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- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
when other approaches would produce better results for customers, employees, and shareholders and foster better long-term performance of the company. “I’ve been a leader during three recessions, and I’ve never heard a management team talk... View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
of Walmart, faces a different set of challenges. While other retailers are rapidly cutting staff, he and his team need 150,000 temporary workers to keep up with the near-term demand for basic food,... View Details
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
festival, or mela, for the millions of pilgrims. The Maha Kumbh Mela is happening right now. It's expected to draw close to 200 million people over almost eight weeks, and as many as 30 million in a single day. The Harvard team is here to... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/kuziemko%20norton%20saez%20stantcheva_45dd17c7-a8fa-4b91-9ba2-51d5e7349750.pdf December 2014 Organization Science Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Structures Support Role-based Coordination in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
colleagues highlights the pivotal role played by such gatherings in creating winners and losers in the platform world. “Platform Diffusion at Temporary Gatherings: Social Coordination and Ecosystem Emergence,” published in Strategic... View Details
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
(conditional) gender gap is largest among faculty members at the highest status institutions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-014.pdf Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
together to facilitate visibility. The idea was that watching the workers would help managers improve operations and replicate innovations on one line across others, thus increasing productivity and driving down production costs. A research View Details
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
successfully. Megibow's team investigated the reason for the failures, again using Web metrics data and server log files throughout the process. Apparently, the "Company" field under the customer's name was causing a problem.... View Details
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
Their findings were published in the May 17, 2016, issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A TEMPORARY STATE OF INEQUALITY Research on inequality usually measures a relatively fixed socioeconomic status based on... View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
moment that launches a powerful idea or brilliant product. Managers can use these insights to form teams that create better ideas. “Much of innovation is premised on the idea that you should talk to other people to generate ideas,” says... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
the effects of RER changes in terms of differences in export intensity, import intensity and financial constraints. We estimate the model and quantitatively evaluate the different mechanisms by providing counterfactual simulations of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
teams will know where to halt their golf cart-size plows. In the fall, leaves are meticulously assembled in piles at a distance from the main paths and then trucked out of sight. All the paths linking the periphery of the campus to its... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
future roles, responsibilities, and objectives may foster confusion and misalignment between management and employees and, in some cases, may even breed competition for resources within the firm,” the team writes. Sadun and her colleagues... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
trade credit positions that are 1.4% higher as a fraction of sales. The use of trade credit to get capital out of low-tax, low-return environments is also illustrated by reactions of U.S. firms to the temporary repatriation tax holiday in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
hypothesis predicts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g., communication links, geographic collocation, team and firm co-membership) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
the organizational benefits of NPD teams, and identify five attributes of these teams that hinder attainment of their potential: (1) project complexity, (2) cross-functionality, (3) temporary membership, (4)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
to cultural concerns, would erupt. Think of policies as multigenerational opportunities. While immigration doesn't create economic losses among natives over the medium run, large and sudden inflows of immigrants may generate short-run congestion costs and lead to View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
society, and that the increasing incidence of “air rage” can be understood through the lens of inequality. Research on inequality typically examines the effects of relatively fixed, macrostructural forms of inequality, such as socioeconomic status; we examine how View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
address several key concerns. The president has extensive quantitative and qualitative data about the process to guide him as he and the senior team attempt to make improvements. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne