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- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
restructuring and downsizing and maintain employee dignity and commitment. Wayne Cascio, who has studied companies with a record of stable long-term employment contracts, lists the following policies to preserve the dignity and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
regulatory tradition that developed in the 1920s through the influence of the institutionalists and other progressive liberals. It emphasizes institutionalists acting within both public administrative agencies, such as the Federal Trade... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
physically and organizationally divided into autonomous operations. Many organizations—from airlines to hospitals to department stores—have since adopted the model, in the form of focused units that share... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
power of his idea. But Rovell knew that T.V. and newspaper sports departments are flooded with resumes and demo tapes from thousands of wannabe reporters. To ensure that his... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
the companies studied were interviewed by anyone in the C-suite. The result: About a third of promising new hires depart within three years of being recruited. As a remedy, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
Business School Case 111-082 The case describes the challenges that UBS faced as a result of the U.S. Department of Justice investigation for tax fraud, which claimed that UBS... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Government: Yes Or No? Shin Yasunobe, a former director within various departments of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), and now executive director... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't improve. To fix these problems, senior executives and their HR departments should change the way they think about learning and development, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
country is home to a range of internationally competitive firms, from Falabella, the largest department store chain in Latin America, to LATAM, the largest airline group and a member View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
2016 Random House The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change By: Anand, Bharat Abstract—Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, I examine a range View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Michael W. Toffel Publication:Strategic Management Journal 29, no. 10 (October 2008) Abstract This paper combines new and old institutionalism to explain differences in organizational strategies. We propose that differences in the influence View Details
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312034-PDF-ENG Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (B) Lena G. Goldberg and Chad M. CarrHarvard Business School Supplement 312-035 The case describes Albert "Jack" Stanley's response to actions initiated against him by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
Last year, Harvard Business School professor Ranjay Gulati met with the marketing department of a large American corporation and posed a seemingly simple question: What do marketing people actually do?... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Fragmented upstream and downstream channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Such distinctive industrial structures, we show,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
alliance partners. Chief Risk Officers at Crunch Time: Compliance Champions or Business Partners? Author:Anette Mikes Publication:Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions 2, no. 1 (November-December 2008) Abstract Risk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
sales tax can be complicated: if a customer pays $20 to eat food that costs $35 at a restaurant's menu prices, should the customer pay sales tax on $20 or $35? (In Massachusetts, the Department of Revenue... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
Publications 2006 pub Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives By: Bandiera, Oriana, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
when compared to defense and healthcare expenditures, not to mention the costs incurred recently rescuing failing banks and automakers, among others. But the picture changes when we consider the long-run consequences View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
of the traffic on Internet2 is predicted to be between computer and computer.— Richard L. Nolan Internet2 was launched when a group of academics from various university computer science View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace