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  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

between bundling and indirect network effects, we find that they act as substitute strategies, with a lower relative effectiveness for bundling when network effects are stronger. 2013 pub From Social Control to Financial Economics: The... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 26 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 26

by a public health organization are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

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economies and cultures. Understanding this phenomenon of design evolution, the authors write, "is crucial to comprehending the opportunities and the risks that change creates." The authors describe their book as an examination of "the View Details
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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

patients. It presents process maps and financial data relating to the processes used during (1) an office visit to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses and (2) application and removal of three... View Details
  • 30 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

larger number of organizations. The researchers have also started to work on management experiments, modeled on the randomized control trials adopted in the medical field. This experimental approach is much more costly and labor-... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

H. Carpenter Abstract Front-line staff possess an immense amount of functional and experiential knowledge from which their organizations can learn. This paper examines two distinct processes for leveraging front-line staff knowledge in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog

leadership to the often-messy reality of rolling up one's sleeves and getting things done. It takes the point of view of a leader who: (1) is new to a situation, (2) must take action, and (3) is asked to operate within a system that she or he may not fully View Details
  • 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007

consumer collaboration, in which consumers use digital media that lie beyond the control of marketers to communicate among one another, responding to marketing's intrusions by disseminating counterargument, information sharing, rebuttal,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting

background and noise out of a candidate’s control influence your perception and offer alternatives. Standardize your interview process so that each candidate answers the same questions and performs the same... View Details
  • 02 Apr 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

Joyce Dias puts it, "People give up what they enjoy doing most in order to submit to the unnatural process of doing something— anything in order to earn their living." Combine this with research that cites a high correlation... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

Ceilings, Floors, and Imperfect Calibration Authors:F. Gino, Z. S. Sharek, and D. A. Moore Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract Prior research has claimed that people exaggerate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49266 Forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes The Highest Form of Intelligence: Sarcasm Increases Creativity Through Abstract Thinking for Both Expressers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2012
  • Article

Management Practices across Firms and Countries

By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing American, Japanese, and German firms are the best... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Competency and Skills; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Sectors; Performance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Private Equity; Multinational Firms and Management; United States; Germany; Japan; China; India
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  • 05 Aug 2002
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Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

Summing Up Platform leadership, the process by which base technologies are developed and on which innovations created by many entrepreneurs can be based, may be characteristic of the knowledge economy. But it isn't new, at least to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

the taste context the authors define holistic processing as nonverbal, imagery based, and involving narrative processing. The authors conduct qualitative interviews with taste experts (Master Sommeliers) to operationalize the holistic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

suggests that treating planned organizational change as a generic phenomenon might mask important idiosyncrasies associated both with the different activities involved in the change implementation process and with the unique functions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)

collateral design, launches the product, and then “throws it over the wall” to sales and marketing. “This process is product-centric and a bucket-brigade approach where the groups work serially and in silos in a rapidly changing tech... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Consumer Products; Electronics; Industrial Products; Information Technology; Manufacturing; Medical Devices & Supplies; Retail
  • 23 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity

challenging assignments, adequate resources, supportive work groups, management that places a premium on creativity, and project leaders who understand the creative process and have strong communications skills. At the other end of the... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

and discrepancies can emerge as a result. Effective Auditing for Corporates provides you with proactive advice to help you safeguard core value within a corporation and to ensure that auditing processes and key personnel meet the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

relationships when it instead primarily encourages newcomers to express their personal identities. In a field experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing company, we found that initial socialization focused on personal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel