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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
That sounds like both sides of the marketplace had a big incentive to make it work better, but somehow the market didn’t clear. What do you think explained why this market was so inefficient and why it needed kind of a disruptor using an...
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- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
emerge over and over: teams become increasingly concerned with the risks of failure rather than the requirements of excellence. As a result, they revert to safe, standard approaches instead of delivering original solutions tailored to clients' needs. I have named this...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
clear; 4) Taking the wrong approach to performance assessment. Milestones relevant to each stage of an initiative's development should be established, and key assumptions in the business plan should be linked to the financial forecast; 5)...
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Anna Secino
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
desirable part of an employee’s day, our theory and results point to the benefits of viewing it as a useful time period to engage in goal-directed prospection. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50419 Diversity and Team View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
XTV ventures, however, could produce products for "leading-edge" users, who emphasized technological performance over careful documentation. Giving Up Control Like independent venture capitalists, XTV intended to give up control...
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
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Strategy Jorge Tamayo Fall2024 Q1 1.5 Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation Strategy Jorge Tamayo Spring2024 Q3 1.5 The Moral Leader General Management Joseph Badaracco Fall2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Motivation and Incentives...
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- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
precision medicines (LPMs) as those that use one or more relevant biomarkers. We then further segment trials based on the nature of the biomarker(s) used and other trial features with economic implications. Given potential changes in the View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
learning among lower-level employees. We exploit a field-research setting in which business units vary in the "tightness" with which they monitor employee decisions. We find that tighter monitoring gives rise to implicit View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
should also reduce the incentive and possibility to commit tax evasion. Overall, taxes do have a real impact on the business environment, and in most cases business is in favor of the simple and often low flat tax. Laura Alfaro:...
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by Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
alike. Can this earn-and-learn model provide equitable workforce development in a fast-changing digital economy? And can it equip workers with the wherewithal to perform today and develop skills for the long run? Welcome to the Managing...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
epitome of the Aston Martin Grand Touring car. Comfortable for two, it has few frills and a high level of luxury and yet is capable of heart-stopping performance and superb handling on the racetrack. Candee examines in detail the history...
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- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
entail a countercyclical fiscal policy. A simple debt rule that limits the maximum amount of debt is analyzed and compared to a simple deficit rule that limits the maximum amount of deficit per period. Whereas the deficit rule does not View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
We see author-level ranking as one filter for navigating the scholarly literature and note that such rankings generate incentives for more open scholarship, as authors are rewarded for making their work available to the community as early...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
its employees and its training partners? Joe Fuller: Generative AI is quickly rewriting the script for work—from hiring practices to job descriptions, from performance evaluation to workforce planning. What does that mean for employers...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
If we do our work to say we’re actually curating the strongest performers in the world, we’re recruiting them, we’re developing them, and we’re invested, then what’s the right incentive system designed to go...
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- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
prompt feedback on the performance of its products. Make an effort to incorporate improvements in the code (fix bugs and introduce new features) as soon as possible. Reward those who propose improvements for the code. At the very least,...
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- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors and which are considered most important. We use survey data from 967 analysts ranking 837 companies to judge how their forecasts are related to evaluations of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
meeting, make a presentation, and give performance feedback. The third theme was the need for MBAs to develop a better sense of the realities of organizations within which leaders operate. Politics—issues of power, coalitions, and hidden...
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- May 2018
- Case
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation's Answer Fund
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble
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Data Analytics;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Relationship Management;
Cost vs Benefits;
Investment Return;
Health Care and Treatment;
Innovation Leadership;
Intellectual Property;
Knowledge Sharing;
Knowledge Dissemination;
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Resource Allocation;
Goals and Objectives;
Marketing Communications;
Performance;
Programs;
Projects;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Networks;
Partners and Partnerships;
Research and Development;
Genetics;
Behavior;
Motivation and Incentives;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Strategy;
Health Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
United States
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
understand all the communications protocols and the way everything fit together. There was a time when that became less important in the whole server era, but now it's happening with the Web. In order to get performance out of the Web,...
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