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- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
more because of those experiments. For example, casino hosts felt they had more leeway to overcomp a player based on experience with similar customers in the past, or by reading body language or other... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
some of these short-term nudges or interventions affect outcomes beyond the immediate ask. For example, when people feel tricked into giving, does that make them less likely to donate to that charity in the... View Details
- March 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design
By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal
In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Education; Training; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Production; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement; Programs; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Rank and Position; Safety; Attitudes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Trust; Well-being; Consulting Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
Graeber, Thomas, Joshua Schwartzstein, and Amram Migdal. "Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design." Harvard Business School Case 923-026, March 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
emissions. Domestic firm profits, on the other hand, can increase, decrease, or remain unchanged due to a carbon tariff, which suggests that carbon tariffs are not inherently protectionist as some argue. Rather, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2013 (Revised October 2014)
- Case
Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise
By: William W. George, Krishna G. Palepu and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Novartis, the world's leading healthcare company, was formed in 1996 out of a merger of two very different, mid-tier Switzerland-based pharma companies. The case traces the company's evolution over the past 17 years, as it transformed into a truly global enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Success; Globalized Markets and Industries; Management Teams; Change Management; Business History; Mergers and Acquisitions; Global Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Switzerland
George, William W., Krishna G. Palepu, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise." Harvard Business School Case 413-096, May 2013. (Revised October 2014.)
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
pay out capital also initiate debt or equity issues in the same year, resulting in 32% of aggregate payouts being externally financed. Most firms with simultaneous payouts and security issues do not generate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- March 2023
- Supplement
Deepa Bachu (B): Insights and Experiments at Pensaar Design
By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal
In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Training; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Production; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement; Programs; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Rank and Position; Safety; Attitudes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Trust; Well-being; Consulting Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
Graeber, Thomas, Joshua Schwartzstein, and Amram Migdal. "Deepa Bachu (B): Insights and Experiments at Pensaar Design." Harvard Business School Supplement 923-034, March 2023.
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
factors in how people gain access to power that have changed in ways that reflect how the country as a whole is evolving.” How did you develop the data that Paths to Power is based on? If you study art, music, or writing, there is a list... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
results in terms of how much franchisors and franchisees believe that their relations will last or will be intensified in the future. We leverage on relational-contracts theory to develop our predictions and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Judging | New Venture Competition
entrepreneurs. Evaluation Criteria All rounds will be evaluated based on: Impact (30% of score) Social impact The social or environmental issue the organization seeks to address is clear and the business model is likely to make a... View Details
- Web
Creating Value in Business and Government (HKS-HBS Joint Degree Seminar) - Course Catalog
processes, or risk management). Students will emerge from this course with an understanding of questions such as: how a regulation is developed and promulgated, and how business can seek to influence the View Details
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
gender and work, the paper, An Outside- Inside Internalization of Shifting Gender Logics in Professional Work, identifies cycles of organizational analysis and resulting actions sparked by transformations in societal beliefs and practices... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in research and development (R&D) can have quite divergent, but predictably divergent, future paths. Our approach is based on the simple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Vivian Scalfi
question; there could be a hundred outcomes or possibilities." For Vivian, leadership begins now. She is currently the Director of Career and Academics for the Marketing Club, and has been selected to... View Details
Keywords: CPG
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
results versus long-term capabilities. The first four chapters try to help the reader understand that managers are playing a very delicate balancing act. And perhaps the most fundamental tension is the one between profit, growth, and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
topic for future research. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-016.pdf Stability and Nash Implementation in Matching Markets with Couples Authors:Claus-Jochen Haake, Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus Abstract We consider two-sided matching markets with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
Industrial classification systems
categories. Most company databases offer industry screening by classification system as well as by key words in the business description. Screening in a company database by use of an industrial classification system such as NAICS or SIC... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/GKO_ReservationsEntry.pdf August 2013 Journal of Economic Perspectives Shifts in U.S. Federal Reserve Goals and Tactics for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
Most important for us, what do rebel leaders do? First, they create rebel organizations, where employees and leaders alike understand that influence is much more important than power, as determined by where you sit in the organization or... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett