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- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
prompting a takeover, than at engaging in long-term corporate governance or operating issues. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-004.pdf Correlated Equilibrium and Nash Equilibrium as an Observer's Assessment of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
potential to supercharge innovation, because we can prototype more ideas and share them with each other much more rapidly. That's on the supply side of the economy. On the demand or marketing side, the new technology may allow us to match more View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
business through informal personal networks, Advanced Technology, for example, has established dialogue groups as its core tactic for achieving diversity. These groups give employees a forum in which to examine their biases and engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
are two mechanisms by which this can happen: engaging the periphery may either change the information set of the core or help align incentives of multiple core actors. Engaging the periphery might be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
overachievement bonuses) to keep high performers, low performers, and average performers engaged throughout the year. Managers should be careful in setting and adjusting quotas. For instance, studies show that ratcheting (raising a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
and mission to provide its guests and employees an enhanced brand experience. The dilemma Atlantis faced was how to integrate the new vision and mission into all the brand touch points in order to improve customer satisfaction and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
ones; and they need to make it safe and sufficiently simple to participate in the market, as opposed to transacting outside of the market, or having to engage in costly and risky strategic behavior. I'll draw on recent examples of market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to improve reported relative performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Publication:Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 10 (2009): 4129-4156 Abstract Many investors purchase their mutual funds through intermediated channels, engaging and paying brokers or financial advisors for fund selection and advice. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
the conditions to thrive tomorrow. We argue that organizational sustainability depends on attending to strategic paradox, engaging contradictory yet interrelated strategies simultaneously. Drawing on our research and the work of others,... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
consider worthy of consideration. These might include such things as providing high-quality goods to customers at the lowest possible price, providing meaningful and well-compensated work for employees, providing a high return to... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24
at one of the most rigorous extant methodologies for detecting "tunneling," or efforts by firms' controlling owner managers to take money for themselves at the expense of minority shareholders. We find that, in contrast to prior views, Indian business groups... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
PublicationsUncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business Authors:Frances Frei and Anne Morriss Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming An abstract is not available at this time.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
institutional environment may be especially critical to an organization's performance and long-term survival. Our review reveals that organizations engage in three specific and identifiable sets of institutional strategies, which we term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Hotels: Brand Differentiation through Customer Relationship Management Harvard Business School Case 809-029 This case analyzes the Hilton Hotels Corporation's CRM strategy at a key juncture in its history, immediately after the firm has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016
organizational studies, on the one hand, and Jewish studies, on the other. One addresses leadership but not the religious soul. The other speaks from its Jewish soul but is only secondarily engaged in the study of leadership. More Than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9
Abstract—We tested whether engaging in expansive (vs. contractive) "power poses" before a stressful job interview-preparatory power posing-would enhance performance during the interview. Participants adopted high-power (i.e.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
more patents, and reduced the degree of earnings management, leading to higher ROA. These effects are concentrated at innovating firms—those that are early-life-cycle or engage in R&D spending—and especially at those facing Wall... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
Will Hurwitz. McDonald’s emerges from a slump With 40,000 mostly franchised restaurants across the world, McDonald’s serves some 63 million customers daily and employs more than 2 million workers. The brothers who founded the chain in... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5
profits at the extensive rather than the intensive margin, outperforming competitors by attracting a larger customer base. And fourth, higher competition intensity need not improve consumer privacy when consumers exhibit low willingness... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne