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- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
phases of a new industry, formed a strategic goal. Our data show goal formation as a phased social process. By aggregating previously encountered solutions to known problems, the founding team formed an emergent goal that presented an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Julian J. Zlatev
First, Professor Zlatev studies how people make decisions that reinforce a sense that they are good or moral. He studies the psychology behind dual motive behaviors—actions that incorporate self-interested and prosocial motives—and the structure of moral identity. For...
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- January 2022
- Background Note
Common Prosperity? China Shifts Left
By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been mistrustful of entrepreneurs and the private sector that operates outside the government’s authority. In its first decades under Mao Zedong, the CCP...
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Market Reform;
Gdp;
Government Administration;
Government and Politics;
Private Sector;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Economy;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Entrepreneurship;
Business and Government Relations;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Social Issues;
Society;
Economic Growth;
China
- March 2016
- Teaching Note
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company, Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz sought to provide a solution to a large scale complex problem. Ultimately, Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and...
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- December 2016
- Article
Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A Case of Collaborative Marketing by a Global Bank and a Major Art Museum
By: Ragnar Lund and Stephen A. Greyser
This paper examines cultural sponsorship from a partnership perspective. It studies the collaboration between two international institutions, a bank and a museum, and their value co-creation with customers and audiences. This in-depth case study of a sponsorship...
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Sponsorship;
Co-marketing;
Partnerships;
International Marketing;
Arts Marketing;
Relationship Marketing;
Museums;
Resource Integration;
Marketing;
Partners and Partnerships;
Financial Institutions;
Arts
Lund, Ragnar, and Stephen A. Greyser. "Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A Case of Collaborative Marketing by a Global Bank and a Major Art Museum." Journal of Business and Policy Research 11, no. 2 (December 2016): 156–177.
- 2014
- Book
The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives, and Materiality.
By: Robert G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus
The Integrated Reporting Movement explores the meaning of the concept, explains the forces that provide momentum to the associated movement, and examines the motives of the actors involved. The book posits integrated reporting as a key mechanism by which...
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Eccles, Robert G., and Michael P. Krzus. The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives, and Materiality. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
- 2023
- Working Paper
State Employment as a Strategy of Autocratic Control in China
By: Jaya Y. Wen
This paper presents evidence that autocrats use state-owned firms to strategically pacify social unrest via employment provision, a role that may contribute to their favorable treatment and persistence across settings. I use variation in a regional conflict between...
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Wen, Jaya Y. "State Employment as a Strategy of Autocratic Control in China." Working Paper, January 2023.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Incentive Power and Knowledge Sharing Among Employees: Evidence from the Field
By: Wei Cai, Susanna Gallani and Jee-Eun Shin
There is consensus, both in the literature and in practice, about knowledge sharing within organizations being a key determinant of success. However, organizations struggle to sustain employees’ engagement in knowledge sharing. One challenge lies in the fact that,...
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Organizational Knowledge Sharing;
Employee Driven Innovation;
Innovation Appropriability;
Contract Design;
High-powered Incentives;
Low-powered Incentives;
Incentives;
Pay-for-Performance;
Rank-and-file;
Employees;
Knowledge Sharing;
Innovation and Invention;
Motivation and Incentives;
Creativity;
Performance
Cai, Wei, Susanna Gallani, and Jee-Eun Shin. "Incentive Power and Knowledge Sharing Among Employees: Evidence from the Field." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-015, August 2018. (Revised April 2020.)
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
managers' social initiatives are akin to using a dishwasher to wash clothes. Corporations can contribute best to society if they do what they do best: employ a workforce to provide goods and services to the...
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by Manda Salls
- 25 Mar 2022
- Video
Omobola Johnson
Omobola Johnson, the former Minister of Communication Technology in Nigeria, discusses her participation in the co-founding of WimBiz, a Nigerian non-profit organization that seeks “to be the catalyst that elevates the status and influence of women and their...
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- October 2001 (Revised June 2004)
- Case
Harrah's Entertainment Inc.
By: Rajiv Lal and Patricia Carrolo
Describes a situation facing Philip Satre, chairman and CEO of Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. Satre was reading a May 2000 Wall Street Journal story that discussed the company's marketing success in targeting low rollers, the 100% growth in stock price and profits in the...
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Budgets and Budgeting;
Marketing;
Marketing Reference Programs;
Performance Evaluation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Competitive Strategy
Lal, Rajiv, and Patricia Carrolo. "Harrah's Entertainment Inc." Harvard Business School Case 502-011, October 2001. (Revised June 2004.)
- Research Summary
Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa
By: Debora L. Spar
In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
these social leaders viewed those advantages as a vehicle for contributing to solutions of certain social problems. According to Juan Carr, founder of the Solidarity Network...
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- 23 Oct 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Decarbonization Factors
- 2014
- Book
Great Power, Peace, and American Primacy: The Origins of a New International Order
By: Josh Baron
This book explains the period of great power peace in the last fifty years and outlines the path to perpetuating it. Drawing on the Realist tradition and challenging conventional wisdom about the causes of American primacy, Baron explores contributions to peace made by...
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Globalization;
International Relations;
Power and Influence;
Conflict and Resolution;
United States
Baron, Josh. Great Power, Peace, and American Primacy: The Origins of a New International Order. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- 2010
- Chapter
Business Groups in Historical Perspectives
By: Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan
Business groups-collections of legally independent firms interconnected by multiple economic and social linkages that exhibit widely diversified product portfolios-are viewed as the prototypical large-enterprise form in contemporary emerging economies. By exploring the...
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Business History;
Management Skills;
Emerging Markets;
Alliances;
Groups and Teams;
Competitive Advantage;
Great Britain
Jones, Geoffrey, and Asli M. Colpan. "Business Groups in Historical Perspectives." Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, edited by Asli M. Colpan, Takashi Hikino, and James R. Lincoln. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management. Oxford University Press, 2010.
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
Should business play a role in supporting public institutions, and perhaps addressing the world's social challenges? When Harvard Professor Rebecca Henderson asked her colleagues and business executives that question over the last few...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- August 2021
- Article
Information Seeding and Knowledge Production in Online Communities: Evidence from OpenStreetMap
By: Abhishek Nagaraj
The wild success of a few online communities (like Wikipedia) has obscured the fact that most attempts at forming such communities fail. This study evaluates information seeding, an early-stage intervention to bootstrap online communities that enables contributors to...
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Keywords:
Online Communities;
Knowledge Production;
Crowdsourcing;
Innovation;
Digitization;
Internet and the Web;
Digital Platforms;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Analytics and Data Science;
Knowledge Dissemination
Nagaraj, Abhishek. "Information Seeding and Knowledge Production in Online Communities: Evidence from OpenStreetMap." Management Science 67, no. 8 (August 2021).
Lynn S. Paine
Lynn Sharp Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. A member and former chair of the General Management unit, she has served in numerous leadership positions including Senior... View Details
- 06 Jun 2023
- Cold Call Podcast