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- 31 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water
climate-controlled vaults. How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind People who bring personal shopping bags to the grocery store to help the environment are more likely to buy organic items—but also to treat themselves to ice cream and... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
the MGM-Mirage are quite generalizable to other industries," Martinez-Jerez says. "There are many decentralized employees with the rights to act on behalf of customers, and that's quite common in other organizations as well, when you need... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
Organization 13, no. 5 (September 2006): 653-676 Abstract While early neo-institutional studies did not explicitly tackle the issue of agency, more recent studies about institutional entrepreneurship have brought it to the forefront.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
who took a start-up course at CWE after being laid off from her job as a pet groomer. She now owns Animal Spirits, a successful pet-grooming store in Cambridge. Next to her is Carrie, who came to CWE looking for advice on how to expand her industrial cleaning business... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
perverse effect of perpetuating the problem. Drawing on a case study of a professional service firm, we develop a multilevel theory to explain why organizations are caught in this conundrum. We present data suggesting that the work-family... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
have today's senior executives, trained in the days when the pyramidal organization and domestic markets held sway, made the transition to a global, technology-driven economy? For three 1971 classmates and corporate leaders, Donald J.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
understand these bribery cases I analyze detailed data on the identity of the main perpetrator, detection method, and organizational response following detection and find that both the method of detection and how an organization responds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
successful manufacture and sale of synthetic polarizing filters to eliminate glare. His first enterprise, Land-Wheelwright Laboratories, was formed in 1932 and was reincorporated as the Polaroid Corporation in 1937. The company produced... View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
consumers will determine which are successful and which are not." But just how is "less" achieved? As Martin Reveli points out, "To artificially restrict choice eliminates some elements of competition. . . . Long live the long tail." Can one... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
lunchtime address peppered with anecdotes and one-liners, Cleveland native Tom Coughlin returned to his hometown to share some of his insights as president and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Division. When he joined the company in 1978, Coughlin noted, View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
of equity (or factor models) fail to exhibit systematic predictive power internationally, which is due in large part to functional form, rather than earnings-forecast, errors. LPV models derived using common valuation anchors such as earnings or View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
products account for 1 to 2 percent of total food sales in the United States. Reade’s business is mostly wholesale, selling to one organic distributor, two local health-food stores, and two restaurants. “The... View Details
- 14 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
Career Paths: From Finance to Social Enterprise
thought business school would be my savior, prior to applying to business school, I ended up being “rescued” by an international opportunity to work in Chile at a non-profit called Endeavor that mentors and supports high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets. After... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?
groups are important to a marketing organization, which group is addressed most effectively by emerging techniques relying on neuroscience, particularly the exploration of the subconscious feelings that may or may not drive behavior? Will such techniques enable an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Thinking About an MBA? Think About Your Purpose
Microsoft (whose purpose is “to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more”), and Warby Parker (which seeks “to inspire and impact the world with vision, purpose and style”). I recently interviewed 10 top... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
up an advanced and highly aggressive cancer. Even with a hideous year of surgeries and chemotherapy, the best I could hope for was a 50 percent chance of surviving the next five years. I was forced into an abrupt fire sale of the business... View Details
- February 2010
- Teaching Note
SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool (TN)
By: Mukti Khaire
Teaching Note for [810044]. View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
DeLong. In his course Managing Human Capital, DeLong challenges his students' assumptions about incentives, motivation, and compensation by contrasting the Lincoln case and its focus on the worker-as-individual with a case about a successful teams-driven View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
on the worker-as-individual with a case about a successful teams-driven organization that he teaches the day before. “A small percentage of students are intrigued by and support the complete meritocracy they see at Lincoln,” DeLong notes.... View Details