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- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing By: Battilana, Julie Abstract— While in recent decades the View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between service capacity costs and...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
research is unlikely to influence managers’ day-to-day decisions about whether to apply for patents. Indeed, many companies already attempt to have it both ways, as patent attorneys can use obfuscating language in patent applications in...
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by Kristen Senz
- 21 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Articles of 2021
precious life.” Read More>>> THE EQUITY NETWORK: HOW HBS HELPED ME LAUNCH A TECH-ENABLED SOCIAL ENTERPRISE By Kristina Hu (MBA 2022) “Two months before school started, I met my future sectionmate and co-founder, Shelby Schrier,...
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- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
Joanne, George Serafeim, and Shan Wu Abstract—We study how career concerns influence banking analysts' forecasts and how their forecasting behavior benefits both them and bank managers. We show that banking analysts issue early in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
marketing can be used to create a political process that entices consumers (voters) rather than makes them cynical. "We wanted to elevate understanding of the power and importance of marketing as a force for social good," the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
"is like any gas that is compressed; it gets hotter." Its tribes overlap socially and professionally based on work discipline (software engineers, for example), organizational affiliation (Hewlett-Packard), or background...
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
in the prosperous country, stimulates demand for products and services, and creates as many jobs as it fills, thereby not increasing unemployment. In the US, as the argument goes, it could also help address the economic shortfall in View Details
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by James Heskett
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
perspective. They have no natural resources, which makes them highly dependent on imports from foreign countries. From a climate-change perspective, everyone knows [the current model] isn't sustainable anymore. There's a diverse economic and View Details
- September 2007 (Revised April 2009)
- Case
Norway Sells Wal-Mart
By: Robert C. Pozen and Aldo Sesia
In June 2006, Norway's Pension Fund decided to divest its position in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. after an investigation by the Fund's Ethics Council. According to a spokesperson of Norway's Finance Ministry, "The recommendation to exclude Wal-Mart cites serious and...
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Decisions;
Ethics;
Insurance;
Investment Activism;
Investment Funds;
Government and Politics;
Rights;
Problems and Challenges;
Labor and Management Relations;
Power and Influence;
Retail Industry;
Norway
Pozen, Robert C., and Aldo Sesia. "Norway Sells Wal-Mart." Harvard Business School Case 308-019, September 2007. (Revised April 2009.)
- April 1987 (Revised April 1987)
- Case
Tiberg Co.
By: Michael Beer and Daniel J. Isenberg
Describes the efforts of a vice president of purchasing to coordinate and centralize purchasing procedures in a multinational company. He encounters a lack of active cooperation. A rewritten version of an earlier case by G. Lombard.
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Cost Management;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Governance Controls;
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Power and Influence
Beer, Michael, and Daniel J. Isenberg. "Tiberg Co." Harvard Business School Case 487-079, April 1987. (Revised April 1987.)
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
generating a brand book for Israel that suggested a guiding brand position of “creative energy”; inviting social media influencers to partake in trips focused on lifestyle interests; generating appealing,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
longitudinal data from 68 multi-method case studies of organizational change initiatives conducted at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom support these predictions and advance a relational view of organizational change in which View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense Against 24/7 Work Culture By: Padavic, Irene, R. Ely, and Erin M. Reid Abstract—It is widely accepted that the conflict between women’s family obligations and professional...
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Dina Gerdeman
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Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Julie Battilana Power and Influence for Positive Impact Organizational Behavior Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Max H. Bazerman Negotiation Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie Africa...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
in a culture where it's very difficult for people to tell other people what to do. It's not the usual supervisory manager-submanager structure found in the United States." Before coming to Turtle Island, Evanson was involved in the emerging market of cable television,...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53204 December 2017 Current Opinion in Psychology Gender, Social Class, and Women's Employment By: McGinn, Kathleen L., and Eunsil Oh Abstract—People in low-power positions, whether due to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208083 Cyworld: Creating and Capturing Value in a Social Network Harvard Business School Case 509-012 May 2008, the new CEO of Cyworld, a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Matchabelli, the son of nobility in Georgia and an amateur chemist. He began blending perfumes for his friends at an antique shop in New York before founding his own perfume company in 1926 . The social importance of smelling and looking...
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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Until the nineteenth century, the scope for applying (imperfectly) competitive thinking to business situations appeared to be limited: Intense competition had emerged in many lines of business, but individual firms apparently often lacked the potential to have much of...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat