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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
in this primary group have interlocking tasks, their bonds of trust will facilitate their joint task performance and they can be officially recognized as a work group or team. The more extended bonding drive of employees will also... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
companies), clients exert a measure of control over the access of those agencies to confidential information while also offering them incentives to avoid conflicts of interest. Findings from the existing body of conceptual and empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
corporate directors' fiduciary duties in that state. This change limited incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt. We show that, as predicted, this increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
When Your Passion Works Against You
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 after a 12-year absence, the company he co-founded was dispirited, rudderless, and near bankruptcy. In a staff meeting, Jobs shared his plan for revitalizing the struggling brand, touching on one necessary ingredient: passion.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
employed by sell-side investment banks and brokerage houses. Yet investment firms undertake their own buy-side research, and their analysts face different stock selection and recommendation incentives than their sell-side peers. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
instead of participating in negotiated exchange offers. This paper critically examines this claim and argues that the incentives for holdout litigation are limited because of (1) significant constraints on creditor litigation, (2)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
non-value added and redundant steps, improve resource utilization, and redesign care so that appropriate medical resources perform each process step. These actions enable costs to be reduced while maintaining or improving medical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most
they work,” either by allowing them to work remotely or by providing incentives to move closer to offices, Wu says. The highest performers suffer the most While previous studies have shown that long commutes... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
the creative ideas the team might have generated if given more latitude. Without that creative thinking, the team's performance suffered, likely reinforcing James's basic tendency to micromanage and closely monitor individual team... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
performed best on a creative task in terms of fluency, flexibility, and novelty-three classic dimensions of creativity-when both dyad partners had high levels of multicultural experience. These results show that when it comes to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 1998 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Amway Japan Limited
In April 1997, the president of Amway Japan (AJL, Tokyo, Japan), pondered how to reverse the first performance decline the company has experienced since entering the Japanese direct selling market in 1979. Established as the tenth overseas subsidiary of Amway Corp. of... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Motivation and Incentives; Business Subsidiaries; Distribution Channels; Customer Satisfaction; Consumer Products Industry; Michigan; Tokyo
Arnold, David J., John A. Quelch, Yoshinori Fujikawa, and Patrick Reinmoller. "Amway Japan Limited." Harvard Business School Case 598-029, February 1998. (Revised February 1999.)
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Review, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase the book: http://hbr.org/product/guide-to-managing-up-and-across/an/11126-PDF-ENG Empirical Observations on Incentives for Weight Loss Authors:Leslie John, George Lowenstein,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 18 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?
only related to the ratio of base salary and incentive pay. In terms of how the boards measured success (financial performance vs. other measures), board interlock didn’t seem to have an effect. Firms... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
slightly worse outcomes than non-affiliated investments, despite the targets having superior performance prior to investments. Investments during market peaks by commercial banks have significantly higher rates of bankruptcy. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
create the sense of urgency needed to perform better. An example. At a major European retailer, margins were shrinking year after year because fashionable boutiques were taking its top-of-the-line business, and discounters were taking... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
opportunities for mutual learning. A step-change in the availability of data on clusters and cluster policies has enabled new research approaches. Clusters are shown to have a close association with regional economic performance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do
Paul Bradbury American workers are usually a pretty busy bunch, yet their time spent idle costs employers an estimated $100 billion per year, according to a new study from Harvard Business School. “We suspected idle time might be more prevalent than most people would... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes
rivals. And "better" because you are performing different activities than they perform, because you've chosen a different configuration than they have. Another common mistake is getting the definition of the business wrong, or... View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
- 19 Nov 2010
- Working Paper Summaries