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- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. “They didn’t know it would turn out to be a multibillion dollar industry.” “By definition, when an investor makes an investment, it changes the probability of success” In a View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Saving lives through new vaccine technology
has several years of regulatory hurdles ahead, it is working in the interim with global health organizations to explore applying the technology to a wide range of vaccines.... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
New 'Hot-Desking' Trend Eliminates Personal Space In The Office
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Farzad Those were the searing words of my editor, as I handed him the HBS recommendation form and a stamped envelope. This was my mentor, mind you — the mensch who launched me into feature writing after... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
religious employer allow his employees access to contraceptives or break with healthcare legislation? People and organizations of faith often face moral decisions that have significant consequences. Research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2019
- Working Paper
Who Should Select New Employees, Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain
By: Carolyn Deller and Tatiana Sandino
We examine how changing the allocation of hiring decision rights in a multiunit organization affects employee-firm match quality, contingent on a unit’s circumstances. Our research site, a US retail chain, switched from a decentralized hiring model (hiring by business... View Details
Keywords: Control; Selection; Decentralization; Company Values; Retail Chains; Decision Making; Economics; Geography; Employees; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Design; Situation or Environment; Retail Industry
Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino. "Who Should Select New Employees, Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain." Harvard Business School Series in Accounting and Control, No. 16-088, January 2016. (Revised August 2019. Forthcoming in The Accounting Review.)
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
foray into building the Learning Network, one of four engagement platforms that represent an important component of the new Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 6 PM – 8 PM EST, 04 Feb 2016
Alumnae Circles Open House: New York
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- December 2022
- Article
The Rise of People Analytics and the Future of Organizational Research
By: Jeff Polzer
Organizations are transforming as they adopt new technologies and use new sources of data, changing the experiences of employees and pushing organizational researchers to respond. As employees perform their daily activities, they generate vast digital data. These data,... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Analytics and Data Science; Technology Adoption; Employees
Polzer, Jeff. "The Rise of People Analytics and the Future of Organizational Research." Art. 100181. Research in Organizational Behavior 42 (December 2022). (Supplement.)
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
Organizations and Markets Group and Deborah Kolb, a professor at the Simmons College Graduate School of Management, discussed the topic at the Women Enriching Business panel "Women Negotiating in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
Eileen Rudden A native of Nutley, New Jersey, Eileen Rudden always loved math. So it was only natural that she spent her summers programming computers as an undergraduate at Brown University. "That was back... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
hyper-productivity, where people are working more hours and getting burned out,” Neeley says. These are all wrinkles that companies can and should iron out, she says, since remote work is here to stay in one form or another. A 2020... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Jun 2017
- News
HBX Launches New Certificate Program, Becoming a Better Manager
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present an extrapolative model of bubbles. In the model, many investors form their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Bringing New Life to an Iconic Magazine
Growing up in Washington, DC, David Bradley (MBA 1977) aspired to be a politician, not a businessman, but figured he should have a strong financial base in order to launch his political career. In 1979, he formed the Research Counsel... View Details
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
forward. In practice, if someone figures out a really cool new activity or device, a community of co-innovators will form almost instantly. The emergence View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
Direct employment in the US Internet ecosystem has doubled in those four years, with 1 million new jobs added to the million that already existed in 2007, according to a recent study commissioned by the Interactive Advertising Bureau,... View Details
- February 2004
- Case
New HP, The: The Clean Room and Beyond
By: Leslie A. Perlow and Elizabeth Kind
When the $19 billion merger of Silicon Valley legend Hewlett-Packard and Houston-based PC giant Compaq Computer Corp. legally closed on May 3, 2002, both companies had already devoted an immense amount of time preparing for the challenges that lay ahead. Chief among... View Details
Keywords: Horizontal Integration; Management Teams; Management Style; Problems and Challenges; Employees; Organizational Culture; Computer Industry; San Francisco
Perlow, Leslie A., and Elizabeth Kind. "New HP, The: The Clean Room and Beyond." Harvard Business School Case 404-064, February 2004.
- 2022
- Book
Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game
By: Andrew Binns, Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael Tushman
Innovation used to be seen as a game best left to entrepreneurs, but now a new breed of corporate managers is flipping this logic on its head. These Corporate Explorers have the insight, resilience, and discipline to overcome the obstacles and build new ventures from... View Details
Keywords: Organization Change And Adaptation; Disruptive Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Innovation and Management; Leading Change
Binns, Andrew, Charles A. O'Reilly III, and Michael Tushman. Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2022.
- 11 Jan 2022
- News