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- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Affinity Groups | Employment
Participation in staff affinity groups is open to all and supports our Institutional commitments focused on fostering a more diverse and inclusive culture for all members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) community. Objectives &... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
core principles of family, faith, free enterprise, and entrepreneurship. Ian Rowe (MBA 1993) is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on education and upward... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
of the most difficult things about this job has been managing the ongoing emotional trauma of those members who have stayed on," says Bothwick. "This is not a typical organizational restructuring; this is a place where people lived what they taught and had their View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
(or lifelong learning) is critical if one is to keep up with a rapidly changing business and social environment. All agreed that the School is in a unique position to strengthen connectedness by offering educational programs that meet the... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
underlie pricing algorithms require revisiting as conditions change. To ensure that institutional knowledge is embedded in pricing algorithms, managers can also consider hybrid solutions that offer suggested prices, enabling quicker... View Details
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Instant Photography Is Launched | Baker Library
no delay or intervening process undertaken in a darkroom. Watching Polaroid images appear became a captivating communal activity and a new form of social exchange. 3 Polaroid ads fittingly described this combination of features as a new... View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya
By: Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan
In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local or personal consumption despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Profit; Product Marketing; Standards; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Non-Governmental Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Service Industry; Kenya; Europe
Ashraf, Nava, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan. "Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-065, February 2008. (forthcoming, American Journal of Agricultural Economics.)
- October 1996 (Revised May 2001)
- Case
Cantuga Farmworkers Clinic (A)
By: James E. Austin and Catherine Overholt
The board of directors of a rural health clinic fires its executive director. The case elaborates the evolution and progress of the clinic under this director during a period of growth and a changing health care environment. Factors contributing to and questioning the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Resignation and Termination; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Rank and Position; Social Enterprise; Health Industry
Austin, James E., and Catherine Overholt. "Cantuga Farmworkers Clinic (A)." Harvard Business School Case 797-041, October 1996. (Revised May 2001.)
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
niche for competitive advantage. The case provides the context for the students to identify the design elements underlying HBC’s success and helps them explore the link between guest satisfaction and employee training, empowerment, feedback culture, continuous product... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
corporation’s New Haven Works subsidiary “family at their appointed tasks and to indicate provisions to safeguard their health and to provide opportunities for their welfare.” 40 Photographs and text thus served to humanize U.S. Steel as a caring, family-oriented View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
make more money.” The data back up that philosophy. A 2016 survey of publicly traded companies from the Peterson Institute for International Economics found that the presence of more women in top positions of corporate management... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
author of fourteen books, including Winning the Loser’s Game, Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox, and Capital. An updated paperback edition of The Partnership will be available this fall. In addition to writing, consulting, and board activities, Ellis is managing... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
facilitated research investment in an area of significant social value, patents promoted disclosure. Our findings highlight the importance of complementarities between prize and patent-based incentives in the design of innovation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
total—try not to take ourselves too seriously. But yes, I suppose on some level, all of the above. We’re definitely trying to create something that hasn’t existed before, an influential, international institution that will be around in... View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
issues facing financial institutions in the Internet age. "Banks have often been slow to adopt technology and to change what they do," she observes. "But the competition that the online banks are sparking is forcing traditional banks to... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
recent research has focused on the issues facing financial institutions in the Internet age. "Banks have often been slow to adopt technology and to change what they do," she observes. "But the competition that the online banks are... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
creative capitalism,” said Gates. “But it’s not just about dollars. It really is about the innovation power” that American businesses could unleash by allowing their most creative and innovative people to spend 5 percent of their time working to solve View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
Review 88, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the Article: http://hbr.org/2010/07/are-you-ignoring-trends-that-could-shake-up-your-business/ar/1 Vision Statement: Mapping the Social Internet... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace