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- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
outsider's view to challenge the status quo. Given the string of ethical failures of corporations around the world in recent years-from BP to GM to JPMorgan Chase-it's clear that leaders not only need to act more responsibly themselves, but also must develop keen... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
people witness the luxury, they might want to upgrade, benefiting the cruise line,” he adds. “But it might also lead lower-fare customers to be more disgruntled and unhappy with their current experience. For an airline or cruise line,... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
integration. The reason is that at low prices, increases in revenue resulting from enhanced productivity are too small to justify the cost, whereas at high prices, the revenue benefit exceeds the cost. Trade policy provides a source of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
often sought some equity in mining and other foreign investment projects, but as shareholders they have rarely gained what they anticipated. Only in special cases might the benefits to governments outweigh the risks and often... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
Amabile spearheaded a study of more than 200 knowledge workers over a three-year period, asking them to keep journal entries of their successes and frustrations at work. What she found was unexpected: It wasn't recognition or awards that most ignited View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
and two laboratory experiments in food service settings suggest that transparency that 1) allows customers to observe operational processes (process transparency) and 2) allows employees to observe customers (customer transparency) not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
middle managers and line employees attempt to execute the explicit strategy. Unfortunately, these strategies often diverge. They are not aligned. And so the potential of the enterprise becomes unrealized. "Strategy therefore becomes... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
discussion surrounding employee motivation—specifically as it is affected by the change management process and workspaces, benefits versus perks, and sorting effects. The (B) case details the outcome of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
business leaders are using to transform communications with their employees and customers, as it shifts from one-way transmission of information to two-way interaction. That's one reason Time magazine just named Facebook founder Mark... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
staggering rate. In an ambitious study of 4,200 companies, conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute, 72% reported using them to facilitate employee communication. We have studied internal social tools in various work settings, including... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
economy" industries. They can, but do not necessarily, lead to market tipping, unless they outweigh customers' benefits from differentiation and are accompanied by high switching and multi-homing costs. Network effects create the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
to illegally hack into the phones of select individuals. That these hackers seem not to be News of the World employees illustrates the Russian nesting doll model, which contains the seeds of moral hazard, since it allows for the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm accounting performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should You Outsource Your Marketing?
she was president of the Fidelity Personal Investments unit of Fidelity Investments, serving 4 million customers with $500 billion in assets. She answers our questions in this e-mail Q&A. Poping Lin: We are familiar with the benefits... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
were given a majority of the company's stock in exchange for almost $5 billion in wage and benefit concessions. The two cases are fascinating contrasts. Scott Paper's restructuring involved large-scale job reductions, while United's gave... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
bit both a value claimer and a value creator. But an executive can actively choose to be a value creator, someone who always looks for the "win-win," leaving enough room for both sides to benefit from a deal without feeling the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
they’re putting out small fires everywhere by answering emails and crossing relatively menial obligations off the to-do list. To relieve time stress, people would benefit by setting aside blocks of time every day or even just once a week... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
http://kuznets.harvard.edu/~aroth/papers/KesslerRoth_OrganDonationAndAllocation.pdf The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for the Strategic Compensation of Employees Authors:Ian Larkin, L. Pierce, and F. Gino... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition
benefit companies of almost any size, but they're particularly crucial in large corporations where operating units have been granted considerable autonomy. Although giving business units greater freedom generally increases accountability,... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
communities) and the moderating effects of team leader experience. We test our moderated mediation model in a sample of 121 teams that filed patents in a Fortune 50 company’s India R&D center between 2005 and 2015 using proprietary View Details