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- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
year gains. We evaluate the performance of all policies under consideration using the same statistical and simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
focused on leadership, organizational behavior, managing human capital, and career management. His new book, Teaching by Heart: One Professor’s Journey to Inspire, was recently published by Harvard Business Review Press. He shares his... View Details
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
how new products or services would perform at various prices or with different characteristics. The machine learning algorithms that might power such a device are, at least for now, incapable of producing such promising results. But what... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
never made twice. AT&T's Bell Laboratories conducted reviews of its own software engineers to determine why some were more productive than others with the goal of distilling their techniques into best practices that their less... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
1980s, these two, with Sanyo and Sharp, had driven both the U.S. and European consumer electronics companies out of their own home markets. Japan's achievements are unparalleled in the annals of industrial history, a particularly spectacular View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
While the US Food and Drug Administration has chiseled away pharmaceutical review times over the years to speed innovative drugs to market, the opposite seems to have occurred in the agency's approval of medical devices. Instead of... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
contains men with a wide variety of attitudes and capabilities. Some lost their jobs for what they did; others lost their jobs for what they didn’t do. What’s to be done with senior executives such as these? It’s the duty of boards View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?
and payday is courtesy of Assistant Professor Doug J. Chung, who reviewed 117 schools with Division I football and basketball teams, matching athletic performance with revenue flow covering an 11-year... View Details
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
managers who earned higher pay didn’t perform better or work longer hours than those who earned less. The researchers found that higher-paid employees worked a similar number of days and hours, and they brought in similar sales revenue to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
and female founders—a time of day more compatible with family schedules than the typical evening and weekend offerings. It has also organized a volunteer group of investors, mentors, and advisors for weekly “office hours” to review pitch... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
forthcoming American Political Science Review Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France By: Braconnier, Céline, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and Vincent Pons Abstract—A large-scale randomized experiment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
for HBP’s three market groups—Corporate Learning, Education, and Harvard Business Review Group. As a result, total Publishing revenue increased 3 percent from the prior year to $310 million. Publishing’s growing worldwide influence was... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
expenses and health checks. To make sure to reach everyone in the firm, including production workers who lacked company email addresses, WhatsApp groups were created. After a few weeks, PrecisionCo completed their human resources View Details
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Harvard Business School
cell phone and television network business, and started his own phone company. Ed Jones Jr. MBA 1972 In 1973, the Harvard Business Review published Edward Jones's personal account, “What It's Like to Be a Black Manager.” At the time he... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset that tracks the performance of individual venture capitalists' investments across time and as they move between firms. We find evidence... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
review the information before the meetings and to perform their monitoring and governance functions, board members must receive the information that is most relevant to their governance responsibilities and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
real money," Kaufman says. "So who's going to tell Bill that we really like his ideas, but that his management style pisses people off? It can feel very risky for board members to think, 'If I pick on Bill, will he pick on me?'" “The goal of the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
are, what they know, how you hire, and how you develop their skills and attitudes over time. Performance management practices, including compensation, incentives, values, control systems, and performance... View Details
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Michele Chambliss
reviews and career narratives), she takes a personal interest in each candidate finding their own path to growth and professional fulfillment. Michele has significant experience of her own in hiring and growing high View Details
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
across the United States. Host Controls The job performances of casino hosts are subject to various degrees of monitoring, even within the same MGM-Mirage organization. The enterprise comprises a number of individual properties that were... View Details