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- 02 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories
to convince consumers to buy luxury goods." The Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe promotes the idea that its products can be handed down from one generation to the next, for example. With such a limitless time frame for enjoyment, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
teach a professional code of ethics similar to those promoted in law, education, science, and medicine, that the staffing of managerial positions be guided by considerations of moral character and ethical performance, and that a corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
promoted young executives—often around thirty years of age—to run whole companies. The chief auditor of one of the premier machine engineering companies in Germany in the early 1920s was barely thirty years of age. Thyssen kept trying to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
Many institutions promote and even mandate moral behavior and values among their members, but how they do it differs greatly. Some organizations such as religious groups may proscribe very specifically what is acceptable behavior—think... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
integration of Gillette, explicit attention was paid to helping people get to know each other casually and informally, and the much larger P&G adopted Gillette systems and promoted their people. They called it "the best of both... View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
the case with the other spans, senior managers can adjust the span of influence to promote desired behaviors. They can widen the span when they want to stimulate people to think outside the box to develop new ways of serving customers,... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Opportunity Authors:Maxim Sytch, Adam Tatarynowicz, and Ranjay Gulati Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Working PapersManagerial Practices That Promote Voice and Taking Charge among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
insurance crisis of 2002-2003. The study tracks the promotion and use of a set of accounting and risk controls put in place to control the troubled insurance division and discusses how and why particular management control systems shift... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
Cell Biology at Harvard. Sato oversees the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Sciences Entrepreneurship, which provides a select group of HBS MBA alumni the opportunity to work with top Harvard inventors. The goal: To promote the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
reductions in government spending or increased taxes in an effort to reduce deficits may just exacerbate the problem. Conventional economic thinking maintains that fiscal responsibility keeps interest rates and inflation low, fosters investment, and View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
advertising. Most of the in-house units performed specialized or limited functions, such as those related to the development of direct mail, online, and promotional materials. Q: What can managers learn from your research? A: First, I... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
understanding of the organization and its culture, and a good knowledge of its talent that "outsiders" have to accumulate over time, often with some difficulty. Exhibit A among "insider outsiders" is Jack Welch at GE, who at the time of his View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
example, turnover is lower when employees have been promoted from within the ranks of the company. Similarly, employees who are not given responsibility for a wide range of queries were found to be more likely to leave. According to the... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
firms that have already joined the UN's Global Compact to promote social programs around the world. To put the WDC in place, a number of actions would be needed. First, the UN would draft a corporate charter to define the purpose of the... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
are incompatible mediated the relationship between ambient cultural disharmony and creativity. Alternative mechanisms such as negative affect and cognitive disruption were not viable mediators. Although ambient cultural disharmony disrupted creativity, ambient cultural... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
authors wrote. Additionally, the researchers found that under a contingent free shipping policy, a promotional discount in a particular product category becomes more attractive to shoppers. The reason: the product discount might further... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
found that these investors were largely apathetic about the gender politics of Japanese corporations—yet this overestimation of Western progressiveness has led to tangible progress in Japan, as firms begin hiring and promoting more female... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
appraisal of opportunities for new business startups. Furthermore, analytics (not the data) should be a source of continuing competitive advantage. In his new book, Charles Duhigg describes how the retailer Target uses data on consumption patterns to discern and... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
an incident gets reported and that a solution is implemented so that the incident doesn't recur. We can look at whether this happens over time. Knowing this will make a significant contribution to improving patient safety, because a lot of hospitals rely on these... View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
these marginal differentiators and expend their creative efforts on new products and processes that create value, instead of slapping a new coat of paint on shopworn goods." Sandi Edgar wrote, "Instead of trying to weed out new products, focus on View Details