Job Performance - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Oct 2022
What Do You Think?

Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

the supply-demand ratio for talent? Will the need for recognition and advancement on the job lure people back to the office? Or have the attractions of working at home changed the job satisfaction equation... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 May 2016
News

Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993

with J.P. Morgan. A member of the firm’s operating committee, she has run the Asset Management division, a global leader in investment management and private banking, since 2009. Her group’s record-setting performance is unheard of in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

03 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Mar 2004
News

Derek Ferguson

Ferguson is quick to discuss other aspects of his life, from fishing for porgy on Long Island Sound with his son and daughter to working on an economic justice ministry that brings jobs to the inner city through the New York Covenant... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

J&J company performing well, and I tried to implement the best of what J&J did while avoiding the pitfalls it fell into. —Steven Newman (MBA 1992) Back to top “Heublein, Inc.,” aka the Smirnoff Vodka Case Smirnoff has 23 percent of the... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

and their health.” · In a memo to employees, Morgan Stanley’s CEO, James Gorman, wrote, “While long term we can’t be sure how this will play out, we want to commit to you that there will not be a reduction in force at Morgan Stanley in 2020. Aside from a View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

09 Aug 2016
First Look

August 9, 2016

making: participants were more likely to hire job candidates and choose collaborators who reframed their distress as passion compared to those who did not. Expresser gender did not moderate these effects. Results suggest that in cases... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

directly on the nature of the barriers that you face. When you have a potential deal in mind, we have developed a set of tools to quickly perform what we call a "3-D barriers audit" to determine what barriers stand between you... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

this laughing matter to the test. In a new study, he used that joke and 32 others to determine whether people or artificial intelligence (AI) could do a better job of predicting which jokes other people consider funny. The question is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Web

Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

group dynamics and improve team performance through tools and processes designed to enhance collaboration and iteration in development Guide teams to draw from a wide range of professional experiences and backgrounds and create stronger... View Details

02 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 2

Publications Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance Authors: Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Publication: Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we investigate whether superior View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

tools or using LSF job arrays . Requesting multiple CPUs on the HBSGrid When using parallel processing on shared compute systems, you need to indicate to the scheduler, the system software that manages workloads, that you wish to use... View Details

16 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

via arms-length transactions and contracts. Furthermore, strong or weak complementarity are not innate properties of tasks and assets but can be the result of choices regarding task networks, incentives, and job design. Supermodular... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Apr 2000
News

Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

ever-expanding growth of the market and the siren song of get-rich-overnight IPOs, the need for a precise formula to measure stock risk against performance is more pressing than ever. "If I tell you that a technology fund has a higher... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

overseeing all strategy-related activities—from formulation to execution. It is not intended to perform all of this work, but to facilitate the process so that strategy execution gets accomplished in an integrated fashion across the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Sep 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

than someone who can code a fresh UI. If performance issues are causing churn, then hire a performance engineer, someone who knows how to diagnose and fix performance issues.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Some of these barriers are related to inefficiencies in the domestic business environment, for example those captured in the World Bank's Logistical Performance Index (Arvis et al., 2010). Others are related to market access abroad, for... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

then you reflect on the environment that you grew up in. And they have a few other exercises around that. And so, you really spent a substantial amount of time just collecting data and associations and thoughts from your history. DM: When Platzer graduated from HBS in... View Details

20 Apr 2021
Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

design, but just look at their faces, beaming with pride and anticipation! Or online, head over to Facebook and Instagram, where you will see other instances of value creation. Look at the pictures and videos your friends post when they receive a coveted View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

Even as COVID vaccines begin early deployment, pressure on leaders continues to mount to engage in “Big C” change: rapid course corrections through job cuts, recruiting a fresh management team, and redesigning roles and responsibilities... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

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