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- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Publications August 2013 Modernizing Insurance Regulation Comparative Regulation of Market Intermediaries: Insights from the Indian Life Insurance Market By: Anagol, Santosh, Shawn A. Cole, and Shayak... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (A)
By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details
Keywords: Compensation; Collaboration; Executive Search Firms; Consulting Firms; Compensation and Benefits; Restructuring; Human Resources; Human Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Consulting Industry; Employment Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America; Oceania
Bernstein, Ethan, and Cara Mazzucco. "Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (A)." Harvard Business School Case 422-045, March 2022. (Revised May 2022.)
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
methodological innovations to the marketing literature. First, we correct for endogeneity with regard to both store entry and mall sales to identify the causal effect of store entry on mall sales. Second, we address multiple equilibria by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
It’s simple: They create the most value, says Harvard Business School Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee. In almost every segment of the economy, the very best companies lead their peers by wide margins. They take share by building on proven ideas and expanding in View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
its own path to success. Rather than betting on a single product, Burton stitched together one market after another—first snowboards, then boots, outerwear, and accessories, adding new customers along the way. For companies like Burton,... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- January 2008
- Article
Nonemployment Stigma as Rational Herding: A Field Experiment
Long spells of unemployment are known to reduce the likelihood of re-employment, but it is difficult to discern the reasons for this observation. Using an experimental method that controls for search intensity and possible discouragement of job applicants, I document... View Details
Keywords: Job Search; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employment; Cognition and Thinking; Perception; Creativity; Human Needs; Job Interviews; Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Managerial Roles; Judgments; Employment Industry
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix. "Nonemployment Stigma as Rational Herding: A Field Experiment." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 65, no. 1 (January 2008): 30–40.
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
beneath the radar," they really mean "taking advantage of asymmetries of motivation." Disruptive markets start among customers that appear to the incumbent to be either undesirable or nonexistent. The initial absolute size... View Details
- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
sales per employee). Higher employee continuity leads to better customer relationships that contribute to greater customer loyalty, lower marketing costs, and enhanced sales." Whatever it is and whatever its benefits, a recent survey... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering randomly View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
psychology that accounts for behaviors inconsistent with ethical beliefs and describe how people reconcile their immoral actions with their ethical goals through the process of moral disengagement. We then examine how the mind selectively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
(iStockphoto/Rawpixel) The subject of power has a certain intoxicating aura about it. Maybe that’s why I studied and wrote about interorganizational power in channels of distribution while teaching courses in marketing too long ago. The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Research Summary
Research Thrust
By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
forthcoming Abstract Capitalism, as defined in this book, is an indirect, three-level system of governance for economic relationships (i.e., economic, administrative, and political). Whereas economic markets can coordinate supply and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14360 Stable Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts Authors:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Markus Walzl Abstract We consider several notions of setwise stability for many-to-many matching markets with contracts... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
risk of forfeiture, then the IRS doesn't view the purchase as being closed until that risk goes away. When the stock vests, that risk evaporates, so the IRS considers the deal closed. The IRS then calculates the difference between the price paid at the outset and the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
developed marketing strategies to appeal to consumers’ senses from the nineteenth century to today.” Cellophane gets an entire chapter in Hisano’s book. As she explains in the paper, cellophane packaging let food vendors manipulate the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
Summing Up Among responses to this month's column, there was little disagreement with the premise that attitude trumps skills in the selection of new employees. C. J. Cullinane commented: "Attitude is all! I have worked with a group... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50794 September 2016 Administrative Science Quarterly Whitened Résumés: Race and Self-Presentation in the Labor Market By: Kang, Sonia K., K.A. DeCelles, András Tilcsik, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
recommend approaching early-days hiring: First 20-30 employees. If you have inexperienced managers, review candidate resumes together with them and establish selection guidelines for what qualifies a candidate for a round of interviews.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
organizations. We can learn vicariously from their experiences. Consider the example of one manager who was about to undergo a critical transition in her career, only four years after first becoming a manager. When she was about to step into an executive role as senior... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill