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- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
(forthcoming) Abstract Abarbanell and Lehavy (2006) examine the effect of distributional properties of earnings and forecast data used by researchers who investigate 'Street' earnings. They perform a large number of analyses, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
internal competition — trying to look better than other people. All of these forces are extrinsic motivators. They may get people to perform in the short run, but they lead people to feel that they're not doing their work because of their... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for performance measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Stephan Heblich, and William R. Kerr Abstract We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
field organizations was growing. The senior team was slow to make decisions, and no one took responsibility for the performance of the developing businesses. A lack of openness lies behind many failures to implement strategy. Camp... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
clients and employees who felt betrayed by the firm's apparent misconduct. He must confront some tough decisions about recently uncovered questions concerning the handling of certain accounting transactions three years earlier and about the continued lagging View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
producing analysis and interpretation, while operating in key decision-making fora. In the first bank ("Saxon Bank"), the risk function was successful in achieving such influence. The risk experts established a tight collaboration with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
performance of both the on-site and offshore managers. This strategy (as opposed to ones based on things like low cost and innovation used by Cognizant's competitors) is intended to build deep and strong client relationships that will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
that exists at the top of organizational hierarchies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49601 forthcoming Management Science Financing Risk and Innovation By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
benefit of increased labor is improved quality. The objective of this paper is to examine the effect of labor on profitability through its impact on quality. Since employees at retail stores perform both production-related activities and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
actually built by these firms? Many would argue that answers to these questions are irrelevant. As long as services are performed and products manufactured, they say, such organizational configurations are beneficial. They allow companies... View Details
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
dividends increased every year. This highly successful strategy and its resulting financial performance harbored one potential flaw. Over the decades the company had built impressive capabilities in production, and, more important,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs' time use. The idea—sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up—is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm's priorities as well as the presence of governance issues.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance By: Anik, Lalin, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Jordi Quoidbach Abstract—In two field studies, we explore the impact of providing employees and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
Casey, Comcast's New England Region general manager, transformed a low commitment and performance organization. When he took charge of this Comcast region he inherited an organization that was bureaucratic, had low customer satisfaction,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
encountering. Drawn from the health-care industry, the research is based on a sample of 69 randomly selected hospitals, 20 of which participated in a three-part cycle of process improvement activities. Focusing on one area of the hospital at a time, the hospital's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
India. "The case raises an uncomfortable question: Why should Monitor pay a Harvard MBA top dollar to conduct business research in the United States while an Indian Institute of Management graduate could do the work just as effectively in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-024.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Center for Creative Leadership Harvard Business School Case 308-013 The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) was founded in 1970 on the notion that leadership was not innate but could be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
compared to a simple deficit rule that limits the maximum amount of deficit per period. Whereas the deficit rule does not perform well, the debt rule yields welfare gains virtually equal to the optimal rule. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
benefits of digital transformation and platform plays, or deliver a differentiated end-to-end customer experience. Another challenge we’ve seen for managers is that if they want to attract and retain top talent, they need to make sure the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace