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- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
and are highly work-engaged. All of this suggests a multi-pronged solution to contagious presenteeism: Remove financial incentives for it by providing paid sick leave, audit work designs for features that evoke undue pressure for...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
the two tendencies can be explained as a product of a contingent recency effect: although the estimations reflect negative recency, choice behavior reflects positive recency. A similar pattern is observed in the field study: immediately...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture Marketing Spring2025 Q4 1.5 Dwight Angelini Real Estate Investing Finance Spring2025 Q3 1.5 Eva Ascarza Managing Customers for Growth Marketing Fall2024 Q2 1.5 Julia Austin Field Course:...
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- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
in-depth examination of new product development and launch strategies in the context of the music industry. Provides rich insights into how grassroots and mass-marketing approaches can facilitate new product/artist development. Octone's...
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Martha Lagace
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General Manager’s Job (MDD) (also listed under General Management and Technology & Operations Management) Amy Edmondson Tiona Zuzul Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Making Markets Scott Duke Kominers Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Managing the Future of Work Christopher Stanton Spring2025...
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- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 CEOs of listed firms yields three sets...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
for the cost of their care, while abandoning the myth that "health care is free." This will be accomplished through incentives for those who maintain their health, enabling them to pay less, while people who cost the system more...
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- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah, managing director of the BASIX's bank, considers a revised insurance policy for the coming season, weighing the costs and potential risks of expanding the product against the potential benefits. Purchase...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
manufacturing and the Toyota Production System. Asks students to consider whether New Balance should change aspects of its operations strategy in light of the consolidation among its competitors or whether the Adidas-Reebok transaction...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
managed, while multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Business Review What’s the Right Kind of Bonus to Motivate Your Sales Force? By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—Companies typically compensate their sales force by using some combination of salary, commission, and bonuses, but executives are often unsure...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
General Manager’s Job (MDD) (also listed under General Management and Technology & Operations Management) Amy Edmondson Tiona Zuzul Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Making Markets Scott Duke Kominers Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Managing the Future of Work Christopher Stanton Spring2025...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
what, and when, and measuring productivity can be contentious. But in 2023, more than a quarter of employees split their time in this hybrid mode—close to four out of 10 in larger firms. The fully remote model, while less common overall,...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
to contagious presenteeism: Remove financial incentives for it by providing paid sick leave, audit work designs for features that evoke undue pressure for attendance, and champion an organizational culture that fosters pro-health...
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- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
1990s and 2000s magnified these challenges, as illustrated by the deployment of the descendent of the NCSA HTTPd server, otherwise known as Apache. This study asks whether this experience could produce measurement issues in standard View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2019
- Case
Shell: A Company of Opportunity?
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emer Moloney
The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had...
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Fuller, Joseph B., and Emer Moloney. "Shell: A Company of Opportunity?" Harvard Business School Case 320-025, September 2019.
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
good results, particularly if financial and other incentives are tied to these results and commitments are in terms of future goals and targets. This was the case at Natura and UTC; both companies were candid about whether or not past...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
about the history of bioethanol producers. Our findings show that plants founded during the industrial policy program tend to be, in the long run, more productive than those founded before the program was in place. Based on additional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Our paper tests a key prediction of property rights theory, specifically, that agents will respond to marginal incentives embedded in property rights when making non-contractible, revenue-enhancing investments...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
bank's shares. This contrasts with outside shareholders who are more likely to expose their bank to higher risk levels when regulation protects the bank against default. Managerial equity incentives may, therefore, serve as a risk...
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Sean Silverthorne