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- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
Retail Chain By: Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—This paper contributes to an emerging literature in management control that studies employee selection as a mechanism to align employees with corporate goals and values.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
performance decline when they move from one team to another; they operate fairly independently. (In the corporate world, the somewhat autonomous position of the chief financial officer is analogous to that of the punter, Groysberg says.)... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
thousands of public documents from the Department of the Interior that detailed bid price and profits from 1954 to 1975. He reported his findings in a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics last year, The Performance of... View Details
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
There's a famous line from the movie The Godfather, which is often repeated in corporate settings: "This is business, not personal." Ironically, though, that statement is actually bad business advice. During the Consortium for Operational... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
Article Are large groups of reasonably informed and motivated people able to make better decisions than a small group of experts? James Surowiecki, in his recent book, The Wisdom of Crowds, reports on a diverse body of work that suggests... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program
one’s corporate ecosystem, etc.) is essential to establishing and growing businesses in African markets. Many of the failed entry attempts we discussed were led by organizations who either failed to identify suitable local partners or... View Details
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Management Training Program: 1945 - 1955 | Baker Library
Management Training Program: 1945 - 1955 Management Training Program assignment guidelines for report on field work, 1948. Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Records. Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library,... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Social and Governance (ESG) issues into every aspect of GPIF’s portfolio. His efforts ranged from constructing new stock market indices based on ESG data, changing the compensation and incentives of active investment managers and passive funds, pushing for more View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of what exactly had happened to the 62-year-old icon. The redesign is part of an initiative by McDonald’s corporate to modernize the customer experience, which began in the... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies and structures of developed economies. The growing literature on the business history of emerging markets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
necessarily the best team leader, because a lot of board members don't value the team leadership aspect of the position." Clifford F. Baker put it this way: "Having worked for a living in a corner office of a corporate ivory... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
that some giant computers controlled by big corporations and institutions know better than they do about what they will be doing in (the) future and what they'll become They might turn into poor, weak machines themselves , abiding by what... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
trouble being promoted in certain work environments, and hold a tiny percentage of top corporate management positions. According to a 2010 report from research firm Catalyst, among Fortune 500 companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
first time to executives who report directly to OPM participants for graduates. The intensive two-week program will include courses in Human Aspects of Business, General Management, Corporate Finance,... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Working PapersCorporate Social Entrepreneurship Authors:James Austin and Ezequiel Reficco Abstract Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced and powerful forms of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
reducing poverty have generally been the same. More aid. More debt relief. More foreign direct investment. And, of late, more free trade. I agree with all of these. However, the greatest contribution Western countries and corporations can... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
with a request for proposal, the company's largest customer performs a routine evaluation and ranks PV Technologies third behind two key competitors. The director of sales and marketing must weigh the possible consequences of the report... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
Red Cross. They should be listened to for counsel in scenario planning before the next natural nightmare hits. . . ." Nikhil Zaveri proposed that ". . . there should be training and development of citizens by the government, involving the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Finding Your Creative Outlet on Campus
came to HBS, I wanted to still do something where I would be reporting on the human experience, but I wanted to experiment with a different medium. I really like getting to know people and their stories, and journalism is a great way to... View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
Editor's note: Even with recent disclosures about out-of-control spending on corporate perks and government agency parties, the US military is frequently held up as the exemplar of organizational largesse run wild. In the new book Defense... View Details