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- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
must overcome severe individual and organizational biases that prevent managers and employees from thinking deeply and analytically about their risk exposure. In this paper, we draw lessons from seven case studies about the multiple and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
enable efficient response; and an infrastructure for daily management and continuous improvement of the chain's performance. Furthermore, we find that employees on the service delivery unit spent 12% of their day compensating for internal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
Based on surveys gathered from 140 employees in a division of a global chemical company, we found that direct knowledge and reflected knowledge enhanced trust differentially. While both enhanced feelings of closeness with others, results... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
firms that have already joined the UN's Global Compact to promote social programs around the world. To put the WDC in place, a number of actions would be needed. First, the UN would draft a corporate charter to define the purpose of the... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
feedback, managers should ask themselves whether they're getting truthful evaluations from their subordinates. (In all likelihood, they aren't.) It takes time and discipline to persuade your employees to tell you about your failings.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
for a historic opportunity. He became the third employee of Intel, working for the legendary Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce. As talented as he was as an engineer, Grove became an even better manager, as we learn from exclusive excerpts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
firms-triggered a global initiative that eventually spanned more than 900 BCG teams in 30 countries across five continents. These teams confronted their nonstop workweeks and changed the way they worked, becoming more efficient and effective. The result? View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
rates of public sector employment, the crown jewel of the Jordanian regime’s patronage. Interviews with over 60 of the surveyed firm owners across four strategically paired districts illustrate that business owners covet forbearance and that kinship ties to public... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-082.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAlan Kendricks at Cardiology Associates Harvard Business School Case 407-067 Alan Kendricks struggles to address many challenges facing him as a recently View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
entrepreneurs everywhere. Sarah Jane Gilbert: How did you first become interested in studying growth in newly founded firms and young organizations? Mukti Khaire: Only one out of every ten newly founded firms in the United States grows to a size of more than ten View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
that postpone this matching until the end of the regular season. We show that the matching of teams affects efficiency as measured by the resulting television viewership. We also demonstrate that the reorganization has promoted more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract This study examined the convergent and construct validity of ratings of individual creative contributions in a team context. A sample of 201 employees and supervisors, working on 26 team projects,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
creativity increases dishonesty. We propose that a creative personality and creativity primes promote individuals' motivation to think outside the box and that this increased motivation leads to unethical behavior. In four studies, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
needed for patient care. We found that a lack of interconnectedness among interdependent departments' routines was a major source of operational failures. The low levels of interconnectedness occurred because of how the internal supply chains were designed and managed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
programs, increasingly have in-house programs for developing and promoting talented employees who have only undergraduate degrees. One anecdote drove the point home. When Datar asked a partner at a top... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
The company could also revisit the previous two applications, tracking and tracing processed meat and tracking employee safety practices. At the other extreme, after seven years of R&D and marketing efforts and millions of dollars in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
listed a pair of women's sandals on Flipkart's website at 799 Indian rupees ( ) and offered it on promotion at 399. However, upon close examination of the product's display photo, consumers noticed a 399 price tag printed on the strap.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
access pushes decisions down, as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up, as it allows employees to rely on those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Menges, and Francesca Gino Abstract—To get to work, employees need to commute. Across the globe, the average commute is 38 minutes each way per day. It is well known that longer commutes have negative effects on employees’ well-being and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
cross-disciplinary group of mid-career, research-oriented faculty—has organized to coordinate activities that promote high-quality research in the field of strategy. This editorial essay summarizes the group's view of the characteristics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne