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- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
Baldwin, and Christopher L. Magee Abstract Hierarchy is a generic structure in which levels are asymmetrically ordered. In an industry setting, classic supply chains display strict hierarchy, whereas clusters of firms have linkages going... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
suggested by theories concerning conflicts between managers and owners over risk-taking. We argue that managers holding equity of their bank take less risk because they have fewer opportunities to diversify... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan Publication:Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups Abstract Business groups—collections of legally independent firms interconnected by multiple View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Human Relations and Harvard Business School – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Archives Photograph Collection At Harvard Business School, Dean Donham began to shift the focus from scientific management and applied economics to human relations, a growing course of study. Mayo’s 1935... View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
forthcoming Economic Journal (Royal Economic Society) Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France By: Pons, Vincent, and Guillaume... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
and Nohria examine how an organization built around the four-drive theory might look. The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of work. With it, life... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
translate economic theory and analysis into practical solutions to real-world problems. By redesigning both the rules that guide market transactions and the infrastructure that enables those transactions to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
Nadja Fidelia aligned the Partnership Solutions Groups' activities with Lehman Brothers' "one-firm" strategy in ways that created economic value for the firm. Delves into the challenges of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2022
- Book
What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose
control—it creates an environment in which individuals regulate themselves in ways helpful to the organization and to themselves. But empowering individuals to self-regulate requires that the company trust them and grant them a measure... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 29 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?
boost his or her motivation. It does—under certain conditions. The evolving field of behavioral economics is challenging the assumption that more money inevitably leads to increased effort. In a recent field... View Details
Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer present a comprehensive new theory of belief formation that explains how beliefs shape financial markets, and the destabilizing role the beliefs View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments
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Business History - Faculty & Research
market economies such as the United States. This article finds instead that regional influences were more important, supporting sociological theories about the importance of visibility in corporate green... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
causal evidence for the role of matchmaking in promoting happiness. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46356 August 2013 Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
fundamental changes to the way accounting firms and their clients operate. If we are really going to restore trust in the U.S. system of auditing, we will need to go well beyond the provisions of the... View Details
- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
Years of bull market bliss gave brokerage clients few reasons to open their account statements—until March. Within one month, stocks in the United States notched their biggest one-day losses—and gains—as mounting fears about COVID-19’s... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
by differences in the information-processing activities associated with each function and apply this insight to refine and extend existing theories of centralization. We also discuss the implications View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast
say. Companies are also facing more scrutiny from regulators and investors who are increasingly evaluating how employers treat workers. And they’ve been blamed for creating economic conditions that cause... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
characteristics at both the senior management and director levels affect corporate philanthropic contributions. We also find that organizational structure constrains the philanthropic influence of board members but not View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
management be trusted to self-regulate, or will regulators or other stakeholders need to play a more significant role to address a growing range of harms? Participants left with an understanding View Details