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- May 1969
- Background Note
Selecting Channels of Distribution
By: Walter J. Salmon
Keywords:
Distribution Channels
Salmon, Walter J. "Selecting Channels of Distribution." Harvard Business School Background Note 513-143, May 1969.
- Article
Selective Attention and Learning
Schwartzstein, Joshua. "Selective Attention and Learning." Journal of the European Economic Association 12, no. 6 (December 2014): 1423–1452. (Online Appendix.)
- July 1986 (Revised June 1987)
- Background Note
Lotus 1-2-3: Selected Techniques
Moriarty, Rowland T., Jr. "Lotus 1-2-3: Selected Techniques." Harvard Business School Background Note 587-035, July 1986. (Revised June 1987.)
- September 2018 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact Funds
By: Vikram Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Nathaniel Schwalb
After much internal debate, THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS of Denmark have decided to allocate a small percentage of their investment portfolio to impact investments. Cambridge Associates, one of the leading investment advisory firms in the world, has been engaged to assist...
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Keywords:
Impact Investing;
Mission-Related Investing;
Foundations;
Investment;
Venture Capital;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Strategy;
Investment Funds;
Decision Making;
Consulting Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Denmark;
Europe
Gandhi, Vikram, Caitlin Reimers Brumme, and Nathaniel Schwalb. "THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact Funds." Harvard Business School Case 819-021, September 2018. (Revised June 2019.)
- July 2020
- Article
Who Should Select New Employees, Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain
By: Carolyn Deller and Tatiana Sandino
We examine how changing the allocation of hiring decision rights in a multiunit organization affects employee-firm match quality, contingent on a unit’s circumstances. Our research site, a U.S. retail chain, switched from a decentralized hiring model (hiring by...
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Keywords:
Control;
Selection;
Decentralization;
Company Values;
Retail Chains;
Employees;
Selection and Staffing;
Local Range;
Business Headquarters;
Decision Making
Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino. "Who Should Select New Employees, Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain." Accounting Review 95, no. 4 (July 2020): 173–198.
- December 2016
- Article
Selective Regulator Decoupling and Organizations' Strategic Responses
By: Jonas Heese, Ranjani Krishnan and Frank Moers
Organizations often respond to institutional pressures by symbolically adopting policies and procedures but decoupling them from actual practice. Literature has examined why organizations decouple from regulatory pressures. In this study, we argue that decoupling...
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Keywords:
Regulator Leniency;
Beneficence;
Mispricing;
Upcoding;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Health Care and Treatment;
Revenue;
Health Industry
Heese, Jonas, Ranjani Krishnan, and Frank Moers. "Selective Regulator Decoupling and Organizations' Strategic Responses." Academy of Management Journal 59, no. 6 (December 2016). (Selected for Best Paper Proceedings of the 2015 Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Winner of the Healthcare Management Division of the Academy of Management 2015 Best Paper Award.)
- October 2020
- Article
Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations
By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Mounu Prem and Edoardo Teso
In all modern bureaucracies, politicians retain some discretion in public employment decisions, which may lead to frictions in the selection process if political connections substitute for individual competence. Relying on detailed matched employer-employee data on the...
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Colonnelli, Emanuele, Mounu Prem, and Edoardo Teso. "Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations." American Economic Review 110, no. 10 (October 2020): 3071–3099.
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Employee Selection as a Control System
By: Dennis Campbell
Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study...
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Keywords:
Management Systems;
Governance Controls;
Employees;
Selection and Staffing;
Motivation and Incentives;
Decision Making;
Business Model
Campbell, Dennis. "Employee Selection as a Control System." Journal of Accounting Research 50, no. 4 (September 2012): 931–966.
- March 2019
- Teaching Note
Dutch Bros Coffee: Leadership Selection
By: Tatiana Sandino, Jasmijn Bol, Serena Loftus and Robert Grasser
Teaching Note for HBS No. 119-038.
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- September 2018 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Dutch Bros Coffee: Leadership Selection
By: Tatiana Sandino, Jasmijn Bol, Serena Loftus and Robert Grasser
Sandino, Tatiana, Jasmijn Bol, Serena Loftus, and Robert Grasser. "Dutch Bros Coffee: Leadership Selection." Harvard Business School Case 119-038, September 2018. (Revised June 2019.)
- August 1986 (Revised May 1989)
- Case
Ingersoll-Rand: Channel Selection and Management
By: E. Raymond Corey and V. Kasturi Rangan
Corey, E. Raymond, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Ingersoll-Rand: Channel Selection and Management." Harvard Business School Case 587-045, August 1986. (Revised May 1989.)
- September 2022
- Background Note
Highly Selective College Admissions
- 25 Mar 2013
- News
Finalists selected in President’s Challenge
- 01 Nov 2020
- News
Reinventing the Leader Selection Process
- April 2019
- Supplement
Selecting Customers that Will Succeed
By: Robert L. Simons
Simons, Robert L. "Selecting Customers that Will Succeed." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 119-708, April 2019.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings
By: Juliane Begenau and Berardino Palazzo
Among stock market entrants, more firms over time are R&D intensive with initially lower profitability but higher growth potential. This sample-selection effect determines the secular trend in U.S. public firms’ cash holdings. A stylized firm industry model allows us...
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Keywords:
Initial Public Offering;
Market Entry and Exit;
Supply and Industry;
Research and Development
Begenau, Juliane, and Berardino Palazzo. "Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 23249, March 2017. (Revised February 2017. Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-130, May 2016)
- 2019
- Working Paper
Who Should Select New Employees, Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain
By: Carolyn Deller and Tatiana Sandino
We examine how changing the allocation of hiring decision rights in a multiunit organization affects employee-firm match quality, contingent on a unit’s circumstances. Our research site, a US retail chain, switched from a decentralized hiring model (hiring by business...
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Keywords:
Control;
Selection;
Decentralization;
Company Values;
Retail Chains;
Decision Making;
Economics;
Geography;
Employees;
Selection and Staffing;
Organizational Design;
Situation or Environment;
Retail Industry
Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino. "Who Should Select New Employees, Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain." Harvard Business School Series in Accounting and Control, No. 16-088, January 2016. (Revised August 2019. Forthcoming in The Accounting Review.)
- January 2000
- Case
Selecting a New Name for Security Capital Pacific Trust
A methodology for selecting a new corporate brand name is explored, highlighting different types of names, criteria and hurdles in securing new names, and legal implications. Brand identity consultancy Lippincott & Margulies guided a real estate investment trust...
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Fournier, Susan M., and Andrea Carol Wojnicki. "Selecting a New Name for Security Capital Pacific Trust." Harvard Business School Case 500-054, January 2000.
- May 2013
- Article
The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts
Prior research on equity analysts focuses almost exclusively on those employed by sell-side investment banks and brokerage houses. Yet investment firms undertake their own buy-side research and their analysts face different stock selection and recommendation incentives...
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Keywords:
Buy-side Analysts;
Sell-side Analysts;
Stock Recommendations;
Recommendation Optimism;
Recommendation Performance;
Investment Recommendations;
Conflicts Of Interest;
Financial Markets;
Financial Institutions;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, Paul Healy, George Serafeim, and Devin Shanthikumar. "The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts." Management Science 59, no. 5 (May 2013): 1062–1075.