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- February 2022 (Revised January 2024)
- Supplement
Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (C)
By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
- January 2024
- Supplement
Winning Business at Russell Reynolds
By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry
Bernstein, Ethan, and Cara Mazzucco. "Winning Business at Russell Reynolds." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 424-704, January 2024.
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
early principles of the company in an informal session at Levitt's Belmont home. Berolzheimer's family business was an industrial company, providing wood slats to pencil manufacturers; Levitt urged him to form a separate entity to focus... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
over time. Her findings indicate that expert evaluators were indeed biased in favor of projects in their own area, which increased the application’s funding chances by 3.2 percent. But there was an unexpected benefit to their bias.... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
the Bias Trap Max Bazerman "The project...taps into earlier work I've done on how joint evaluation leads to better and more ethical decisions." - MAX BAZERMAN In a research project conducted with colleagues at the Harvard Kennedy School,... View Details
- Fast Answer
HBS Course: Starting a Private Investment Firm
private investment lifecycle. Individual accounts are required to access. Strict data download limit. Preqin
Information on PE & VC firms, funds, private companies, and deals. Has a... View Details
Information on PE & VC firms, funds, private companies, and deals. Has a... View Details
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
advantage of a natural experiment involving two offsetting court rulings, separated by several weeks, that affected the antitakeover force of staggered boards for a subset of Delaware firms. We find evidence consistent with the hypothesis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
workplace. Across six studies, we found convergent evidence that emotional acknowledgment led to greater perceptions of costliness, and in turn, to higher evaluations of trust.” Working Papers Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices:... View Details
- 02 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Pursuing A Passion in Health Care
assessing the opportunity for a new medical diagnostic tool that targets a previously unaddressed customer segment. My job involves reaching out to our different country teams across the globe to evaluate the opportunity in their market,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Managing Family Assets
could buy into of why it makes sense to work together rather than have them go their own way. And we had to be really good listeners and include everybody in the conversation. What we talk about in our family is both rowing together and rowing View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
queues. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50023 Evaluating Firm-Level Expected-Return Proxies By: Lee, Charles M.C., Eric C. So, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We develop and implement a rigorous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy By: Eccles, Robert G., and Peijun Duan Abstract—China's sustainable development faces three challenges: first, the follow-up momentum of sustainable economic growth and economic transformation is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
facing the Internet. Note that in the newspaper industry, digital content initially started with different advertising customers, a different business model, and a whole set of performance characteristics that made it appear unattractive on the metrics traditionally... View Details
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
box, and the remote. Your breakfast-included hotel bill still features separate prices for bed and for breakfast. Partitioning should only be used by those sellers who want to sensitize people to a secondary benefit that might otherwise... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
selfish intentions leading to desirable outcomes were presented jointly rather than separately (Experiment 1). Separate evaluation reduced the outcome bias even when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Business and Science – The MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program
to a career in biotech; the PhD route and the non-PhD route. Either of these routes can lead to a successful and impactful career. However, the distinction between scientists and business professionals has drawbacks in the daily course of business. These functional... View Details
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
combine to determine overall consumer satisfaction. Hotels can perhaps be evaluated more dispassionately. In addition, rating doctors may require reviewers to recall details of their own conditions and/or treatments which might be... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
believes the key to making better strategic choices in turbulent markets lies in understanding the level of uncertainty faced in a given situation. 20/20 Foresight provides a framework for learning to separate what can be known from what... View Details