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  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

Business School Case 806-044 Fred Khosravi is a serial medical device entrepreneur. In his latest venture, he must decide whether to sell now or continue to develop his current product and whether to market it, sell the company, or IPO.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Nov 2021
  • Book

What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

led a renewal of the company by discarding performance metrics that discouraged risk-taking, aligning employees behind a mission to empower customers, and proclaiming that the “C” in his title stood for culture. The book, forthcoming in... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • October 2009
  • Article

Making Time Off Predictable—and Required

By: Leslie Perlow and Jessica L. Porter
People in professional services believe a 24/7 work ethic is essential for getting ahead—and so they work 60-plus hours a week and stay tethered to their BlackBerrys. This perpetuates a vicious cycle: Responsiveness breeds the need for more responsiveness. When people... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance Expectations; Performance Productivity; Work-Life Balance; Service Industry
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  • December 1992 (Revised June 1996)
  • Case

Siemens Corporation (A): Corporate Advertising for 1992

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
Describes the approach of the German-based multinational company, Siemens Corp., to establishing an identity in the United States. The specific goals for the 1991-92 corporate advertising campaign are described. Examples of print and television messages are included,... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Trade; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Performance Evaluation; Germany; United States
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  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

forthcoming Academy of Management Discoveries Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and a World of Surprises By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—In recent years, progress has been made toward AI Creativity, which I define as the production of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

About - Business & Environment

Reynir is Partner of Summa Equity, an investment firm focused on companies that address key global challenges. Reynir enjoys everything from being part of the deal teams to driving performance and innovation in Summa’s portfolio. Reynir... View Details
  • December 2006 (Revised September 2007)
  • Case

Ponsse: From Finland to Global

By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
Finland-based Ponsse Oyj, with 2005 turnover of $250 million, is the only dedicated forest equipment company of size that remained in a consolidating industry. Competitors included global giants such as John Deere and Komatsu. Since his arrival at Ponsse in 2004, CEO... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Capacity; Expansion; Forest Products Industry; Forest Products Industry; Russia; Finland; United States; Brazil
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  • 08 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How to Demotivate Your Best Employees

to a decrease in plant productivity by 1.4 percent, which added up to a cost of almost $1,500 a month for the plant. "Having your top performers demotivated for all eight hours on the job ended up creating a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Service
  • 01 Nov 2017
  • What Do You Think?

What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?

Fargo was asking its sales force to sell 8 products (‘Going for gr-eight’) to customers that needed fewer products.” This was coupled, as Thomas Dean put it, “with high, high pressure on line employees to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Banking
  • 21 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

susceptibility to competition. How to repair the rift? Two HBS faculty developed a CD-based program called Measuring Marketing Performance targeted at senior executives—namely CEOs, COOs, and CMOs. The tutorial helps execs understand how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

supplier capabilities and hence about future supplier performance. This paper presents a multi-period model of service level competition among suppliers selling substitutable products to a customer that engages in supply learning. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

productivity levels. But money is less meaningful as a motivator in the complex creative jobs that make up most work in our modern knowledge-based society. “With most of today’s employees, you’re trying to help instill intrinsic... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

Activity-based costing, ABC, would seem to be an accurate way for managers to assign costs to the customers and products that use a department's services. But real-world use has shown ABC loses power in large-scale operations, and can be... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
  • Web

Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Review articles, How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition (November 2014), and How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Companies (October 2015) address the role of information... View Details
  • Web

Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

HBS alum and Care.com CEO Sheila Marcelo, demographic trends and the changing role of women in the workforce mean that employers must “do the math” when it comes to care. By not accounting for costs like reduced productivity and increased... View Details
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

Africa outside the African continent. In April 2023, the HBS Show staged its 50th annual performance in Klarman Auditorium. The high-quality student-led production showcased the enormous talents of HBS... View Details
  • September 28, 2021
  • Editorial

A Guide to Implementing the 4-Day Workweek

By: A.V. Whillans and Charlotte Lockhart
As organizations continue to explore a variety of flexible work options, one promising avenue is the four-day workweek: The standard 40 hours per week is reduced to 32 hours, with the same pay and the same productivity expectations. Research suggests reducing hours can... View Details
Keywords: Workweek; Stress; Employees; Health; Performance Productivity; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • Article

Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Microdata

By: Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun
We explore the effects of planning regulation on the UK retail sector between 1997 and 2003 using micro-data from the UK census. We document a shift to smaller shops following a 1996 regulatory change that increased the costs of opening large stores. Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Productivity; Growth and Development; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Cost; Retail Industry; United Kingdom
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  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

experimental methods to further demonstrate causality and to consider the effects of potential moderators. These findings have implications for decisions related to product pricing, placement and assortment, store layout, and the choice... View Details
  • 18 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work

researchers asked survey respondents a wide range of questions related to their beliefs and preferences. They found that overall, non-binary individuals: Underestimated their own performance more than women, who also underestimate their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding