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Navid has worked with different organizations across various industries, from the Federal Reserve to medical device manufacturers, heavy construction equipment sellers, and B2B software providers, to assemble proprietary datasets in studying organizational buying.... View Details
- January 1998 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Funai Consulting Company, Ltd. (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Tomoya Nakamura
In the summer of 1997, a consultant at Japan's Funai Consulting Co. Ltd., must decide how to respond to a client's proposal to offer "open pricing" (based on willingness to pay) to customers unable to pay the standard price for the client's product. The client, Akita... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Price; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decisions; Agribusiness; Management Practices and Processes; Business Ventures; Consulting Industry; Japan
Paine, Lynn S., and Tomoya Nakamura. "Funai Consulting Company, Ltd. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 398-017, January 1998. (Revised February 2002.)
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
savings difficult by changing the savings decision-making process, the time and place for savings, or the cost-benefit of savings itself. Such ideas could help low- to moderate-income households, and anyone else, build assets and put... View Details
- 25 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
heard that she’s good at math over and over again,” Coffman says. “You might have to encourage women a few times if you want to close these gaps.” "Our work suggests a need for structuring group decision-making in a way that assures the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- January 2025
- Article
Overcoming Barriers to Employee Ownership: Insights from Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
By: John Guzek and Ashley Whillans
This research investigates the limited adoption of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) among small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. Through interviews with 30 SMB owners across various industries, we identify the key barriers to ESOP adoption as lack of... View Details
Keywords: Profit Sharing; Employee Ownership; Management Practices and Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Small Business; Adoption; Employees
Guzek, John, and Ashley Whillans. "Overcoming Barriers to Employee Ownership: Insights from Small and Medium-Sized Businesses." Compensation & Benefits Review 57, no. 1 (January 2025): 64–81.
- 10 Jan 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
The Evolving Basis for Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: Dispute Settlement and the Rebalancing of Global Interests
Keywords: by Arthur Daemmrich
- Teaching Interest
Data Science for Managers
- Served as a teaching fellow; assisted MBA students with classroom coding exercises.
- Developed course materials, including new case studies, technical notes, and code notebooks students used to analzye case data.
- Developed interactive web... View Details
- 07 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose Workers Who 'Look the Part'
stage of the decision-making process to pick between freelancers with comparable ratings, the study notes. Some lessons for platforms and job seekers For online platforms, refining their ratings to provide a... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
the increase in the local unemployment rate, presumably reflecting the costs of losing a job. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49805 Delay as Agenda Setting By: Anton, James J., and Dennis A. Yao Abstract—We examine a dynamic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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 business leader Robert Kaplan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
Hall and Yuval Millo from the London School of Economics look at how these employees can use their own skills to become so-called frame-makers, part of their organizations' strategic decision-making teams. While their research focused on... View Details
- 26 Apr 2023
- In Practice
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
irrelevant construct when considering how to harness generative AI’s capabilities. Processes ranging from negotiating contracts with vendors to developing marketing messages will be redesigned from the ground up in order to exploit the... View Details
- 01 Nov 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?
Phillip Mathew kicked things off by stating that “Selection recommendations must undergo rigorous independent review the selection criteria and process of gathering and presenting the judgment data needs to be robust, efficient, and the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks
the benefits of doing so.” While the study focuses on task scheduling, it highlights a broader idea—namely, that managers must consider the time costs associated with decentralizing any type of decision-making View Details
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By: Jorge Tamayo
Professor Tamayo’s research focuses on theoretical modeling and structural estimation of firm decision-making and productivity.
Professor Tamayo studies dynamic competition for customer membership. Generally, firms that implement a membership model charge a... View Details
Professor Tamayo studies dynamic competition for customer membership. Generally, firms that implement a membership model charge a... View Details
- 07 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success
digital transformation an even more urgent need, companies must also morph iteratively to keep up with the speed of emerging technologies. It’s a process of continuous learning and pivoting to adapt to an evolving competitive landscape.... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
be avoided by using a more deliberative, analytical decision-making process. In this paper, we describe joint evaluation as an effective tool to help decision makers manage their emotional assessments of morality. Bounded Ethicality in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to, and marketing of, an individually held commitment savings product leads to an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Abstract—Innovation has traditionally taken place within an organization's boundaries and/or with selected partners. This Chandlerian approach to innovation has been rooted in transaction costs, organizational boundaries, and information View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
require digital transformations to be more iterative than other forms of corporate change. Leaders need to catalyze change rather than plan for it. That means creating the initial conditions for the organization to achieve its ambitions and guiding their company... View Details