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- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2498174 Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat By: Novosad, Paul, and Eric Werker Abstract—National governments frequently pull strings to get...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
something like that in energy, which is particularly interesting in areas like conservation. Biotech and pharma are more dependent on patents than energy is likely to be; but one of the most important things we learned from looking at this sector is the View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
collapse buried 33 miners at a depth almost twice the height of the Empire State Building-over 600 meters (2,000 feet) below ground. Never had a recovery been attempted at such depths, let alone in the face of challenges like those posed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Is MySpace.com Your Space?
MySpace puts the power of individual identity in play. You're not anonymous on a social networking site—you're exactly the opposite. You're presenting a managed self to the world. Q: These sites often have wonderful demographics from an...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Bless this Stress
without it. When our earliest ancestors were chased by a hungry cave bear, it was the body’s adaptive response that powered the quick burst of energy that allowed for survival. Illustration by Johanna Goodman Illustration by Johanna...
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
hundreds of years. From Airbnb to Ant Financial, research shows how AI-driven processes are vastly more scalable than traditional ones, enable companies to straddle industry boundaries, and open up powerful opportunities for learning....
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Managing Health Care Delivery
reform, and payers are demanding cost control. These factors have placed great strain on health care delivery, and pose significant challenges for vulnerable populations. These issues are not unique; they are systemic factors that...
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Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge
but what about the moral quandaries posed by thinking machines? Buckle your seatbelts: Joseph Badaracco probes the most consequential questions raised by self-driving cars. 25 Sep 2024 Managing the Future of Work Collective counsel:...
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Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective
By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn and Robin J. Ely
This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. organizations and to inform an approach for disrupting it. We treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group...
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Equality and Inequality;
Race;
Prejudice and Bias;
Organizational Culture;
Gender;
Power and Influence;
Employees;
Attitudes
Mobasseri, Sanaz, William A. Kahn, and Robin J. Ely. "Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective." Academy of Management Review (in press). (Pre-published online January 4, 2024.)
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
management, innovation loses out. At best, leaders of core business units dismiss innovation initiatives as irrelevancies. At worst, they see the new businesses as threats to the firm's core identity and values. Many CEOs take a backseat in debates over resources,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
to test critical assumptions vigorously to root out overly optimistic projections. Fostering constructive dissent poses another challenge for managers. As we see in the Everest case, insufficient debate among team members can diminish the...
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by Michael A. Roberto
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Podcast - Business & Environment
CNN who shares his expertise on how CNN integrates climate narratives into their news coverage, the power of storytelling, and the strategies they employ to highlight both the urgency of the climate crisis and the innovative solutions...
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Finance - Faculty & Research
backward integrating this trading company into sugar growing and refining on the continent and/or becoming an independent power producer and selling electricity to the national grid. Based on an HBS field case, anonymized for HBR....
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- 23 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions
Is it possible to truly empower employees to make their own decisions—even when those decisions could mean life or death? That is the question posed by Dutch home healthcare organization Buurtzorg, which has radically avoided almost all...
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- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
wondered, “If it feels depressing for me, how on earth did he survive when he was actually there and did not know the end of the story?” (Emphasis in the original.) When he posed that question to the admiral, Stockdale answered: “I never...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
to decide how to best market their innovation. The iconic status of existing electric guitars, and the lack of any recent radical innovations in the category, pose challenges in securing consumer adoption. If the company goes it alone, it...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309034 Enel: Power, Russia, and Global Markets Harvard Business School Case 709-046 Although the global trend toward liberalization of electric utilities forced Enel, the largest View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2013
- What Do You Think?
Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?
respondents, (2) it works, and (3) there are a number of reasons why others don't or can't practice it. Timothy Lynn Burchfield provided an eloquent endorsement of the concept this way: "Those who serve (vs. power or buy) their way...
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by Jim Heskett
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Latin America - Global
the title, “Democratizing Development: How Business can Create Wealth for All,” the invite-only event contributed to advancing BiGS' mission to leverage the power of the private sector and international markets to find solutions to social...
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