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- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
follow, observe the authors, since more than a few failed companies have run straight into the tiger's jaws while believing that all they had to do was outrun their competition. Ghoshal and Moran, both of the London Business School, and Bartlett, chairman of HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This has limited the ability to understand the phenomenon of decentralization. To address the empirical lacuna we have developed a research program to measure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
similar to the failures we have seen historically. Again, I believe private markets should price and provide the catastrophe insurance for the resulting risks, not public guarantees. The issue in my mind is should we accept the likely View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
match between firms, managers, and incentives using a new survey that contains information on managers' risk preferences and human capital, on their compensation schemes, and on the firms they work for. The data is consistent with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
it may take them some time to get over their financial anxiety even after the shutdown has been settled. In addition, programs like Head Start and nutrition assistance, targeted at the disadvantaged, are put on hold, something that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
Clarksville, Indiana, the community where the program was launched. This preliminary data suggests that low-to-moderate income Americans may have substantial demand for prize-linked savings, with a majority of survey participants... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Influence (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:F. Gino and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four laboratory studies, we find that regulatory focus induced by situational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
focusing on trust and reputation mechanisms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51606 Harvard Business School Case 916-033 Advika Consulting Services: Challenges and Opportunities in Managing Human... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
forget: That business is, at heart, a profoundly human endeavor... which means that an essential requirement for any businessperson—in any market, in any economy—is an acute sensitivity to what makes us all spin. Order this Book:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
global competition and cooperation; and altering the attitudes, values, motivations, aspirations, and fears of customers and employees. Perhaps most importantly, these changes have altered human societies, promising a coming decade of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
on human resource management. Most companies have viewed the ructions caused by COVID as an anomaly. They aren’t. COVID accelerated a number of trends that were latent in the labor market before the onset of the pandemic. Companies will... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
implications of these findings for organizational learning, process improvement and human resource management are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-002.pdf Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
(like 2008) but a depression (like the 1930s.) Accordingly, we must be prepared to act in ways we’ve never done before. Second, just as doctors in overburdened hospitals, we need to triage with iron discipline. Our support must go to View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
615-069 The I-PASS Patient Handoff Program In 2015, the I-PASS Patient Handoff Program Team, led by six pediatricians around the U.S., had to determine the best way to disseminate their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
children who are victims of abuse, disability, illness, and poverty. As one of the 50 largest fundraising charities in the United Kingdom, the organization's trustees wrestle with how to meet the needs of this vast and most vulnerable population through View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
This case, set in the 1920s and 1930s, discusses the contributions of Harvard Business School (HBS) Professors Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger to management research and to the Human Relations Movement in management scholarship. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
percent of the time, irrespective of who caused it. Pilot programs at many retailers have shown that stockouts can be reduced with better forecasting, inventory planning, and in-store execution—exactly the techniques described in this... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
Model (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides) Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, and Kari L. Granger Abstract This presentation is based on our research program over the last seven years in which our objective has been to rigorously... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
human capital, which measures the economic value of an employee's skill set and intellect. And now there's a new member of the capital lexicon: altruistic capital. "Altruistic capital is the idea that every individual has within them an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the International Comparisons Program (ICP) in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman