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  • 26 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 26

Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, and Kelsey Jack Abstract A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

Lerner, and Jean Tirole Abstract The sub-prime crisis has shown a harsh spotlight on the practices of securities underwriters, which provided too many complex securities that proved to ultimately have little value. This uproar calls... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2022
  • Conference Presentation

Organizational Competition: A Catalyst for Workplace Diversity and Desires for Uniqueness

By: Samantha N. Smith, Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios and Katherine L. Milkman
Competition is prevalent in organizations. For example, people often compete against their colleagues for status and recognition in the workplace or for opportunities for advancement. Workers also compete against others to get hired into organizations in the first... View Details
Keywords: Status and Position; Organizational Culture; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior
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  • August 2005
  • Case

Bill Belichick and the Cleveland Browns

By: John R. Wells and Travis Haglock
Genius? That is not what they were calling Bill Belichick in Cleveland. Why? Four losing seasons in five years. Fans hurled trash and insults. The media resented him. Ownership abandoned him. Players quit on him. Very different from the three Super Bowls in five years... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Sports; Sports Industry; United States
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  • 17 May 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews

because if they don’t accept my racial identity, I don’t see how I would fit in that job.” How to address discriminatory hiring practices It’s time for employers to acknowledge that bias is hardwired into... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • January 1998 (Revised May 1999)
  • Case

General Scanning, Inc. (A)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Sean McClenaghan and Charles Tillen
General Scanning, Inc. was founded by Jean Montagu and Pierre Brosens, two MIT mechanical engineers with an interest in developing innovative products based on the early application of lasers. They invented proprietary technology for laser beam positioning and scanning... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Entrepreneurship; Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Strategic Planning; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Commercialization; Manufacturing Industry
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  • May 2011
  • Case

Baria Planning Solutions, Inc.: Fixing the Sales Process

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and William Schmidt
Baria Planning Solutions (BPS) is a consulting firm that specializes in using spend analysis to help companies identify savings through reduced procurement costs and improved supplier performance. Management is concerned about the disappointing performance of the sales... View Details
Keywords: Quantitative Analysis; Technology; Operations Management; Product Lines; Manufacturing; Capacity Planning; Production Planning; Production; Management Practices and Processes; Service Operations; Supply Chain Management; Salesforce Management; Planning; Consulting Industry; North and Central America
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  • 09 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53695 forthcoming Journal of Oncology Practice Development and Feasibility of Bundled Payments for the Multidisciplinary Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer: A Pilot Program By: Spinks, Tracy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 18

  PublicationsSidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed and How We Can Stick to the Plan Authors:Francesca Gino Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming Abstract You may not realize it but simple, irrelevant factors can have profound consequences on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

company. In December 2020, Bastian announced that Delta would become a charter member of the newly formed OneTen corporate coalition, a group of business leaders from more than 30 large companies who aimed to collectively hire and advance... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation
  • Research Summary

Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs

“U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”

Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details

Keywords: Non-market Strategy; Political Strategy; Lobbying; Make V. Buy; Multinational Enterprise; Global Strategy; United States
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

managers of facilities that are subjected to comparable institutional pressures adopt distinct sets of management practices that appease different external constituents. Using an original survey and archival data obtained for nearly 500... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 25

Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We collect data on operations, targets, and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

Black employees are being sorted into lower-quality workplaces, even within the same occupation or geographic region. “Firms with better work environments are presumably more attractive to employees,” Zhang says. “So at the point of View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

embrace Western models of professional organization as they now exist, or to set off on an independent path, adapting elements of Western practices to their own historical and cultural situation. In doing so, the authors in this volume... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Governing the Family-Run Business

kinds, it has been clear that every business able to improve governance reaped lasting benefits. If you are in a family enterprise, you need to learn the basics of governance and apply the best practices that exist in family business... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

have to be this way. “If companies I know and admire are doing this, it can’t be that bad, or else they wouldn’t do it.” Layoffs are an example of “hope triumphing over science,” says Sandra Sucher, the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Telecommunications; Technology; Financial Services; Manufacturing
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

signal to resolve the information asymmetry that exists. We provide evidence, however, that participants are much more likely to pursue a pooling outcome when such an outcome is available. This result is important for research and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

discuss what he considers to be the biggest practical issues facing boards today: how to get and give honest assessments without eroding collegiality and trust; how to evaluate the CEO using factors that go beyond financial results; how... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?

Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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