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- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
non-ethnically Chinese firms of similar size, age, and other characteristics. In addition, within strata of matched firms based on their intangible assets and human capital,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
University; and Sorabh Tomar of Southern Methodist University. Investigating the value of diversity US public firms aren’t required to publicly disclose their workforce demographics or policies, but... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
so as not to lose themselves, their loved ones, or their foothold on success. Those who do this most effectively involve their families in work decisions and activities. They also vigilantly manage their own human capital, endeavoring to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress
research that shows workplace stress is very bad for health, and we have this other information that says our health costs are way above that of other countries," says Joel Goh, Harvard Business School assistant professor View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
and follow through on a goal and not related to impulsivity, suggesting that some children are poorer at holding the norm in mind and following through on enacting it. We discuss the implications of these results for education and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2017
- What Do You Think?
How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?
later, or else explain and examine what they did after the fact if things didn’t go well. The way of the bureaucrat That is in contrast to a bureaucracy, which is, according to my American Heritage Dictionary, “an View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial Administration after World War II. This episode illustrates the increasingly successful claims View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- October 2014
- Case
Honeywell and the Great Recession (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Susan J. Winterberg
CEO Dave Cote spent six years turning around an ailing Honeywell and in 2008 Cote and his team face a new challenge: how to respond to the Great Recession. Cote does not want to give up the gains he made in transforming and unifying Honeywell. With a fall-off in... View Details
Keywords: Layoffs; Furloughs; Downsizing; Work Sharing; Short Time Work; Recessions; Earnings Forecast; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Cost Management; Executive Compensation; Crisis Management; Financial Crisis; Manufacturing Industry
Sucher, Sandra J., and Susan J. Winterberg. "Honeywell and the Great Recession (A)." Harvard Business School Case 315-022, October 2014.
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
sophisticated programs for developing executives within the firm, and ordinarily choose a next chief executive officer from among them. American CEOs average about thirty years with their firms and own less than 4 percent View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
authority on leadership — sees this phenomenon as a sign of the times. "The transition from the industrial age to the information age is a huge shift," he notes. "In all of View Details
Keywords: Management
- 18 Dec 2017
- Op-Ed
Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs
Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
Advise, but only if asked. A good organization will plan for your succession, and to help out, you may want to develop a couple of plausible candidates. Your boss or human View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet
are external hires, and roughly two-thirds are “complete outsiders,” finds a recent working paper by Paul Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In... View Details
- June 2021
- Technical Note
Introduction to Linear Regression
By: Michael Parzen and Paul Hamilton
This technical note introduces (from an applied point of view) the theory and application of simple and multiple linear regression. The motivation for the model is introduced, as well as how to interpret the summary output with regard to prediction and statistical... View Details
- Web
Middle East & North Africa - Global
2012 and earned a BSc in Commerce and major in Psychology from the University of Virginia in 2006. Sadika El Hariri Research Associate Fares Khrais Assistant Director, Research Cairo Staff Ahmed Dahawy Research Associate Istanbul Staff... View Details
- October 2017 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Medicetra Medtech Company, Inc.
By: Doug J. Chung
Medicetra MedTech Company is a dental equipment distributor, and senior management is deciding whether to implement a new incentive compensation program for the sales force. For many years, Medicetra had paid salespeople only a fixed salary. Although the current plan... View Details
Keywords: Sales Compensation; Sales Force Retention; Employee Fairness; Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Retention; Fairness; Performance Improvement
Chung, Doug J. "Medicetra Medtech Company, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 518-049, October 2017. (Revised March 2020.)
- Web
Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care
future leaders who want to make important advancements, take risks, and commercialize biomedical discoveries. ” Srikant M. Datar George F. Baker Professor of Administration Dean View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
those whose cost of external finance was unchanged. However, while some of the fall in entry was due to less wealthy individuals with high human capital (confirming the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
The Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator Fellowship Program was established through the generosity of Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989). Blavatnik is founder and chairman of Access... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
several proof-of-concept tests and for which Rey foresaw a clear market in nutritional supplements and functional foods. The case provides context on the company; describes advances in crops genetics focused to climate change and associated View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace