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- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
How should managers and executives recognize and change the dynamics? A: The first step is for project managers to know that this will almost certainly happen during at least some of their assignments. Performance pressure is ubiquitous in today's knowledge-intensive... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
Boeing CEO has focused on short-term earnings, increasingly at the expense of franchise value and safety. Will the company’s new CEO have the courage to return Boeing to its former position as the world leader in aviation? Wells Fargo:... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
countries, but also especially within countries. Much of the poorer average management quality in countries like Brazil and India seems to result from a long tail of poorly managed firms, which barely exist in the United States. Some stylized facts include the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
investigated the influence of outcome information on ethical judgment. Participants read a series of vignettes describing ethically-questionable behaviors. We manipulated whether those behaviors were followed by a negative or positive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
conference, The Global Financial Crisis: What We Learned, Where We’re Headed, we offer a look at the research-driven insights that could help better position us when the next downturn hits—and the questions we still need to be asking.... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
named him assistant secretary of labor for international affairs, a position to which he was reappointed several years later by President Kennedy. In 1962, Lodge, who had strong views about issues such as foreign aid, unemployment, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
optimality of capital control taxation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52787 Summer 2017 RAND Journal of Economics Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development By: Gross, Daniel P.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
worker-management culture. However, the company was best known for its compensation system, paying its workers on a piecework basis, coupled with bonuses based on company revenues. Although this often resulted in average annual pay for Lincoln workers that was more... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
the model, we find that (i) the supply of long- relative to short-term bonds is positively related to the term spread, (ii) supply predicts positively long-term bonds' excess returns even after controlling... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
PublicationsSeven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution Author:Robert L. Simons Publication: Harvard Business Press, 2010 Abstract To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1953–2009, it was unusually high in the early 1980s and negative in the 2000s, particularly in the downturns of 2000–2002 and 2007–2009. This paper specifies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
motivation (Study 3) and greater ability to justify their dishonest behavior (Study 4). Finally, a field study constructively replicates these effects and demonstrates that individuals who work in more creative positions are also more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
& Sciences and the Harvard Medical School. It initiated new faculty research initiatives on issues like US Competitiveness and the Future of Work. It marked the 50th year anniversaries of women being admitted to the MBA program and the... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
otherwise healthy parent corporation can deter a manager from making the investment in the first place even if it is likely to have a positive net present value in expectation. As a result, the firm will suffer an opportunity cost of... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
Professor of Business Administration. Those numbers add up to intense competition for prestigious, well-paid jobs, and high pressure to perform—if a position is secured. “It’s a crisis of rising... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Bazerman Abstract People often experience tension over certain choices (e.g., they should reduce their gas consumption or increase their savings, but they do not want to). Some posit that this tension arises from the competing interests... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
participants prefer borrowing less when a free formal savings account is available. Take-up patterns suggest that requests by others for participants to share their resources may be a key obstacle to saving. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2451036... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
empowering culture gave Dreyer’s a competitive edge that propelled it far beyond its regional origins. “Looking back, these are the two best things we did,” Rogers opines. Suitors Come Calling A strong commitment to innovation has also... View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
Society to Create Competitive Advantage Harvard Business School Case 307-076 Focuses on the experience of China's largest shirt manufacturer in managing various aspects of government relations in China. Identifies a wide variety of social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
intensive companies, and blind review of solution submissions. We find that technical and social marginality, being a source of different perspectives and heuristics, plays an important role in explaining individual success in problem solving. The provision of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace