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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
we’re optimistic in that the C-suite is really focused on this and it does have it as a priority moving forward. Kerr: That’s very consistent with the type of surveys that we’ve been conducting at Managing...
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- 10 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
6 Lessons Learned from a Summer of Entrepreneurship
model, our hypotheses, and our assumptions. 5. Be patient really patient. One of the most difficult lessons we learned was that things take a very long time to develop and transpire. Whether it’s designing and View Details
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Entrepreneurship
- 2009
- Working Paper
Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge
By: Heidi K. Gardner
In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing team motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I conducted a...
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Experience and Expertise;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Expectations;
Groups and Teams
Gardner, Heidi K. "Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-126, April 2009. (Revised January 2012.)
- August 2022
- Article
Availability of New Medicines in the U.S. and Germany From 2004 to 2018
By: Katharina Blankart, Huseyin Naci and Amitabh Chandra
Importance: Germany's unique approach to coverage determination and pricing has ensured that effective medicines remain on the market, often at prices reduced through negotiation. However, less is known about trade-offs of this approach with regard to initial...
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Market Entry and Exit;
Price;
Market Timing;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States;
Germany
Blankart, Katharina, Huseyin Naci, and Amitabh Chandra. "Availability of New Medicines in the U.S. and Germany From 2004 to 2018." e2229231. JAMA Network Open 5, no. 8 (August 2022).
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
an opportunity to change fundamentally their cost structures at the same time.Kerr: Ok, so tell us a little bit next about the design of the survey. Who were you trying to reach? How did you conduct the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
want. In a world where we can search at our fingertips and plug in mom with dementia in this zip code and get a list of memory care facilities, getting that—what EAPs refer to as resources and referrals as...
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- 06 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
The MS/MBA Technology Showcase: A Celebration of Our Startups
thrown-together coding skills, my network, and sheer luck. I landed my first job as a software engineering consultant at Red Hat, and launched into a new world of software engineering. Two years later, I...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
Worldwide. Moore described the lengths to which Time Inc. goes to probe for insights into the ever-changing mindset of consumers. The company conducts more than 1,000 research projects a year. But insights...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
internal training that’s required in any given year, whether that’s the obvious things we all do, like code of business conduct, etc., as well as skills transformation-related training courses that are made...
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- 2018
- Working Paper
What Is Your Problem? The Importance of ‘Problem Storming’ for Crossing Knowledge Boundaries
By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf
In this study, I focus on the emergent processes and practices enacted when using crowdsourcing to solve R&D problems that experts are challenged with. While the literature on crowdsourcing focuses on the online process, this study looks at the full process that takes...
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- 22 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention
WalkRounds -based programs and performance has not been rigorously examined in a set of randomly selected hospitals. Objective: To fill this research gap, we conducted a randomized field study View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
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How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
described her organization as “mission-focused, values-based (contained in the Girl Scouts Promise and the Law), and demographics-driven” (her code word for diversity). She once described to me a teeter-totter, writing a “$24 million...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
management. What share of a Fortune 500 companies’ business do you expect will need to be conducted in this platform? We know it's very high-value, but you think about how far down in the stack View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Podcast Podcast Harvard Business School Professors Bill Kerr and Joe Fuller talk to leaders grappling with the forces reshaping the nature of work. Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon More Ways to Listen iHeartRadioPlayer.fmAudacyCastboxPocket...
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- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
management that would qualify as a "profession," combining "mastery of specific knowledge with adherence to certain formal or informal codes of View Details
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by Jim Heskett
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Dissertation: "Essays in International Non-market Strategy and the Political Economy of Environmental Regulation"
My dissertation is part of a research agenda intended to advance our understanding of the interaction between companies and non-market actors (e.g. regulators) in an international context. The empirical setting of my analysis is the European Union Emissions Trading... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
Professor of Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, conducted the research with Katherine Baicker of the University...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
way up to computer coding skills. So there were five levels, sort of the mid-level was basic workforce productivity. So as we go forward, we see an increasing opportunity to expand what we’re doing in that...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Gallup in the area of workforce actually started with George Gallup, our founder, who back in the 1950s was conducting some research on global polling, but also some research on centurions, folks who lived...
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- 2011
- Working Paper
Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: A Study of Equity Purchases by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003
By: Sergio G. Lazzarini and Aldo Musacchio
There is a growing literature comparing the performance of private vs. state-owned companies. Yet, there is little work examining the effects of having the government as a minority shareholder of private companies. We conduct such a study using data for 296 publicly...
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Investment;
Ownership Stake;
State Ownership;
Private Ownership;
Performance Evaluation;
Business and Government Relations;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Banking Industry;
Brazil
Lazzarini, Sergio G., and Aldo Musacchio. "Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: A Study of Equity Purchases by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-073, January 2011. (**Winner of the Prize for the Best Paper Presented at the Strategic Management Society Special Conference, Rio de Janeiro, 2011.)