Publications

October 2000 (Revised March 2007)
Case

Nick Fiore: Healer or Hitman? (A)

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan

Many general managers face this predicament at one time or another: if I don't deliver the numbers, senior management won't invest in our growth. But what it takes to deliver the desired numbers may include layoffs and other undesirable solutions. Is it better to back... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Strategic Planning; Decision Choices and Conditions

25 Feb 2011
News

The New Path To the C-Suite

17 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

social risk and fiscal risk. Social risk management makes attractive programs that ameliorate market failures in bad economic times. Fiscal risk management makes unattractive programs that entail large... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

2018
Chapter

Time, Money, and Subjective Wellbeing

By: Cassie Mogilner, A.V. Whillans and Michael I. Norton

Time and money are scarce and precious resources: people experience stress about having insufficient time and worry about having insufficient money. This chapter reviews research showing that the ways in which people spend their time and money, the tradeoffs that... View Details

Keywords: Money; Time Management; Happiness; Satisfaction

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23 Jun 2023
HBS Case

This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

merge. Nurses make up 99.5 percent of Buurtzorg’s workforce. “Buurtzorg seems to capture the power that is unleashed when people can make their own decisions.” Each nursing team manages itself. To ensure financial sustainability,... View Details

Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health

25 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

chooses to spend his or her time has much more of an effect on a company's success or failure than if a middle manager spends a half hour more at lunch. With that in mind, Sadun and three colleagues-Oriana... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

Nonstop flights generally make traveling more pleasant—but can they lead to innovation, too, especially in the global context? Research suggests that they can, with important takeaways for managers reinstating business travel in a world... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation

17 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

November 1995 (Revised April 1998)
Case

National Insurance Corporation

The case visits the catastrophe insurance business at an interesting time in the history of the insurance markets. A major reinsurer, National Insurance, is taking a look at the new insurance derivatives being traded on the Chicago Board of Trade with a view to using... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Insurance; Capital Markets; Insurance Industry; United States

Video

Faculty to Class of 2013

July 2010 (Revised August 2012)
Case

Assistant Professor Jo Worthington (A)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard

A relatively inexperienced professor struggles with managing a case discussion in a class based on numeric analysis. The class is lethargic and time is tight; she considers both a number of possible reasons for their disinterest and different teaching strategies to... View Details

Keywords: Education; Teaching; Strategy; Communication Strategy; Training; Leadership Style; Education Industry

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

leaders manage these conversations effectively. Drawing on our insights and those of others, we offer this guide to help leaders have the kinds of discussions we need to be having right now. The four I’s of conversational leadership The... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

a team of agile, imaginative and analytical individuals.” Ovia’s CEO, Paris Wallace, grew up on government assistance in California’s Marin County, one of the wealthiest areas in the United States. Raised by a mother who was single and disabled, he View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

January 2023
Article

Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

By: William R. Kerr and Martin Mandorff

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self-employment for dry cleaning than other... View Details

Keywords: Self-employed; Occupation; Entrepreneurship; Ethnicity; Immigration; Networks

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31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

employees take time for themselves,” Whillans says. “Managers have to tell their employees, ‘I really want you to take this one hour every week during your normal work time to do something positive for your... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

12 Jul 2012
News

Finding a Cure for "CEO-itis"

Video

Faculty to Class of 2013

2011
Working Paper

What Do CEOs Do?

By: Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

We develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs' time use. The idea-sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up-is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm's priorities as well as the presence of governance... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Employee Relationship Management; Managerial Roles; Time Management; Performance Productivity; Italy