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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

How Major League Baseball Clubs Have Commercialized Their Investment in Japanese Top Stars

By: Isao Okada and Stephen A. Greyser

When a Major League Baseball club signs a Japanese star player, it obviously tries to commercialize its investment in the player. The initial focus is on home attendance (ticket sales) and television audiences, plus merchandise sales. These elements are similar to... View Details

Keywords: Commercialization; Sports; Revenue; Sports Industry; Japan; United States
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  • 14 Sep 2021
  • HBS Seminar

Dashun Wang, Northwestern

  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

of Barton's talented security specialists performs with his jazz ensemble. This leads to a discussion about how to manage real-time collaboration between highly skilled people, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 2

medical schools continue to focus on the basic sciences, to the exclusion of such managerial topics as running effective teams. The approach to executing reform appears to assume that practice managers and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2009 (Revised March 2013)
  • Case

Shanghai Diligence Law Firm (A)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Catherine Zhang
Shanghai Diligence Law Firm, started in January 2006, is a rapidly growing law firm in China's burgeoning legal services market. In addition to the usual challenges facing all professional service firms (picking and retaining talent and building a desired client... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Motivation and Incentives; Legal Services Industry; China
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  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give larger loans to small firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

bottom line is that there are people on your team who will grow beautifully as the business grows, and there are those who just don’t do well in a mature environment. Some tips on how to manage this... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 30 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Future of IT Consulting

ensure that the group stays on the leading edge of the subject matter. Related to this third driver is the focus that a separate consulting firm can maintain in managing a highly talented group of knowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting
  • 17 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions

Keywords: by Alvin E. Roth
  • 26 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 26

Publications August 2014 Management Science Smart People Ask for (My) Advice: Seeking Advice Boosts Perceptions of Competence By: Brooks, A.W., F. Gino, and M.E. Schweitzer Abstract—Although individuals can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2021
  • Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing, Cespedes, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, offers research-based insight and context, and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Web

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting

racial injustice of this kind, but the six friends and talented professionals wanted to do their part to make them the last. Starting the Anti-Racism Fund It was from these deep discussions around how they... View Details
  • 26 Apr 2023
  • In Practice

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

gradually and then suddenly.” Companies will move slowly to deploy generative AI technology like that embodied in OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Harnessing the immense pool of data underlying it will require the development of proprietary... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
  • 16 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

overhaul of how policymakers, educators, and employers devise, construct, and manage career pathways, which are the routes aspiring workers take as they graduate from education... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology
  • 05 Feb 2024
  • What Do You Think?

How Do You Hire for Attitude?

spend 2 percent of their time recruiting and 75 percent managing their recruiting mistakes.” Our research confirms that these are companies that hire for skills and try to do... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 30 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

shut down and has seen no revenue, with thousands of employees home, since November. 2. Lead by example Managers should model the behavior they want to see in others. If they say employees can leave the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

opportunity seems obvious: If you operate in a sexist country full of educated, experienced women with expertise on their home country, then it makes sense to hire those women into management roles. "You can tap into their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • September 2006 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Recruitment of a Star

By: Boris Groysberg, Stephen Balog and Jennifer Haimson
Details power dynamics that unfold in the firm when one of its best and brightest threatens to leave. It focuses on the dynamics of attracting, hiring, compensating, negotiating, and leveraging a star performer in a professional service firm. In particular, traces the... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Resignation and Termination; Selection and Staffing; Job Interviews
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  • 21 Aug 2023
  • Book

You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance

multiplicity of skills, networks, industries, and irons in the fire—and that might also mean multiple income streams,” Wallace says. From a managerial point of view, diversification means being open to reallocating View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • Program

Program for Leadership Development

Specialists and star contributors who have been identified as outstanding prospects for increased leadership responsibilities High potential talent in roles that cover the scope of senior manager, manager,... View Details