Management Practices - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2020
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China aims to shake US grip on chip design tools

06 Nov 2019
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Boeing mess is 'a template for how not to be trustworthy.'

24 Oct 2011
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News Corp. Annual Meeting, Succession Plan

Luis M. Viceira

Luis M. Viceira is the George E. Bates Professor in the Finance Unit and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research, course development, and teaching focus on the areas of investment management... View Details

Keywords: banking; education industry; financial services; nonprofit industry; retail financial services

Michael W. Toffel

Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply... View Details

05 Oct 2010
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Banks Pile Into Safer Bets

23 May 2018
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The Bad First Job's Lingering Impact

August 2018 (Revised August 2019)
Technical Note

A Note on Compensation

By: Ethan Bernstein and Michael Norris

This note provides an overview of the important terms, concepts, and frameworks that a manager should know about compensation—whether it be their own or that of an employee. Because compensation in practice is fraught with pitfalls, this note presents an overview of... View Details

Keywords: Compensation Design; Benefits; Perks; Variable Compensation; Compensation and Benefits; Executive Compensation; Stock Options; Profit Sharing; Job Design and Levels; Labor Unions; Wages; United States

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Arthur C. Brooks is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on leadership, happiness, and... View Details

17 Dec 2014
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Getting schooled

08 Aug 2011
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Treasury, Stock Markets After U.S. Debt Rating Cut

2012
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Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy

By: Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel

A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms' environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional pressures. Such findings are consistent with institutional sociology, which emphasizes the importance... View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Natural Environment; Business Strategy

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10 Feb 2022
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Guiding Low-Wage Workers on the Upward Mobility Path Is a Win for Employees and Companies

Christopher T. Stanton

Christopher Stanton is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Professor Stanton's research streams focus on personnel economics, organizational economics, labor markets, and entrepreneurship. His MBA... View Details

28 Aug 2017
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Basic Competence Can Be a Strategy

01 Sep 2020
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Action Plan: Finding Fluency

Photo courtesy of Cammie Dunaway Photo courtesy of Cammie Dunaway Every day of 2020, Cammie Dunaway (MBA 1990) has practiced her French using the Duolingo app. “It is something positive I can do for myself,” Dunaway says of the hobby she... View Details

Keywords: April White; foreign language; education and technology; digital marketing; change management; COVID-19; Educational Services

07 Mar 2022
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Risks to the Brain

17 Jun 2021
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"Happiness Scholar" Cites Three Ways to Start Healing Rifts

04 Jul 2005
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How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

of the graduates." Lisa Marks Dolan, a business school dean, feels that much of the problem lies in the way teachers are trained. She writes, "We're being asked to produce graduates who can integrate, adapt, manage global... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Jul 2012
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