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- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
tasks that are relevant to Recruit. For example, an HR manager who had wanted to be a rock star worked on creating large splashy events for Recruit’s annual company gathering and played in the company’s band. "Managers are evaluated on... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
incorporate other organizational objectives and managerial interests. For example, tax optimization can be a powerful tool but can also create performance evaluation and incentive problems. Many financial... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
this module by illustrating how to use a profit plan to test a strategy’s viability. This module shows how the profit plan plays a critical role in every business: setting performance goals for employees, communicating expectations to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
Assistant Professor Douglas Fearing doesn't have the magic bullet to make this painful part of air travel a thing of the past. But his research on evaluating and improving the performance of complex systems... View Details
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
the position of Brand Development Manager (BDM) to build the company's presence, sales, and relationships with its retail customers. After one year, the CEO, CFO and President must evaluate the impact of the BDM on retail customers, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
two centuries. We evaluate the implications of our estimates for aggregate TFP and per capita income. Our results reveal that, on average, countries have adopted technologies 47 years after their invention. There is substantial variation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
might be appropriate to redesign (“refactor”) a system, to reduce what has been called “architectural debt.” Unfortunately, we lack robust data by which to evaluate the relationship between architectural design choices and system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
tools, and six small-group rooms. "The level use of experimental research at HBS has grown beyond what anyone imagined when we first built the CLER lab," says Director of Research Computing Chase Harrison. "We're constantly evaluating how... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton Abstract While the concepts of lean production are frequently applied in service organizations, there is little work that rigorously has examined implementing lean production in contexts other than manufacturing, as well as lean... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
rates for loans in the banking system would decline to single digits. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307107 Multifactor Models Harvard Business School Exercise 207-056 Students evaluate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
financial management and the usefulness of formal hedging of agricultural production risks was offered to randomly selected farmers in Gujarat, India. The authors evaluate the effect of the financial literacy training and three marketing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
systems." Citing Robert Clarke, past Dean of Harvard Law School, Joe recalled Clarke noted that "Boards could be stewards of the corporation, looking after its long term health, or compliance officers using the Board's time to audit its View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of wrongful-discharge protections by U.S. state courts over the last three decades to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
and Related Research, no. 458 (May 2007): 202-219 Abstract Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) has become an influential factor in healthcare delivery in the United States. We evaluated the influence of DTCA on surgeon and patient... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
keep notebooks to write down quick ideas, but they miss the opportunity to generate immediate discussion on those ideas. Through our group text, any idea that got introduced would be built upon on the spot, and the discussion would inspire new tangential ideas. ... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
Paul M. Healy, and Yang Gui Periodical:Journal of Financial Transformation (forthcoming) Abstract Since 1949 Lehman Brothers has used an investment committee to select the top ten recommendations made by its analysts each year. We examine the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
manifests itself in organizational practices that fail to take women's lives into account, hinder their ability to develop powerful networks, and create excessive performance pressure on women. A Fresh Approach The solution offered by... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
do; they get them with the confirmation of a purchase rather than ahead of time. Were there a five-day waiting period before an order could be placed, the current system would perform better. But people want to act quickly, and in markets... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
models and evaluating their efficacy in standalone fashion—just as engineers test new technologies or products. However, the success or failure of a company's business model depends largely on how it interacts with those of the other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne