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  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

the waiting time to enter the ED increased by 26 minutes. We do not find any indications of improved performance on clinical metrics, with no statistical change in the number of admissions to the hospital or readmissions to the ED within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

can, under certain conditions, yield immediate post-break performance increases. We test our hypotheses using productivity data from 212 fruit harvesters collected over one harvesting season yielding nearly 250,000 truckloads of fruit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

If they didn't understand it already, executives and corporate managers have learned one huge lesson over the past couple of years: macroeconomics matters. Interest rates. Exchange rates. Trade deficits. The Gross Domestic Product.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations

By: Joyce He, Jon M. Jachimowicz and Celia Moore
High potential programs offer a swift path up the corporate ladder for those who secure a place on them. However, the evaluation of “potential” occurs under considerable uncertainty, creating fertile ground for gender bias. We document that men are more likely than... View Details
Keywords: Passion; Potential; Gender; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Talent and Talent Management
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  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

trainees how to assemble an aircraft wing—and has cut the time it takes them to do that task by 35%. At GE, factory workers have achieved a similar gain in efficiency by using voice commands in AR experiences to perform complex wiring. AR... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

Capabilities: A Meso Model of Sustained Innovation and Superior Firm Performance By: Harvey, Jean-François, Henrik Bresman, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—This paper complements the manager-centered analysis of dynamic capabilities with a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

productivity in a short amount of time,” the researchers write in their recent working paper Virtual Watercoolers: A Field Experiment on Virtual Synchronous Interactions and Performance of Organizational Newcomers. With View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • Research Summary

Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2013
  • News

Thai Lee, MBA 1985

President and CEO, SHI International Download Lee profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1958 Born, Bangkok, Thailand 1980 Earns BA, Biology and Economics, Amherst College 1985 Earns MBA 1985 Joins Procter & Gamble 1987 Joins American Express,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43620 Pay for Environmental Performance: The Effect of Incentive Provision on Carbon Emissions Authors:Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou, Shelley Xin Li, and George Serafeim Abstract Corporations are... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

performance of ads. When surfers are visiting DART-enabled sites, DART tracks 26 criteria—from keywords in searches, to purchases, to time-of-day surfing, to domain name—in order to develop a user profile. DoubleClick then uses this data... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

year gains. We evaluate the performance of all policies under consideration using the same statistical and simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

  PublicationsOptimizing Organic Waste to Energy Operations Authors:Bariş Ata, Deishin Lee, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract A waste-to-energy firm that recycles organic waste with energy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

two-week online contest broadcast to participants outside academia and biomedical disciplines. Participants in our contest produced over 600 submissions containing 89 novel computational approaches to the problem. Thirty submissions exceeded the benchmark View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

About $162 billion was spent in 2012 in the United States on corporate training—in what Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer calls the “the great training robbery.” Beer, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration,... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity

organizations become more profit driven, they come to depend on black health care professionals to perform equity work to serve increasingly diverse constituencies. Yet black workers often do this labor without recognition, compensation,... View Details
  • 13 Jan 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

the organization’s core activities, sharpen the performance of its leadership team, and rebalance where necessary. This finding came to light when we studied Big C and Small C change in professional sports—specifically, how coaches who... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports
  • 22 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

to imagine that we could inspire high performance with no employee engagement." Conant decided to grow the soup business, and he championed the idea of "winning" on two fronts--in the workplace and in the marketplace. To... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Larry Murphy

managed and which customers rate as a top Disney offering. “We considered joint ventures with established cruise lines, but to do it the Disney way, we realized we had to own and run it ourselves.” Murphy, a Beverly Hills resident, has now hung out his shingle as a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Accommodation; Hospitality
  • 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010

that was simultaneously being rebuilt from the ground up. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411010-PDF-ENG HOYA Corporation (A) W. Carl Kester and Masako EgawaHarvard Business School Case 209-065 In 2007, HOYA of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne