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- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
to a particular job, rating the importance of each. After considering this information, the learning team created an "offshorability rating" between 0 and 100 for each of its assigned occupations, with a rating of 100 indicating that the task (such as data entry, for... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
Setting Published: February 11, 2009 For decades, goal setting has been promoted as a halcyon pill for improving employee motivation and performance in organizations. Advocates of goal setting argue that for goals to be successful, they... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
which patents are assigned with the firm names in the Census Bureau's SSEL business registry. Through the Census Bureau's file structure, this R&D platform can be linked to the operating performances of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
firm credited with creating the first mutual fund in 1924. (In 1959, Robinson was featured on the cover of Time, with the magazine proclaiming, perhaps somewhat prematurely, that the mutual fund was "a household word.")... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
imprint, such as a strong corporate culture, should help individuals better evaluate future employers and recognize the ways in which that first career experience may shape not simply the skills they acquire, but also their assumptions about how to lead and manage a... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
clarify matters. There are many areas, like how firm performance connects to entrepreneurial personality, that are woefully understudied and ripe for major advances if the appropriate cross-disciplinary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset on the universe of corporate loans for 2003–2013 to identify bank-specific shocks for each year using methods from the matched employer-employee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
symptom of competent managers than (a) cause of good performance " Another may have been provoked by Kapil Kumar Sopory when he offered the opinion that "NSM is an ideal concept. However, it will work upwards only if it is first... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
available at this time. When Professionals Have to Lead: A New Model for High Performance Authors:Thomas J. DeLong, John Gabarro, and Robert Lees Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Abstract For too long, professional services... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
certain qualities and practices not observed in firms that fall short. Multinational firms have understood for some time that certain activities, such as marketing, must remain local in concept and execution... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
education, not for use as a political weapon. The board conditionally agreed to end the disputed investments. The result: With investments constricted over a number of years, the fund experienced a $3 million performance shortfall, which... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
added. Witnessing the hidden work performed on their behalf makes customers more satisfied, more willing to pay, and more loyal. It can also make employees more satisfied by demonstrating to them that they are serving their customers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder return. Beverage industry firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
you don't model the importance of sweating the details. Downturns expose the weaknesses in your internal systems, observes Chuang. Technical expertise—the ability to solve cash flow problems, interpret what customers are really saying, or set up effective View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
companies, although it was ultimately deferred for companies with market caps of less than $75 million and made permanent in the Dodd-Frank Act. Audit standards also were modified in 2007, a change that reportedly reduced costs for many View Details
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
matter the most in your industry, and look at them not just as difficulties to be overcome but also as potential sources of value creation. Which Countries Are The Most Business Friendly? Handicapping the Best Countries for Business India? South Africa? Russia? Which... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Management: Can a Balanced Scorecard Change a Culture? By: Gibbons, Robert, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Agency theorists, historically, have analyzed what kinds of performance measures should be used in formal incentive contracts. For... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2013 (Revised September 2016)
- Supplement
Governance and Sustainability at Nike (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Nien-he Hsieh and Lara Adamsons
Two members of Nike's executive team must decide what sustainability targets to propose to Nike's CEO and to the corporate responsibility committee of Nike's board of directors. Set in 2012, the case traces the evolution of Nike's approach to environmental and social... View Details
Keywords: Nike; Hannah Jones; Mark Parker; Phil Knight; Philip Knight; Eric Sprunk; Jill Ker Conway; Phyllis Wise; Don Blair; Sustainable Business And Innovation; SB＆I; Flyknit; DyeCoo; Footwear; Athletic Footwear; Apparel; Athletic Apparel; Sustainability; Greenpeace; Detox Campaign; Dirty Laundry; Water; Water Use; Water Pollution; Water Resources; Corporate Responsibility Committee; Judgment; Board Of Directors; Board Committees; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Footwear Industry; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Ethics; Fairness; Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance; Alignment; Supply Chain; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Judgments; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Asia; China; United States; Oregon; Portland
Paine, Lynn S., Nien-he Hsieh, and Lara Adamsons. "Governance and Sustainability at Nike (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 313-147, June 2013. (Revised September 2016.)
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
The sport of rodeo kayaking—the use of specialized kayaks to perform acrobatic tricks and maneuvers in rough white water—began around 1968 when an avid sportsman by the name of Walt Blackader developed techniques for entering waves... View Details