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- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
technology firms, we show that founders who received advice from other founders with more “hands-on” management styles were more likely to reorient their own management activity and, subsequently, experience lower employee attrition and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
PublicationsThe Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract The most effective managers have the ability to build a cadre of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
array of the impacts that they generate (or can influence), from environmental conditions to employee health and safety to social conditions like the quality of public education. How can boards best organize...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
arrive at the hotel’s Habana Vieja (“Old Havana”) location to ensure that guests of the high-end hotel can enjoy the luxury of a morning shower. The Kempinski, says Benedetti, is not connected to the city’s water system—unable to rely on either its View Details
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
repairs, in addition to billing for repairs to the personal vehicles of district employees, for a total of $785,195 from 2005 to 2017. The mechanic and his wife—neither employees of the district—also received full health benefits from...
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- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
Convenience Stores (A) Faced with a persistent robbery problem at his convenience store company, Sean Sportun, security and loss prevention manager at Mac’s of Central Canada, looked to standardize safety measures and devise a new way of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
By: Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Using retail chain data, we study the effects of a tournament incentive plan based primarily on objective performance, but incorporating managerial discretion in the selection of winners. In principle, such plans could...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
designed to enhance safety and effectiveness created a culture that unintentionally released men from societal imperatives for "manly" behavior, prompting them to let go of masculine-image concerns and to behave instead in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
to 67.5% of standard. Customers who observed employees engaged in labor perceived greater effort, appreciated that effort, and valued the service more. Employees who observed customers felt more appreciated...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
The company could also revisit the previous two applications, tracking and tracing processed meat and tracking employee safety practices. At the other extreme, after seven years of R&D and marketing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
together to survive this crisis and have proudly contributed, as a group, over $110 million—through employee support, business operations waivers, and monetary and in-kind donations as a response to the COVID-19 crisis in the...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
now if K-12 education performance doesn’t substantially improve?” The consequences of each year sending tens of thousands of unprepared kids into a harshly competitive world are already clear. They include rising social safety net...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Tuesday tumbled into Wednesday, CEO Neal Keny-Guyer hosted a town hall meeting; apologies were issued. Jacobs remembers the week as “unlike anything I’ve experienced,” he says. “On Thursday, what felt like all of the employees at our...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
paper to the ground as quickly as we have. Designing and building modular shelters accommodating over 200 homeless people in Delhi and influencing the World Bank project to take into consideration housing design and safety when financing...
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focuses on public speaking, I designed it to also explore speaking beyond the formal podium: disagreeing with the boss, holding an employee accountable, giving a peer critical feedback, speaking on your feet, influencing someone to change...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
With an interest in sharing accurate, practical advice and helping people ensure their personal safety during the current pandemic, the HBS Association of Northern California has hosted a series of weekly Zoom webinars with Dr. David...
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- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
deconstruction of gender inequality in organizations. Why Employees Are Afraid to Speak Up Authors:J. R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Harvard Business Review 85, no. 5 (May 2007) Abstract In a word—self-preservation. And...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
year, because my goal was to teach 1,000,000 girls to code, and I was going to keep growing and keep growing. Now, I realized at some point that, now, running the largest summer camp in the country or the world is really hard in terms of, from a staffing perspective,...
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- 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
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Occupational Safety and Health Administration—but I guess even reasonably well-informed citizens really don’t understand its full breadth and mandate. Could you just give us a little bit of a primer on that?Aguh: If you think about the...
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