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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
environmental shortfalls, such as outdoor displays in environmental protection areas or using an illegal artesian pond to supply water to some of its offices. This is good business. Screening customers on their environmental behavior strengthens the loan portfolio. "A...
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- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
which employees could collaborate securely and efficiently. However, later that year, Microsoft executives unexpectedly reached out with an offer to acquire Yammer for $1.2 billion and integrate Yammer into the Microsoft Office division....
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Anna Secino
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
Paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/Issuer_Quality_2013_RFS_Final.pdf The Cost of High-Powered Incentives: Employee Gaming in Enterprise Software Sales Authors:Larkin, Ian Publication:Journal of Labor Economics Abstract This paper...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
LNG trains on Nigeria's Bonny Island but, before the final train came on stream, became entangled in a widening corruption probe triggered by an unrelated accusation against an employee of Technip, the French JV partner. The (A) case...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
Abstract A perennial question facing managers is how much decision latitude to give their employees at work. The current research investigates how decision latitude affects employees' perceptions of managers' personalities and, in turn,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
Decentralize? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy....
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
where the future lay. From the first, with no particular basis for the assertion, Watson endlessly repeated to his employees that "IBM is not merely an organization of men; it is an institution that will go on forever." Despite...
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by Richard S. Tedlow
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
frontline staff work with particular attention to patient safety issues and facilitated open-discussion meetings with employees about their safety related concerns. Data Collection. Hospitals submitted data on the operational failures...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
the conception, development, and implementation of the Corporate Services Corps (CSC), an international community service assignment for high-potential IBM employees. The year 2008 was the pilot year of the CSC program, and 100 of IBM's best global View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
Proceedings (forthcoming) Abstract When a skilled employee moves from one organization to another, the effects on the hiring organization can be substantive (i.e., changes in actual outcomes) and symbolic (i.e., changes in expectations or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
turnover in sales is 25% to 30%, while direct replacement costs for a telesales employee ranges from $75,000 to $90,000 and other sales positions cost as much as $300,000. Moreover, these figures do not reflect the lost sales while a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
men led during terrific growth phases are similar in some ways, but very different in others. With $30 billion in revenue, The Koç Group is the largest conglomerate in Turkey, with more than 100 companies and 73,000 employees operating in...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
firm owned a number of patents and was the inventor of the first portable welding machine. But it stood out in other ways, too. While Lincoln, a nonunion shop, offered no benefits, it provided guaranteed employment, had an employee...
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by Garry Emmons
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
research typically prescribes task sequences implemented by managers. Yet employees often have discretion to deviate from their prescribed sequence. Using data from 2.4 million radiological diagnoses, we find that doctors prioritize...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 116-020 The Container Store The Container Store (TCS) is a Texas-based retailer of organization and storage solutions. The company prides itself in taking care of its View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
offered. While significant cost savings goals would be realized in part through employee layoffs, he wondered about ITG's ability to deal with these changes. Adjusting its customer portfolio meant that ITG would be pulling back products...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
produce healthcare together. If the patient does not participate, it limits what the doctor can accomplish. We are moving to a system where the individual must be engaged, or face the consequences. More employers are asking employees to...
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- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
results of choices we made. GE Healthcare employees assemble magnetic-resonance imaging machines in Beijing. In 2011, the highly global company moved its x-ray unit headquarters staff to China-a major, rapidly growing market. Q: The US...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
business. The book describes a conceptual framework, "the culture cycle," for managing culture that comprises setting and meeting expectations; establishing trust, engagement, and ownership among employees and customers that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
in the 1970s, HCL had grown into an enterprise with $3.7 billion in revenues and a market capitalization of $5.1 billion. The company had 41,000 employees in 11 countries, but it was ill-prepared for the increasingly competitive market....
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Martha Lagace