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  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Lasting Impressions

attitude, and I think it was directly attributable to the presence of minorities and women in the class. They were really pioneers, and I think they made the whole school a more human place." One of those "pioneers," Eve Benton, currently... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • October 2015
  • Article

The Value of Bosses

By: Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher Stanton
How and by how much do supervisors enhance worker productivity? Using a company-based data set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality... View Details
Keywords: Supervisors; Management Skills; Employees; Performance Productivity
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  • 26 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

to Rohingya refugees since the violence in Myanmar erupted in August 2017. The organization considers the refugees’ mental health needs “acute.” "The global flow of goods and capital ties together all of View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies

nation’s infrastructure. They boost entrepreneurship by supplying seed capital for budding entrepreneurs, providing a range of support activities, and assisting in the distribution and marketing of goods and services. And if an... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services
  • 05 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Work-Around Culture: Unintended Consequences of Organizational Heroes

"Work-around cultures" are pervasive in health care. Employees tend to work around obstacles, often feeling like a hero in the process, without solving the underlying problems. The reasons for these cultures are manifold, but they are costly in financial and... View Details
Keywords: by Anita Tucker; Health
  • 16 Dec 2016
  • News

Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff

background in oil and gas with his management education to become an oil analyst first at Arthur D. Little and then Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. In 1987, he founded McDep, LLC, which conducts independent energy investment research.... View Details
  • 01 May 2020
  • In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) How to Make Furloughs... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

the importance of risk management and oversight. Robert C. Merton, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, similarly expressed concern about the unintended consequences of change on Wall Street, closing with the assertion that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • Web

Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

design and run as well as the organizations they build. LTV has a tactical, implementation bias rather than a strategic one. There is a modest overlap with Product Management and Entrepreneurial Sales, but LTV is solely focused on... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

for firms to capture value in a modular system. This paper brings together the theory of modularity from the engineering and management literatures with the modern economic theory of property rights and relational contracts to address the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

capital market. Analysts and money managers are mostly worried about quarterly performance. That filters all the way back to management, which feels pressure to deliver good numbers for the next quarter's... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 15 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

of the picture, a young company must clear many hurdles before convincing potential investors that its future prosperity is a good bet. New research by HBS associate professor Monica Higgins and Associate Professor Ranjay Gulati of the Kellogg Graduate School of View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • March 2005
  • Case

Vignette: Waiting for a CEO

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
A venture capitalist must decide how to respond to an e-mail from his long-time troubleshooter now installed as interim CEO at a struggling contract manufacturing exchange for the custom car business. The investors have been seeking a full-time CEO but have made little... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Business or Company Management; Investment; Business Ventures; Corporate Governance; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Strategy
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  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

human patients. Doyle believes NovoCure has the potential to become an important company with a major new cancer therapy platform but must complete pivotal (Phase III) clinical trials and receive FDA approval. Doyle's venture View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans

By: Doug J. Chung, Thomas J. Steenburgh and K. Sudhir
We estimate a dynamic structural model of sales force response to a bonus based compensation plan. The paper has two main methodological innovations: First, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2010) to accommodate unobserved latent... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

You’ve Made Some DEI Progress. Don’t Stop Now

  • 17 Nov 2021
  • News

5 New Rules for Leading a Hybrid Team

  • 27 Jul 2021
  • News

Building Successful Hybrid Teams

  • 07 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

interpretation by providing evidence against alternative mechanisms, such as income effects, human capital accumulation, and trade-induced changes in inequality. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2021
  • News

Holding Business to Account

before the model Aiyer envisioned would be christened “impact investing,” she launched Walden Capital Management in 1994 to pursue these dual goals of financial return and social change on behalf her... View Details