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- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
behavior (for example, by messaging users more frequently), when they were advertising. The researchers monitored views of each restaurant’s Yelp page, requests for directions, calls placed to the restaurant, and View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
well as better bottom-line results. Environmental questions are cause for pessimism. In most arenas, successful managers search for opportunity in adversity and find in complex problems a chance to separate their companies from... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
we discern four central criticisms of corporate social responsibility. When companies engage in socially responsible practices, the first concern is that managers will misappropriate corporate resources by... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
choose one. But if I have to choose one, I would say I enjoyed the case on Nissan Motor, the auto manufacturer that had been turned around by Carlos Ghosn. Ghosn was sent from Renault, the French auto company, which acquired View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 08 Nov 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Managers' Cultural Background and Disclosure Attributes
- 02 Apr 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
analysis. Many of them could be regarded as "indirect" performance measures, presumably of interest to managers and the investment analysts who regularly examine their work. They included such things as the proportion of new... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
systems for coordinating group decisions or managing event tickets. The long-run view is that there is real fundamental technological value here, and so what really matters for the market is whether we can realize that value through... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
hours of travel time to the worker’s hometown lowered the likelihood of receiving the highest performance rating by 3 percent. “Vacation flexibility means being able to go to your manager and say this is... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
many U.S. airlines, the debt owed to customers in the form of miles is a value significantly larger than the airlines' market capitalization. This is simply not sustainable. Airlines have already reduced the value of miles by making seats... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
Lauren H. Cohen
Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from... View Details
- 2011
- Book
The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steve J. Kramer
The most effective managers have the ability to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives-consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Working Conditions; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Performance Productivity; Attitudes; Behavior; Happiness; Perception; Trust; Time Management; Resource Allocation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Managerial Roles
Amabile, Teresa M., and Steve J. Kramer. The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work. Harvard Business Review Press, 2011.
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
deftly: “How to most effectively communicate with all employees remotely and show empathy, while running around with [my] hair on fire trying to save the current business while at the same time trying to shape the future of the company in a 'new normal' environment.”... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
Worldwide Week global engagement initiative, the panel featured experts from the design, planning, technology, transportation, and business communities. "The question is not so much whether cities can survive, but whether their growth can be View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
the efforts on the part of its management to help institutionalize good corporate governance in India. Indeed, diffusion of corporate governance practices in India is rendered partly feasible by a coalition... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
We know the symptoms all too well. We wait months to see a doctor. Office visits end, it seems, just moments after they begin. Managed care firms hold sway over doctors' treatment plans, and health insurance... View Details
- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
came after several countries began requiring that companies report their metrics on environmental footprint, worker safety, and similar issues in a systematic, uniform way. But does this reporting actually lead to more responsible View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
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to hunting for hits, Dixon says she was managing an aggressive culture of sexual harassment, with relentless advances from Simmons. “Intellectually, I felt it was a nuisance not a danger,” she says. She rationalized it all View Details