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- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
little hesitant about opening their doors to researchers, but when [we] called up the CEO without ever having met him, he was extremely open to learning from the research and to our spending a great deal of time at the company—sitting in on meetings, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
detection to the levels seen after they observe poor hygiene, which would reduce errors even more and result in more violations being detected, cited and corrected,” Ibáñez says. The authors estimate that, if the daily schedule effects... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
such as the Ritz-Carlton, employees meet at the outset of each shift on company time to discuss potential problems, how they can be addressed, and ways of working smarter. Controlled observations by researchers have found that... View Details
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
NBC announced it would be broadcasting the Summer Olympic Games in London in 2012, observers expected the network to take a loss on the event, as it had for Olympic broadcasts for a decade. For the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, NBC... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
On the flip side, we observe mobility costs accruing to professionals in workgroups with higher proportions of same-sex and same-race peers. Qualitative data offer insights into the social identification processes underlying demographic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
line growth opportunities. The former often disrupt the very culture that is essential to the mice's success. Q: So, in the end, do mice and elephants live happily ever after? A: The marriages we have looked at are still in their early stages, so we will need to... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
necessarily work in the same way for the video window. I think it is important to consider characteristics of audiences in both markets. Who goes to the theater? Who buys or rents videos? There obviously is some overlap, but I think the two markets are less similar... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
financial and strategic decision making. But along the way, I also noted another important aspect of this leadership task, a related line of effort that seemed to go largely unnoticed and unstudied by observers but that was just as vital... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
RETSINAS: Too many people began to regard their homes as a guaranteed high-return investment. We just got carried away,” observes Nicolas Retsinas, a lecturer in real estate at HBS, whose distinguished career in housing, community... View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
leader and the actions of the effective exercise of leadership can be accessed, researched, and taught either: 1) as being and action are observed and commented on "from the stands," specifically as these are View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
systematic variation in inventory record inaccuracy (IRI) observed both within and across stores. Traditional inventory models, with a few exceptions, do not account for the existence of IRI and those that do treat record inaccuracy as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
may still lose market dominance. Drawing on observations from a variety of industries, HBS associate professor Clayton Christensen argues that otherwise sound business practices - such as concentrating investments and technology on the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
What’s Next for You?
to sustain.” Once that internal motivation is identified, the transition to a new role — whether in the corporate world or in areas such as academia, government service, or the nonprofit sector — can still be tricky. “As an MBA, you have an incredibly rich skill set,”... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
wrestling with profound feelings of loss as they climbed the ranks. A scope for sanity Despite evidence of universal misery, none of the companies—largely professional services firms—that Ely has observed in her career have shifted the... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
the company started in management consulting. After graduating from Harvard College in 2005, Surette joined Parthenon for three years before matriculating at HBS in the fall of 2008. Amid a global recession, his business school experience allowed him the opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
comparatively in the dark, creating an “information friction” that the freelancers can exploit. In a March 2015 working paper, Information Frictions and Observable Experience, Stanton, along with Catherine Thomas (PhDBE 2006) of the... View Details
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
executives a question. That's the procedure that HBS Associate Professor Lauren H. Cohen followed to find out more about the odd dealings he'd observed at a company that was the subject of one of his case studies. But he wasn't given the... View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
more analytics won't change their skill set. You have to be a player first." Pete DeLisi added, "We also need to counterbalance analytics with the ability to see the big picture analytics can't be divorced from an understanding of the respective priorities of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
indication of a change in levels of CEO pay after the adoption of say on pay in the UK, they did discover an increase in the sensitivity of CEO pay to poor performance and a reduction in severance packages. The effect was more pronounced in firms with high voting... View Details
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
such as product development, advertising, and pricing. His presentation of his observations to his American counterparts was met with only a modest level of interest. Fast forward fifteen years. Tens of thousands of "newsgroups"... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett