Monitoring - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Dec 2012
Working Paper Summaries

An Outside-Inside Evolution in Gender and Professional Work

Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan, Kathleen McGinn & Deborah Kolb

10 May 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

opportunities to learn how the organization could do its core work better. Monitor and recalibrate their development efforts. Businesses track indicators of whether people are thriving—like promotion and retention rates and employees’... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

were often the instruments used by governments to screen or monitor FDI flows. The world-wide controls over capital movements were related to balance of payments concerns and the system of fixed exchange rates established at Bretton... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

18 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

changes per year in 2023. Retailers monitor profit margins closely If profit margins start to shrink fast, companies will compensate by raising prices to keep profitability steady. With big shocks, they tend to pass through the higher... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

Managers can review the cost of the unused capacity and contemplate actions to determine whether and how to reduce the costs of supplying unused resources in subsequent periods; they can then monitor those actions over time. In some... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

17 Aug 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1910

Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio

15 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

we're seeing in all sectors of health care is some movement away from these centers and toward the periphery. So instead of people going to the downtown medical center they might go to a retail clinic. They might increasingly have their care View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

23 Apr 2024
In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

26 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

high demand, particularly at large, multinational, and information-intensive organizations, the research suggests. Those companies see social skills in the C-suite as more important than more traditional operational and administrative abilities, such as View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

13 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

2020 murder, minority-owned funds gain visibility. To test this theory, the researchers looked at periods after high-profile police killings to monitor the performance of minority-owned funds. “Indeed, you do see this temporary blip where... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services

17 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

authorized by the United States government to monitor financial firms. The data included all employment information for financial advisors from 2005 to 2015, including when employees were hired, when they left each firm, and whether they... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

19 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

companies are monitoring Twitter for complaints and asking how can we intervene?” Social collectiveness also lets marketers crowd-source brand messages from actual fans who already discuss the brand on social media. Today's fans can be... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

making all decisions solo), and still needs some oversight. More than 100 employees: Capable of borrowing the car for a weekend road trip with friends. Hand over the keys! If your leaders feel that you won’t give them the keys, that you are backseat driving or View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

26 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

restaurant review websites not only provide a useful guide for consumers, but could help influence the restaurant business and its regulators. After all, Farronato says, monitoring hygiene isn’t merely in the hands of regulators.... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

"happens all too often," says Michael Jensen, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and managing director of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Monitor Group's organizational strategy practice. "Allocating decision... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

18 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

to change. It's so hard to monitor or fix compared to the machine. Layne: In layman's terms, how does your solution, BEAT, work? You mentioned surge pricing for car services as an example. Israeli: So, imagine we have three different... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

productive relationships. However, every year, a few thousand customers file new arbitration cases with Finra, the US brokerage industry’s regulatory organization, alleging everything from negligence to fraud. “Consumers should monitor... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

“Obhyash nai,” which means “I do not have the habit,” Hussam says. Monitoring vs. offering incentives The researchers randomly divided the villages into “monitoring” and “incentive” villages, taking two approaches to inducing the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 May 2013
Research & Ideas

How to Spot a Liar

to lie," Van Swol says. "Using so much of your brain to lie may make it hard to monitor yourself in other areas." Liars used far more third-person pronouns than truth tellers or omitters. "This is a way of distancing... View Details