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- September 2022
- Case
HPP: Tapping the Netherlands’ Potential
By: Brian Trelstad and Idelès Kaandorp
Stichting Het Potentieel Pakken (HPP) was launched to solve a systemic problem in the Dutch Labor Market: gender inequity that was leading to a large number of women to work part-time in fields that were in desperately short supply of labor, like health care, child... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Grants; Scaling And Growth; Nonprofit Organizations; Opportunities; Gender; Income; Employment; Health Care and Treatment; Human Capital; Mission and Purpose; Motivation and Incentives; Growth and Development Strategy; Employment Industry; Health Industry; Education Industry; Consulting Industry; Europe; Netherlands
Trelstad, Brian, and Idelès Kaandorp. "HPP: Tapping the Netherlands’ Potential." Harvard Business School Case 323-024, September 2022.
- 22 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention
Background: Leadership WalkRounds have been widely adopted as a technique for improving patient safety and safety climate. WalkRounds involve senior managers directly observing frontline work and soliciting employees' ideas about improvement opportunities. However, the... View Details
- September 15, 2022
- Article
Work-From-Anywhere as a Public Policy: 3 Findings from the Tulsa Remote Program
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Evan Starr and Thomaz Teodorovicz
The adoption of work-from-anywhere by organizations might help smaller towns and communities across the country attract talent and reverse brain drain, by incentivizing remote workers to migrate to such locations. We evaluate how the Tulsa Remote program, which... View Details
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Evan Starr, and Thomaz Teodorovicz. "Work-From-Anywhere as a Public Policy: 3 Findings from the Tulsa Remote Program." Brookings Series: Reimagining Modern-day Markets and Regulations (September 15, 2022).
- 23 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting
- 25 Aug 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Managerial Practices That Promote Voice and Taking Charge among Frontline Workers
- Article
Perceiving Freedom Givers: Effects of Granting Decision Latitude on Personality and Leadership Perceptions
By: Roy Y.J. Chua and Sheena Iyengar
A perennial question facing managers is how much decision latitude to give their employees at work. The current research investigates how decision latitude affects employees' perceptions of managers' personalities and, in turn, their leadership effectiveness. Results... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Leadership; Perception; Employees; Performance Effectiveness; Personal Characteristics
Chua, Roy Y.J., and Sheena Iyengar. "Perceiving Freedom Givers: Effects of Granting Decision Latitude on Personality and Leadership Perceptions." Leadership Quarterly 22, no. 5 (October 2011): 863–880.
- 06 Dec 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
'Repayment-by-Purchase' Helps Consumers to Reduce Credit Card Debt
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
Bumping up against accepted theories in process improvement, a new research paper from Harvard Business School questions the value of prioritizing problems identified by frontline employees. Citing a hospital safety improvement program... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 09 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge
For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details
Keywords: by Glen Justice
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
Both impact investing and traditional philanthropy are on the rise after the decade-long economic boom following the Great Recession. But when does an impact investment make a bigger difference than a grant? The question is far more complicated than simply evaluating... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal
from $1 million in the first year to $2 million in the third. A 70% drop in the stock price, by contrast, would reduce the value of his grant to just $300,000. Since fixed number plans do not insulate future... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Hall
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
reports. The paper, authored by Julia Adler-Milstein, an HBS doctoral candidate in the Health Policy Management program; Sara J. Singer, assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard... View Details
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
a home, and achieve some level of success, security, and happiness. But how does this vision change in parts of the world where property rights, if they are present at all, are threatened by weak law enforcement, corruption, crime, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Jan 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Get It Right?
- 20 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank
Keywords: by Ashwin Kaja & Eric Werker
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
Sarah Jane Gilbert: What led you to pursue this research? Amy Edmondson: This research, rather than being a single project, is part of a fifteen-year program of a half dozen or so projects in different settings, all focused on learning in and View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act slated to be signed this week by U.S. President Barack Obama has been called the most sweeping set of rules for banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression. But what do... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
option grants, though not as liberal as many others. In fact, expensing options in Enron's accounts would have changed reported profits by only about 10%, whereas the change would have been around 30% for Microsoft, which has received no... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- 12 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia
To succeed in academia, professors often feel the pressure to “publish or perish.” But in evaluating professors’ productivity based on total published studies and grant funding, are institutions overlooking other factors that affect a... View Details
- 13 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading
applying for job opportunities, particularly more advanced, higher-paying positions, because they’re concerned they aren’t qualified enough, whereas men don’t seem to worry about their skills matching the specific job requirements as much, according to research View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin