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- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
organizational management practices all over the world. The project was borne of a widely perceived gap in economic research. In business academia, there is an optimistic tendency to assume that managers generally make decisions in the...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University chose business and government ethics and a good infrastructure for attracting business; while a third panelist selected civil society. Discussion and debate ensued among the five...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
with the conditioned odor, participants were found to be (i) more creative and (ii) better able to select their most creative idea than participants who had been exposed to a control odor or no odor while sleeping. These findings suggest...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
factors affecting companies' decisions on incentive provision, as well as showing that the impact of monetary incentives on carbon emissions remains significant even when we control for potential selection...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
experts in the selection and development of early-stage ideas. Our context is the movie industry, in which customer appeal is difficult to predict and investment costs are high. The Black List, an annual publication, ranks unproduced...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
as an imperial power. Publisher's link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9952.html August 2013 American Economic Review Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia By: Ashraf, Nava, Erica Field, and Jean Lee Abstract—We posit that...
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
collaboration. At the same time that leadership is being redefined, leadership development is also being reconsidered. In recent decades companies have focused on succession processes that ensure the emergence of a select group of leaders...
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by Bill George
- October 2019
- Case
GRIT Fitness
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Olivia Hull
In December 2018, GRIT Fitness was a growing chain of boutique fitness studios offering a variety of workout classes, including weightlifting, high intensity interval training, and cardio dance. With 400 members and three Dallas studios, CEO Brittani Rettig believed...
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Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Mission and Purpose;
Corporate Strategy;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Business Plan;
Trends;
Experience and Expertise;
Talent and Talent Management;
Training;
Health;
Selection and Staffing;
Leadership Style;
Leadership Development;
Management Style;
Management Teams;
Brands and Branding;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Structure;
Motivation and Incentives;
Sports;
Competition;
Diversification;
Expansion;
Value Creation;
Health Industry;
Sports Industry;
Texas
Applegate, Lynda M., and Olivia Hull. "GRIT Fitness." Harvard Business School Case 820-016, October 2019.
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
cultural fit with JLL. Staubach paid its brokers with a commission model, which accelerated JLL's decision to let go of its long-standing salary and bonus approach. The merger also surfaced two interesting business opportunities. First,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
characteristics enhances investment performance, collaborating for affinity-based characteristics dramatically reduces the probability of investment success. A variety of tests show that the cost of affinity is not driven by selection...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research where people have two distinct modes of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
paper: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/searchsafety.pdf Strategic Bidder Behavior in Sponsored Search Auctions Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Michael Ostrovsky Periodical:Journal of Decision Support Systems 43, no. 1 (February 2007):...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
moral imperatives, we study the factors that influence when individuals find solutions that fall outside of the salient options presented. In particular, we study moral insight, or the discovery of solutions, other than selecting one of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
iPhoto This weekend the NFL is concluding its annual draft. Up to 255 college football players will be distributed over three days across the 32 NFL teams. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made the View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
individual pieces. My critical decisions at the earliest stage were thus to focus on themes such as Wall Street, leadership, consumption, the workplace, communications, and transportation that added up to a credible (and relevant) set of...
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