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- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
reports of their peers." Recruit’s performance appraisal system, Will-Can-Must, is designed to help employees build their future. Will asks employees what they want to do now and over the next three years; Can assesses employees’ current... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
consideration, both sensory and economic. On the sensory side: He has designed several eating utensils, including an espresso spoon that sports a hole in the middle so as not to break up the continuity of the crema on top. On the economic... View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
seven years, large teams of affiliated WMS analysts have interviewed managers at some 10,000 organizations in 20 countries, setting out to determine how and why management practices differ vastly in style and quality. Best Practices The researchers used an evaluation... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
Possibly taking a page out of the USAA playbook, several Wall Street organizations are trying to enforce a policy to prevent employees from working seven-day weeks, encouraging them to take either Saturdays or Sundays off. There is little... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
designing focused experiments to test hypotheses in a capital-efficient fashion in order to achieve product-market fit. But ICOs substantially limit the benefits associated with such staged experimentation for three reasons. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
training, accounting and information systems, design and engineering, and so on. Business history has widened its scope enormously in the last two decades. A striking feature of the research reviewed in the Handbook is that so much of it... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
Working PapersStrategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match Authors:Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract The design of the New York City (NYC)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
Harker, "it sometimes proves difficult to justify additional investment into an entity that is typically thought of as a cost center." An organization that cares about its customers also cares about its employees, and vice-versa. For example, when a company... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
encouraged his whole executive team to become leaders, and it was that large cadre that vowed to continue Dyke's programs after he left. The reproduction process involves finding and empowering natural leaders, regardless of their titles... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
dinner, lively conversation, and encouragement at the Christensens' home in Lexington.) Christensen earned his MBA from Harvard in 1943 and shortly thereafter enlisted in the Army Quartermaster Corps, where he worked as a field research... View Details
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence (B) Maarten W. Bos, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Kyle T. DohertyHarvard Business School Supplement 911-061 The case profiles OPOWER, an energy efficiency software company that applies Cialdini's principles of social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
know-how are applied. The iPod, for example, was an example of purchased (largely non-U.S.) technological innovations combined with Apple design capability and knowledge of the U.S. market, where the vast majority have been sold. If one... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
consumers were that deregulation: (1) unleashes the power of a self-correcting free market (Jeff Struck), giving customers services at prices they are willing to pay and quality levels that they are willing to pay for (at least in the airline industry, according to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
behavior is in fostering collaborations and translations between science and technology and encouraging riskier projects rather than purely increasing patenting. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2197876 The State of Small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
encourages people to take more risks when they decide to post. So the impression from those posts can linger in the mind of an observer, say, a colleague or employer, and “come back to haunt,” according to new research published in a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
the observer’s perspective, leaving the perspective of the observed to the realm of scholarly methodology courses and philosophical debates on privacy. I suggest how the literature on transparency and related literatures might be improved with research View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
autonomy and 2) nourishers—interpersonal events that uplift workers, including encouragement and demonstrations of respect and collegiality. Brimming with honest examples from the companies studied, The Progress Principle equips aspiring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
Can you design processes to reflect the promises implicit in hard-wiring?; (4) Do you have the people, incentives, and technology to deliver on the promise?; (5) Are you big enough?; (6) Do you have the financial capability to protect... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
virtually irresistible. But long-term assessments could differ, particularly if the free service reduces quality and consumer choice. In this short paper, we examine these concerns. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55137 View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman