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  • 03 Jan 2023
  • Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

Despite calls for making the workplace more equitable, women, particularly Black women, continue to get the short end of the stick at work. Only 6 percent of the top 3,000 companies in the US are led by a woman. In 2022, only two Black women served as View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

Efforts Pay Off? Dynamic Panel Data Methods Revisited By: Chung, Doug J., Byungyeon Kim, and Byoung Park Abstract—We estimate a sales response model to evaluate the short- and long-term value of pharmaceutical sales representatives'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

delivers food to victims CEO Takeshi Niinami of Lawson, a chain of convenience stores, watched out his Tokyo office window as skyscrapers swayed. Just minutes before the tsunami reached the Tohoku shore, he sent an order to employees:... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

exceeding that percentage of actual revenue. Other expenses—insurance, credit card processing, marketing, utilities, repairs—mount up. Assuming adequate working capital upon opening, a restaurant’s cash from daily sales is used to pay for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

want to develop business organizations that satisfy shareholders and yet have the capacity to adapt and survive as viable institutions in the long run. Theory E In 1994 Al Dunlap became CEO of troubled Scott Paper. Like Champion... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

companies recognize the need to restructure too late, when fewer options remain and saving the company may be more difficult. Scott Paper's new CEO was widely criticized in the news media for the magnitude of the layoffs he ordered.... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 24 May 2021
  • Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

assets as part of a bank's core capital. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111076-PDF-ENG Sherritt Goes to Cuba (A): Political Risk in Unchartered Territory Aldo Musacchio and Jonathan SchleferHarvard Business School Case 711-001 Ian Delaney,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

discrimination; and pay increases for CEOs has far outpaced gains for the regular worker. Added to that is what the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development calls “the race to the... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

Many of us would prefer to see our philanthropic donations go directly to an organization’s core mission, rather than to administrative expenses. If we give money to Save the Children, for instance, we hope the cash goes directly to those children. “Despite the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Jan 2023
  • Op-Ed

Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?

They have been found guilty and sentenced to prison sentences of 11 and 13 years, respectively. Former McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook agreed to pay a $400,000 fine and accept a five-year ban on serving on... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • Web

Health Care - Faculty & Research

Bandiera and B. Kelsey Jack A substantial body of research investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform... View Details
  • 12 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

but at this stage, if you don’t have the confidence and the right people to do things without you, it will be a rough ride. In fact, when founding CEOs don’t learn to step up into their roles and empower their leaders, investors and board... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • Web

Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

apply those learnings to successfully compete in a variety of business environments. Highlights How do managers determine demand to inform pricing strategy? Step into the shoes of Jim Holtzman, CEO of Ace Ticket, and learn about pricing... View Details
  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

within the task network and serve to separate one set of tasks from another. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of this work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

Back, Moving Forward: A Review of Group and Team-Based Research, edited by Margaret A. Neale and Elizabeth A. Mannix, 359-381. Emerald Group Publishing, 2012 Abstract Purpose-We review how team members' identities and interests affect team functioning, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 3

Misztal, and Michael KhayyatHarvard Business School Case 912-013 In October 2008, Andrzej Klesyk, CEO of Poland's largest insurer PZU, reflected on possible ways of resolving a decade-long cross-border shareholder conflict at his company.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-057.pdf Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie Wulf Abstract Performance-based View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 7

the lab and into the field, analyzing companies' sales and pay data, and conducting experiments involving actual salespeople. The findings from this new wave of research support some current compensation practices but call others into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne