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- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
curve,” for example, made employees in the top 20 percent of performance eligible for raises and promotions, while those in the bottom 10 percent risked being demoted or fired. Industries such as investment banking, consulting, and...
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
U.S. Innovation with Umit Gurun, Scott Kominers, 2015–2021. Lauren H. Cohen: Recipient of a 2021 Top Cited Article Award from Wiley Publishing for Lazy Prices (Journal of Finance, June 2020) with Christopher Malloy and Quoc Nguyen. Zoe B....
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of...
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- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
Frederick Taylor's application of scientific methods to the study of physical labor had begun to be extended to the organization of industry as well as to spheres such as higher education and government. While Taylorism was quickly...
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets - MBA
Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged...
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- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
within this changing environment?” Yao says. Its role remains significant, according to new research by Yao and several colleagues. Despite spending relatively less, the government funds innovations that really matter to the American economy. The research, View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
family-run Indian conglomerate. Kahn, who worked for agrichemical giant Syngenta AG and knew the industry well, agreed to have a look. The subsidiary, Godrej Agrovet, had expanded beyond its core business of animal feed in recent years,...
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- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
Rights of first refusal are contract clauses common in such industries as entertainment. In 2001, Paramount Studios and the National Broadcasting Company negotiated the broadcasting rights for the hit show "Frasier." NBC held a...
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Medical Devices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Financial data on equities, indices, currencies, commodities and futures. BI for global medical devices industry data, news, and analysis. Frost & Sullivan https://www.library.hbs.edu/find/databases/frost-sullivan Reports and market...
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- 11 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise
co-founder, Shelby Schrier, in the HBS Class of 2022 Slack. Together we published an “HBS Mentor Directory” through which we and 70 classmates shared our contact info on LinkedIn to extend our professional knowledge and networks to...
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- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
professors are evaluated in part on the number of papers they publish in peer-reviewed journals. Primarily written for and read by other academics, many of those journals tend to reward novelty over applicability. In academia, “basic”...
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- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
buyers? And in an interesting plot twist, Elberse decided to design her research not around actual box office receipts, but rather around a Hollywood simulation game that has over half a million players. The results were published in her...
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- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
indicated which topics were being searched and created content accordingly. Demand treated its 5,000 online articles published per day as an investment, not a cost, a reversal of the traditional media model. In addition to being able to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Industry By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—This paper seeks to explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated corporations in the late 19th century and the opposing forces that led to a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
management tome, The Knowledge-Creating Company. Now, the book’s recently published sequel, The Wise Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation, elevates their original ideas, outlining six practices that enable leaders to steer...
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by Kristen Senz
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Ryan L. Raffaelli: Awarded the 2018 Best Paper in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Industry Studies Association Annual Conference for “The Use of History as a Strategic Resource: Institutional Resilience and the Complementarity of...
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Competitiveness Recruit Alumni Recruiting MBA Recruiting Recruiting Resources Alumni Bulletin Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Business History Review Harvard Business Publishing Harvard Business Review HBS Working Knowledge Close Harvard...
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- 31 Jan 2014
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Body, Heal Thyself
breakthrough in] the biotech industry takes a lot of time; it takes a lot of money; it's complicated science." And it takes a lot of people—from scientists to executives to board members. Bancel admits that people see the potential fairly...
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of...
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- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
By: Buciuni, Giulio, and Gary P. Pisano Abstract— It is widely presumed that in today's globalized economy, the value of geographic clustering of manufacturing industries is no longer valuable. Manufacturing is represented as a highly...
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Sean Silverthorne