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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Business Review 90, no. 12 (December 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/12/the-microwork-solution/ar/1 Are There Too Many Safe Securities? Securitization and the Incentives for View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
large variances in how much other people are paid. Companies need to realize that with the overflow of information these days, paying peers differently is going to affect not only how those people feel but... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
leaders: 1. How much information should be shared inside the organization? 2. Do we have a choice? A recent example suggests that the disclosure debate might well be extended to information that generally... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
of subduing individuality and ensuring conformity. Culture offers an inexpensive and informal way of regulating behavior that is all the more effective because it occurs inside the minds of employees and relies on View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 16 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advice on Advice
certain things unsaid. Sometimes the advice-seeker is leaving out key pieces of information inadvertently or because of discomfort with his contribution to the problem. "If someone says I have interpersonal issues at work and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
improves the visibility of a paper on the SSRN network. We also find limited evidence of gaming due to demographic factors and career concerns, and strong evidence of gaming driven by social comparisons with various peer groups. These... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
to use largely intuition when we think about this issue, and that our intuition is informed by little or no evidence.” Taylor Corr added that the topic is “still very much a work in progress across the board many companies are entering... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder
both of which helped signal how much effort individuals were putting into their job. They also studied compensation at all levels, including senior executives. Workers were surveyed on how much they thought, on average, peers and managers... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
which transparency can backfire. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55804 forthcoming PS: Political Science & Politics Informal Institutions and Survey Research in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq By:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
whole team setting and meeting a range of performance benchmarks over a period of time," write Hope and Fraser. "Performance is then evaluated by a peer review group (using relative measures) with the benefit of hindsight."... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
field experiment at a large North American company, provides plenty of reassurance, showing that regular Zoom chats with managers fosters solid career-building connections for new workers. In fact, informal “virtual watercooler” sessions... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
requests out of concern for having to meet everyone’s demands. Sharing information allows employees who didn’t know they could have flexibility, gain it. Transparency can help increase fairness and reduce the burden on many employees who... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
harshly penalized than their less distinguished peers in the wake of a retraction, but only in cases involving fraud or misconduct. When the retraction event had its source in “honest mistakes,” we find no evidence of differential stigma... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
Benchmarking certainly has its virtues. Comparing production time or the cost of a standard process to that of peer companies can yield important insights about your own efficiencies—and ultimately, competitiveness. But benchmarking also... View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
other business function. But the ROI is disappointing because much of the training misunderstands how salespeople learn, is classroom-centric, and fails to take advantage of new tools that stimulate peer learning and enable the use of... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
How can schools around the world educate their students better? What does the future hold? Most researchers who study these questions in the field of education peer through the lenses of sociology and public policy. HBS professor Clayton... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
a peer at the senior management and board level. The expert's job is to challenge entrenched in-house thinking. He or she should not think ill of technology-averse cultures and must be a skilled communicator who does not hide behind... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
http://www.francescagino.com/uploads/4/7/4/7/4747506/gino_krupka_weber_management_science_2013.pdf Engaging Supply Chains in Climate Change Authors: Chonnikarn Fern Jira and Michael W. Toffel Publication: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn Reynolds Abstract—Objectives: To assess whether the addition of a peer testimonial to an informational mailing increases... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
generate homogeneity within communities in regard to corporations' social activities. We suggest that there are three main factors that influence corporations to follow locally established patterns: what the government encourages; what local View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne