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- 04 Mar 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Determinants of Individual Performance and Collective Value in Private-Collective Software Innovation
- November–December 2023
- Article
Look the Part? The Role of Profile Pictures in Online Labor Markets
By: Isamar Troncoso and Lan Luo
Profile pictures are a key component of many freelancing platforms, a design choice that can impact hiring and matching outcomes. In this paper, we examine how appearance-based perceptions of a freelancer’s fit for the job (i.e., whether a freelancer "looks the part"...
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Freelancers;
Gig Workers;
Demographics;
Prejudice and Bias;
Selection and Staffing;
Jobs and Positions;
Analytics and Data Science
Troncoso, Isamar, and Lan Luo. "Look the Part? The Role of Profile Pictures in Online Labor Markets." Marketing Science 42, no. 6 (November–December 2023): 1080–1100.
- 1 Mar 2013 - 2 Mar 2013
- Conference Presentation
The Value of Flexibility in Baseball Roster Construction
By: Timothy Chan and Douglas S. Fearing
Drawing inspiration from the theory of production flexibility in manufacturing networks, we provide the first optimization-based analysis of the value of positional flexibility (the ability of a player to play multiple positions) for a major league baseball team in the...
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Risk and Uncertainty;
Design;
Production;
Resource Allocation;
Groups and Teams;
Adaptation;
Sports
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
late architect Cedric Price, who bottom-lined thousands of years of urban history into a breakfast order. The ancient city was a hard-boiled egg, surrounded and protected by a wall. Next came the fried egg,...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
a number of categories that will prove important when considering the CEO’s role: Direction: A core function of leadership is setting the strategy for the organization, and...
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- 10 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Pay for Environmental Performance: The Effect of Incentive Provision on Carbon Emissions
- 2010
- Working Paper
Boundary Spanning in a For-profit Research Lab: An Exploration of the Interface Between Commerce and Academe
By: Christopher C. Liu and Toby E. Stuart
In innovative industries, private-sector companies increasingly are participants in open communities of science and technology. To participate in the system of exchange in such communities, firms often publicly disclose what would otherwise remain private discoveries....
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For-Profit Firms;
Higher Education;
Information Publishing;
Innovation and Invention;
Science-Based Business;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Boundaries;
Biotechnology Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Liu, Christopher C., and Toby E. Stuart. "Boundary Spanning in a For-profit Research Lab: An Exploration of the Interface Between Commerce and Academe." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-012, August 2010.
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Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation
By: Gautam Ahuja, Curba Morris Lampert and Vivek Tandon
Schumpeter's conjecture that large monopolistic firms were the key source of innovation in modern industrial economies has been the underpinning for much work on the topic of innovation. In this review paper we consciously move beyond the Schumpeterian tradition of...
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Ahuja, Gautam, Curba Morris Lampert, and Vivek Tandon. "Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation." Academy of Management Annals 2 (2008): 1–98.
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
people he wanted to hurt, or why he must hurt them,” she recalls. That moment in December 2007 set in motion Mendhro’s vision for the Dreamfly, a global initiative designed to educate, expose, and empower people living in communities...
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Jill Radsken
- 31 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?
categories, including those served by Walmart. Amazon’s success raises questions about the future of retailing. Is an “Amazon 2.0” even now in the early stages of design and...
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- 5 Nov 2005 - 8 Nov 2005
- Conference Presentation
Exploring the Architecture of Complex Software Products
By: Alan MacCormack
- 22 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Peek: Finding a Sense of Purpose
philosophy, they were involved in a wide array of projects and initiatives. For example, some of my peers established non-profit organizations to advocate for social change, while others founded startup...
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- 12 Nov 2015
Real Students of HBS Webinar: Leadership Lessons
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a student at HBS? Our monthly series, "The Real Students of HBS", is designed to help you find out. In this webinar students will discuss the leadership lessons...
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- 2015
- Chapter
The Fourth Wave: Business Management and Business Education in the Age of the Anthropocene
By: Andrew J. Hoffman and John Ehrenfeld
Sustainability has become mainstream in both management practice and management research. Firms incorporate sustainability strategies into their core mission. University administrators promote sustainability as central to their curricula. Scholars pursue sustainability...
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Keywords:
Environmental Sustainability;
Social Issues;
Natural Environment;
Leading Change;
Management Systems
Hoffman, Andrew J., and John Ehrenfeld. "The Fourth Wave: Business Management and Business Education in the Age of the Anthropocene." Chap. 13 in Corporate Stewardship: Achieving Sustainable Effectiveness, edited by Susan Albers Mohrman, James O'Toole, and Edward E. Lawler, 228–246. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2015.
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
and deliver those dollars directly to people in need, no strings attached. The initial response to the idea was lukewarm. GiveDirectly and a handful of other groups experimenting with cash payments were a direct challenge to both the...
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April White
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
of Fujifilm, a company approaching its 75th anniversary. In Fujifilm: A Second Foundation, a case coauthored with HBS associate professor Giovanni Gavetti and Yaichi Aoshima of Hitotsubashi University,...
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- 1998
- Chapter
A Theory of the Firm's Knowledge-Creation Dynamics
By: Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi
- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
in which a supplier builds a persistent demand and designs production to perpetuate that brand's most enticing qualities. The third age, embodied by the book clubs, is that of interactive marketing, where a...
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- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
valuable networking benefits through networked incubators. The first is Brainshark.com, a year-old company that got started in a Boston-based incubator called Reach Internet Incubator. A year ago, founders Joe Gustafson and Mark Yacovone faced the challenge View Details
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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service - Recruiting
management intern with the Submerged Resources Center (SRC). The SRC is the NPS national dive program, responsible for documentation, research, and maintenance of shipwrecks, reefs, downed WWII planes, boat docks, and everything in...
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