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  • 19 Apr 2018
  • Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

felt incredibly passionate about the work and strongly believed in its impact, I also began to observe the risks, limitations, and skewed incentives foreign aid creates within local governments. I began taking a longer-term view of the... View Details
  • 12 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

not, multinational brands have taken up the mantle of responsibility, establishing codes of conduct that their suppliers are—theoretically at least—obligated to adhere to. Often, the brands also monitor their suppliers’ performance with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

PublicationsManaging School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership Authors:Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen Grossman, and Susan Moore Johnson, editors Publication:Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2007 Abstract Managing School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 22, 2006

of athletic footwear, should respond to Adidas' planned acquisition of Reebok—a transaction that would join the second- and third-largest companies in the industry. Highlights the unique aspects of New Balance's strategy—focusing on fit and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • June 2008
  • Teaching Note

Amanco: Developing the Sustainability Scorecard (TN)

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for [inse107038]. View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Strategy; Performance; Groups and Teams; Management Systems; Market Entry and Exit; Competition; Social Enterprise; Motivation and Incentives; Goals and Objectives; Manufacturing Industry; Latin America; Brazil
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  • 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
  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

for those who are relatively uninterested. We discuss the implications of the IKEA effect for marketing managers and organizations more generally. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-091.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsCommunity Health Workers in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 01 Oct 2020
  • What Do You Think?

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
  • 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
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

  Working PapersStrategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match Authors:Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

regularly explore together: (1) Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? (2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and customers? Is everyone in your company committed to those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10

  Publications February 2015 RAND Journal of Economics Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design By: Boudreau, Kevin J., Karim R. Lakhani, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

Digital Doctor In recent years, many physicians have put away pen-and-paper and taken up the keyboard or tablet to maintain patient health records. One motivation was the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, which allows for $27... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
  • 31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811077-PDF-ENG Braddock Industries, Inc. William E. FruhanHarvard Business School Case 211-061 This case examines the drivers of economic value creation for shareholders and how these drivers are reflected in various View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

complex culture of the HMS neurological research community as well as the HMS academic culture. Demonstrates Ivinson's efforts to develop HCNR as a catalyst for aligning scientific researchers in the HMS community by creating incentives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

Susanna Gallani, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—We analyze the effects of a field experiment introducing a values-based 360-degree assessment system at an Indian retailer. The director intended to encourage store managers, rewarded based on high-powered View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

shown to users who performed similar searches, they find that Google's prominent placement of its Flight Search service increased the clicks on paid advertising listings by more than half while decreasing the clicks on organic search... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel