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- 2015
- Book
Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
By: David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano
The authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a Business Week top 10 book) analyze the strategies, principles, and skills of three of the most successful and influential figures in business—Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs—offering... View Details
Keywords: Management; Strategy; Leadership; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology Industry
Yoffie, David B., and Michael A. Cusumano. Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs. New York: Harper Business, 2015.
- April 2001
- Article
Academic-Practitioner Collaboration in Management Research: A Case of Cross-Profession Collaboration
By: T. M. Amabile, C. Patterson, Jennifer Mueller, T. Wojcik, P. Odomirok, M. Marsh and S. Kramer
We present a case of academic-practitioner research collaboration to illuminate three potential determinants of the success of such cross-profession collaborations: collaborative team characteristics, collaboration environment characteristics, and collaboration... View Details
Amabile, T. M., C. Patterson, Jennifer Mueller, T. Wojcik, P. Odomirok, M. Marsh, and S. Kramer. "Academic-Practitioner Collaboration in Management Research: A Case of Cross-Profession Collaboration." Academy of Management Journal 44, no. 2 (April 2001): 418–431.
- 15 Apr 2012
- News
Why Medical Bills Are a Mystery
- 07 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose Workers Who 'Look the Part'
inadvertently make employers deemphasize arguably less noisy signals of freelancers’ quality (e.g., reputation and performance variables),” write the authors. Employers on these platforms—often small business owners or individuals without... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 06 Oct 2023
- Book
Yes, You Can Radically Change Your Organization in One Week
experimentation.” Morriss: “In Unleashed, our last book, we dug into the architecture of trust at the level of the individual leader. Now, we take that architecture and apply it to organizations. This is really what we did when we worked... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 2018
- Working Paper
Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality
By: Suresh Nallareddy, Ethan Rouen and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato
This paper studies the effects of corporate tax changes on income inequality. Using state corporate tax rate changes as a setting, we show that cutting state corporate tax rates leads to increases in income inequality. This result is robust to using regression and... View Details
Nallareddy, Suresh, Ethan Rouen, and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato. "Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-101, May 2018.
- Program
The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports
managers, and other individuals who represent talent Senior or mid-level executives in business development, marketing, and strategic planning, who work or aspire to work for studios, networks, publishers, music companies, performing arts... View Details
- Research Summary
Emotional Experience, Expression, and Regulation
Once considered irrational, emotions often exert a more profound influence on decision-making and workplace outcomes than logic or reason. Professor Brooks studies emotional experience, emotional expression, and how individuals can regulate their emotions... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- HBS Seminar
Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto
- Research Summary
Overview
By: John A. Deighton
Professor Deighton conducts research at the intersection of information technology and marketing. He is interested in the complementary uses of human and artificial intelligence and creativity in areas such as advertising, content creation, and online retailing. He... View Details
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Overview
Empirically, Ryann uses a combination of in-depth qualitative field research and visual and textual archival data to examine moral action at multiple levels of analysis. Through observation and interviews, she aims to capture the lived experience of individuals and... View Details
- July 2017
- Article
The Four Stages to Becoming an Excellent Front-Line Sales Manager
By: Frank V. Cespedes
Sales occupations account for more than 10% of the total U.S. labor force, and that official estimate is almost certainly low: In an increasingly service economy, many people who do business development for a living are not listed as “sales” for reporting purposes.... View Details
Keywords: Salesforce Management
Cespedes, Frank V. "The Four Stages to Becoming an Excellent Front-Line Sales Manager." Quotable (July 2017).
- 2015
- Working Paper
Do People Who Care About Others Cooperate More? Experimental Evidence from Relative Incentive Pay
By: Pablo Hernandez, Dylan B. Minor and Dana Sisak
We experimentally study ways in which the social preferences of individuals and groups affect performance when faced with relative incentives. We also identify the mediating role that communication and leadership play in generating these effects. We find... View Details
Keywords: Social Preferences; Relative Performance; Collusion; Motivation and Incentives; Leadership; Attitudes; Performance
Hernandez, Pablo, Dylan B. Minor, and Dana Sisak. "Do People Who Care About Others Cooperate More? Experimental Evidence from Relative Incentive Pay." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-040, October 2015.
- July 1989 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
Kanthal (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Multinational company needs an improved cost system to determine the profitability of individual customer orders. Its strategy is to have significant sales and profitability growth without adding additional administrative and support people. The new cost system... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Earnings Management; Cost Management; Financial Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Business or Company Management; Customer Relationship Management; Sales; Business Strategy; Profit; Electronics Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Kanthal (A)." Harvard Business School Case 190-002, July 1989. (Revised April 2001.)
- May 1993 (Revised May 1994)
- Case
Managing for Integrity: Three Vignettes
By: Lynn S. Paine
Three situations are described. A branch manager for a retail brokerage firm must decide whether to change the branch's cash management techniques to increase interest earnings. An auto mechanic must decide whether to oversell parts and repairs to meet sales and... View Details
Keywords: Growth Management; Ethics; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Financial Management; Sales; Organizational Change and Adaptation
Paine, Lynn S. "Managing for Integrity: Three Vignettes." Harvard Business School Case 393-154, May 1993. (Revised May 1994.)
- 26 Sep 2013
- News
A blockbuster tale
- 06 Mar 2015
- Video
An Economy Doing Half Its Job - Boston, MA
Mastering the 1:1
Whether you’re a CEO or a line manager, your team is just as important as a group as its members are as individuals. Today’s tech companies offer many View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Beyond Agency Theory: The Hidden and Heretofore Inaccessible Power of Integrity (PDF file of Keynote Slides)
By: Michael C. Jensen and Werner Erhard
There is far too much concern today about the conflicts of interest between people; for example, conflicts of interest between agents and owners—historically a favorite topic of Jensen—and not enough attention paid to the damage caused by an individual's conflict of... View Details