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- 01 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
Want employees to think outside the box? Start by taking a good, hard look at how you’re paying them. That’s the implication of new research examining the impact of different compensation structures on employee innovation. While there is... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
question. What follows are six ways to make your threats more credible in negotiation. 1. Increase your costs of not following through on your threat Imagine that you're thinking about bidding to acquire another company that would be of... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
service’s heavy users, who were looking for a way to organize all their tweets into subjects. Nintendo consulted non-gamers to design its Wii console, to make it easy for everyone to use. When Honda asked owners of its Ridgeline pickup... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
such friction by implementing rigid policies based on the presumption that they have correctly anticipated how the pandemic will evolve. Designing and implementing any durable policy requires having a firm grasp of what the world—the “new... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
health choices. The good news is that human nature can also be a source of solutions. Through her studies in Zambia exploring the reasons for unwanted pregnancies and the incentives that would motivate hairdressers to sell condoms to their clients, the author has found... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
an emerging market. The prescription of this chapter is to think about a more ambitious role for such markets: establish a strategic business unit, designated as a "disruptive innovation hub," that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2542242 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 215-037 Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
2021, the firm had 36 employees and $18 billion in assets. That year, its flagship small-company fund outperformed 99 percent of competitors. “An important question for organizations is how to avoid group thinking in teams. ” As Brown... View Details
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
depends, to a surprising extent, on capable leaders. If boards of directors of public, anonymously-owned companies didn't believe that leadership mattered so much, they wouldn't pay such huge salaries to their CEOs. (By the way, I don't View Details
- 28 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)
less well-known dynamic of customer differentiation and its effect on the way businesses are structured and run is examined in a recent Harvard Business School working paper, "Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The... View Details
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
vaccination rates, the campaigns led to an estimated 7 million additional people getting vaccinated. These results also point to the potential for broader use of social media platforms to promote other public health goals. Tech platforms for the social good “Business... View Details
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
Expenditure Panel Survey and joint probabilities of workplace exposures from the General Social Survey, and we conducted a meta-analysis of the epidemiological literature to estimate the relative risks of poor health outcomes associated with exposure to these... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
in how their jobs affect the customer in how their jobs can be improved in getting work done more effectively is most definitely welcome." Birgi Martin said, "I think self-management is needed at all levels of staff."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
as well as manufacturers.” To study the safety of a wide variety of medications, the researchers collected FDA data between 2006 and 2018, focusing on 396 new drugs. Among this pool were therapies that had received the FDA’s Breakthrough Therapy View Details
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
School of Management at Northwestern University.) "From an academic perspective, we thought we could advance the theory of networks by looking at the psychological consequences of networking." Previous psychology research has shown that people View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
Carliss Baldwin, and John Rusnak Publication:In Design Structure Matrix Methods and Applications, edited by S.D. Eppinger and T.R. Browning. The MIT Press, forthcoming Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
amount of each resource available and more on how people both think about and choose to spend those resources. Overall, focusing on time leads to greater happiness than focusing on money. Moreover, people enjoy greater happiness from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
growth of competing companies or countries. Firms can also process and use unstructured data, such as text from documents. “There is so much data we can use,” Chung says. “For example, average temperature—you may think it has nothing to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
I. Levine, 241-267. Cambridge University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2708038/?site_locale=en_GB Organizational Sustainability: Organization Design... View Details