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- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 19 May 2016
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving
In their book, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads, Professors Srikant Datar and David Garvin and researcher Patrick Cullen identified creative and innovative thinking as an essential skill for managers operating in a world of rapidly evolving...
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- 2008
- Working Paper
Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem
By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation in experience on performance. While some studies find a positive relationship between these two variables, others find no effect or even a negative relationship. In this paper, we...
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Experience and Expertise;
Learning;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Improvement;
Groups and Teams;
Familiarity;
India
Huckman, Robert S., and Bradley R. Staats. "Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-035, September 2008.
- 23 Feb 2022
- News
HBS Professor's Three Keys to Happiness at Work
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
P. Norton aims to make strategy a continual process. The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage shows managers how to weave organizational principles into a more View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 2007
- Book
When Professionals Have to Lead: A New Model for High Performance
By: Thomas J. DeLong, John J. Gabarro and Robert Lees
For too long, professional services firms (PSFs) have relied on the "producer-manager" model, which works well in uncomplicated business environments. However, today's managing directors must balance conflicting roles, more demanding clients, tougher competitors, and...
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Leadership;
Management Practices and Processes;
Service Operations;
Performance Effectiveness;
Strategy
DeLong, Thomas J., John J. Gabarro, and Robert Lees. When Professionals Have to Lead: A New Model for High Performance. Harvard Business School Press, 2007.
- 22 May 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Componential Theory of Creativity
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by Teresa M. Amabile
- 27 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards
control of store owners: Employees showing up late—or sometimes not at all. Managers are aware that employee lateness and absenteeism is prevalent and expensive to their operations. Now, researchers at Harvard Business School have gone a...
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- 22 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution
Business leaders can't develop and execute effective strategy without first gathering the right information, says Harvard Business School professor Robert Simons. In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better...
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by Robert Simons
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social...
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Carmen Nobel
- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
the General Management Program at HBS. In advising global firms, Thomke has seen that in many cases, a company’s biggest obstacle to success doesn’t necessarily come from competitors, the economy, or other outside forces, but can actually...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- January 2007 (Revised December 2008)
- Case
Mercy Corps: Positioning the Organization to Reach New Heights
By: Allen S. Grossman and Caroline Joan King
Mercy Corps, the world's 5th largest international relief and development agency, is at a turning point. The nonprofit's opportunities to grow and serve a larger number of beneficiaries are unprecedented. By looking at the unique relationship between headquarters and...
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Keywords:
Business Offices;
Business Headquarters;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Structure;
Nonprofit Organizations
Grossman, Allen S., and Caroline Joan King. "Mercy Corps: Positioning the Organization to Reach New Heights." Harvard Business School Case 307-096, January 2007. (Revised December 2008.)
- Article
Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We present a survey of recent contributions in empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries...
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Economics;
Management Practices and Processes;
Performance Productivity;
Geographic Location;
Motivation and Incentives;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Competition;
Human Capital;
Markets;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Multinational Firms and Management;
India;
Brazil;
United States
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics." Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010): 105–137.
- October 2023
- Article
What Does the Inflation Reduction Act Mean for Patients and Physicians?
By: Amitabh Chandra and Benedic Ippolito
The debate around prescription drug measures in the recently passed U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which limit some patients’ out-of-pocket costs, has not fully addressed their effect on physicians and patients via their effect on payers. Reducing patients’ costs...
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Chandra, Amitabh, and Benedic Ippolito. "What Does the Inflation Reduction Act Mean for Patients and Physicians?" NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery 4, no. 10 (October 2023).
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Credit and Punishment: Are Corporate Bankers Disciplined for Risk-Taking?
By: Janet Gao, Kristoph Kleiner and Joseph Pacelli
We examine whether bankers face disciplining consequences for structuring poorly performing corporate loans. We construct a novel data set containing the employment histories and loan portfolios of a large sample of corporate bankers and find that corporate credit...
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Keywords:
Syndicated Loans;
Credit Events;
Career Outcomes;
Loan Officers;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Risk Management;
Corporate Finance;
Personal Development and Career
Gao, Janet, Kristoph Kleiner, and Joseph Pacelli. "Credit and Punishment: Are Corporate Bankers Disciplined for Risk-Taking?" Review of Financial Studies 33, no. 12 (December 2020): 5706–5749.
- March 2006 (Revised January 2011)
- Case
CEMEX: Rewarding the Egyptian Retailers
CEMEX has pursued an aggressive decommoditization strategy focused on its relationship with small Egyptian retailers. In particular, the strategic role and effectiveness of the Rewards Program, a tournament that rewarded the sales performance of the retailers, was...
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Marketing Strategy;
Performance Improvement;
Sales;
Motivation and Incentives;
Construction Industry;
Egypt
Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis, Joshua Bellin, and Carole Winkler. "CEMEX: Rewarding the Egyptian Retailers." Harvard Business School Case 106-065, March 2006. (Revised January 2011.)
- 2007
- Article
Pharmacovigilance and the Missing Denominator: The Changing Context of Pharmaceutical Risk Mitigation
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
In the wake of Vioxx, Avandia, and other recent prominent cases of drugs found to cause side effects after marketing, the safety of pharmaceuticals has come to the forefront of American public policy. Press attention, congressional investigations, and legislative...
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Keywords:
Brands and Branding;
Policy;
Risk Management;
Government Legislation;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Goals and Objectives;
Customers;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Health Industry;
United States
Daemmrich, Arthur A. "Pharmacovigilance and the Missing Denominator: The Changing Context of Pharmaceutical Risk Mitigation." Pharmacy in History 49, no. 2 (2007): 61–75.
- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
This takes years to achieve." The problem is that teaching non-English speakers a new language risks drops in productivity, causes some employees to lose status, and can engender belief that they aren't as effective in their second...
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by Kim Girard
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
Walter A. Friedman's new book Birth of a Salesman chronicles the rise and development of modern sales management from the 18th century to the present day. Its fascinating cast of dynamic business figures and academic leaders includes John...
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by Laura Linard
- July 1987 (Revised October 1995)
- Case
Phillips 66: Controlling a Company Through Crisis
The downstream operations subsidiary of a major U.S. petroleum company is faced with major restructuring decisions and responds by developing an Executive Information System (EIS) which allows for increased responsiveness, wider span of control, and higher levels of...
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Keywords:
Restructuring;
Information Management;
Governance Controls;
Organizational Design;
Crisis Management;
Communication;
Management Teams;
Growth Management;
Mining Industry;
Energy Industry;
United States
Applegate, Lynda M. "Phillips 66: Controlling a Company Through Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 189-006, July 1987. (Revised October 1995.)
- August 1989 (Revised December 1997)
- Case
U.S. Airline Industry--1978-88 (A), The
Describes the evolution of the airline industry in the first decade after deregulation (1978-88). Looks at the primary areas of operation in which managers can effect change (planes, people, routes, marketing). The basic teaching objective is to cover industry...
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Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Nancy Donohue. "U.S. Airline Industry--1978-88 (A), The." Harvard Business School Case 390-025, August 1989. (Revised December 1997.)