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- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Education Leveraging Crowdsourced Peer-to-Peer Assessments to Enhance the Case Method of Learning By: Avery, Jill Abstract—Many marketing educators use the case method to help their students strengthen their decision-making skills. Rigorous class participation is View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
candidates, candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
historical account of their humble origins, lack of resources, and determined struggle against the odds. We identify two essential dimensions of an underdog biography: external disadvantage, and passion and determination. We demonstrate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers
the labor market. An essential first step is to build connections with school systems and other skills providers, Fuller says. Such partnerships offer a way to contribute to curriculum development so schools prepare View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
Approaches and Evidence By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders
come from different sources, or they must share decision-making with employees—or both. Workers increasingly resist one-way, top-down communication and commands; they expect to be heard and to help develop their organizations’ plans and... View Details
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
Decision-Making in Your Organization What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated According to a recent Gallup survey, less... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
and Internet age? A: Today there are more sales workers than ever before, though I would not call them "Willy Lomans." They are a vital and essential part of the economy. The number of people in... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 31 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World
Many readers picked up on this and used the text for their own purposes. While we know from individual workers’ autobiographies that Franklin inspired many to lead more economic lives, statesmen could embrace the text because more industrious View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
communication and engagement practices, can encourage frontline workers to conduct problem solving. We test our hypotheses in the health care context, in which the use of incident reporting systems to highlight operational failures is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic
interpersonal interactions essential to knowledge workers and looks at how teams tried to facilitate them. They include: Task interactions, when team members collaborate on activities that directly... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
conduct an analysis to determine how companies were responding to the crisis. Were they retaining their staff and providing essential workers with extra pay, or were they cutting expenses through layoffs and... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
call for greater equity by revamping their hiring practices, research shows that a blemished past continues to impede many workers as they attempt to launch and advance their careers. A record of incarceration can be an especially huge... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
goal of residency training. The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Publication:In The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
mind in the face of the debate over immigration and outsourcing, essentially trade in labor. And it is prompted by a new book, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, by Gregory Clark that identifies what he calls... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
academics from different fields frame research questions in a way that will lead to an integrative theory of change. Such a theory would clarify the trade-offs between different approaches to change and would aid in defining choices and consequences. This integration,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 10 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing
do more to encourage employees to report misdeeds internally? Heese: Companies have to understand that their employees can be a big source of information for them, too. Whistleblower is a loaded term, but essentially what we’re talking... View Details
Keywords: by April White
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
it is no longer enough for firms to be better or cheaper to gain competitive advantage. These new rules make it essential for companies to reexamine four fundamental aspects of their business to thrive in the digital era—their strategy,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
proposals, and quality evaluations for more than 12,000 evaluator-proposal pairs. The analysis shows that solicitations offering a personal reward for top submissions boost participation rates without affecting submission quality. We show that this is due to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
comfort, connection, and respect for its product and the communities Starbucks serves. CEO Howard Schultz has reignited Starbucks with innovative new offerings and by refocusing workers on the company's core values.Photo: iStockPhoto So... View Details