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- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
people in the higher ranks of Unilever, yet compared to most companies, Unilever was distinguished worldwide by competent and professional management. The challenge was to translate these strengths into a competitive performance that... View Details
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
Notably, the result persists after controlling for a host of factors that may influence bidding, but disappears when the appeal for charity is replaced by an appeal to bid for other reasons. Implications for the link between religion and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
"Why is there such a persistent gap between ambition and performance?" ask Robert Kaplan and David P. Norton in "The Office of Strategy Management" in the October 2005 Harvard Business Review. "The gap arises, we... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
relation between budgeting type and budgetary misreporting. Results also indicate asymmetry in the effects of psychological contract breach versus repair. Effects of breach on budgetary misreporting persist even after the breach no longer... View Details
- 30 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?
little to contribute to processes of creation and innovation. While asking "What isn't management's role in innovation?," Michelle Malay Carter states the case this way: "Nearly all current performance management models are... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
environmental factors created by a persistent virus. It’s as if the success and gains made in 2021 with vaccinations and the incremental return to work and school policies have made leaders at different echelons reluctant to admit that... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
what are the key drivers of technology; and what are the macroeconomic consequences of technology. We prioritize in our discussion unified approaches to these three questions that are based on direct measures of technology. 2006 pub Dysfunction in the Boardroom:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
become a "participative sport" for the senior management team, rather than a "spectator sport." Barton was persistent in making the senior management play IT as a participative sport. Davies wasn't. In the structure of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
possibility that " managers are not trained for it." Dianne Jacobs cited the possibility that persisting assumptions borne out of success serve as "roadblocks to act on needed change" (proposed by those who engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-021.pdf What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises Authors: Robert Gibbons and Rebecca Henderson Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
Kakani and Columbia University professor Adam Sacarny, focuses on another explanation: differences in hospital quality. Hospital care improves, but gaps persist The researchers analyzed about 20 years of Medicare data, reflecting the... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
the dynamic effect of sales calls across heterogeneous doctors, we provide guidance on the design of optimal call patterns for route sales. Our analyses reveal that the long-term persistence effect of detailing is more pronounced for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
companies, and the gender pay gap persists. While young women are aware of these systemic problems, the more nuanced forms of sexism that persist today often take them by surprise, say Ammerman and co-author Boris Groysberg, the Richard... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
encouraging the establishment of new venture capital firms. Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Authors:Paul A. Gompers, Josh Lerner, David Scharfstein, and Anna Kovner... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
symbol and a renforcer of social and class divisions. Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term Performance Employees facing increased workloads usually tackle easier tasks first. This study by... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
motivator is our natural tendency to measure our own performance against the performance of others. 2011 Top 10 Working Papers: (# Unique Visitors) What Do CEOs Do? (3,708)... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
features a regime-switching short-rate model. We evaluate the out-of-sample performance of our model in terms of forecasting ability and coverage properties and find that it improves on the standard Diebold and Li model. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
workforce is not a quick fix to control costs or improve the quality of care. A poorly planned redesign can even result in increased costs and decreased quality. Changes in skill mix and role definitions should be preceded by a detailed analysis and redesign of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
from "real work." But when Google's people analytics team examined the value of managers, applying the same rigorous research methods the company uses in its operations, it proved the skeptics wrong. Mining data from employee surveys, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne