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- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
all about incentives. Whichever party's nontransferable incentives are more important should be given control over transferable decisions. "If the way employees behave is super important to revenues, then you should move to a platform...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
Multiple Team Membership, Turnover, and On-Time Delivery: Evidence from Construction Services
By: Hise O. Gibson, Bradely R. Staats and Ananth Raman
Firms who want to compete in dynamic markets are finding that they must build more agile operations to ensure success. One way for a firm to increase organizational agility is to allocate employees to multiple project teams, simultaneously—a practice known as multiple...
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Multiple Team Membership;
Turnover;
Fluid Teams;
Project Management;
Groups and Teams;
Projects;
Management;
Performance
Gibson, Hise O., Bradely R. Staats, and Ananth Raman. "Multiple Team Membership, Turnover, and On-Time Delivery: Evidence from Construction Services." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-004, July 2021.
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
variable store traffic. What Mercadona shows is that all this torture isn't necessary. You can offer employees stability and still run a very successful supermarket chain." The Specialist Knows The Mercadona case, which Ton has...
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- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
a greater level of discretion to choose their interaction partners. Therefore, we expect to observe more homophilous interactions within these structures than across their boundaries. We test this argument using a dataset consisting of millions of e-mails exchanged...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Faculty & Research
the initial emphasis was on states and government regulation coordinated by the United Nations. This working paper provides a business history perspective on how the privatization of global environmental governance happened and shows how...
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- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
trust, employee commitment, and "ownership" behaviors of both employees and clients-could explain and be used to predict up to half of the difference in operating income between agency offices of a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
minority head coaches hire more minorities for subordinate coaching jobs, but that the presence of a minority offensive or defensive coordinator (with a white head coach) is a significant, negative predictor of minority hiring in junior...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding
to tell them what to do, but more to inspire them. I think it’s just a smaller piece of a larger, grander transformation in organizations.” Good management now involves coordinating and collaborating with subordinates across functions to...
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by Ben Rand
- 14 Aug 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Improving Patient Outcomes: The Effects of Staff Participation and Collaboration in Healthcare Delivery
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
relationship between changes in the structure of the executive team, firm diversification, and IT investments-which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through corporate-wide coordination by functional managers in headquarters....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules and is uncorrelated to observable characteristics of the graduates. Given this assignment protocol, I find that local View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
advertising and marketing services is best served through the coordination and integration of resources from both inside and outside the company, rather than assuming that these options are mutually exclusive. A review of advertising...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2016
- HBS Seminar
Catherine Tinsley, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
- Web
Placement - Doctoral
Health Policy (Management), 2021 Placement: Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health Dissertation: Crowdsourcing and Engaging Employees in Innovation: Three Field Studies Advisors: Amy C. Edmondson (Chair), Karim R. Lakhani,...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
PapersThe Impact of Forward-Looking Metrics on Employee Decision Making Authors:Pablo, F. Casas-Arce, Asís Martínez-Jerez, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract This paper analyzes the effects of providing forward-looking metrics on View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Managing the Future of Work
organization and create the workforce of the future? Featured Reports Healthy Outcomes By: Joseph B. Fuller 10 JAN 2024 An analysis of employers who offer employees caregiving support services shows that there is indeed a positive return...
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- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
or Co-locate? Autonomy versus Learning Effects at the United States Patent Office By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Cirrus Foroughi, and Barbara Larson Abstract—While employees might prefer work arrangements that offer greater autonomy, such as...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
sophisticated safeguards such as an independent ethics committee and a "whistle blower" system for employees concerned with the company's practices. In less than two decades, Sydney IVF grew from just four View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Asia Pacific - Global
on ICL’s internal ideation program, the Business Innovation for Growth (BIG) Accelerator. When Raviv Zoller become the CEO of ICL in 2018, he recruited Croitoru, then his Chief of Staff, to help embed a culture of innovation throughout the company. He tasked Croitoru...
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Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work
coordinating with its employees and its training partners? Shopify’s Tia Silas on rewiring HR for a remote-first e-commerce company 24 JAN 2024 | Managing the Future of Work How do you re-engineer the people...
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