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- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
more because of those experiments. For example, casino hosts felt they had more leeway to overcomp a player based on experience with similar customers in the past, or by reading body language or other telltale signs that the customer was... View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
once was considered thinking and will increasingly do so." Bill Barker agreed, in the process offering his solution: In the past, he wrote, the portion of the working population employed in agriculture dropped from 50 percent to less... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
the evaluations given (and consequent resource allocation). We empirically evaluate effects in data collected from a grant proposal process at a leading research university in which we randomized the assignment of evaluators and proposals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
further erosion in competitive performance, which makes it even more attractive for other companies to move their supply base overseas. The process looks like a natural reaction to market forces, but, in... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
relationships when it instead primarily encourages newcomers to express their personal identities. In a field experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing company, we found that initial socialization focused on personal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
in the 1970s. Naturalization The process by which U.S. citizenship is granted to a lawful permanent resident after meeting the requirements established by Congress in the Immigration and Nationality Act... View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
Publications In press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes When Doing Good Is Bad in Gift-giving: Mis-predicting Appreciation of Socially-responsible Gifts By: Cavanaugh, A., F. Gino, and G.J. Fitzsimons Abstract—Gifts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
"Pilot: New York City" was released in October 2023. The press release can be found here and the full report here . Boston Public Schools Hiring Process Improvement Spring 2022 | Focus : Education Operations Team: Jenny Zhou Description:... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
The widespread use of pricing algorithms is reshaping the nature of competition in online markets and potentially driving up the prices of retail goods, according to recent research. These automated, price-adjusting software programs may... View Details
- 19 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Moving to the U.S. With a Family
lunch, I mentioned that we were expecting a baby over the summer. A few weeks after returning to London, we found a package in the mail from one of my new classmates and his fiancée – a perfect newborn sized “Harvard” onesie! Naturally we... View Details
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Crucibles of Crisis Leadership - Course Catalog
failures of different teams as they tried to navigate the large storms they faced. The second objective is to understand how crises always contain the possibility of substantial innovation. Some of this innovation occurs at an organizational level as the time pressures... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
which looks at the roles of three management groups: worldwide business managers, country or regional managers, and worldwide functional managers. A second new chapter, "Managing the Transformation Process," outlines the structural and View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
of the personal connection it already enjoyed? Understanding the dynamics of the CEO search process — and the ways in which chief executive turnover influences corporate performance — has been the subject of recent research by HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
Center's Roof Terrace Restaurant on Friday evening. Ferguson discussed the changing nature and role of leadership today, and illustrated his talk with an insider's view of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. “Alan was by no means... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
link improvements in their daily processes to achievement of high-level strategic objectives. The Balanced Scorecard framework describes strategy with strategic objectives, measures, targets, and initiatives. (See Figure 2-1.) Strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
together." Potential consultants for Specialisterne undergo a five-month training process that familiarizes them with the intricacies of LEGO Mindstorms technology. According to the case, "There was a View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
and opportunities of their times for more than 200 years, from the economic boom and social challenges of industrialization to what has been described as the promise, peril, and unrealized potential of the 21st century. The language and... View Details
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
any agent’s preferences are not substitutable, then the existence of a stable outcome cannot be guaranteed. In many-to-many matching with contracts, a new market design issue arises: the design of the contract language can impact the set... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Alumni Forums - Alumni
encourage members to discuss what is most important to them in an open and safe environment. It is natural for HBS alumni forum members to discuss business and career issues, but just as common to discuss personal issues, which are often... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
Hall, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo Abstract In this study, we examine transformations in the influence of risk managers in two large UK banks over a period of six years. Our analysis highlights that a process we term toolmaking, whereby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne