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- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
alliance partners and to enable communities of manufacturers to work in harmony. Point-to-point Links The most obvious intercompany use of the Internet is probably construction of a point-to-point link between two alliance partners. These...
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by Andrew McAfee
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
has led to greater focus and the ability to construct meaningful performance objectives and standards across the agency. Roca has been using performance-tracking and client profile data to ensure optimal service delivery and optimal...
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by Julia Hanna
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
regions in America. Seawater desalination is expensive and energy intensive, but it could be a partial solution. Brian Brady and other members of the Authority need to vote for or against a financing and construction plan that includes a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Zhike Lei Abstract—Psychological safety describes people's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
Working PapersThe Global Networks of Multinational Firms Authors:Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen Abstract In this paper we characterize the topology of global multinational networks and examine the macro and micro patterns of multinational activity. We View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
We encourage dissension and debate and the construction of broad frameworks. The editors will support authors who wish to move out of their comfort zones to propose radical new ideas. In the spirit of encouraging discussion of broad...
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
used the actual initial and current or exit valuation data of the companies, but constructed two hypothetical investment strategies. In scenario one, the team used a strategy that assumed an initial investment of $175,000, subsequent...
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by Manda Salls
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
often, then, companies will adopt diversity policies more out of fear than anything else, the researchers argue. And this can lead to nonproductive situations. For example, a manager may shy away from constructively criticizing a minority...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Building the Water Cube Robert Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, and Dilyana KaradzhovaHarvard Business School Case 410-054 Arup, an engineering firm, collaborated with PTW Architects and China Construction Design Institute to develop a design...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
upgrades, or perform a major upgrade with construction and expansion? 2. What emphasis—commitment made to Green Technologies? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208078 FREEJ Harvard Business...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 10, 2008
disease-based integrated practice units called multidisciplinary care centers. These units were supported by a new construction project that had created new disease-specific facilities and a widely supported administrative plan in which...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
technology) to get a new business, product or project off the ground. In a turnaround, the new leader takes on a unit or group that is recognized to be in trouble and works to get it back on track. Both startups and turnarounds involve much resource-intensive View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
construction of the types of corporate alliances that are possible and productive to include collaboration with collectives that identify with political or occupational norms and values.
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by Mallory Stark
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
increased five-fold between 1997 and 2007. We construct and analyze a panel of Mexican bank financial data covering this period and find no evidence that foreign entry increases the availability of credit. We also find that switching from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
and Drew Westen Publication:Research in Organizational Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract Our goal is to integrate the construct of implicit affect—affective processes activated or processed outside of conscious awareness that influence...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
encouraged to stay in the system. Far from it. Stewardship involves careful construction and management of channel relationships so that the valuable members are suitably rewarded and the less valuable members are weeded out. When a...
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- March 2019
- Article
Economics of Converting Renewable Power to Hydrogen
By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
The recent sharp decline in the cost of renewable energy suggests that the production of hydrogen from renewable power through a power-to-gas process might become more economical. Here we examine this alternative from the perspective of an investor who considers a...
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Glenk, Gunther, and Stefan Reichelstein. "Economics of Converting Renewable Power to Hydrogen." Nature Energy 4, no. 3 (March 2019): 216–222.
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
and the design and construction of leading-edge buildings. I have identified the leadership practices that make successful cross-industry teams work: fostering an adaptable vision, promoting psychological safety, enabling knowledge...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
investigates the effect of social ties between acquirers and targets on merger performance. Using data on educational background and past employment, we construct a measure of the extent of cross-firm social connection between directors...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
costs, fossil fuel prices, possible regulatory or other delays in constructing the reactors, and possible future restrictions on carbon dioxide. CEO Jim Rogers believes that nuclear power makes sense from a social standpoint but must also...
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Carmen Nobel