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  • June 2014
  • Supplement

Chung and Dasgupta: Information for Jordan Ramirez

By: Ian Larkin and Karen Huang
The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance measurement, feedback, and promotion/compensation decisions. In the cases, a leading law firm must decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Performance Appraisal; Performance Measurement; Employee Feedback; Motivation; Promotions; Human Capital; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Legal Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • 13 Mar 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business

  • 22 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

reluctance has hit Black Americans particularly hard since they have seen historically higher arrest rates, often fueled by racial discrimination, research shows. But it might be a good time to rethink those hiring practices and the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 23 Jun 2023
  • News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

Alumni Board members on campus for their annual spring meeting // Credit: Panfoto Hard work, with humility for humanity, is the spirit that animates Harvard Business School's MBA program today, Matt Weinzierl, Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program, told... View Details
  • 29 Jul 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Learning from the Kursk Submarine Rescue Failure: The Case for Pluralistic Risk Management

Keywords: by Anette Mikes & Amram Migdal
  • 18 Jul 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Cumulative Innovation & Open Disclosure of Intermediate Results: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Bioinformatics

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau & Karim Lakhani
  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

  PublicationsIndispensable: When Leaders Really Matter Author:Gautam Mukunda Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract Will your next leader be insignificant-or indispensable? The importance of leadership and the impact of individual leaders has long... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Need for (Long) Chains in Kidney Exchange

Keywords: by Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik, Michael A. Rees & Alvin E. Roth; Health
  • Teaching Interest

Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)

Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details

  • Winter 2021
  • Article

Dealmaking Disrupted: The Unexplored Power of Social Media in Negotiation

By: James K. Sebenius, Ben Cook, David A. Lax, Isaac Silberberg and Paul Levy
While social media has had profound effects in many realms, the theory and practice of negotiation have remained relatively untouched by this potent phenomenon. In this article, we survey existing research in this area and develop a broader framework for understanding... View Details
Keywords: Bargaining; 3D Negotiation; Negotiation; Conflict and Resolution; Social Media
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The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States

By: Joel Goh, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Stefanos A. Zenios
Even though epidemiological evidence links specific workplace stressors to health outcomes, the aggregate contribution of these factors to overall mortality and health spending in the United States is not known. In this paper, we build a model to estimate the excess... View Details
Keywords: Occupational Health; Health Costs; Mortality; Applied Optimization; Health
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Tread Lightly Through These Accounting Minefields

By: H. David Sherman and S. David Young
In the current economic climate, there is tremendous pressure—and personal incentive for managers—to report sales growth and meet investors' revenue expectations. As a result, more companies have been issuing misleading financial reports, according to the SEC,... View Details
Keywords: Derivatives; Benchmarking Performance; Accounting; Revenue Recognition; Assets
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  • June 2014
  • Supplement

Chung and Dasgupta: Supplemental Information on Jordan Ramirez and Casey Clark

By: Ian Larkin and Karen Huang
The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance measurement, feedback, and promotion/compensation decisions. In the cases, a leading law firm must decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Performance Appraisal; Performance Measurement; Employee Feedback; Motivation; Promotions; Human Capital; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Legal Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • June 2014
  • Supplement

Chung and Dasgupta: Information for Casey Clark

By: Ian Larkin and Karen Huang
The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance measurement, feedback, and promotion/compensation decisions. In the cases, a leading law firm must decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Human Capital; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Legal Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • June 2014
  • Case

The Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP

By: Ian Larkin and Karen Huang
The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance measurement, feedback, and promotion/compensation decisions. In the cases, a leading law firm must decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Performance Appraisal; Performance Measurement; Employee Feedback; Motivation; Promotions; Human Capital; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Legal Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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    Patent Trolls

    We develop a theoretical model of, and provide the first large-sample evidence on, the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Our model shows that NPE litigation can reduce infringement and support small inventors.... View Details

    • 13 Dec 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

    marginalized racial and ethnic groups were 54 percent less likely to be promoted than whites, and women were 36 percent less likely to be promoted than men, despite diversity efforts by advocates and government regulators. Bias-driven workplace View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • 27 Feb 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

    practical lessons for business managers? Jones: The bottom line for practitioners in developing countries is that they need to really see corporate reputation as a huge asset. It enables their firms to more fully utilize existing... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Jun 2023
    • News

    An Engine of Innovation

    Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something that happens within a truly... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
    • 22 Aug 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

    It hardly needs to be said that organizations cannot learn from failures if people do not discuss and analyze them. Yet this remains an important insight. The learning that is potentially available may not be realized unless thoughtful analysis and discussion of... View Details
    Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon