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- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
hired. The data is consistent with horizontal differentiation of CEO behavioral types and firm-CEO matching frictions. We estimate that 17% of sample CEOs are mismatched and that mismatches are associated with significant productivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October, 2022
- Article
The Economic Dynamics of Competing Power Generation Sources
By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
Competing power generation sources have experienced considerable shifts in both their revenue potential and their costs in recent years. Here we introduce the concept of Levelized Profit Margins (LPM) to capture the changing unit economics of both intermittent and... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Intermittant; Cost Accounting; Profitability Analysis; Learning-by-doing; Cannibalization Effect; Energy; Environmental Management; Investment; Operations; Technological Innovation; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
Glenk, Gunther, and Stefan Reichelstein. "The Economic Dynamics of Competing Power Generation Sources." Art. 112758. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 168 (October, 2022).
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A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Next A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana A New Vision Fritz J. Roethlisberger, ca. 1958. Yousuf Karsh, photographer. © YOUSUF KARSH The Hawthorne Studies began in 1924 as an attempt to improve worker View Details
- 27 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)
“There’s definitely a sunshine effect where, when a company shares this information, it increases brand attitude, and the company is seen as having more commitment to diversifying the workforce,” Buell says. The paper, to be published in View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 23 Jan 2024
- Book
More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World
shouldn’t they be a dime a dozen (or perhaps even more appropriately, a penny a billion)? The trick is precisely that these tokens aren’t a dime a dozen—they’re not random, arbitrary bits. Rather, each NFT is an individually distinct digital record, which can be linked... View Details
- 26 Sep 2023
- Book
Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target
to the new digital context. ” Enthusiasts and advocates of the digital revolution would submit that digital transformation changes everything, from product design to how value is built and captured in the market. In some cases,... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016
largely driven by bordering states. Finally, we calibrate our model and find that the calibrated taxation rate of 37% is fairly close to the model's estimated welfare maximizing taxation rate of 42%. Reducing corruption provides the largest potential impact for welfare... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Tools & Training - Alumni
take an assessment if desired. View videos, use handouts and discussion guides, and read related articles on subjects of interest to gain pertinent professional development skills. Harvard ManageMentor covers 40 topics including decision... View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Demotivate Your Best Employees
the laundry plant, one worker's tardiness or absence can affect another's productivity. If one team of workers falls behind on the job, for example, other workers down the line are left to sit idle. Stellar employees who previously had excellent attendance and were... View Details
- 29 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Do Outlet Stores Exist?
selling cast-off merchandise, some companies even design specific product lines for sale there. So what's going on? “We take for granted that outlet stores exist, but if you think about it, it's a little weird” "We take for granted... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
solution to compete against AT&T, one of my staff laughingly said we should just “fake it until we make it,” meaning that if we chose to behave as if we could do this unbudgeted and impossible task, we probably could. It turned out to be true once again. We beat AT&T... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
consumers trade down to models that stress good value, such as cars with fewer options. Tough times favor multi-purpose goods over specialized products, and weaker items in product lines should be pruned. In grocery-products categories,... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
forthcoming Academy of Management Discoveries Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and a World of Surprises By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—In recent years, progress has been made toward AI Creativity, which I define as the production of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
gain valuable insights into a product by talking to those who hate it—or even don't use it at all. Such was the case with Nintendo when developing its Wii game console system. In interviewing people who... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Apr 2016
- HBS Seminar
Richard Freeman, Harvard University & NBER
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Leadership Initiative - Leadership
Zealand) and supported the global expansion of the company into new territories, namely Vancouver (Canada) and Melbourne (Australia). Prior to this assignment, Ann gained significant leadership experience at the Walt Disney Company, where... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
contracted their credit to all small firms throughout the United States. However, healthy banks expanded their operations and entered new banking markets. The market share gain of these banks was a standard deviation above the long-run... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance
important as other inputs in production and can create significant competitive advantage” over each other and across a wide variety of countries and sectors, says Sadun. “Originally it was like a bet—can we quantify management?” she says.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
pursuit of financial gain and pay closer attention to their impact on employees, customers, communities, and the environment. But changing an organization’s DNA may require upending the existing business model and lowering profitability,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers
overhaul of how policymakers, educators, and employers devise, construct, and manage career pathways, which are the routes aspiring workers take as they graduate from education and training to gainful employment. A white paper from the... View Details