Attribution - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

and retail online. So I think that's where a lot of portfolio managers started seeing misalignment in performance among stocks supposedly belonging to the same GICS sector resulting in big losses on their books. This can be attributed to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail

01 Dec 2023
News

Elevator Pitch: Feedback

mills. The Why: Of the 110 million tons of food waste generated annually in the United States, 75 percent ends up in landfills or incinerators, making it a leading source of CO2 emissions (10 percent of greenhouse gasses can be attributed... View Details

Keywords: Illustration by Drue Wagner; Photo by ChiChi Ubiña

Web

Hiring International Students

organizations are pursuing global competency as a key attribute in their hiring, so this is a pool of talented professionals you should not overlook. There are common misperceptions and this information will allow you to navigate the... View Details

20 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

performance of identical twins on a battery of ten creativity tests could be attributed to genetics. 6 In contrast, roughly 80 percent to 85 percent of the twins' performance on general intelligence (IQ) tests could be View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

16 Apr 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Auditing Oligopoly and Lobbying on Accounting Standards

Keywords: by Abigail M. Allen, Karthik Ramanna & Sugata Roychowdhury; Accounting; Banking

December 2023
Teaching Note

Buurtzorg

By: Ethan Bernstein and Tatiana Sandino

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-101. As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Management; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Learning; Health Industry; Netherlands

Citation

Purchase

16 Feb 2023
HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services

01 Aug 2022
What Do You Think?

Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?

conclude that 'these corporate attributes match the five basic virtues of Confucianism.'" The researchers conclude that “these corporate attributes match the five basic virtues of Confucianism: benevolence... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

22 Apr 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Where is the Pharmacy to the World? International Regulatory Variation and Pharmaceutical Industry Location

Keywords: by Arthur Daemmrich; Pharmaceutical

Article

Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

The "rational person" standard, based on assumptions of economic self-interest, has long prevailed in legal reasoning. But understanding of decision making, behavioral choices, and possibilities for action must be enlarged to include a variety of factors that give... View Details

Keywords: Standards; Interests; Decision Making; Behavior; Value; Groups and Teams; Performance Expectations; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Motivation and Incentives

Citation

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Research Summary

Strategic Human Capital

My research focuses on the links between managerial background, job attributes, organizational/firm characteristics, and firm performance. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how a manager's skills, knowledge, connections, experiences, and other attributes... View Details

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

communicated to employees. Managers who meet the defend drive well: Create a psychologically safe environment Treat people fairly. Encourage team members to speak up and listen to what they say. Overcommunicate. Even without economic turmoil remote workers can develop... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

http://www.people.hbs.edu/amusacchio/Leviathan/toc.htm 2006 pub Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals By: Swift, S. A., D. Moore, Z. Sharek, and F. Gino Abstract—When explaining others'... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

30 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

Brand. Whereas, with AI, “we can get those answers in under 15 minutes,” he says. Using AI to run this type of analysis prior to embarking on a human study could dramatically increase both the efficiency of testing and the quality of the results, adds Israeli. “Because... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

16 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 16

PublicationsThe World Bank and Democratic Accountability: The Role of Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Publication:Chap. 3 in Building Global Democracy? Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance, edited by Jan Aart Scholte, Cambridge... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

article we're actually focusing on a third type: Even if the data used to train the algorithm is unbiased and representative, there may be correlations between the person’s protected attributes and their behaviors or features that are... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

29 Mar 2022
Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

“In India, you often encounter a really strong set of value-driven businesses. And it’s an interesting question why.” Reputation is an especially strong attribute of long-haul companies, adds Khanna. “I really think of it as an asset that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

attributed to our lack of in-depth understanding of each patent’s language. However, this may also indicate that Bezos feels there are more opportunities in other areas or that he has chosen to cede control of AWS’s growth to Andy Jassy,... View Details

Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail

January 2024
Case

Sprouts Farmers Market

By: Rajiv Lal, Forest L. Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred

Sprouts Farmers Markets (Sprouts) is a Phoenix, Arizona-based chain of 400-plus natural foods stores in 23 U.S. states and $6.4 billion in sales as of 2022. In its product assortment, brand image, and store environment, Sprouts emphasizes freshness, health, innovation,... View Details