by Timothy Simcoe - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

How to Demotivate Your Best Employees

along with professor Lamar Pierce and doctoral student Timothy Gubler from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. The researchers studied an attendance award program initiated by... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Service

18 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 18

relationships. We call for a new direction in socialization theory examining how both organizations and employees benefit by emphasizing newcomers' authentic best selves. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-067.pdf The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

issue, managers at buyers and suppliers are faced with hundreds of different supply chain programs—from labeling schemes like Fair Trade and organics, to industry association programs like Responsible Care and Sustainable Slopes, to a variety of programs developed... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love

him, revealed him to be a master of using intrinsic rewards as motivational tools. Here are four ways to be a better coach of individuals based on his wisdom: 1. Boost self-confidence Inspired by the groundbreaking work of View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Sports

19 Sep 2011
News

Rules clash could limit money fund rates--Fidelity

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

talk of a couple of the new incubators going public themselves. Four leaders in the evolving incubator space — Timothy Rowe of Cambridge Incubator, Toby Corey of Intend Change, Flip Filipowski of Divine Interventures and Jeff Crown of... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

17 Jul 2011
News

Getting Out of a Slump

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

research by Harvard Business School Professors Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson begs to differ. Financial crises, even ones as calamitous as the 2007-2008 banking meltdown, are surprisingly predictable to those who know the warning... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

13 Oct 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Building a Business in the Context of a Life

before. By the end of the course, they really get it." The BBCL course, developed by Sarofim-Rock Professor Emeritus Howard Stevenson, has been offered since 2008. Kraus taught the course last year when she... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

began to appear in the 1990s, with French historian Laurence Fontaine's Histoire du colportage en Europe: XVe-XIXe siècle, a work translated into English and published by Duke University Press as History of Pedlars in Europe in 1996. This... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

$14 million, the company continued to incur significant financial losses. By 1996, the outside CEO had left and was replaced by Timothy da Silva. 47 After investing over $35... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

03 Mar 2010
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

Summing Up Is "identity" a victim of competitiveness? A recent study of organizational behavior published by Timothy Kieningham and Lerzan Toksoy shows that employees' perceptions of their... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

Union will be far-reaching. John A. Quelch shares his thoughts on the ramifications of Brexit. Skills and Behaviors That Make Entrepreneurs Successful Research by Lynda Applegate, Janet Kraus, and Timothy... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

while looking for their first job, noted Timothy Butler, director of MBA Career Development Programs at HBS. "A lot of big companies have learned how to push responsibility further down the ladder," Butler told the group.... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

02 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

Here are the 20 most popular stories from 2007. How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater? Summing up the many responses, Jim Heskett says that the mix of control, delegation, and theater employed by successful... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

personal models of success, the first step in the process is introspection, followed by a creative and savvy approach to one's actual next career move. In the May program, participants spent time in intensive groups. Dr. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

on every PC shipped in the late 1990s? Researchers line up on both sides of the argument. A recent working paper by Harvard Business School professor Pai-Ling Yin and Stanford professor Timothy F. Bresnahan... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

10 Apr 2025
Video

BiGS Debate: Is Big Tech Too Big?

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

on specific proposals begin the week of June 22.] Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's proposals for fixing the broken financial system closely resemble those found in Moss's own playbook. In this instance, the book is a Special Report... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

October 2018 (Revised January 2019)
Case

The Financial Crisis: Hank Paulson in 2008

By: Adi Sunderam, Robin Greenwood, Sam Hanson and David Scharfstein

On the afternoon of Monday October 13, 2008, Hank Paulson Jr., the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, walked into the large conference room across the hall from his office in the Treasury Department. Joining him were Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke,... View Details