Job Performance - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

dramatically improve performance for startups, a setting that is rife with uncertainty and change, something all businesses are feeling acutely at this moment. In this work, we find that startups that adopt A/B testing tools grow faster... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

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Past Issues - Alumni

leave our jobs behind and who do we become? After Ozempic How a game-changing drug is reshaping Novo Nordisk, disrupting the pharma industry, and setting up a once-in-a-generation windfall for philanthropy Complete Table of Contents... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Five Bright Ideas

European Computer Driving License, a basic requirement for any IT job in Europe, which otherwise can cost as much as $500 per course.) English language, computer skills, and business management curricula are especially popular. Explains... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

09 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208125 China's Financial Markets: 2007 Harvard Business School Note 208-147 Provides an overview of capital markets in mainland China in 2007, evaluating the up-to-date View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

corporate gamesmanship and dizzying sums associated with M&A; activity, for the business scholar, such deals are often more interesting as windows inside organizations, revealing how they adapt and perform in times of dramatic change.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

17 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

2017 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job By: Bussgang, Jeffrey J. Abstract—Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

becoming CEO of Slim Jim manufacturer GoodMark Foods, this book shares the stories and lessons learned of an ordinary man who achieved extraordinary success by believing in himself. Despite nearly losing his job at General Mills several... View Details

14 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

Grossman Periodical:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 11 (November 2006) Abstract One of the biggest management challenges anywhere is how to improve student performance in urban public schools in the United States. There has been no... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2010
News

Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

were to do in the section, from smoking a cigar in Finance class to borrowing that massaging seat cover for a day. I believe that our BGIE professor, Willis Emmons, who attended the event, even offered as an auction item the performance... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

16 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules

quarter's stock was associated with a 33 percent increase in the size of the investor's position. During those quarters when an investor met with a firm executive, the trades that followed those meetings performed significantly better,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

case, product divisions). And just as obviously, no one likes to give up power. Leadership from the top, aimed at promoting a "one-company" mentality, is often the only way forward. One of Oosterveld's conditions for taking the View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

eventually cut 15,000 jobs from the company's payroll. In ten years of growth between 1982 and 1992, the number of employees had risen from 41,500 to 116,700, and the airline's fleet had grown from 231 to 897 planes. However, in 1991, due... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Mar 2006
News

Drive-In Nation

such a protected market into a wide-open, hypercompetitive environment is a very difficult process.” Today’s headlines confirm that difficulty, as GM and Ford close plants, cut jobs and production, and try to deflect talk of bankruptcy,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

03 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The State of Customer Service Leadership

just a US phenomenon. The proportion of jobs devoted to services has shown gains in both more and less developed economies for decades. We found that the US does not have a monopoly on great service leaders or best practices in service... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

economic theory with field experiments. "Field experiments give you scientific rigor while being close to practice," says. "Unless you really have a bulletproof argument that you can't poke holes in, it's hard to change prior beliefs." Case in point is her research on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

going into the job, a huge handicap that leads to poor foreign policy. Our leaders assume that the U.S. model of business and governance is ideal, with some small adjustments, for all countries and that our job is to go forth and remake... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

shown to users who performed similar searches, they find that Google's prominent placement of its Flight Search service increased the clicks on paid advertising listings by more than half while decreasing the clicks on organic search... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Mar 2017
News

The Business of Lego Batman

what's really the job is to oversee a production from start to finish. But really, when you're deep into the production process, to hand over the keys to a director and then continue to work with that director and the whole production... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

engagement? To answer these questions, we utilized self-determination theory to examine whether reward satisfaction predicted employee well-being, job satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and affective commitment, as well as valuable... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

developing greener and higher performance insulation materials, is the emphasis on building decarbonization and energy efficiency, especially as it relates to retrofitting existing buildings. Including and welcoming these innovations... View Details

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