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- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
innovation, foster trust, and contribute to an organization’s agility in a fast-moving competitive landscape. It also can build cohesion among employees and provide them a shared sense of mission. Vineet Nayar, former CEO of India-based... View Details
- 22 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
change,” he says. “Firms typically don’t want to do that because once you change it, it’s very difficult to change it back. Also, experimenting with a select group of employees is deemed as unfair.” Past performance doesn’t guarantee... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
Pacelli’s research shows how disclosing genuine progress in inclusion can give companies a competitive edge in attracting talent and, ultimately, fostering innovation. Pacelli coauthored the August working paper with Jung Ho Choi of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
in America, and Work in Progress (co-authored with Michael Eisner, chairman of the Walt Disney Company). Schwartz is now president of LGE Performance Systems and co-created its Corporate Athlete training program, which aims to apply the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
bring them into the lab and see how they performed and what people thought of them.” As Yeoman’s research shows, AI is often dead-on accurate in pinpointing which products and services people will like. Yet, the research findings also... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
experts perform their work. Yes, certain tasks can be completed correctly and completely by AI, but for those types of tasks we will see something like the Industrial Revolution, where people's jobs changed, and they were able to use new... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself
John, the charismatic chief marketing officer of Netflix (once described by Buzzfeed as the “coolest” person to ever go onstage at an Apple event). Research shows being true to who you are leads to greater professional performance and... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
when other approaches would produce better results for customers, employees, and shareholders and foster better long-term performance of the company. “I’ve been a leader during three recessions, and I’ve... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
openness-extroversion dyads perform substantially better—having both a higher pool of novel information and better recombinative capability with the team. We discuss implications for future research on the individual and social... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2020
- What Do You Think?
Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?
SUMMING UP Is Management the Missing Ingredient in Melding Organization Culture and Remote Work? Those who have experienced remote work are largely vocal supporters of the notion. Its success is dependent, on the one hand, on an effective culture View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
better out of the office, say while out in the boat or at a conference, so that looks very much like not working!!" Among other things, Krishna Sripad suggested fostering "an environment where transformation is 'truly'... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
compensation plan. Substantively, the paper sheds insights on how different elements of the compensation plan enhance productivity. We find evidence that: (1) bonuses enhance productivity across all segments; (2) overachievement commissions help sustain the high... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
(a) fosters a longer-term perspective and (b) widens the firm’s scope; and ecosystem creation. While much of the dynamic capabilities literature has focused on testing causal relationships between key View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
field experiment at a large North American company, provides plenty of reassurance, showing that regular Zoom chats with managers fosters solid career-building connections for new workers. In fact, informal “virtual watercooler” sessions... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- Web
Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Work-from-Anywhere Future” (November–December 2020). Prithwiraj Choudhury : Winner of the 2020 Strategic Management Society (SMS) Conference Best PhD Student Paper for “Algorithm-Augmented Work Performance and Domain Experience: The... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
(iStockphoto/SolStock) The COVID-19 pandemic changed the ways we worked, the ways we shopped, and the ways we interacted with others. It fostered some businesses—online selling, meeting services, and home entertainment—and nearly killed... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
personal and professional changes to foster more positive connections among racial groups—interactions that studies have shown have the potential to reduce biased behaviors. "Awareness alone is not going to change the world. It's about... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
information is delivered." One possible line would include information about a company's strategy. Brad Keller commented that "It takes more than just sharing financials or performance review data It is really a matter of being... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
revenue. As a new CEO, Lee again operated with a long-term perspective, gradually building a company where people wanted to work, creating hundreds of jobs, and fostering a community of employees who worked together to meet the same goal:... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young