Selection and Staffing - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

selects among potential SSOs and how the final standard is shaped by the sponsor's and SSO's design. Sara Grant: In your paper, "Certifying New Technologies," it... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

30 May 2019
What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

selective anecdotal evidence to pose a question. After all, John Doerr is a graduate of Harvard Business School. But think about it. The Silicon Valley and its neighbor to the north Seattle have influenced... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

03 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

approach is more effective at keeping rogue affiliates out of a program. That's because the internal employee who selects and manages affiliates, and is paid a base salary, has... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

in prestige. When too few parties are involved in the deal. Even a tightly aligned social and economic contract can be vulnerable if the expectations and agreements that underlie it are shared by only a... View Details

Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

When the pandemic forced employees to flee offices and work from home in droves last year, many business leaders worried that productivity might take a dive. Would remote workers be too tempted by the lures of Netflix or too distracted by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

a powerful tool for value creation. For senior management neither to understand the risks being taken by the firm nor to understand how the risks that were selected not to be taken are being eliminated is to delegate a crucial part of... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

and users can choose to outsource or select an alternative service provider.7 Let's look at each of these conditions in turn. The first condition states that a constituent finds value in the firm's outputs.... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

07 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

deferral or the selective repeal of deferral with respect to a "blacklist" of countries that are deemed to be tax havens. Or we could try to define what a "patriotic" firm is and base the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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