Social Attachment To Place - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

turnover in sales is 25% to 30%, while direct replacement costs for a telesales employee ranges from $75,000 to $90,000 and other sales positions cost as much as $300,000. Moreover, these figures do not... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

acquisition is more likely to take place when there is a common venture capital investor linking the acquirer and the target. Finally, we show that long-run post-acquisition abnormal returns are higher for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

in America with 99% of its revenues deriving from its simple, text-only advertising services. It is on track to bring in roughly $9.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2006, which would place it fourth among... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

PublicationsThe Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract The most effective managers have the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

by launching the Akamai Technical Academy, which asked the question: “Why don’t we go out and find smart people to train, and create our own talent pool?” Slides Impact Investing at a Crossroads Amelia Angella (MBA 2001), Director, HBS... View Details

17 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Setting a Higher Bar on Fatherhood

Though my classroom experience may look similar to any other student, it’s in that extracurricular time that the differences come to life. Sure, I don’t attend as many social... View Details

09 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

minorities, according to research that involved surveying hundreds of people and studying thousands of datasets at government and social organizations. This pattern can “fuel a self-perpetuating cycle of... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

01 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

Please fit in accordingly. But research suggests that employee orientation ought to be less about the company and more about the employee. In their paper "Breaking Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

07 Feb 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO

Keywords: by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Julie Wulf

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

does one lead at your company? How do you give feedback? How do you establish an inclusive culture, develop employees, and create a great place to work? Your job is to answer... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

08 Sep 2015
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September 8, 2015

complaints per year. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49555 The Value of Corporate Citizenship: Protection By: Minor, Dylan Abstract—We explore the notion that corporate citizenship, as obtained through Corporate View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

2012
Working Paper

Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency

By: Alvin J. Silk

What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts in interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Service Delivery; Competition; Conflict of Interests; Policy; Practice; Advertising Industry; United States

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31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

Breeds Social Contagion: When Transgressions Seem to Create Little Harm By: Wiltermuth, S., L. Vincent, and F. Gino Abstract—Across six studies, people judged creative forms of unethical behavior View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

entire cycle of acute pain medicine delivery for these patients. TDABC was used to identify possible improvements in personnel allocation, workflow changes, and epidural placement location and to model the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

other ways to drive a large number of other policy-relevant outcomes including initiatives related to health, crime, and social mobility. The Ortega parameters reveal more... View Details

Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser

12 Apr 2022
Book

Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

2008
Other Unpublished Work

Accounting, Risk Management and the Aftermath of a Control Debacle

By: Anette Mikes

Despite the widespread adoption of risk management systems in the financial services industry, recent control debacles highlight the apparent lack of top managerial attention to risk controls. Yet in order to understand the workings and uses of risk controls (or any... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Governance Controls; Management Systems; Accounting; Conflict and Resolution; Trends; Financial Services Industry