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  • December 1997
  • Case

Making the Grade (A)

By: Robert L. Simons
Focuses on the dilemma of a young professor at a graduate school of business. He must decide what final grade to give a student who has worked extremely hard, but he is constrained by the school's "forced curve" grading policy. Designed to explore the multiple purposes... View Details
Keywords: Design; Management Systems; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Education Industry
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  • 24 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy

upon which to dramatize the advantages of the American system of free enterprise." Foremost among the more than forty company exhibitors was the nation's largest industrial corporation, General Motors. Still smarting from the... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS professors recently gathered to review the current crisis. Is it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • January 1998
  • Case

Connecticut Spring and Stamping Corp. (C)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Massimo Russo and Steven J. Spear
Andy Youmans, executive vice president of CSSC, joins a group of U.S. executives on a tour of Japanese factories that practice the TPS. Three of the factories produce products similar to CSSC's, and even though they use similar equipment, they are significantly more... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Performance Improvement; System; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Training; Quality; Business Ventures; Competency and Skills; Production; Adoption
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  • 21 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

digital platform, and the increased fiscal pressures created by the worldwide economic crisis. Unfortunately, the educational programs for future health care leaders fail to provide many of the needed skills, according to a survey of CEOs... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Education; Education
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
Keywords: STEM; Selection and Staffing; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Training; Equality and Inequality; Competency and Skills
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  • 21 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

previous work that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc.). Our objective is to study the joint determination of these three features (beliefs, punitiveness and economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Thus the hypothesis predicts that developers with few or no organizational linkages will design independent system... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

household decision making and the development of the financial system more broadly. What interests me in the topic is the extent to which the issues involved link developments in households, the economy, and public policy in the United... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

superior product, adding to the probability of success. However, OSS has disadvantages too. Most importantly, it comes from behind in terms of market share (installed base). Because the value of an operating system depends critically on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 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 the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket

By: Robert Simons
This paper examines contemporary economic theories that focus on the design and management of business organizations. In the first part of the paper, a taxonomy is presented that describes the different types of economists interested in this subject—market economists,... View Details
Keywords: Self-interest; Economist; Moral Philosophers; Regulation; Capture; Organization Design; Economy Theory; Organization Theory; Management Theory; Commitment; Controls; Governance; Customers; Conflict of Interests; Business or Company Management; Competition; Organizational Design; Business Education; Agency Theory; Economics; Theory; Boundaries
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  • 23 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

In the Swedish study, Keloharju and team wanted to separate the observable variables (like differences in educational background) from unobservable variables (like inherent discrimination against women). In total, the researchers factored... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage cultivation of public lands. During the first phase of American occupation (1898–1918), we find that the progress of implementing these reforms was very... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

equilibrium of poverty.” (As a side note, one problem with Galbraith’s argument is that “labor exports” often involve people with the best education and skills, producing a brain drain. The result could well be greater inequality among... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

professor in the Finance Unit: As an academic, my main reaction to the executive order is that this decision is absolutely not grounded in the facts. I spend a lot of energy teaching my students to look at the facts to educate their... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 28 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of consumers. Despite its size and importance, we had ignored this sector almost entirely in our curriculum. Q: Was HBS alone in not offering a... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education; Education
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

hamper the growth of the Android platform may have merely shifted the sales to weak IP countries. This study sheds light on the emerging patent enforcement strategy literature by highlighting the heterogeneity in the efficacy of national patent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
  • Case

OneTen at Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
It was December 10, 2020, and Ed Bastian, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Delta Air Lines (Delta), had just finished a meeting with Joanne Smith, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, and Keyra Lynn Johnson, the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.... View Details
Keywords: Recruitment; Training; Race; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Job Design and Levels; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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  • 16 Feb 2012
  • Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

that our friends abroad cheer for America with foreboding and pessimism, the way sports fans nervously pull for a team whose lead is slimming and whose energy is fading. These outsiders recognize that the system of democratic capitalism... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

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