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- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
own case and determine where to draw the line." That raises the question: How should the line be drawn on pay transparency? What do you think? Original Column Organizational transparency is a much contested topic in boardrooms and... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
entrepreneurship that helps to accommodate them. We then present the different phases of the process of institutional entrepreneurship from the emergence of institutional entrepreneurs to their implementation of change. Finally, we highlight future directions for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
About About The global financial crisis brought to the forefront of academic and policy discussion the question of how best to ensure the stability of the financial system. Researchers at Harvard have led groundbreaking View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
indicate that patient demand is relatively unimportant in explaining variations. Physician organizational factors matter, but the most important factor is physician beliefs about treatment. In Medicare, we estimate that 35% of spending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
involve tensions between local imperatives and boundary-crossing integration. And there are obligation paradoxes, when the goal of maximizing profits for shareholders clashes with the desire to generate benefits for a broader group of stakeholders. The authors argue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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CEO Leadership - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Research Areas Research Areas Antitrust & Competition Policy CEO Leadership Environmental Quality Innovation & Innovative Capacity Philanthropy Social Progress Index CEO Leadership CEO Leadership... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the potential transition to clean technology can be difficult both because clean View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jul 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Disagreement about the Team’s Status Hierarchy: An Insidious Obstacle to Coordination and Performance
Keywords: by Heidi K. Gardner
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
value, though they all understand profit as an essential outcome. HCHP firms are able to show sustained performance because they achieve the following three paradoxical goals: Performance alignment: Managing with their head, leaders develop an View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
world, is released by statistics bureaus in multiple countries, and is commonly discussed in news media and policy discussions alike. In our paper, recently published in Nature Human Behaviour, we argue that researchers and policymakers... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
or local companies. It was also the sheer spread of businesses it owned beyond packaged consumer products, including African trading, plantations, specialty chemicals, paper and packaging, transport, advertising, and market research... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?
feedback to last month’s column Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance? We would like to think that religious belief does affect organizational performance. Deb Wiesner expressed this... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First... View Details
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Increasing Value in Care Delivery - Health Care
focus of Professor Robert Kaplan’s research and Executive Education teaching. He focuses on two topics: measuring and managing organizational risk and, in a joint project with Michael Porter , measuring the... View Details
- 2019
- Working Paper
Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket
By: Robert Simons
This paper examines contemporary economic theories that focus on the design and management of business organizations. In the first part of the paper, a taxonomy is presented that describes the different types of economists interested in this subject—market economists,... View Details
Keywords: Self-interest; Economist; Moral Philosophers; Regulation; Capture; Organization Design; Economy Theory; Organization Theory; Management Theory; Commitment; Controls; Governance; Customers; Conflict of Interests; Business or Company Management; Competition; Organizational Design; Business Education; Agency Theory; Economics; Theory; Boundaries
Simons, Robert. "Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-045, October 2015. (Revised January 2019.)
- September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!
By: Willy Shih
This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Standards; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Information Technology
Shih, Willy. "Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!" Harvard Business School Case 612-017, September 2011. (Revised July 2012.)
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
bores you, and which the world does not need—this life is hell. —W.E.B. Du Bois In the organizational context, the four-drive theory implies that every person, from the CEO to the most junior employee will bring a predictable set of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- August 2006
- Background Note
Analyzing Work Groups
By: Linda A. Hill and Michel Anteby
Work groups are the building blocks of organizations. They are found in all areas of an organization, from research and development to customer service, and at all levels, from the executive suite to the factory floor. Some are incredibly successful, while others are... View Details
Keywords: Framework; Leadership Style; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Research and Development; Behavior
Hill, Linda A., and Michel Anteby. "Analyzing Work Groups." Harvard Business School Background Note 407-032, August 2006.
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Shad Hall | About
exercise studios. The basement of Shad is home to the Tennenbaum Technology Operations Center , the Computer Lab for Experimental Research; a 36-seat computer lab with six small-group rooms and sophisticated technology to facilitate View Details
- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
Eddisonphotos SUMMING UP In What Ways Will the Pandemic Stimulate Research in Leadership? Preparation for Black Swan events, to the extent that it is even possible, has to be balanced against the demands for short-term results. It may be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett