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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
often assigned the most difficult jobs in labor with little possibility for promotion. “The problem was not that steel companies did not hire blacks, but that steel firms did not promote their black employees,” historian John Hinshaw... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
from hospital turnarounds to policy implementation and consumer product development. And its international unit has been busy exporting services to countries such as China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. Mediva and Platanus apply the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
organizational policies are the infrastructure of meeting employees’ four drives, managers implement those policies and can do so in ways that increase or decrease engagement. Subcultures within... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
organizational policies are the infrastructure of meeting employees’ four drives, managers implement those policies and can do so in ways that increase or decrease engagement. Subcultures within... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
business. The book describes a conceptual framework, "the culture cycle," for managing culture that comprises setting and meeting expectations; establishing trust, engagement, and ownership among employees and customers that makes possible the successful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
presidential and parliamentary elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, disproportionately discouraging marginalized citizens. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
Brother” or punitive style—micromanagement often drives people out of their jobs. Rather, they should be part of an overall higher-touch, more open managerial style suited to the stresses and constraints of the pandemic era. Assigning... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
Publication:Harvard Business Review 89 Abstract Private moments of doubt and fear come even to managers who have spent years on the job. Any number of events can trigger them: an initiative is going poorly; you get a lukewarm performance review; your new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
Ulrike Malmendier Abstract To what extent do peers affect our occupational choices? This question has been of particular interest in the context of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan, and Steven J. Frank Abstract—Question: Can we create a value-based tool to visualize the outcomes and cost of various treatments that could facilitate patient-centered decision making? Summary Answer: We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
who need them most, but unrestricted transfers might threaten the Internet's routing system. I suggest policies to create an IP address "market" while avoiding major negative externalities—mitigating the worst effects of v4... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Science (forthcoming) Abstract While monitoring and regulation can be used to combat socially costly unethical conduct, their intended targets are often able to avoid regulation or hide their behavior. This surrenders at least part of the effectiveness of regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
Even more surprising, even after participants were provided with feedback about how they performed, this gender gap in how well they perceived they did continued. In a second study participants were asked to guess how they performed on a test in a randomly View Details
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
manufacturing companies to "do constructive work for them?" and "develop a sense of operations"[a] feeling of participating, leading." 20 Writing assignments for the Manufacturing course included a topic report focusing on subjects,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
are robust to alternative model specifications and sample selection procedures. We demonstrate that an optimal pricing policy should take into consideration the potential costs of two types of strategic customer behavior: opportunistic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
which could falsely create the appearance that readmission rates are changing more in the treatment than in the control group. Accounting for the revised standards reduced the decline in risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
a not-for-profit research center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). The center was started in late 2000 with a gift of $37.5 million from an anonymous donor. Its mandate was to conduct research that could lead to actual treatments for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie X. Chen Abstract—Assessing the productivity gains from multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
information aggregation treatments do not affect total equity investment when we make the investment environment more realistic than in prior experiments. Previously documented aggregation effects are not robust to changes in the risky... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
compared to non-founder firms. Overall, the evidence suggests that boards with founder-directors provide more high powered incentives in the form of pay and retention policies than the average U.S. board. Stock returns around M&A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne