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- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
and managed as investment accounts with the goal of accumulating the largest possible pot of savings. Communication with savers is framed entirely in terms of assets and returns. Ask a saver what his 401(k) is worth and you'll hear a cash...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
[that] have started voluntarily augmenting their annual financial reports with reports on 'corporate sustainability', 'corporate social responsibility', and 'corporate environmental performance'..." This paper provides some conceptual View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
the socially constructed nature of helping behavior. That is, the parties must establish and maintain a helping frame for their interaction, especially when help-givers are high-status external leaders. Second, the model specifies that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
understanding the mechanism that can block a particular type of lung cancer cell, you're setting up a win that people can experience in a realistic time frame even though they'll have some setbacks along the way," she says....
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by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
from an aggregate perspective) and framed the issues surrounding non-zero-sum games (most business ones). Also, the concept of "learning curves" became an increasingly important tool for planning. The learning curve was first...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
narratives and frames that influence the perception of green building; and future directions for the theory and practice of sustainable construction. The essays offer uniquely multidisciplinary insights into the transformative potential...
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Anna Secino
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
dangerous, a little knowledge here was helpful. Each coach was able to help those below him on the ladder, to frame their experience as it unfolded. That is, the coaches helped their junior colleagues grow more receptors. By the time the...
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11
account is one that frames the purpose of the for-profit corporation in terms of its function in allowing members of society to meet their wants and needs by coordinating labor and capital in the production of goods and services. August...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
students frame their leader(ship) development experiences while in a business school. How we frame our experiences has a significant impact on how we ultimately "have" our experiences, as well as...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016
of issue framing on public opinion and suggest that CEOs can sway public opinion, potentially to the same extent as prominent politicians. Moreover, Cook’s CEO activism increased consumer intentions to purchase Apple products, especially...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
core business, ranging from environmental issues to LGBTQ rights and race relations. In the first study of this phenomenon, we implement two framed field experiments to provide evidence on how CEO activism can influence public opinions...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
Surprisingly, federal laws are chief among those challenges despite the fact that online marketplaces facilitate transactions traditionally regulated at the local level. In this paper, we survey the federal laws that frame the situation,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
structure, allows us to analyze the effect of quota frequency on sales force performance. Over a given time frame (i.e., a month), we find that shifting to a temporally more frequent quota plan—the daily quota plan as compared to the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
training-up to be 'as good as' men," says Ely. "They don't take the systemic gender biases in organizations into account when educating women about how to move into and exercise leadership." How People Become Leaders The paper View Details
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by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
negative, on American Anglo-Saxon workers in the short-to-medium time frames that we can evaluate with the H-1B program's fluctuations. We know there are plenty of individual stories about people who have lost their jobs due to the H-1B...
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- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
315-067 Responsibilities to Employees This note provides a framework to conceptualize managers' responsibilities to employees in relation to economic, legal, and ethical considerations. It also frames the central ethical challenge for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Earnings Call By: Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim Abstract—One of the challenges companies claim to face in making sustainability a core part of their strategy and operations is that the market does not care about sustainability, either in general or because the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
accept such a change because it would cross organizational lines that manufacturers have established for control purposes. The case frames the technical question and poses the organizational question. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
this is a really important point that we haven't hit on. The backdrop of the income inequality debate is the shadow over the whole debate. I'm sympathetic to the concerns in the income inequality debate, but it has become such a dominant View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-065 Responsibilities to Society This module note for students outlines an approach to help managers deliver on their responsibilities in relation to society. The approach...
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Sean Silverthorne