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- 30 Oct 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 14 Introducing Open Platforms and Business Ecosystems
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by Carliss Y. Baldwin
- 04 Feb 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences
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by Hanna Halaburda
- 2024
- Working Paper
Racial Discrimination and the Social Contract: Evidence from U.S. Army Enlistment during WWII
By: Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini
This paper documents that the Pearl Harbor attack triggered a sharp increase in volunteer enlistment rates of American men, the magnitude of the increase was smaller for Black men than for white men and the Black-white gap was larger in counties with higher levels of...
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Keywords:
State Capacity;
Institutions;
War;
Race;
Prejudice and Bias;
Government Administration;
United States
Qian, Nancy, and Marco Tabellini. "Racial Discrimination and the Social Contract: Evidence from U.S. Army Enlistment during WWII." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-005, July 2020. (Revised June 2024. Conditionally accepted at the Review of Economic Studies. Available also from KelloggInsight, HBS Working Knowledge, and NBER.)
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
Why did you come in late on Tuesday? Did you really need an hour and a half for lunch on Wednesday? Why wasn't that report done by Thursday? For most of us, justifying our schedules is an expected part of the job. But what employee hasn't...
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by Michael Blanding
- 11 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits
a few main strategies. “In any organization, you want to make the moral and material coexist,” Ramarajan says. It can be a challenge, no more so than in the media, and the View Details
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- September 2012
- Other Article
An Interview with Michael Porter: Social Entrepreneurship and the Transformation of Capitalism
By: Michaela Driver and Michael E. Porter
In this interview Michael Porter explores social entrepreneurship in the context of a larger transformation of capitalism. He suggests that social entrepreneurship is an important transitional vehicle toward the creation of shared value and a capitalist system in which...
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Driver, Michaela, and Michael E. Porter. "An Interview with Michael Porter: Social Entrepreneurship and the Transformation of Capitalism." Academy of Management Learning & Education 11, no. 3 (September 2012): 421–431.
- 19 Mar 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
The Use of Broker Votes to Reward Brokerage Firms’ and Their Analysts’ Research Activities
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Enterprise Foreign Direct Investment, Finance and Economic Development By: Alfaro, Laura, and Jasmina Chauvin Abstract—Research has sought to understand how foreign direct investment affects host economies....
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Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
How a Multicultural Social Environment Influences Creativity and Innovation
My second stream of research draws on my first stream of work to examine how a multicultural social environment influences individuals’ creative thinking and performance at a global workplace. In an on-going project, I found that individuals high in cultural...
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- 2008
- Working Paper
Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem
By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation in experience on performance. While some studies find a positive relationship between these two variables, others find no effect or even a negative relationship. In this paper, we...
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Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Learning;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Improvement;
Groups and Teams;
Familiarity;
India
Huckman, Robert S., and Bradley R. Staats. "Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-035, September 2008.
- December 2018
- Article
Cross-boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular strategy for innovation. Knowledge diversity is seen to expand the range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, case studies reveal that teaming across knowledge...
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Keywords:
Teams;
Innovation;
Groups and Teams;
Innovation and Invention;
Knowledge;
Performance Effectiveness
Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Cross-boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations." Special Issue on Creating High Performance Teamwork in Organizations. Human Resource Management Review 28, no. 4 (December 2018): 347–360.
- September 2011
- Article
The Empire Struck Back: Sanctions and Compensation in the Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938
By: Noel Maurer
The Mexican expropriation of 1938 was the first large-scale non-Communist expropriation of foreign-owned natural resource assets. The literature makes three assertions: the U.S. did not fully back the companies, Mexico did not fully compensate them for the value of...
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Keywords:
Natural Environment;
Assets;
Value;
Motivation and Incentives;
Government and Politics;
Strategy;
Interests;
Revenue;
Non-Renewable Energy;
Energy Industry;
Mexico;
United States
Maurer, Noel. "The Empire Struck Back: Sanctions and Compensation in the Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938." Journal of Economic History 71, no. 3 (September 2011): 590 – 615.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Service Quality, Inventory and Competition: An Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa
By: Karthik Balasubramanian and David F. Drake
The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the developing world. The resulting electronic currency ecosystem could improve the lives of the estimated 2 billion people who live on less than $2 a day by...
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Keywords:
Operations Strategy;
Base Of The Pyramid;
Mobile Money;
Inventory Management;
Competition;
Currency;
Service Operations;
Mobile and Wireless Technology
Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake. "Service Quality, Inventory and Competition: An Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-059, January 2015. (Revised October 2015.)
- April 2022
- Article
National Customer Orientation: A Framework, Propositions and Agenda for Future Research
By: Ofer Mintz, Imran S. Currim and Rohit Deshpandé
Purpose: This paper aims to propose a new country-level construct, national customer orientation, to provide a benchmark for global headquartered managers’ decisions and scholars investigating cross-national research.
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International Marketing;
Macro-marketing;
Marketing;
Financial Crisis;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Economic Growth;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation
Mintz, Ofer, Imran S. Currim, and Rohit Deshpandé. "National Customer Orientation: A Framework, Propositions and Agenda for Future Research." European Journal of Marketing 56, no. 4 (April 2022): 1014–1041.
- 08 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Leading Amidst Competing Technical and Institutional Demands: Revisiting Selznick’s Conception of Leadership
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by Marya L. Besharov & Rakesh Khurana
- 12 Oct 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer
- 15 Nov 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
The Dynamic Interplay of Inequality and Trust: An Experimental Study
- 2012
- Article
Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank
By: B. Staats and F. Gino
Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition...
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Keywords:
Motivation;
Productivity;
Specialization;
Variety;
Work Fragmentation;
Boundaries;
Performance Productivity;
Organizations;
Research;
Strategy;
Motivation and Incentives;
Opportunities;
Market Transactions;
Resource Allocation;
Performance;
Goals and Objectives;
Learning
Staats, B., and F. Gino. "Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank." Management Science 58, no. 6 (June 2012): 1141–1159.
- 2014
- Discussion Paper
The Promise of Microfinance and Women's Empowerment: What Does the Evidence Say?
By: Dina D. Pomeranz
The microfinance revolution has transformed access to financial services for low-income populations worldwide. As a result, it has become one of the most talked-about innovations in global development in recent decades. However, its expansion has not been without...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets;
Entrepreneurship;
Women's Empowerment;
Entrepreneurs;
Saving;
Savings;
Credit;
Credit Supply;
Insurance;
Development Economics;
Development Finance;
Behavioral Economics;
Gender;
Microfinance;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Banking Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Insurance Industry;
Latin America;
Kenya;
Chile;
India;
Asia;
Africa
Pomeranz, Dina D. "The Promise of Microfinance and Women's Empowerment: What Does the Evidence Say?" EY Thought Leadership Series, February 2014.
- 24 Jun 2008
- Working Paper Summaries