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  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

Working PapersCorporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance Authors:Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Abstract In this paper, we investigate whether superior performance on corporate social responsibility (CSR)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We present a survey of recent contributions in empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Geographic Location; Motivation and Incentives; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Competition; Human Capital; Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Multinational Firms and Management; India; Brazil; United States
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Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics." Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010): 105–137.
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

firm's future value, the firm reports more negative discretionary accruals. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are moderated when firm-level uncertainty is high, consistent with performance being attributed more to luck rather... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

Values, and Damages Great Companies Performance hacking means overzealous advocacy of positive interpretations to the point of detachment from actuals. In business as in research there are strong incentives... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • April 2010
  • Teaching Note

Global Talent Management at Novartis (TN)

By: Jordan I. Siegel
Teaching Note for 708486. View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Talent and Talent Management; System; Multinational Firms and Management; Motivation and Incentives; Developing Countries and Economies; Pharmaceutical Industry; China
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Siegel, Jordan I. "Global Talent Management at Novartis (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 710-482, April 2010.
  • July 1993 (Revised December 2003)
  • Case

Sears Auto Centers (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro
The CEO of Sears must decide how to respond to allegations that the company's auto repair division has been misleading consumers and charging them for unnecessary repairs. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Compensation and Benefits; Management Teams; Employees; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Improvement; Auto Industry
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Paine, Lynn S., and Michael Santoro. "Sears Auto Centers (A)." Harvard Business School Case 394-009, July 1993. (Revised December 2003.)
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

Management Journal Discordant vs. Harmonious Selves: The Effects of Identity Conflict and Enhancement on Sales Performance in Employee-Customer Interactions By: Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Nancy Rothbard, and Steffanie Wilk Abstract—Across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

Management: Can a Balanced Scorecard Change a Culture? By: Gibbons, Robert, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Agency theorists, historically, have analyzed what kinds of performance measures should be used in formal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2013
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Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet

Finding your passions. What tasks do your really enjoy? Which activities bring out your best? It is difficult to perform at a high level without having a passion for key elements of the job. Understanding yourself. What is your life... View Details
  • 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity‐debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary duties in firms incorporated in that state. This change limited managers' View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

make cities in smarter ways, so that they are built more quickly, with less waste and overall impact on the environment during the construction process. Environmental performance will improve in part due to building better buildings. For... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 20 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

and help build a better world while we are still striving to deliver high performance for the enterprise. Managing that tension is difficult." HBS invited the executives to the second Higher Ambition CEO Leadership Conference, held... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Dec 2017
  • Blog Post

The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference

incentives of VC funds but hurts entrepreneurs. Eric’s discussion brought a whole new perspective: when a company is performing well and it attracts outside investors, pro rata rights of previous investors... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

managers contemplating the use of performance goals or targets within nonprofit organizations, our results suggest careful consideration about the extent to which they may render other incentives less... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

capital-market or product-market benefits from inclusion. Status incentives contributed to the observed performance improvement. Back-of-the-envelope estimates suggest that JPX400 inclusion View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

officer, chief financial officer, and a senior staff executive) had final authority. This promised a far shorter deliberation process than was typical of the Innovation Board in the second period. 39 The intention of XTV was to align Xerox's View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance By: Anik, Lalin, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Jordi Quoidbach Abstract—In two field studies, we explore the impact of providing employees and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2020
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Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

leverage have to include large institutional investors. I was reminded of this when I read of David Swenson’s recent message to organizations managing Yale’s money under Swenson’s highly successful supervision. He told them that their View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 9

offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, providers received a fixed-dollar budget to cover all care provided to a specific patient population, as well as incentive payments for quality. The AQC was piloted in 2009 by a handful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

change in the information set for employees when the incentives and decision rights remain unchanged. Also examines the tradeoffs front-line employees face as they divide their efforts between reaching new customers and increasing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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