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  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

and boot it up and all of a sudden it works. It's anything but that. Q: In your preface, you explain that there has been less progress in the strategy field understanding the interaction between economic forces and organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 12, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50693 Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract—The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

Meaningful Relationships Between Brain and Consumer Behavior By: Plassmann, Hilke, and Uma R. Karmarkar Abstract—The goal of this chapter is to give an overview of the nascent field of consumer neuroscience and discuss when and how it is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enron’s board of directors have failed to detect the business, ethical, and legal risks embedded in the company’s aggressive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 15, 2015

environment qualities, are systematically missing. Regions would benefit from a closer look at the insights from businesses when developing their strategies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49625 in press View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2009 (Revised November 2009)
  • Background Note

Adult Life Stages

By: John A. Davis
This note describes basic concepts of adult life stage theory and summarizes Daniel Levinson's research findings on the adult development of men and women. View Details
Keywords: Transition; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Culture; Gender
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  • 12 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

populations. The authors call it "catalytic innovation." Based on Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation model, catalytic innovations challenge organizational incumbents by offering simpler, good-enough solutions aimed at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2019 (Revised December 2022)
  • Supplement

Cooking Down a Storm: Changing Culture at Pasta Serafina (B)

By: Susanna Gallani, Francesca Gino and Raffaella Sadun
The case complements Pasta Serafina (A) by describing the aftermath of a town hall meeting in which management had publicly denounced the absenteeism problem and challenged the employees to find a solution. In spite of the initial mistrust against management, the fear... View Details
Keywords: Absenteeism; Employees; Behavior; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employee Relationship Management; Problems and Challenges; Decision Making; Performance Evaluation
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  • September 2019 (Revised December 2022)
  • Case

Cooking Down a Storm: Changing Culture at Pasta Serafina (A)

By: Susanna Gallani, Francesca Gino and Raffaella Sadun
Plant management at Pasta Serafina, a pasta producer in the south of Italy, is struggling to contain employee absenteeism. While the misbehavior is concentrated in a minority of the workers, its effects impact not only the plant’s performance, but also the climate and... View Details
Keywords: Absenteeism; Moral Hazard; Employees; Behavior; Problems and Challenges; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employee Relationship Management; Performance Productivity; Decision Making
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  • 12 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says... View Details
Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

Curb Your Smartphone Habit

much bigger, which is the amount of time we are “on”—meaning at work or monitoring work remotely. Workaholics are nothing new in the managerial ranks, but technology has made a 24/7 connection to work the norm for many more people than ever before. What kind of View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; smartphones; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Telecommunications; Information
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore. Faculty Books Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage by Laura Huang, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Organizational View Details
  • 02 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 2

Ert, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 1, no. 2 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/1/2/117/ The Counterfeit Self: The Deceptive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Alumni Books

the forces affecting attitudes and behaviors in each generation and analyzes the implications of organizational and technological changes for their future. Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of... View Details
Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

On a Sound Track

through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth and our increasing View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

joint evaluation, making joint evaluation the money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/shortint_text_20130814_FINAL.pdf September 2013 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Cheating More for Less: Upward Social Comparisons Motivate the Poorly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

investors execute similar trades through the same broker, allowing them to capture returns that are twice as large as their normal trading performance. Similarly, we show that the clients of the broker employed by activist investors to execute their trades tend to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Apr 1997
  • News

Facing the Music

catalog, which, she says, "many regard as the best in the business." Indeed, with artists such as Stevie Wonder, the Supremes, and the Jacksons in its cache, Motown's catalog has kept the label afloat during a time of major organizational... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso