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- 23 Oct 2018
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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....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message
being sold and measuring the effectiveness of an ad campaign. Improved technology promises to solve the age-old problem once stated by retailer John Wanamaker: Half of the money spent on advertising is wasted, but no one knows which half....
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
analytic engines to more aspects of what workers are doing, slicing the data ever finer — IBM modeling individual employees, retailers using so-called human-capital management systems to time even the smallest task and to schedule people...
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- 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016
pursuing an aggressive strategy of acquisitions over the last several years. End-market consolidation in the retail space has driven vertical integration in the extremely competitive fresh tomato business, where farm gate prices have not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
for example, filters down to retailers or health care providers in any useful or timely way. There is some forward movement, though. Lefkowitz notes that the Department of Homeland Security began sharing threat data with private industry...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
requirement may stay, or a legal team will need to have a law degree, of course, but there may be some jobs underneath it. Even if I think about HR, talent acquisition is a good space where some of our most qualified candidates actually don't have a college degree, but...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
self-agency. Had a really great academic journey, and then ventured into the world of work. Grew up in retail—so big-box retail industry—and learned a great deal about the business of commerce, and then eventually e-commerce. Ventured...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
not going to be able to get great people.Fuller: Let’s double-click though on those frontline workers that so often became called “essential” during Covid. How do you see more choice and more satisfaction being mapped into someone who’s running a View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
109-070 Commercial Director Prado wonders how to leverage the loyalty card information to prepare the fall 2008 budget. The case discusses the value of subjective and objective information for profit-planning purposes. Spanish children's apparel View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
urbanization occurring in the informal sector suggests that urbanization policies that contain inclusionary approaches may be more successful in promoting local development and managing its strains than those focused only on the formal...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four interconnected areas of corporate impact, it not only discusses the business imperative of promoting a healthier society and improved living...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
model. This strategy was based on four axes, which included: (a) alliances with labor cooperatives to generate income opportunities for the regional population; (b) educational development of neighboring communities to promote individual...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-083 thredUP: Think Secondhand First In the fall of 2016, the management team at thredUP, the largest U.S. online retailer of second hand clothing, is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Corps leaders in 1992 to report what had happened to her. But senior leaders, some of whom were her father’s friends, ultimately allowed Culver to stay on in a senior role at the organization until his death in 2005, when he was celebrated for View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
government innovation in workforce development How can government boost competitiveness and spur the creation of good jobs while protecting worker rights and promoting equity? The former Chief Innovation Officer in the U.S. Department of...
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- 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
customer-to-customer communications promote different types of usage? We study these questions using two data sets and by developing a multivariate hierarchical Poisson hidden Markov model (HMM), which fits the data significantly better...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.
flexible schedule, the lack of appropriate role models in traditionally "male" industries, the impact of maternity leaves on promotion opportunities, and a realignment of ambitions after experiencing parenthood. Barbara A. Piette (MBA...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
a measure of managers who seem to regularly be the bosses of low-wage workers who get promoted into better jobs, or have higher retention, or higher engagement scores. So I think that’s part of it. I think the other of it is that, being a...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
Advisors: [Watch Video] Watch Video In the future, we're about to undergo the most fundamental and transformational change in consumer goods and retail in a generation, and we are not ready for it. So today, what are the old-world issues...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
the transformation of markets. From the auction theories powering Google’s ad algorithms to the models that online retailers use to prevent internet fraud, even the most high-tech modern businesses are empowered by theory first envisioned...
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