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- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
which job assignment is based on comparative advantage. Crucially, and consistent with almost all realistic hiring contexts, being hired and assigned to a job depends not only on one’s own skill but also on the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
pretty businesslike in your judgments,” he says, noting that even a backup player generally earns an annual salary of $1 to $2 million. “The financial skills I learned at HBS have been extremely useful in that sense. You need to be able... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
very first thoughts that I do remember was, I am not needed," she says. "When I realized that automation had done away with my job 15 years sooner than I thought it ever possibly could, I realized that it's not that I'm not any good, it's that my View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
Abstract Employers can choose from lots of tools when they want to encourage employees to work together toward a new corporate goal. One of the rarest managerial skills is the ability to understand which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
often, grand declarations about innovation are followed by mediocre execution that produces anemic results, and innovation groups are quietly disbanded in cost-cutting drives. Each managerial generation embarks on the same enthusiastic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
officers, cabinet ministers, and unskilled workers-to their ideals for what those wages should be. We show that ideal pay gaps between skilled and unskilled workers are significantly smaller than estimated pay gaps, and that there is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
indicated that the actual number of women in the industry grew by several hundred in that five-year period, but the percentage of women in the industry did not grow. We also discovered that there was significant attrition of managerial... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
skills that are embedded in the workforce, competitors, suppliers, customers, cooperative R&D ventures, and universities and often support multiple industrial sectors. Although industrial commons are largely supported by private... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
Bazerman observes, there is an ethical dimension to this as well. "If managerial and executive decision-makers are acting with bias, but without their own awareness, they're engaging in unethical behaviors," he says. "I would not call... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
variables within the control of practitioners to outcomes they care about using logic they view as feasible. I provide several suggestions for how scholars can enhance research relevance, including engaging practitioners in on-campus encounters, at View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
http://hbr.org/product/keeping-up-with-the-quants-your-guide-to-understan/an/11177-HBK-ENG 2006 Strategic Management Journal Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies By: Alcácer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung Abstract—Geographically concentrated industry activity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to incentives, dismissals, and promotions; and measurable outcomes, for the firm and for the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Review The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice By: Garvin, David A., and Joshua D. Margolis Abstract—The article looks at giving and receiving advice as an element of organizational leadership and managerial ability. It suggests that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
across geographies is a fool's errand. Best practices simply don't travel well across borders. That's because conditions not just of economic development but of institutional maturity, educational norms, language, and culture vary enormously from place to place.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
student to prepare. A great virtue of the method is that it replicates the managerial work involved in solving a problem within a group. Publisher's link: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0080 August 2013... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
for managerial skills continues to grow, executive education worldwide has entered a period of disruption caused by the digitalization of content, connectivity, and communication. The current offerings of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
Central Europe is very much like going to Mexico, he says. Yet as Central Europe is integrated into the European Union, it is still important for managers to keep in mind that wage rates also tend to rise very quickly there, particularly for View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Foundation in Singapore. Charleston, A Novel by Margaret Bradham Thornton (MBA 1986) (Ecco) Faculty Books Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Motivating Performance by Srikant M. Datar and Madhav V. Rajan (Prentice Hall) This... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
leadership and managerial skills at the district level is critical to improving public education," explains Senior Lecturer and William Henry Bloomberg Fellow John Kim, who will take over as PELP's cochair... View Details
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Business, Government & the International Economy Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 David G. Fubini Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills Organizational Behavior, Strategy Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 ^ back to top G Course Title Area Term Quarter Credits Susanna... View Details