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- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
gets slippery very quickly. Personally, I think it’s a fair thing for Apple to make it into a public debate and get a reaction from other tech people, as well as the public, especially given the stakes. As Bill Gates has already said,... View Details
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
2014, when George's branch obtained control and fired the CEO—who happened to be a cousin, Arthur T. Demoulas. Management was outraged, and the employees walked out in support of their CEO. The company lost tens of millions of dollars as... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Allocation for Kidney Transplantation Authors:Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis Abstract We propose a scalable, data-driven method for designing national policies for the allocation of deceased donor kidneys to patients on a waiting list in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
capitalization of firms in their coverage portfolio. Our results hold after Regulation Fair Disclosure, suggesting that these relationships are not based on selective disclosure. Overall, the evidence shows both the importance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Racial Diversity Pays Off
Increase the diversity of employees in your organization—for example, on the basis of race, gender, religion, nationality, and sexual orientation—and you'll automatically have a better company. Right? That's the prevailing belief anyway.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
long hours, most folks are being forced to do that with minimal compensation." Patrick Coomans placed some blame on "the weak job protection employees have in the US." Sid Mehta, who reminded us that Greece has the longest... View Details
- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
unionization In setting out to explain the differences in unionization rates by location, the researchers noticed that state-to-state union levels differed before and after the 1930s. Whether a state had a percentage of unionized View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
differences this way: "If one has to generalize, it is fair to say that Americans pursue risk and Europeans seek stability ... (leading) to fewer opportunities with more limited financial rewards, but possibly more balance for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
foster a culture that aligns all employees around the shared goals of customer solutions. 3) Clout: redistribute power to "bridge builders" and customer champions. 4) Capability: develop employees' skills at tackling changing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
of Leadership and Management; Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna ; and Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor. Speaking Up Recognizing problems in the workplace is commonplace. Speaking up about those problems is less so. Why? Because View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
wavebreakmedia Last month, the venerable organization Coca-Cola publicly announced that a project to hire more Black employees that stemmed from the settlement of a 2000 discrimination lawsuit had failed to achieve its objectives. Along... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
contracting. We recognize the advantage of using fair values in circumstances where these are based on observable prices in liquid secondary markets, but caution against expanding fair values to areas such... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
executives with whom he has successfully worked for decades? Or should he establish a new team with roughly equal representation from both airlines? Parker’s choice will send important signals to employees about the extent to which the... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54490 May–June 2018 Harvard Business Review Structure That's Not Stifling: How to Give Your People Essential Direction—Without Shutting Them Down By: Gulati, Ranjay Abstract—Most leaders view View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
"Instead of an outside regulation, an internal governance on salary structure, which is based on a value that 'Every employee should go home with a smile on his face' will create win-win situations for View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
active firm leadership in these courses, and establishing multiple channels of communication for employees to raise concerns with an explicit "no retaliation" policy. In January 2007, 86% of the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
research typically prescribes task sequences implemented by managers. Yet employees often have discretion to deviate from their prescribed sequence. Using data from 2.4 million radiological diagnoses, we find that doctors prioritize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
forces. We recognize the advantage of using fair values in circumstances where these are based on observable prices in liquid secondary markets, but caution against expanding fair values to financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
several years ago in Asian Business magazine's annual most admired companies survey, Siam Cement Group (SCG) was one of the first firms in Thailand to develop its own written code of ethics. SCG's philosophy is rooted in the Buddhist concept of View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
leadership of former chairman and CEO Steve Reinemund who instituted diversity as one of the company's strategic imperatives. It demonstrates the ways in which Reinemund partnered with his leadership team and employees throughout the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace