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- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-091.pdf An Exploration of Technology...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
example, the team-building and team-bonding activities that are the happy hours after work, for a primary caregiver—even when we’re back into “normal”—are not nearly as beneficial as flexible spending accounts that allow me to pay for...
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- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing...
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- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
and hazards. Several techniques can enhance the power and efficacy of queries: Favor follow-up questions, know when to keep questions open ended, get the sequence right, use the right tone, and pay attention to group dynamics. Publisher's...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
lack of experimentation by paying more attention to and learning more from each experiment. The researchers found strong learning effects among employees in settings where they were monitored by their bosses somewhat loosely. In settings...
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by Staff
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
which can mean a bunch of different things. There’s compensation benchmarking, which is an interesting case, because they’re the only part of HR that has done benchmarking. But I think that landscape has evolved quite a bit, because with View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
that. I think people had issues with her transparency or whatever. But there were a significant number of people who had a huge distaste for Donald Trump, but who really believed that Hillary Clinton was the last person in the world you'd...
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- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
ownership position (>50%) in the state-owned enterprise (SOE)—something that had not been done before; how much to pay for the stake; and how to ensure commercial, regulatory, and political approval for the deal. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
regulated and transparent markets and institutions and into the lightly regulated or unregulated shadow markets encompassing mortgage brokers, hedge funds, private-equity funds, off-balance sheet structured-investment vehicles, and a...
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- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
Conversely, I’ve heard investors say they wish the leaders of their portfolio companies would be more transparent about challenges they are facing and ask for help. As one investor said to me, “They already sold me on the business and...
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by Julia Austin
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
organization, one that applies the skills, tools, and frameworks taught across the School’s programs. Transparency is a cornerstone of this goal. Toward this end, I invite you to review our financial results in detail in the Supplemental...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
a variety of measures, including tolls, to shelter local enterprises from competition. They are motivated by the need to protect the local tax base. Without it, local officials stand to lose a major source of revenue needed to pay their...
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- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
is potentially very high. We find that analysts pay little attention to subsidiaries about to be spun off even though these subsidiaries constitute a significant part of the parent company operations. Moreover, while the level of detail...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
before the pandemic, it was a lot of strategizing and hiring consulting firms and waiting a long time. Second thing that people have learned during the pandemic is that, if you’re not an empathetic and caring company, you’re going to pay...
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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
and the consumers' discount factor, while statistically significant, fall in the region where PlayStation 2's position is unsustainable. Working PapersPay Dispersion and Work Performance Authors:Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan Abstract The effect of intra-firm...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
emerging market firms raise external capital, they face a tradeoff where greater transparency may lead to a lower cost of capital but at the cost of revealing proprietary information in their relational business practices. We find that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
consumer-driven system would require transparency in health-care quality and costs. Can you imagine shopping in a supermarket where you don't know products' prices or ingredients? In the 1930s, President Roosevelt created the SEC to...
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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
pressing need in today’s world to shore up waning public trust in government institutions through transparency and good financial stewardship. Christopher Smart worked alongside Cognetti in Treasury, serving as deputy assistant secretary...
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- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
backdated stock options, insufficiently independent corporate board members, poor responsiveness to shareholders concerns, and a lack of transparency in the activities and decisions of boards. The AFL-CIO believes that such problems were...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
lived there. I spent a couple of months immersed in that community, with our mandate being to figure out how to move them. “We started investigating what their right was to be there in the first place,” he says. “Most had been paying...
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