Compensation and Benefits - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Money Making Movies

investigates the drivers of success and failure of media and entertainment products such as motion pictures and video games. Her paper, "Demand View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

probably represents about 2 percent of all companies—and these are way ahead of the curve. The idea was to get a glimpse at the most aggressive, leading-edge uses of technology and to get the longest experience that I could in some of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

your business will see benefits on its bottom line" (Annan, 2001). . . . Research to date has been motivated, at least in part, by the belief that a manifest relationship between CSP and CFP will... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

31 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

offering limited-capability models that are created by removing or degrading features in existing models. This production method, called versioning, has been lauded because of its ability to increase both consumer and firm welfare.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

Thus NGO involvement is essential to monitor and provide assurance that the poor are benefiting from the public-private partnership. NGOs, in spite of their own legitimacy problems, have become the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

31 May 2023
Research & Ideas

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines

Thursday afternoons, and even which rides were not part of any routine. All kinds of service companies may benefit One reason routines—and the ability to predict them—is important is that routine customers... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation

30 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 30

Michael W. Toffel Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

Readers also benefitted when, in 2008, we began to publish HBS faculty working papers—often the first expressions of emerging ideas on the cutting edge of management research. The most popular paper looks at the dark side of goal-setting,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

Architecture is composed of three intellectual segments: (1) Determinants and Effects of International Capital Flows, (2) Policies and Strategies for Harnessing the Benefits of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

Look beyond the United States and Great Britain and you are likely to find networks of companies, from Latin America's grupos to India's business houses and Japan's keiretsu,... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

experience of industry leaders worldwide, and to integrate that learning in a way that advances the educational experience we offer through this and many of our other programs. Q: What managerial groups are... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

August 2011 (Revised August 2012)
Case

JetBlue Airways: Deicing at Logan Airport

By: Douglas Fearing and Robert S. Huckman

The case explores a deicing capacity expansion decision made by JetBlue at Boston Logan International Airport in the summer of 2010. The need for capacity expansion was driven by significant challenges faced during the previous winter combined with substantial... View Details

Keywords: Operational Disruptions; Strategic Planning; Disruption; Cost vs Benefits; Air Transportation; Service Operations; Logistics; Operations; Air Transportation Industry; Boston

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18 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

database. Conclusions—Major benefits of the model include its basis in expert judgment, its straightforward application, the flexibility of transforming its output ratings to any linear scale, and its ease... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

low-risk environment where, for the first time in a long time, they can get feedback from people who don't work for them and who are not their boss," says Simons. "It's a benefit they had not... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

trust was no doubt engendered in an earlier day when defined benefit (DB) pension plans were offered by lifelong employers like IBM and General Motors. Today, that system is all but extinct. Merton explains... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

23 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together

company, the less likely it is that the company will succeed. "Much of the homophily literature in business research talks about the positive benefits of working with people who are similar to you—ease of communication, comfort level,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

02 Apr 2019
Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

offer accommodations and benefits that often undermine a woman’s advancement and derail her career progress, while doing nothing to address the excessive work that’s hurting... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service

03 Oct 2005
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

competency and its ability to move up the value chain that will allow it to share the positive gains. If labor tries the old tactic of strikes, management will just outsource the staff from somewhere else ... " Globally organized... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Aug 2006
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

information, trusting the market to do your job, and understanding the "power of free" combined with money-making services or products. Does the Long Tail represent what some would call a "paradigm shift"? Who will the... View Details