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  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2332106 It's Not the Size of the Gift; It's How You Present It: New Evidence on Gift Exchange from a Field Experiment By: Gilchrist, Duncan, Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra Abstract—Behavioral economists argue that above-market wages elicit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

When COVID-19 forced companies to send employees home two years ago, newly remote workers largely reconnected on two collaboration apps: Slack and Microsoft Teams. The pandemic propelled Slack beyond its core following in the technology... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology
  • 22 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

were able to create a very powerful culture." Conant established two performance metrics to measure progress, one based on economic value, measured by shareholder returns compared to competitor companies; and the other based on social value, measured by the Gallup... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

Fails—and What to Do about It By: Beer, Michael, Magnus Finnström, and Derek Schrader Abstract—U.S. corporations spend enormous amounts of money—some $456 billion globally in 2015 alone—on employee training and education, but they aren't... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 30

five different dimensions of difference from a global perspective: gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, and age. However, more work still needed to be done to engage employees around the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2022
  • News

Making Peace with Anger

convince an employee that wasn’t performing to measure to get up to the level that we were expecting. And now, all of a sudden, I was confronted with my wife saying, “I want to get separated and divorced,” and all those tools that had... View Details
  • 07 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 7

equity groups. Instead, they appear to expand their private equity engagement to take advantage of the credit market booms while capturing private benefits from cross-selling of other banking services. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

had performed well at an easier job (managing a relatively calm airport), while others had performed less well at a harder job (managing an unruly airport). As with the admissions officers, the executives consistently favored employees... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

is revealed to students so the unfolding of events keeps students interested and engaged in how to solve the various problems that arise, including a near mutiny. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

analytics, and financial information to subscribers across the globe. While building his business, Bloomberg became engaged in civic affairs through his philanthropy. In 2001, just weeks after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, he was elected... View Details
  • 2022
  • White Paper

The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement

By: Matt Sigelman, Joseph Fuller, Nik Dawson and Gad Levanon
The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement is a new effort to give companies and other stakeholders a set of robust tools that measure how well major employers are doing in fostering economic mobility for workers and how they could do... View Details
Keywords: Upward Mobility; Career Advancement; Personal Development and Career; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Wages; Human Capital; Recruitment
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Certificates, Credentials, & Credits | HBS Online

employees and executives across our global organization. Participants develop a practical understanding of critical topics like strategic thinking, innovation, management, finance, and negotiations – all rooted in a social learning... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Using retail chain data, we study the effects of a tournament incentive plan incorporating objective and subjective criteria. In principle, such plans could motivate employees to perform both at a high level,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Charlotte MacDonald

first semester. Reading and analyzing these leaders forces self-reflection: how would I have handled it? What would’ve been my downfall? What would I do right? Attaching specific persons and stories to concepts makes them so much more real!" Outside of class,... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
  • 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
  • Web

Events - Private Capital Project

(Founder, MD and CEO, Multiples Alternate Asset Management), and Karthik Reddy (Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Blume Venture Advisors), moderated by Professors Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School) and Thillai Rajan (IIT Madras) The View Details
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

explores how language shapes the ways in which employees who work in global organizations communicate and negotiate linguistic and cultural differences. Bringing together 650 interviews conducted across Rakuten’s locations in Brazil,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Aug 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

analyzing that data and designing strategy around it. That’s one reason eight HBS professors pooled resources in June to launch the Competing on Business Analytics and Big Data Executive Education program. “It was unprecedented to engage... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus

feel they can contribute to overcoming the uncertainty, overcoming the crisis. Engaging employees in this way will also reduce that rumor mill, give confidence to them that they will then project in turn to... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

and less averse to having difficult conversations. Juliana Casale Head of Marketing at Crazy Egg Learn to lead at scale and mobilize your employees as you transition your business from a startup into a growth-stage company. "HBS Online... View Details