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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Business Model . Designing organizational structures and processes that allocate responsibilities, promote cross-functional integration, recruit/develop/promote employees, acquire critical resources and financing, and budget/monitor... View Details
- 21 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?
backfire. Sales last year fell 25 percent, resulting in a net loss of $985 million, and the blood-letting continued in quarterly results released this week. In a recent interview, Harvard Business School marketing expert Rajiv Lal, the... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
agencies to promote psychological science in the spirit of President Obama's order. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50170 How Do Customers Respond to Increased Service Quality Competition? By: Buell, Ryan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses
glitzy world of Las Vegas to steamy laundry plants in Asia. The results these studies have uncovered are important to understand for org designers, compensation committees, and any function such as sales that depends on incentives to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Photography and Print Advertising - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
the mind as the critical element of rationalized consumption. Greater sales in an increasingly competitive and national marketplace required persuading reticent consumers that individual difference and personal meaning could be theirs... View Details
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
meanwhile, managed a startling recovery from its five-year slump. The company’s third-quarter sales increased by more than 5 percent over last year, and in August online revenue showed especially high growth of a whopping 41 percent—the... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
sensitivity to ambiguity also predicted a greater frequency of arrests. Together, these data suggest that alterations in cost-benefit decision-making under conditions of ambiguity may promote antisocial behavior. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
occurred early in 1995 that revealed the commitment of the executive leadership team both to the new strategy and to the Balanced Scorecard. The winter (first quarter) of 1995 was unusually warm in North America. Sales of home heating oil... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
should be rewarded and incentives designed to encourage that. Says Bazerman, "Executives sometimes complain to me that their sales force is sacrificing profitability for revenue by lowering prices to make more sales. So I ask them,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
Leadership Top-down Participative Focus Structure and systems Culture Planning Programmatic Emergent Motivation Incentives lead Incentives lag Consultants Large/ knowledge-driven Small/ process-driven That is, each of them does promote... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
necessities of social distancing attenuate or alter the traditional organizational levers. Several CEOs observed: “Keeping spirits high in a sales environment. At the moment our sales force has to work twice... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
deployable, as TaKaDu engineers were spending up to two months implementing the system per client. Peleg also wondered if the company should continue to pursue sales leads from anywhere in the world or focus on one geographic market (and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
doing this financial analysis, Marisa received lots of mentoring from the vice presidents she worked with. Marisa believed that she had done well and would soon be promoted so that she could originate her own deals. However, she is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
trustee of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and serves on boards of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School and the University of Illinois College of Engineering. Mr. Burgstone actively supports organizations working to improve... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
economies—for understanding and managing the development of the space economy. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54487 in press Current Opinion in Psychology Making Seconds Count: When Valuing Time Promotes... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
range of behavior change models and evidence related to littering, water and energy conservation, and land management. We also discuss the methodology and data needed to answer these questions. We illustrate how these questions have been answered in practice to inform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
holiday sales season, the demonstration took place at Jordan Marsh in Boston, one of the region's leading department stores. To orchestrate the rollout of the product, Polaroid hired J. Harold Booth, known for his success in View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
to Compensation Changes: Evidence from a Sales Firm (pdf) , Management Science, 2021. With Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, and Nathan Seegert. The Gig Economy Beyond Local Services and Transportation (pdf) , CESifo Forum, 2020. With... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
casual interactions are the first to “go missing” in the virtual environment. Establishing opportunities for informal “water cooler” conversations could go a long way in promoting belonging. To learn more, read 6 Ways to Support... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne