Outcome or Result - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Break the Rules of How Business is Done

or managers to report to. Many other companies have taken similar approaches not only to attempt to operate more efficiently, but also to attract and retain talent by differentiating their companies from the mainstream. Whether View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

Moreover, close to half of older workers do not know which type of pensions they have and the large majority of workers know little about the rules governing Social Security benefits. Notwithstanding the low levels of literacy that many individuals display, very few... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Lisa Gunther Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Harvard Social Enterprise Conference: 25 Years of Spurring Dialogue for Social Impact... View Details

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

of it. Among many other things, it must produce consistent financial results against a difficult economic and sector outlook so that its market capitalization can grow to ensure that taxpayers will eventually get their money back. It's a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

26 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

call in sick to retain eligibility. Second, employees with perfect pre-program attendance or high productivity suffered a 6% to 8% productivity decrease after program introduction, suggesting they were demotivated by awards for good... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 May 2000
What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

Summing Up Hard-wiring Performance Is Great In Concept...but.... The responses to the concept of promising and delivering results rather than selling products or services are in, and you've agreed that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2020
News

Vital Signs

the capacity burden and reduce the spread of infection. Across the care spectrum, nearly everyone is implementing telehealth in some way now. Most of these providers have been dabbling or have had various initiatives around telehealth in... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele; COVID-19; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2000
News

Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time

encompassed a wide range of applications, including products, services, and development tools for both commercial and individual users. Because the undertakings were so diverse, the researchers couldn't measure each project against the same performance criteria -- such... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Sep 2014
News

Making a Statement

doctors were quite competent, but the group wasn’t working together. “We brought in a comprehensive, integrated system, with a better flow of information, and patient outcomes improved dramatically,” says Paul. The company that grew out... View Details

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

balanced budget requirements instead force them to save up in advance or beg Congress for federal support.” Is there a better solution? The results of Green's and Loualiche’s research point to the potential... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

Fast Answer

HBS Alumni Research Tips: Target list of companies

it can be broad (regions, countries, states) or narrow (cities or counties). 3. Click Size to specify parameters, e.g. sales ($millions) or employees. 4. Click... View Details

04 Dec 2020
News

Hour by Hour

Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) spent the first 10 years of his work life as an hourly wage earner, moving from one minimum wage job to the next, often unable to transfer learned skills or... View Details

28 Apr 2008
HBS Case

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, sold $315 billion worth of goods in 2006. With its single-minded focus on "EDLP" (everyday low prices) and the power to make or break suppliers, a partnership with Wal-Mart is either the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

Summing Up Our forward projections often reflect what we have just experienced. Responses to the question, "What will be the single most promising area of research or study in the next 10 years?," reflect issues that fall into... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

01 Jun 2025
News

Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job

One of the most essential roles of the general manager is to be the person who can move an organization forward through the most tangled of circumstances, says Professor Amy Edmondson, “where there is uncertainty, different points of view, and high stakes, whether... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mcfarland Flint; Illustration by Peter Arkle; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Oct 2002
News

View from the Top

the sustained, excellent business results achieved during his tenure leading General Electric. Bill Schleyer, AT&T: I would also pick Bush, as well as Prime Minister Tony Blair. I think their unequivocal, immediate, ongoing response to... View Details

22 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Hedge Fund as Activist

monitoring management. While the Economist magazine recently suggested that we are in an era of the "imperial shareholder," our results indicate that activism tends to be most successful when there is a high probability of a... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services

26 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

analytic methods in a series of experiments across a range of hedonic products. The results suggest that hedonic learning follows a sequence of stages whose order matters and that the holistic stage is facilitated by attending to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

overweighted in probability judgments but are underweighted in repeated decisions under uncertainty. Two laboratory studies examine both decisions and probability assessments within the same paradigm. The results reveal overweighting and... View Details