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- 12 Dec 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
- Working Knowledge
Can Sustainability Drive Innovation at Ferrari?
Re: Raffaella Sadun
When Ferrari, the Italian luxury sports car manufacturer, committed to achieving carbon neutrality and to electrifying a large part of its car fleet, investors and employees applauded the new strategy. But among the company’s suppliers, the reaction was mixed. Many...
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- 09 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
- Working Knowledge
Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture
by Rachel Layne
While many companies let employees work remotely during the height of COVID-19, conditions have since become more nuanced, according to research by Raffaella Sadun and colleagues. What do these shifts mean for talent managers?...
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- 14 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
- Working Knowledge
When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving
by Jay Fitzgerald
Laws and grim warnings have done little to deter distracted driving. Commuters routinely use their time behind the wheel to catch up on emails, says research by Raffaella Sadun, Thomaz Teodorovicz, and colleagues. What will it take to make roads safer?...
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- 26 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
- Working Knowledge
What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener
by Jay Fitzgerald
Financial expertise and operational experience will only take executives so far. More than ever, companies want senior leaders with strong social skills and emotional intelligence, says research by Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller.
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- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
- Working Knowledge
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
by Danielle Kost
everybody does? My colleague Professor Raffaella Sadun has wonderful research that shows just how slowly even key managerial practices diffuse. All of a sudden, being a good manager confers a lasting competitive advantage. Kost: You end the book by talking about the value that companies can create for
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- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
- Working Knowledge
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
by Dina Gerdeman
When the pandemic recedes, executives can’t expect office life to be as it was. But they can create a new work world that will keep employees happy and productive, say Harvard Business School faculty members.
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- 14 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
- Working Knowledge
You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
by Danielle Kost
A study of 3 million people confirms what many work-from-home employees already know: We're swamped. Research by Raffaella Sadun, Jeffrey Polzer, and colleagues.
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- 10 Aug 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Collaborating During Coronavirus: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Nature of Work
by Evan DeFilippis, Stephen Michael Impink, Madison Singell, Jeffrey T. Polzer, and Raffaella Sadun
This study of 16 cities is the first large-scale analysis of how digital communication patterns have changed in the early stages of the pandemic. The overall pattern of more meetings and more emails points to a spillover of virtual communication beyond normal working...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
- Working Knowledge
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
A survey of 50 companies across countries and industries reveals business leaders are hard at work adapting to the COVID threat. Research by Raffaella Sadun and colleagues.
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- 10 Feb 2020
- In Practice
- Working Knowledge
6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy
by Danielle Kost
serve, the skills they employ, and their organizational structures. The latter approach involves higher costs and time horizons, but most likely also much higher returns.” Raffaella Sadun (@raffasadun), a professor of business administration and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of
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- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
- Working Knowledge
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
by Alumni Bulletin Staff
...QUESTIONS Why is it so difficult for American health care providers to compete for customers? Raffaella Sadun and Leemore Dafny discuss why health care needs a business strategy.
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- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
- Working Knowledge
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
Dina Gerdeman
...programs not only enjoy better management quality, but see lower mortality rates. Raffaella Sadun and colleagues argue in an upcoming Review of Economics and Statistics article that joint MBA-health care courses might lead to better clinical care. Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management...
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- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
- Working Knowledge
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
Sean Silverthorne
...leader CEOs are on average more productive, and this difference arises only after the CEO is hired." Research by Raffaella Sadun and colleagues. CEO Behavior and Firm Performance Does revising make it better? Maybe, or maybe not. But people who revise are prone to believe their updated work is...
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- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
- Working Knowledge
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
Sean Silverthorne
Among the highlights included in new research papers, case studies, articles, and books released this week by Harvard Business School faculty: Do CEOs matter? Extending a line of research studying the impact of CEOs on their organizations, Raffaella Sadun and colleagues discover that in some...
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- 26 Mar 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS
by Katharina Janke, Carol Propper, and Raffaella Sadun
To what extent do CEOs impact their organizations? This study finds little consistent evidence of any CEO effect on the large set of production metrics examined in hospitals averaging 4,500 employees in the English National Health Service. This result stands in stark...
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- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
- Working Knowledge
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Carmen Nobel
Lawrence, and Raffaella Sadun. "We find that founder CEO firms have the lowest management scores of any owner-manager pair type and that this difference is associated with significant performance differentials," they write. Are Founder CEOs Good Managers? The Russian Revolution remains relevant One hundred...
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- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
- Working Knowledge
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Sean Silverthorne
forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, Renata Lemos, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs and on whether family and professional CEOs differ on this dimension. We do so
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- 09 May 2017
- First Look
- Working Knowledge
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Sean Silverthorne
...new working paper, Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times. Research by Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen shows that a decentralized structure, where plant managers had more autonomy to act before a downturn, outperformed their...
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- 28 Mar 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
CEO Behavior and Firm Performance
by Oriana Bandiera, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Pratt, and Raffaella Sadun
This paper combines a new survey methodology with a machine learning algorithm to measure the behavior of CEOs in large samples. Results show that larger and more complex firms require CEOs with a more coordinative—and less micromanaging—behavior. Inefficiencies in the...
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- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
- Working Knowledge
First Look at New Research, March 21
Sean Silverthorne
Oriana Bandiera, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Pratt, and Raffaella Sadun. The paper is titled CEO Behavior and Firm Performance. The hidden power of a job-candidate referrer New research suggests that the background of a person referring a job candidate can set off a complex chain reaction that ultimately...
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