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  • 07 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Four Ways to Make The Most of Your Company Events

representatives Options for virtual recruiting create flexibility and allow you to select your most engaging speakers regardless of their location or ability to travel. View Details
  • September 2014 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling

By: Ethan Bernstein, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats and Luke Hassall
With 24,000 staff and over 300 stores, Belk Inc. sought to replace its entirely manual labor scheduling system with an automated software solution from Reflexis. Belk hoped the upgrade would simplify scheduling, reduce time employees spent in non-customer-facing roles,... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Scheduling; Local Autonomy; Automation; Metrics; Organizational Change; Human Resource Management; Process Improvement; Performance Measurement; Transparency; Southern United States; Retailing; Department Stores; System Outsourced Services; Employee Relationship Management; Selection and Staffing; Change Management; Governance Controls; Resource Allocation; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Applications and Software; Family Business; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 26 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 26

traditional theories of leader selection describe organizations as picking leaders with particular characteristics, LFT sees organizations as having a filtration process that evaluates a pool of candidates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ali Evans (MBA 2019)

technology companies. I spend most of my time focused on sourcing, evaluating and executing new investment opportunities in the healthcare technology sector. Additionally, I serve on the board of directors... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

workers' capacity for growth, and conduct data-based project reviews. To counter the bias toward action—and the unthinking perpetual motion and exhaustion that ensue—leaders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

engineering development and construction projects. In what ways are the challenges of managing large, complex projects different from the challenges of managing other large industrial activities? How is it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

Conflict: The Effects of Contract Structure Authors:Deepak Malhotra and Fabrice Lumineau Publication:Academy of Management Journal (in press) Abstract Leveraging a longitudinal dataset concerning 102 inter-firm disputes, we View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2007
  • Case

The 1995 Release of the Institutional Investor Research Report: The Impact of New Information

By: Boris Groysberg, Nitin Nohria and Derek Haas
In 1995, Institutional Investor magazine began selling a complete ranking of the best equity research analysts. This report allowed research firms to assess the relative quality of each analyst across the industry, and this enabled firms to know nearly as much about... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Investment Banking; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Evaluation; Banking Industry
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  • 15 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 15, 2016

sketch some important implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select migrants for admission. Looking forward, the capacity of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 25

governments have started to list state-owned enterprises, have selected professional managers to run them, and have given them more financial autonomy. We argue that the transformation from owner View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • April 2024 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

Moderna: Pioneering a People Platform to Accelerate Science Innovation

By: Tatiana Sandino, Emil Dy and Samuel Grad
Moderna was founded in 2010 to explore how messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) could be used to create breakthrough medicines by encoding instructions for the body to create antibodies. When Stéphane Bancel (HBS 2000) took over in 2011, he bet on the potential of this... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Talent and Talent Management; Selection and Staffing; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Strategy; Innovation and Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Alignment; Employee Relationship Management; Science-Based Business; Expansion; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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  • 25 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 25

specific assumptions about fairness principles or priority criteria, our method offers the designer the flexibility to select his desired criteria and fairness constraints from a broad class of allowable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 23

priority criteria, e.g., waiting time, medical urgency, etc., or a combination thereof. Rather than making specific assumptions about fairness principles or priority criteria, our method offers the designer the flexibility to select his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

  Publications October 2014 Management Science Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science By: Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva Guinan, Karim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia

interest in global health to the realization that an estimated 13 million people die each year for lack of low-cost products that could save their lives. Over the past seven years, she has conducted research projects in Zambia aimed at... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • 21 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management

development, operations, and project management. Conor Sullivan, Investment Director for the Social Outcomes Fund, and Claudia Cheung, Program Director for the Bridges Outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors examine prominent placement of search engines' own services and effects on users' choices. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID

School. I wanted to pursue a joint degree that would help me address the dichotomy of my intended field, where climate investment cannot be an arena for governments alone and where impact involves navigating supply chain risks as much as... View Details