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- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Authors: Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, and Kelsey Jack Abstract A substantial body of research investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
cultures, all organizations cultivate career imprints. The strength of career imprinting depends upon both the people a firm hires as well as an organization's environment (factors having to do with people and place). Regarding place, for... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 25 Feb 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business
professor Constance Bagley discusses the most frequent legal flops made by entrepreneurs, everything from hiring the wrong lawyer to puffing up the business plan. Key concepts include: Entrepreneurs tend to delegate too much to the... View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
negotiate in the right order. Sorting Out The Possibilities When Steve Perlman was preparing to launch WebTV in 1996, he faced a critical sequencing dilemma. He had obtained seed funding, developed the technology to bring the Internet to ordinary television sets,... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
As more and more corporate executives have been paraded on perp walks these last few years, a question has repeatedly been raised: Where was the board? After all, isn't it the board's responsibility to make sure the fox isn't hired to run... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
Markets don't just determine prices, they also determine who gets what. For commodities, the price does most of the work, but many markets, like labor markets, don't clear by price alone. You don't hire just anyone who is willing to work... View Details
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
Marketing executives value entertainment-related endorsements because of the difficulty of reaching a wide group of consumers using traditional advertising. Companies look to hire athletes whose image mirrors their own corporate brand.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal
think either we could hire more people to generate more ideas, or we could pursue auction deals. It takes time, though, to develop experience in this space, and I don't think we could hire enough people to... View Details
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
fraught example, about TraceTogether—a smartphone app to support community-driven contact tracing to slow the spread of COVID-19—that public entrepreneurs leave their office to ask people for feedback. Lagace: How do you hire talent for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
hired—and receive health insurance? Some would counter that such personal information is, in a sense, already available, pointing to the fact that many companies require physicals for their employees as part of the hiring process. And if... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
industries hire for attitude and train for skills. Regardless of whether it worked elsewhere, they were sure that it didn't apply to health care, where people want the best in skills whether as providers, recipients, or hospital... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
fast. What has recently happened in that environment is it has become necessary to hire senior people with real experience. In September, we had the good fortune of hiring a world-class CFO. She had worked... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
However, traditional options for improving the algorithm, such as hiring and training new employees, were time intensive and costly. Hastings decided to improve Netflix's software by crowdsourcing and began planning the Netflix Prize, an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
product—micro-cap stock research. The firm has hired a group of five analysts who will produce written research reports on micro-cap stocks, that is, publicly traded stocks with a market capitalization of less than $250 million. Peter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
precisely what they want their salespeople to be good at, assessing the sales force on these dimensions, and then hiring or training in order to get where they want to be. The (B) case provides rich detail of the model, the assessment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
already being done by business enough? George Serafeim: Think about the following: in the past two decades, most companies have established sustainability departments, hired more people for social impact, invested more resources, and... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
their teams did not seem to be a relevant factor, nor did team history (whether or not the franchise had won a Super Bowl in the past before hiring the respective coach). “The very best coaches stay consistent and win over long periods of... View Details
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
broaden its appeal. These new products undercut the integrity of the Starbucks brand for coffee purists. They also challenged the baristas who had to wrestle with an ever-more-complicated menu of drinks. With over half of customers customizing their drinks, baristas,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
job? An individual, a group of people, or some sort of board? Where would those people come from? New York? Nigeria? London? To my mind, it should be left up to the elected entity. If KPMG wanted to fly in a vice president from the Chicago office, it could do so, or it... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
- 08 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Writing the Case for Public School Reform
transforming a human resources department from a paper-pushing backwater to an entity that is strategically incorporated into the district's overall mission. "One observation that we made early in PELP is that school systems have essentially not changed their... View Details