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- 25 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
A Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
New MBA Admissions Director Gets an Interview
objective. “It was so different from any other classroom environment I’d encountered,” says Losee, who became the School’s new managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid in June. “Everyone in the room was fully engaged in the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
barriers that limited firms' geographic scope and unleashing a seemingly unlimited set of new threats, challenges, and opportunities to create value globally. Globalization presents managers with an environment to create value that is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
diverse perspectives that will help them compete. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52624 May–June 2017 Harvard Business Review The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership By: Bower, Joseph L., and Lynn S. Paine Abstract—Agency theory,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 2024
- Working Paper
People, Practices, and Productivity: A Review of New Advances in Personnel Economics
By: Mitchell Hoffman and Christopher T. Stanton
This chapter surveys recent advances in personnel economics. We begin by presenting evidence showing substantial and persistent productivity variation among workers in the same roles. We discuss new research on incentives and compensation; hiring practices; the... View Details
Hoffman, Mitchell, and Christopher T. Stanton. "People, Practices, and Productivity: A Review of New Advances in Personnel Economics." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32849, August 2024.
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
investors—they require houses be purchased one at a time and often have complicated tax codes—but Davis, who served as vice president of real estate for the New York City... View Details
- Article
From TV to Web: Content Strategies for Ads That Drive Online Sales
By: Thales S. Teixeira
Consumers have become avid media multitaskers, moving seamlessly between their TVs and digital devices. Shorter TV commercials have reduced both the quantity and quality of consumer attention during prime-time viewing hours. In this new media environment, can TV... View Details
Keywords: TV Advertising; Multitasking; Infotainment; Television; Prime Time; Advertising; Online Advertising; Advertising Industry
Teixeira, Thales S. "From TV to Web: Content Strategies for Ads That Drive Online Sales." IESE Insight, no. 23 (Fourth Quarter 2014): 54–61.
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
forget more than 80% of the information they were taught within 90 days. To increase retention and effectiveness, companies should offer reps additional training at times of need, provide them with access to supplemental material that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
2017 New York: Oxford University Press Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship By: Jones, G. Abstract—This book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are compatible through the lens of a global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
security company, of which I was a director, to that of the New York City Police Department. A direct result has been a number of arrests by the NYPD of criminals fleeing buildings guarded by the private... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
new book The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It, Sucher and her coauthor, HBS research associate Shalene Gupta, highlight those social media examples along with a global list of companies that have either... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 11 Apr 2023
- Op-Ed
The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone
When you enter an organization as its new leader, forget about plotting out the first 90 days. Focus on the first 90 hours. Why are those initial hours on the job so important? Because you don’t get a second chance to make a first... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
problems become computationally intractable (strongly NP-hard). We apply our model to assess the cost effectiveness of fecal immunochemical testing (FIT), a new screening method for colorectal cancer. Our results show that despite the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
author, speaker, and podcast host, focus on loss. New York Times bestselling authors Chris Bohjalian and Gretchen Rubin write about the importance of reading. Now compiled as... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
We begin a new academic year at Harvard Business School in the midst of a fascinating and compelling time in the history of business. In keeping with the mission of the School — to educate leaders who will... View Details
- 26 Feb 2018
- News
Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade
overwhelmed by the market complexities of what's happening with different crop prices, what they should be selling, who they should be selling to, how and when they should sell. Those are all things that we can help with tremendously. “I spent View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Teaching a Solutions-Oriented Take on the News
solutions to social problems. “Our take is that journalism has become obsessed with what’s wrong in society. We see news all the time about what’s corrupt, what’s broken. That’s fine, up to a point. We need... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
as AOL (now AOL Time Warner) are defining the business models that are reshaping the global business landscape and redefining power.— Lynda M. Applegate The point within a value chain where maximum economies of scale and scope are created... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
New Global Initiative Director Takes Broad Outlook
When Kathleen Cooke Ryan took up her new role as executive director of the HBS Global Initiative last March, she joined a thriving organization. After the successful 1999 launch of its first international research center -- the... View Details