 2017 Harvard Business Review Executives and Salespeople Are Misaligned—and the Effects Are Costly By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Christopher... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
the shortlist of America's most admired businesspeople, along with Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates. Brilliant, brave, and willing to defy conventional wisdom, Grove is, according to Harvard Business School professor Richard S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119025-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-026 Predicting Purchasing Behavior at PriceMart (B) Supplements the (A) case. In this case, Wehunt and Morse are concerned about the logistic regression... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
an entrepreneur, executive, and women’s advocate were evident in her teens. The oldest of three children in a devout Jewish family in Chicago, she ran a business tutoring Hebrew to boys preparing for their bar mitzvot, participated in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- November 2005 (Revised December 2016)
- Case
Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004
By: John R. Wells, Elizabeth A. Raabe and Gabriel Ellsworth
From a single, modest club in 1962, Bally Total Fitness had grown to become—in management’s words—the “largest and only nationwide commercial operator of fitness centers” in the United States in 2004. Bally had faced its share of challenges, but the last couple of... View Details
Keywords: Bally Total Fitness; Fitness; Gyms; Health Clubs; Chain; Securities And Exchange Commission; Paul Toback; Weight Loss; Exercise; Contracts; Personal Training; Retention; Accounting; Accounting Audits; Accrual Accounting; Finance; Advertising; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customers; Customer Satisfaction; Public Equity; Financing and Loans; Revenue; Revenue Recognition; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Management; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Operations; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Trends; Cost Management; Profit; Growth and Development; Leadership Style; Five Forces Framework; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; United States; Illinois; Chicago
Wells, John R., Elizabeth A. Raabe, and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004." Harvard Business School Case 706-450, November 2005. (Revised December 2016.)
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Kiran Gandhi
Berklee, HBS, and MIT students together to discuss problems in the music industry. We’ve modeled our meetings on the Socratic method seen in the HBS classroom: Everyone gets reading material in advance so they can make informed... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle model with earnings, lifespan, investment return, and future policy uncertainty. It then measures the excess burden... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
called ScriptLogic that runs its business in this new fashion. They describe their business model as "click-to-cash." ScriptLogic has developed a system that tracks which... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015
share prices prior to turnover are not. A corollary is that a firm with poor stock market performance cannot, or will not, raise new capital unless the current CEO is replaced. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50062 November 2015 Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
One Month into the New MS/MBA Biotech
Harvard’s new MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences joint degree program confers an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Master of Science from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School in the Harvard Department... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
to sort of leverage this subtle change in the founding story over time,” he says. When startups are pivoting to adapt their product or service, they need to be aware of how they frame those changes for external stakeholders and their employees. A dramatically changed... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
much more limited application. Early diffusion was accordingly rapid in these narrower applications but limited in scope until tractor technology generalized. The sequence of diffusion is consistent with a model of research and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
One self-managed team, for example, developed a program called "aces in your places," in which team members assumed jobs they wanted to learn during slack business hours, then took their "battle stations" to achieve... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
It's no coincidence that the new book America the Principled is coming out just as the U.S. presidential election gets into full swing, says its author, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. She wants us all to rethink... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
benefit from mimicking the showroom concepts started by online-first retailers and why online-first retailers can benefit from opening more traditional stores. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54316 March 29, 2018 Harvard View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2022
- Teaching Note
Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 721-419. On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
technological innovation only in high-margin verticals? Or through a separate subsidiary with a new low-cost business model for commoditized verticals? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne