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- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
Claudine, Andrea Prat, and George Serafeim Abstract—We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- July 1999
- Background Note
Comments on Standard Times and the Division of Labor
By: Roy D. Shapiro
A brief note on the origins and uses of standard times in production process flow diagrams and on the benefits and drawbacks of division of labor. A rewritten version of two earlier notes. View Details
Shapiro, Roy D. "Comments on Standard Times and the Division of Labor." Harvard Business School Background Note 600-013, July 1999.
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
varied. “While diversity is easier to measure quantitatively,” Laurie pointed out, “inclusion metrics are currently qualitative and inconsistent.” Bob put it in personal terms:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
2019 New York: PublicAffairs Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract— Creative Construction tackles the myth that larger enterprises are inherently incapable of transformative innovation and are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
evaluation of submitted ideas. Methodology/Approach: The contest held in a hospital cardiac center invited all clinicians and support staff (n = 1,400) to participate. We used the 27-item Learning Organization Survey to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Focusing on relative total shareholder returns (rTSR), the predominant metric specified in these contracts and used by market participants to evaluate managers, we document that 60% of firms—those that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
financial product, weather insurance pays if measured rainfall during the growing season falls below a pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah, managing director of the BASIX's bank, considers a revised insurance policy for the coming season,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Article
Prosocial Spending and Buying Time: Money as a Tool for Increasing Subjective Well-Being
By: Elizabeth Dunn, A.V. Whillans, Michael I. Norton and Lara B. Aknin
Researchers have long been interested in the relationship between income and happiness, but a newer wave of work suggests that how people use their money also matters. We discuss the three primary areas in which psychologists have explored the relationship... View Details
Dunn, Elizabeth, A.V. Whillans, Michael I. Norton, and Lara B. Aknin. "Prosocial Spending and Buying Time: Money as a Tool for Increasing Subjective Well-Being." Advances in Experimental Social Psychology 61 (2020): 67–126.
- 2023
- Working Paper
When Should Public Programs Be Privately Administered? Theory and Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program
By: Alexander Bartik, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, Christopher Stanton and Adi Sunderam
What happens when public resources are allocated by private companies whose objectives may be
imperfectly aligned with policy goals? We study this question in the context of the Paycheck
Protection Program (PPP), which relied on private banks to disburse aid to small... View Details
Keywords: Paycheck Protection Program; Targeting; Impact; Entrepreneurship; Health Pandemics; Small Business; Financing and Loans; Outcome or Result; United States
Bartik, Alexander, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, Christopher Stanton, and Adi Sunderam. "When Should Public Programs Be Privately Administered? Theory and Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-021, August 2020. (Revised July 2023. Accepted at The Review of Economics and Statistics.)
- Spring 2014
- Article
Ex-Ante Agreements in Standard Setting and Patent Pool Formation
By: Gaston Llanes and Joaquin Poblete
We present a model of standard setting and patent-pool formation. We study the effects of alternative standard-setting and pool-formation rules on technology choice, prices, and welfare. We find three main results. First, we show that allowing patent pools may reduce... View Details
Keywords: Standard Setting; Patent Pools; Royalty Stacking; Ex-ante Agreements; Coalition Formation; Motivation and Incentives; Patents; Agreements and Arrangements; Standards
Llanes, Gaston, and Joaquin Poblete. "Ex-Ante Agreements in Standard Setting and Patent Pool Formation." Special Issue on Innovation Economics. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 23, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 50–67.
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
workers living in areas where diversity issues are more salient, as measured by per-capita Black Lives Matter protests. The results were not affected by variations in the education and gender of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Management Practices, Relational Contracts, and the Decline of General Motors
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
(IMM), a measure of the social value created by a company per equity dollar invested. If a company fails to meet the IMM threshold, Rise will not invest in it. The case finds McGlashan and Maya Chorengel... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- March 2022 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Innovation at Moog Inc.
By: Brian J. Hall, Ashley V. Whillans, Davis Heniford, Dominika Randle and Caroline Witten
This case focuses on the challenges of incentivizing innovation within Moog, an engineering company based in New York state that designs and builds guidance systems for space, air, and land-based travel. The case enables students to grapple with the challenges of using... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Innovation Lab; Innovation Management; Motivation; Incentives; Culture; Compensation; Compensation And Benefits; Scalability; Business Growth and Maturation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Culture; Performance Consistency; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Performance Evaluation; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Aerospace Industry; Transportation Industry; United States
Hall, Brian J., Ashley V. Whillans, Davis Heniford, Dominika Randle, and Caroline Witten. "Innovation at Moog Inc." Harvard Business School Case 922-040, March 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
because of the challenges associated with measuring effectiveness. Notably, these obstacles are not limited to evaluation by external parties, as firm managers also struggle to assess the returns associated with investments in compliance.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
gender diversity, and this might then affect whether or not diversity leads to stronger outcomes. In a recent study of 1069 leading firms across 35 countries and 24 industries, researchers found that gender... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- September 2024
- Exercise
Assessing the Value of Unifying and De-Duplicating Customer Data
By: Elie Ofek and Hema Yoganarasimhan
This exercise provides an opportunity for students to gain hands on experience with assessing the value of unifying various customer databases that a firm may have (e.g., across the different brands it markets) and of properly identifying customers to avoid duplication... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Measurement and Metrics; Analytics and Data Science; Value
Ofek, Elie, and Hema Yoganarasimhan. "Assessing the Value of Unifying and De-Duplicating Customer Data." Harvard Business School Exercise 525-023, September 2024.