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- 12 Jan 2018
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Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
with Rosa Parks, when she refused to move to the back of the bus. That led to the formation of the Montgomery Improvement Association, where Dr. King was nominated four days later as the president. He was only 26 years old, a very young... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
to focus in order to improve this crucial dimension of talent acquisition. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50539 December 15, 2015 Harvard Business Review Don't Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
by changing tasks and greater interpersonal team diversity. Using detailed project—and individual-level data from an Indian software services firm, we find that the interaction of task change and intrapersonal diversity is related to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
profiled performed during the recession? A: All the companies I studied, with one exception, outperformed their peers. Their share price declined less at a time when everyone else's declined greatly, and now they're prospering again. They... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
promotion demonstrate significantly higher levels and rates of performance improvement in service quality. Finally, consistent with promotion-based incentives inducing both effort-allocation and learning... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
was to improve corporate governance and restore the faith of investors, but many in the business world spoke out against SOX, viewing it as a politically motivated overcorrection that would lead to a loss of risk-taking and... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
government's regulatory efforts to increase shareholder power at the board level following the recent financial crisis. To help answer that question, three Harvard Business School professors performed a natural experiment made possible by... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
distribution centers with the goal of improving operational performance and ultimately increasing profits and wages and offering a better work environment. The answer from my heart is that I would like to... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
issue high-headline-rate and more complex products in low-rate environments. Finally, we find that high-headline-rate and more complex products are more profitable for banks, and that their ex post performance is lower. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
and the de facto regulator became the credit rating agencies," said Retsinas, arguing that regulation became essentially outsourced and privatized. The credit rating agencies weren't able to perform their function whether due to the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
was established in 2005 to invest primarily in middle market, particularly family-run, businesses in India. Blue River caters to this niche as an active investor, providing capital and working with portfolio companies to improve their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
those sales? Should ads be text, images, video, or something else entirely? Should measurement be performed by an ad network, an advertiser, or some intermediary? Market participants have chosen all these options at various points, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
use of electronic health records and greater delegation were independently associated with higher levels of production. That is, practices that increased the number of tasks performed using EHR saw an increase in clinician productivity,... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
sensitive to one's organizational capabilities and competitive priorities. And the same is true of improvement efforts. People (and too many books directed at managers) often appear to assume that the biggest problem is simply getting... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
because of cannibalization and endogenous vertical differentiation concerns. We discuss how our study helps improve our understanding of notions of strategy, business model, and tactics in the field of strategy. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
Performance of Indian Manufacturing By: Ghani, Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
coffee. Preparing the Self for Team Entry: How Relational Affirmation Improves Team Performance Despite their potential to perform at high levels and make decisions that are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity
based on their performance under stressful conditions. They must be bound by a sound governance system and constraints that require them to acknowledge their responsibilities to their organizations. Developing this new leadership... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
continue to evolve. Performance improves and prices drop. Today, artificial intelligence is used in the selection of retail sites and to facilitate one-to-one marketing programs; voice recognition routes... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
identities, specifically previously enacted ones, constitute potent incentives for inducing efforts or actions. People Are Experience Goods: Improving Online Dating with Virtual Dates Authors:Jeana H. Frost, Zoë Chance, Michael I. Norton,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace