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- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
successful dual-purpose companies build a commitment to creating both economic and social value into their core activities. This approach, which they call hybrid organizing, includes: setting and monitoring social goals alongside... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55650 February 2019 Top Sales Magazine Sales Managers Must Manage By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract— A common complaint from C-level executives about their sales colleagues concerns the latter’s ability to manage, not sell.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
leave vacant positions unfilled for immediate, measurable savings. That's the retail way. Moreover, the costs of understaffing aren't easily quantifiable; who can say how many customers are lost to long lines or stock-outs? “You can... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
Economics & Management Strategy Measuring Consumer Preferences for Video Content Provision via Cord-Cutting Behavior By: Prince, Jeffrey, and Shane Greenstein Abstract—The television industry is undergoing a generational shift in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
chooses to spend his or her time has much more of an effect on a company's success or failure than if a middle manager spends a half hour more at lunch. With that in mind, Sadun and three colleagues-Oriana Bandiera and Andrea Prat of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
that could enable finance to fulfill its potential in both stabilizing the atmosphere and making society more resilient. Measuring and Reducing Corporate Carbon Emissions Faculty Presenters: Robert S. Kaplan , Senior Fellow and Marvin... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
task. Intrusions of the film, intrusion qualities, and sequence memory were measured afterwards. Results. We confirmed our hypothesis that UT (versus CT or mere distraction) leads to fewer intrusions, thereby replicating earlier research.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
it become such an embedded, accepted (and for publishers, profitable) practice? A: It is easy to implement. It is easy to measure. It is easy to document successes. And in laboratory experiments, it has been shown to be extremely View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
how is diversity defined, what traits are you looking at to be measured, and how are they shown to improve things?” Measures of diversity are legion, but what do they mean? Measures of inclusion, which could... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
Private Ownership ; Business Strategy ; Management Succession ; Manufacturing Industry ; Entertainment and Recreation Industry ; United States ; California ; San Diego ; Mexico ; Netherlands Citation Educators Related Campbell, Dennis,... View Details
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
short horizon and the volatility of their stock, this does not apply to the association between short-termism and cost of capital. We interpret this as evidence that our short-termism measure captures a dimension of non-diversifiable risk... View Details
- 04 Jan 2022
- What Do You Think?
Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?
internet,” as Avinash Umesh Rao calls it) rather than an assessment of its long-term importance. Umesh Rao was somewhat skeptical of the metaverse’s effect on productivity: “Productivity at the end of the day will continue to remain a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Business School Case 518-030 Enpara.com: Digital Bank at a Crossroad In March 2017, Elsa Pekmez Atan (MBA 2004), was wondering about the future of Enpara.com, a digital-only banking platform of QNB Finansbank. Since its launch in October 2012, Enpara had been View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
predictors for (the) future success of a company," he suggests that these measures have to be viewed with a long-term lens, one that accommodates the fact in the short-run, managements may take actions... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs
and Chi Wan and Alptug Yorulmaz, associate professor and graduate research assistant, respectively, at UMass Boston. Measuring fear during the Trump era The paper looks closely at two different sets of data. The first is the Migration... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
performance. We measure close ties using the education network between fund managers and managers of the investee firms. We find that having close ties to an investee leads to more timely investments only when the funds are closely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
environmental factors created by a persistent virus. It’s as if the success and gains made in 2021 with vaccinations and the incremental return to work and school policies have made leaders at different echelons reluctant to admit that... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
begin a study with such distinctly practical footing, the researchers devised a set of experiments to measure executives' and admissions officers' resistance to this phenomenon. The first study asked professional university admissions... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
Unfortunately, superior decision making is distressingly difficult to assess in real time. Successful outcomes—decisions of high quality, made in a timely manner and implemented effectively—can be evaluated only after the fact. But by the... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 22 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
until they hit the right formula. In reality, that’s problematic, says Chung. “If you want to know if a compensation plan is working or not, you need to change the compensation plan and observe and measure the change in productivity,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding