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  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

tournament incentive systems and are relevant for the practice of management accounting. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53891 Can... View Details
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting

By: Alessandro Bucciol, Natalia Montinari and Marco Piovesan
This paper examines whether monetary incentives are an effective tool for increasing domestic waste sorting. We exploit the exogenous variation in the pricing systems experienced during the 1999-2008 decade by the 95 municipalities in the district of Treviso (Italy).... View Details
Keywords: Household; Cost Management; Consumer Behavior; Wastes and Waste Processing; Motivation and Incentives; Public Administration Industry; Italy
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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Business in Society and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability ENROLL NOW No application... View Details
  • December 2001 (Revised February 2008)
  • Case

Borealis

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Bjorn N. Jorgensen
When Borealis, a European producer of plastics, used a traditional, time-consuming budgeting process, the budget was quickly out of date in a competitive environment characterized by continually changing input and output prices and dynamic market conditions. This case... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Budgets and Budgeting; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment; Governance Controls; Balanced Scorecard; Management Systems; Manufacturing Industry; Europe
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  • 07 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

what venture capital might look like in the future, we asked Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking and head of the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School, what... View Details
Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking
  • Article

Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We present a survey of recent contributions in empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Geographic Location; Motivation and Incentives; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Competition; Human Capital; Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Multinational Firms and Management; India; Brazil; United States
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Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online

my memory. Dustin Brown Working in family's real estate business Understand the digital landscape to work more effectively, innovate collaboratively, and respond to new business opportunities. "This course is excellent for executives... View Details
  • 16 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

virtually all the gains to be had go to those that create an ownership culture, by building in participative management and helping employees learn to think and act like... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Dec 2019
  • News

Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna

Serrena Iyer (MBA 2018) Working in the entertainment industry is a dream come true for Serrena Iyer, who after graduating from HBS landed at the aptly named DreamWorks Animation as senior manager of strategy View Details
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, Renata Lemos, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We present evidence on the labor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Internship Success: Mutual Growth Brings Intern and Enterprise Together

industry,” he says, “but the position needed a strong technology component. I wanted to work closely with product development and management in a company that was competitively well-positioned, on a product... View Details
Keywords: Technology

    The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million

    The Sales Acceleration Formula provides a scalable, predictable approach to growing revenue and building a winning sales team. Everyone wants to build the next $100 million business and author Mark Roberge has actually done it using a unique methodology... View Details

    • 1996
    • Book

    Fad-Free Management: The Six Principles That Drive Successful Companies and Their Leaders

    By: Richard G. Hamermesh
    Keywords: Management Practices and Processes
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      Ting Zhang

      Ting Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the Required Curriculum.

      Professor Zhang’s research... View Details
      • 17 Oct 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

      by radio stations improves their capability to respond to entry by TV stations. Our research builds on and extends literatures on platforms and learning-by-doing and offers... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Web

      Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

      invention and creativity within the culture of a small, science-based research and manufacturing company. He argued that the industrial process should be "dedicated to the... View Details
      • 21 Nov 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

      https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53512 Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, David Simchi-Levi, and He Wang Abstract—We consider a price-based... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 29 Aug 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

      pricing. Hedge fund firms often hired the duo for speaking engagements, which led to informal post-speech chats with various fund managers, many of whom also sported PhDs. Cohen and Malloy found that these social exchanges went especially... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
      • 01 Dec 1997
      • News

      Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution

      and has been operational now for just over a year. The Israeli side is contributing expertise, access to export markets, and design capabilities; the Jordanian side provides production View Details
      Keywords: Michael Porter, Yagil Weinberg, and Noreena Hertz
      • 01 Jun 2015
      • News

      The Military and the MBA: Maura Corby Sullivan (MBA/MPA 2009)

      critical management skill set. Having the ability to lead and run highly performing organizations is how I think I can make a difference for our country. Next: Chris Howard (MBA 2003) — A case study in... View Details
      Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs