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  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

Persistence By: Gallani, Susanna Abstract—Organizations often introduce temporary incentive programs with a view of establishing long lasting behaviors. Monetary payoffs are awarded upon achievement of team goals, which measure the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

committed to buy hundreds of millions of doses of successful vaccines, providing a guaranteed market for the shots. "I couldn’t be on the front lines treating patients. But at least I could try to help with some of the market design... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 05 Mar 2014
  • What Do You Think?

When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?

bubble, the yardstick for acquisition price was also price per employee. The use of the measure seemed to subside when investment activity once again focused around startups rather than M&A. But now that the most wildly View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Publishing; Retail
  • 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

not occur in non-election years, or in private bank lending. I show capture is costly: elections affect loan repayment, and election year credit booms do not measurably affect agricultural output. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

you see as some of key factors that led to this? Luis Viceira:The Dow is an index that has traditionally included the largest companies traded in the US stock market. Its growth since its inception reflects the growth and profitability of these companies and more... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

large. Of particular interest to business leaders are a number of case studies of successful BOP business models. The co-editors are all associated with HBS: V. Kasturi (Kash) Rangan and John Quelch are faculty, Gustavo Herrero is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27

products. Specifically, we measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on private-sector adoption of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

superior innovation performance. Yet despite this need, there is little guidance on how to develop or deploy this ability. This article describes the results of a study to understand the strategies and practices used by firms that achieve greater View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

than measurements indicate? The current research explores problems that result, in part, from malfeasance by outside perpetrators who overstate their efforts to increase their measured performance. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007

number of times that each team member has worked with every other member of the team) has a significant and positive effect on performance but that conventional measures of the experience of individual team members (e.g., years at the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

  Working PapersCPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We develop a model of online advertising in which each advertiser chooses from multiple advertising measurement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

this point before. But we want to review the key differences briefly from the perspective of the CEO because the implications are crucial: for how the job of the senior leader is defined, and for what successful performance in the job... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

neither of them were successful in getting their dissertation articles published. We also asked them to reflect on the twists and turns of academic publishing, and we asked Max Bazerman to integrate these reflections. Together, we hope to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

pharmaceutical sales teams in Belgium and sports teams in Canada. These results suggest that a minor adjustment to employee bonuses-shifting the focus from the self to others-can produce measurable benefits for employees and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

stores with higher information-gathering costs for headquarters). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50576 Measuring Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change By: Glaeser, Edward... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 May 2019
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Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (New York: HarperCollings Publishers, 1994) John Doerr, Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs (New York:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 16 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

unionized, it paid well, offered benefits, and was secure. But manufacturing employment has steadily declined, from about 25% of the U.S. labor force in 1970 to less than 10% today. Now a decent living entails more than a generous wage; it involves sharing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

or sell. Payatas and the orderly, verdant Harvard Business School campus—nearly equals, as it happens, in terms of the acreage they occupy—are separated by a gulf far greater than any measure of miles or statistics. Yet as HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 13 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

overhead often causes support function employees to go on the defensive, attempting to prove their worth by becoming corporate bureaucrats who enforce sometimes meaningless rules in an attempt to affect the bottom line. This unfortunately leads them to regress into... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

  PublicationsFlying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success Author:Thomas J. DeLong Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2011 Abstract Confronted by omnipresent threats of job loss and change, even the brightest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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