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  • May–June 2018
  • Article

Layoffs That Don't Break Your Company: Better Approaches to Workforce Transition

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
Today layoffs have become companies’ default response to the challenges created by advances in technology and global competition. Yet research shows that job cuts rarely help senior leaders achieve their goals. Too often, they’re done for short-term gain, but the cost... View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employees; Transition; Strategic Planning
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    Summer R. Jackson

    Summer Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.

    Professor Jackson is an organizational ethnographer and field researcher... View Details

    • 2012
    • Chapter

    Knowledge-based Innovation: Emergence and Embedding of New Practice Areas in Management Consulting Firms

    By: Heidi K. Gardner, N. Anand and Tim Morris
    How do innovative knowledge-based structures emerge and become embedded in organizations? We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management... View Details
    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge; Organizations; Practice; Mathematical Methods; Consulting Industry
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    • November 2007
    • Background Note

    Bayesian Estimation & Black-Litterman

    By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
    Describes a practical method for asset allocation that is more robust to estimation errors than the traditional implementation of mean-variance optimization with sample means and covariances. The Bayesian inspired Black-Litterman model is described after introducing... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Management; Investment Portfolio; Mathematical Methods
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    • November 2016
    • Case

    QuintilesIMS: Biosimilar Marketing in England

    By: John A. Quelch and Emily C. Boudreau
    QuintilesIMS was a leading healthcare consulting firm best known for its data and information offerings as well as its market research and management consulting services for life science companies. By 2015, the company was expanding beyond the biopharmaceutical... View Details
    Keywords: Health; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotech; Marketing; Health Care and Treatment; Biotechnology Industry; England
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    • 27 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)

    products. “At the moment, many companies aren’t disclosing data on their workforce diversity,” Nam explains. “Simply disclosing this information is enough to improve customer attitudes.” The research comes amid mounting concern that DEI... View Details
    Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
    • 2008
    • Article

    Linking Crisis Management and Leadership Competencies: The Role of Human Resources Development

    The problem and the solution. Most executives are aware of the negative consequences associated with an organizational crisis and focus on communications and public relations as a reactive strategy. However, many neglect the other leadership responsibilities... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Development; Crisis Management; Human Resources; Experience and Expertise
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    • Article

    Transition to Clean Technology

    By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and William R. Kerr
    We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and dirty technologies compete in production and innovation, in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry
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    • 2009
    • Article

    On Universal Binary Hermitian Forms

    By: Scott Duke Kominers
    Earnest and Khosravani, Iwabuchi, and Kim and Park recently gave a complete classification of the universal binary Hermitian forms. We give a unified proof of the universalities of these Hermitian forms, relying upon Ramanujan's list of universal quadratic forms... View Details
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods
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      Michael I. Parzen

      Michael Parzen is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. He is an applied statistician with extensive experience in data science education and currently teaches Applied Business Analytics as an MBA elective... View Details

      • 12 Jul 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

      vaccine.” CAMH is Canada’s largest mental health teaching hospital, with a 550-person inpatient facility and a 24/7 dedicated psychiatric emergency room. Its staff of more than 3,000 physicians, clinicians, researchers, educators and support staff provide clinical... View Details
      Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
      • Research Summary

      Developing Organizational Capabilities to Compete

      By: Michael Beer

      Michael Beer’s current research focuses on the question of what makes an Effective Organization. Based on his extensive research and practice about this question Beer has identified six highly interrelated core capabilities:

      1. Capacity of the... View Details
      • 2011
      • Chapter

      Developing an Effective Organization: Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory

      By: Michael Beer
      The field of organization development is fragmented and lacks a coherent and integrated theory and method for developing an effective organization. A 20-year action research program led to the development and evaluation of the Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)-a platform... View Details
      Keywords: Learning; Corporate Governance; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Research; Alignment; Theory; Value
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      • 24 Oct 2018
      • News

      America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away

        The Transparency Paradox

        2013 Winner of Academy of Management Awards for Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior and Best Published Paper in Organization and Management Theory

        Using data from embedded participant-observers and a field experiment at the second... View Details

        • 05 Sep 2012
        • First Look

        First Look: September 5

        if they did not obtain the second reward. We discuss implications for research on motivation and incentives. Bringing Science to the Art of Strategy Authors:A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin, Jan W. Rivkin, and Nicolaj Siggelkow... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • December 2008
        • Article

        Behavioral Frontiers in Choice Modeling

        We review the discussion at a workshop whose goal was to achieve a better integration among behavioral, economic, and statistical approaches to choice modeling. The workshop explored how current approaches to the specification, estimation, and application of choice... View Details
        Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Integration; Goals and Objectives; Decision Choices and Conditions; Problems and Challenges; Business Processes; Customers; Behavior; Economics
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        • 16 Apr 2008
        • Lessons from the Classroom

        Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

        believed wholeheartedly in "the teachability of teaching" and that "a good class discussion can be developed, rather than merely left to the randomness of chance or genetics." He described the essential challenge of the case View Details
        Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education
        • 2021
        • Article

        Nudging the Commute: Using Behaviorally-Informed Interventions to Promote Sustainable Transportation

        By: Ashley Whillans, Joseph Sherlock, Jessica Roberts, Shibeal O'Flaherty, Lyndsay Gavin, Holly Dykstra and Michael Daly
        Dramatic reductions in carbon emissions must take place immediately. A human-centric method of reducing environmental impacts is to “nudge” employees away from single-occupancy vehicles (SOVs) toward more sustainable commuting options. While an abundance of research... View Details
        Keywords: Behavioral Science; Transportation Demand Management; Commuting; Single-occupancy Vehicle Commutes; Transportation; Behavior; Change; Environmental Sustainability
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        • 21 Nov 2022
        • Research & Ideas

        Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers

        offer the short-term loans to consumers. And it’s no wonder: Consumers using the payment method often spend more than they would with a credit card, according to new research by Harvard Business School... View Details
        Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Financial Services; Technology