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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Time Dependence and Preference: Implications for Compensation Structure and Shift Scheduling

By: Doug J. Chung, Byungyeon Kim and Byoung G. Park
This study jointly examines agents’ time dependence—period effects within instantaneous utility—and time preference—behavior on discounting future utility. The study considers the start- and end-of-period effects for time dependence and exponential and hyperbolic... View Details
Keywords: Time Preferences; Present Bias; Hyperbolic Discounting; Compensation; Dynamic Structural Models; Identification; Time Management; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Performance; Compensation and Benefits
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  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup

(MBA 1991) Many employers offer voluntary benefits such as accident insurance, critical illness, and legal plan services. Employees pay for these benefits through paycheck deductions. Wellthy@Work could be a... View Details
  • 11 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

those participants who took the loyalty pledge, 20 percent had cheated.. But for those who didn’t take the pledge, more than twice as many—44 percent—had cheated. In a follow-up experiment, participants were given an envelope full of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • January 2018
  • Case

Pravost Consulting Services

By: Andrew Wasynczuk and Tiffany Y. Chang
Pravost Consulting Services considers a division manager's response to the stringent demands of his boss who lambasts him for the division's weak performance. Six months earlier Jakub Kowalski, CEO of Pravost, promoted Viktor Novak to head up the faltering Pravost... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Consulting Services; Employee Retention; Eastern Europe; Performance; Attrition; Culture; Krakow; Retention; Performance Improvement; Organizational Culture; Consulting Industry; Information Technology Industry; Poland; Europe
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  • 07 Oct 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

in the prosperous country, stimulates demand for products and services, and creates as many jobs as it fills, thereby not increasing unemployment. In the US, as the argument goes, it could also help address the economic shortfall in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • December 2016
  • Module Note

Strategy Execution Module 10: Using the Job Design Optimization Tool to Build Effective Organizations

By: Robert Simons
This module reading provides directions for using the online Job Design Optimization Tool (JDOT) which is available free of charge from Harvard Business School Publishing at https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/resources/marketing/multimedia/JDOT/index.html. This tool can... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Span Of Control; Span Of Accountability; Performance Measurement; Job Design; Organization Design; Strategy; Entrepreneurship
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  • September 2023
  • Article

The Dynamics of Team Learning: Harmony and Rhythm in Teamwork Arrangements for Innovation

By: Jean-François Harvey, Johnathan R. Cromwell, Kevin J. Johnson and Amy C. Edmondson
Innovation teams must navigate inherent tensions between different learning activities to produce high levels of performance. Yet, we know little about how teams combine these activities—notably reflexive, experimental, vicarious, and contextual learning—most... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Learning; Performance Effectiveness; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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  • 22 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

technologies like Sorbent Ventilation Technology. This federal down payment on building decarbonization will pay climate dividends for decades to come. Matthew Arnold (MBA 1995) CEO, Unimacts GlobalI have... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2019
  • News

Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East

fellowship is a great liberator and enabler, allowing students like me the ability to pursue our passions. It inspires me to pay it forward for other students after I graduate.” View Details
Keywords: Inclusion
  • July 2016 (Revised June 2019)
  • Case

Hamilton: An American Musical

By: Anita Elberse and Jennifer Schoppe
In July 2013, composer, writer, actor and rapper Lin-Manuel Miranda, director Tommy Kail, and producer Jeffrey Seller met to discuss how to launch Hamilton, a new musical based on the life of the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, Alexander Hamilton.... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment; Creative Industries; Performing Arts; (General) Management; Blockbusters; Non-profit; Theater Entertainment; Strategy; Risk Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Arts; Creativity; Product Launch; Product Development; Marketing; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

care as part of their business model Executives from health care insurance companies, government entities that pay for health care, or other payor organizations Leaders from pharmaceutical companies, medical... View Details
  • June 2010
  • Article

The China Rules: A Practical Guide for CEOs Managing Multinational Corporations in the People's Republic

By: Lynn S. Paine
To achieve growth and profitability in the world's third-largest economy, multinationals need strong leadership--but China is tough on top executives. Pulsating with opportunity, China attracts foreigners, yet HR professionals continue to rank it as one of the most... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Leadership; Management Skills; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Adaptation; China
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  • Web

BiGS Research | Institute for Business in Global Society

BiGS Research At the Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS), we advance rigorous, practice-oriented research at the intersection of business and society. Our projects explore corporate ownership structures, sustainable industrial... View Details
  • 17 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

understood as a valuable learning experience. The second CEO, by contrast, described performing a great deal of emotional labor while attempting to keep the business in stasis—exhausting tasks with no clear milestones. No wonder he felt... View Details
Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg
  • 02 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

Ask any small business owner and they will tell you that cash flow is on their mind pretty much all the time. This isn’t surprising, given that they are continuously managing dollars coming in from customers and going out to pay View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
  • March 2017 (Revised May 2017)
  • Teaching Note

The Strategy Execution Series

By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
This is the teaching note for the 15-module Strategy Execution series. New management tools and techniques are needed to implement strategy in the 21st century. Rapid innovation, entrepreneurial competitors, and increasingly demanding customers have radically altered... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Strategy Execution; Performance Measurement; Profit Planning; Organization Design; Profitable Growth; Management Attention; Organizational Conflict; Job Design; Business Strategy; Management Systems; Entrepreneurship; Competition; Organizational Design; Performance Evaluation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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  • Article

Making a Difference: Developing Actionable Knowledge for Practice and Theory

By: Michael Beer
There is a widely acknowledged gap between academic research and practice. While the field of organizational studies and development has had an impact on management practice in some organizations, it has had only a modest impact on widely accepted management practice... View Details
Keywords: Actionable Knowledge; Actionable Practice; Normal Science; Scholar-consultant; Management Practices and Processes; Theory; Innovation Leadership; Organizations; Performance Effectiveness
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

ESG: From Process to Product

By: George Serafeim
ESG measurement, analysis, management, and communication is a process that the financial industry has turned into a product, resulting in many investment funds using the ESG label. This has caused confusion, generating demand for a framework that defines... View Details
Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; Investment Fund; Investment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry
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  • October 1983
  • Article

Measuring Manufacturing Performance: A New Challenge for Management Accounting Research

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Problems and Challenges; Accounting; Research; Performance
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  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms

At a recent gathering of chief executives in New York City, the heads of two companies shared pleasant dinner conversation. The first led a large, successful corporation; the second also happened to serve as a director of a telecommunications firm that was looking... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Telecommunications; Information