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- August 2012
- Case
William Jeffrey at Bay Colony: On-Boarding (A)
By: Lena G. Goldberg
The decision-making process, policies and procedures, and legal obligations of the Board, the company's inside counsel and the company's outside counsel are explored in connection with on-boarding, investigating alleged misconduct of, and terminating a company's CEO,... View Details
- 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 business leader Robert Kaplan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India
- August 2012
- Supplement
William Jeffrey: Performance at Bay Colony (B)
By: Lena G. Goldberg
The decision-making process, policies and procedures, and legal obligations of the Board, the company's inside counsel and the company's outside counsel are explored in connection with on-boarding, investigating alleged misconduct of, and terminating a company's CEO,... View Details
- Web
The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research
pass-through persisted through 2021, even after the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines. Our findings suggest that federal subsidies and pandemic-induced reductions in spending opportunities explain the limited impact. 2025 Working Paper How Does Wage Inequality Affect... View Details
- 2015
- Article
Approach, Ability, Aftermath: A Psychological Framework of Unethical Behavior at Work
By: C. Moore and F. Gino
Many of the scandalous organizational practices that have come to light in the last decade—rigging LIBOR, misselling payment protection insurance, rampant Wall Street insider trading, large-scale bribery of foreign officials, and the packaging and sale of toxic... View Details
Moore, C., and F. Gino. "Approach, Ability, Aftermath: A Psychological Framework of Unethical Behavior at Work." Academy of Management Annals 9 (2015): 235–289.
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams
understand the production function and process well,” Tamayo says. “Here, we know you need (various) stations covered—cashier, grill, fryer, assembly, drinks, dessert—and then we have a sense of how a demand shock like a delivery platform... View Details
- Web
Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research
management, and improvement of operating systems and processes . As we seek to understand the challenges confronting firms competing in today's demanding environment, the focus of our work has broadened to include the multiple activities... View Details
- 24 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?
looking for talent in a tight job market. “A company has to understand that rigidity around job descriptions and work processes artificially constrains the pool of talent that they can access for a position.” The data were culled from... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 2011
- Working Paper
Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing, American, Japanese, and German firms are the best... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Business Ventures; Public Sector; Private Sector; Country; Performance; Motivation and Incentives
Bloom, Nicholas, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Management Practices Across Firms and Countries." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-052, December 2011.
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
affiliates with positive net trade credit positions were significantly more likely than others to repatriate dividends to parent companies in the United States. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50554 January 2016 Journal of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
emerging economies. However, microlevel product development processes in these economies are relatively unexplored, and the mechanisms by which the emerging economy context might affect such processes are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
relative job losses at target firms are less than 1% of initial employment. In contrast, the sum of gross job creation and destruction at target firms exceeds that of controls by 13% of employment over two years. In short, private equity buyouts catalyze the creative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Program
Senior Executive Leadership Program—China
to tackle challenges in the Chinese market, such as copycat competitors, labor costs, and other factors that can slow growth. Taught in a series of modules offered in Boston and China, this China senior executive leadership program helps... View Details
- 26 Apr 2023
- In Practice
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
tools that are now being introduced will have a profound impact on the labor market, leading to the eventual elimination of many jobs and the restructuring of many others. The effect will be particularly acute among knowledge... View Details
- February 2012
- Article
Management Practices across Firms and Countries
By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing American, Japanese, and German firms are the best... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Competency and Skills; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Sectors; Performance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Private Equity; Multinational Firms and Management; United States; Germany; Japan; China; India
Bloom, Nicholas, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Management Practices across Firms and Countries." Academy of Management Perspectives 26, no. 1 (February 2012): 12–33.
- 29 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely
month based on union-negotiated quotas. This implementation process enabled Choudhury and his co-authors to avoid what is known as the selection problem in social science research. “The concern is that there is some underlying... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 28 Jul 2019
- News