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- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
suggests the questions of the month. He writes: "... Natural resources and geopolitical advantages played no small role in the American rise to power, but the bulk of the credit belongs to the American work ethic and entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
truth, and who inspires a sense of belonging in others." The result of such initiatives, say some experts, can be a happier, more productive cadre of employees — and, with that, a healthier bottom line. But beyond the potential for... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
myth because successful application of loyalty systems by retailers goes beyond tiered rewards—they offer individually tailored rewards. Tiered reward systems create some form of stratified shopper segmentation—a shopper belongs to the... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
what you’re trying to do, they’re going to do it as well, which will push the price up. So the price you end up paying is not the best possible price.” Notably, the researchers found no evidence of information leakage in cases where the activist investor and the broker... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
extreme example of distancing from organizational tensions: They simply decide to work on their own. Naomi Rothman—a colleague at New York University—and I are analyzing data on contingent workers and are trying to understand their resilience mechanisms. View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
linguistic groups in emerging markets also affects foreign investors. In Malaysia, for instance, foreign companies should enter into joint ventures only after checking if their potential partners belong to the majority Malay community or... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
32%, and architecture flow through of 67%. We also found that business components can be classified as control elements, infrastructure components as shared, and software applications as belonging to the core. These findings suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
think, were the most important over the long haul. The third reason is that [they] developed relatively coherent managerial organizations with a strong sense of belonging and identification to the business—a tradition. This... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
Brigham and Women's Physician's Organization (BWPO) and its corporate parent disagree over who has jurisdiction over significant legacy funds. Are they controlled by the BWPO or do they belong to BWPO's corporate parent? The BWPO and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
arena. Counter to previous studies, his team’s results indicated that a particular group that participants belonged to was less important than how trustworthy they thought the other group was. “Our biggest headline finding is that it... View Details
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
An old adage says that it's not what you know, it's whom you know. But outsiders can take heart: even for those who don't belong to a high-power social network, there's power in simply keeping track of who went to school with whom.... View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
choice, and consumers fight back by rooting out and disseminating pricing policies that seem unfair. The problem is that companies generally think of value as a pie that is rightfully theirs. But value is not fixed, and it neither originates with nor View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
millennials that want to belong to something, belong to a company that has meaning and purpose. They probably felt like that when they signed on with Facebook. Does this affect them in some way? George: Yes,... View Details
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/313068-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 913-037 Rough Justice: Stuart Eizenstat and Holocaust-era Asset Restitution (A) Beginning in 1994, a series of articles and public disclosures indicated that Swiss banks... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
belonging to a group are obliged to make payments to one another by using a liquid asset. The paper studies the exogenous endowments of this asset that are necessary to assure that all obligations are met. Conditions are presented under... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
Parasitic integration often occurs when only two or three firms exist in a small industry. In many of the negotiation simulations used in value-creation training seminars, students represent firms belonging to a small market. Through... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
first time on the HBS campus is struck by its size. When walking to my office, visitors looking for the "main HBS campus" often stop me. They assume the School must be located in only one or two buildings. I explain that most buildings around them View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
learn new tricks: conventional companies can adapt to a platform world with a buy, build, or belong strategy. And 5) Platforms are a double-edge sword: abuse of power, bullying poor labor practices, and bad actors can undermine even the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
[having] a dictionary that lists all the words in the English language but doesn't include their meanings." How those words are defined remains to be seen, but most analysts agree that if the 1990s belonged to the Internet, the new... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
http://hbr.org/product/the-lego-group-envisioning-risks-in-asia-b/an/114048-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-003 Qatar: Energy for Development Despite being the richest country in the world on a per capita basis, for analysts Qatar View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne