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  • 03 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

and layoffs. Questions that CEOs raised with us included: “What are best practices for digital terminations?” and “If the economy worsens and you have to consider reducing payroll, what’s the most effective way?” As we look ahead to what... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in Pre-Industrial Society

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit Credit and... View Details
  • 31 Jan 2007
  • HBS Case

When Good Teams Go Bad

not-so-pretty picture of a frustrating and baffling decline in performance by the varsity boat at the United States Military Academy. "Teams should always be used judiciously" Polzer, whose teaching and research focus on... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 29 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

down, his intelligence dims and his memory becomes less quick, so that he risks committing many errors in his business.” “In a sense, these are very early concepts of corporate social responsibility,” says Harvard Business School professor of management View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

signal to resolve the information asymmetry that exists. We provide evidence, however, that participants are much more likely to pursue a pooling outcome when such an outcome is available. This result is important for research and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

Research limitations/implications—The authors interviewed 125 successful leaders of major organizations and studied the cases of top leaders who failed. Practical implications—The five perils of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

paper, "When Learning and Performance are at Odds: Confronting the Tension." In this interview, Edmondson discusses her work and practical considerations for organizations looking to sharpen their learning skills, i.e., any... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 08 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

transfer doesn’t quite happen that way, and organizations that practice watch-and-learn vicarious learning run the risk of undertraining their key employees, says Myers. He challenges the theory in a new working paper, Coactive Vicarious... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada, and the U.S. obtain the highest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 13

during the interview process. Research shows that companies with more women on their boards have higher return on sales, higher return on invested capital, and higher return on equity. This article explains what boards need to ask to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How to Avoid a Price Increase

downsizing versus price increases from two perspectives: how manufacturers and the public think consumers behave, and how consumers actually behave. What did your research show? A: The research Jay Koehler... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • April 2012
  • Article

Finding the Right Mix: How the Composition of Self-managing Multicultural Teams' Cultural Value Orientation Influences Performance Over Time

By: Chi-Ying Cheng, Roy Y.J. Chua, Michael W. Morris and Leonard Lee
This research investigates a new type of team that is becoming prevalent in global work settings, namely, self-managing multicultural teams. We argue that challenges that arise from cultural diversity in teams are exacerbated when teams are leaderless, undermining... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Risk and Uncertainty; Culture; Value
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  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

embrace Western models of professional organization as they now exist, or to set off on an independent path, adapting elements of Western practices to their own historical and cultural situation. In doing so, the authors in this volume... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Rafaella Sadun | About

Digital Reskilling Lab. Her research focuses on managerial and organizational drivers of productivity and growth in corporations and the public sector. She co-founded several large-scale projects to measure management View Details
  • 23 Sep 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting

Keywords: by Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer & Michael W. Toffel; Health
  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

participated in several major research initiatives during the 1980s and early 1990s, before becoming Dean of the School in 1995. And even as Dean, he continued to pursue research until 2005, when he left... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

ICIC - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) is a nonprofit research and strategy organization and the leading authority on U.S. inner city economies and the businesses that thrive there. Creating Urban Opportunity ICIC's mission is to... View Details
  • 20 Apr 2021
  • Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

everybody does? My colleague Professor Raffaella Sadun has wonderful research that shows just how slowly even key managerial practices diffuse. All of a sudden, being a good manager confers a lasting... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 12 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 12

http://www.guilford.com/cgi-bin/cartscript.cgi?page=pr/vazire.htm&dir=pp/sapp&cart_id=525067.3094 Short-Termism: Don't Blame Investors Authors:Francois Brochet, George Serafeim, and Maria Loumioti Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 6 (June 2012)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

the weakening of democratic governance and the politics of decisions about industrial policy. Publisher's link: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-05631-9.html August 2013 Research Policy Digital Dark Matter and the Economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne