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- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
offshorability and wage level, where Blinder found no correlation. While Blinder found a slight wage penalty for the most offshorable jobs, the student data exhibited no evidence of wage depreciation from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 14, 2015
academic studies on the periphery of HRM are beginning to adopt such a view. We argue that the HRM studies so far have given us much valuable learning but that the subject has now reached a point where we need to take a wider, more contextual, more multilayered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
rare, she said. People answering the phone are part of the product development team and they are expected to talk with the engineers about the calls they receive. These employees are paid more than their counterparts in other companies.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Third Edition of Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization continues to provide a refreshingly accessible economic analysis perspective. The distinguished team of authors introduces and explains economic concepts in a way... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
earlier, Freed-Finnegan and Wall had founded Index after observing the technological advantages that Amazon and other online retailers had over brick-and-mortar retailers. Index’s first product was a customer database tool that allowed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
people should feel more confident about their decision making after sleep.” What they actually found was just the opposite. Sleep makes them feel better in some ways but does not boost confidence in their ability to make the best... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
in innovative capabilities, and increased employee engagement as a result. The programs vary but have seven major elements in common. Companies should 1) team with governments or nonprofits experienced in working with people with... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
read several of Kazuo Ishiguro’s books and they always inspire me and continue to haunt me long after I’ve put them down. The Remains of the Day is about purpose and the legacy that you wish to leave, and it is probably still my favorite of all Ishiguro’s books. I also... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
blew up at me, instead of firing him, I'd say, 'Let's work together.' I deferred to the wisdom of my team and the larger forces that govern us all. It was amazing how much unity all that created and how it allowed us to overcome seemingly... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
anywhere. Would Haier succeed? What could Haier do to push the microenterprises to get to the tipping point? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318104-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 812-043 ScoreBig The founding... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
sharing networks, Danone had helped managers connect with each other and share good practices peer-to-peer, rather than relying on traditional hierarchical lines of communication or IT repositories. From 2004 to 2007, Mougin and his team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
the history of Big Spaceship since its founding in 2000. Then the case shifts to a discussion of external dynamics: the firm's value proposition, which focused on providing start-to-finish, strategy-driven digital marketing solutions; its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
study a CSO's responsibilities and to look at how the role shifts depending on the company's level of commitment, Serafeim and Miller surveyed 66 CSOs and people with similar duties but different titles in 27 industries. They found that... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
founded Kvadrat in the 1960s. Byriel and Bendix had joined Kvadrat in 1992, and since that time, Kvadrat had grown from 19 million in annual sales to over 86 million. It had expanded its focus on selling textiles to European architects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
signal and infer quality of difficult-to-observe management practices. Prior evaluations of voluntary management programs have focused on those that lack verification mechanisms and have found little evidence that they legitimately... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
influence, intermittent social influence, or no social influence. Groups in the intermittent social-influence treatment found the optimum solution frequently (like groups without influence) but had a high mean performance (like groups... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
to the information necessary to make important choices, both the ERP and CAD systems would increase the likelihood that plant managers and production workers would make decisions and act on them without having to consult an executive at headquarters. On the other hand,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
prices for future consumption volatility but implies much greater predictive power of stock prices for future stock return volatility than is found in the data. Neither calibration can explain why movements in real interest rates do not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
and provocative, this book is an essential resource for all teams seeking to strengthen their innovative prowess. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel