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  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment

where climate change was leading to drier climates. “It’s a rare look at a company that’s positioning itself to develop profitable opportunities, both to mitigate contributors to climate change and to... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • September 2020
  • Article

How Multimedia Shape Crowdfunding Outcomes: The Overshadowing Effect of Images and Videos on Text in Campaign Information

By: J Yang, Y Li, Goran Calic and Anton Shevchenko
This study aims to explore the moderating effect of the number of images and videos on the relationship between text length in crowdfunding campaign descriptions and crowdfunding outcomes. We use data from 13,622 technology campaigns on the Kickstarter website to test... View Details
Keywords: Crowdfunding; Media; Cognition and Thinking; Performance Effectiveness; Entrepreneurial Finance
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  • 2019
  • Article

Can Big Data Improve Firm Decision Quality? The Role of Data Quality and Data Diagnosticity

By: Maryam Ghasemaghaei and Goran Calic
Anecdotal evidence suggests that, despite the large variety of data, the huge volume of generated data, and the fast velocity of obtaining data (i.e., big data), quality of big data is far from perfect. Therefore, many firms defer collecting and integrating big data as... View Details
Keywords: Big Data; Analytics and Data Science; Decisions; Quality
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Political Skill: Explaining the Effects of Nonnative Accent on Managerial Hiring and Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions

By: Laura Huang, Marcia Frideger and Jone L. Pearce
We propose and test a new theory explaining glass-ceiling bias against nonnative speakers as driven by perceptions that nonnative speakers have weak political skill. Although nonnative accent is a complex signal, its effects on assessments of the speakers' political... View Details
Keywords: Spoken Communication; Prejudice and Bias; Competency and Skills; Selection and Staffing; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Decisions
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  • 21 Jul 2009
  • Research Event

Business Summit: Managing Human Capital—Global Trends and Challenges

ways, the human capital needed for globalization is lacking. Progress is required in important areas such as elevating more women to leadership positions and having talent strategies that incorporate... View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Thomas
  • January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
  • Case

Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth

By: William W. George, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Amram Migdal
Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM’s global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Organic Growth; Organizational Change; M＆A; Mergers And Acquisitions; Divestment; Business Ventures; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Restructuring; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Engineering; Chemicals; Mining; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Food; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health; Nutrition; History; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Ownership; Public Ownership; Performance; Strategy; Adaptation; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Value; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; Netherlands
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    Organizational Design and Control Across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry

    Many companies operate units that are dispersed across different types of markets, serving significantly diverging customer bases. Such dispersion is likely to compromise headquarters' ability to control local managers' behavior and satisfy the needs of different... View Details
    • 16 May 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

    position as the seventh-largest U.S. financial institution. It would also unlock substantial value not currently reflected in the stock. Each faced major obstacles and execution risks, however. In... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
    • 03 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 2)

    students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds to follow their dreams and make a positive difference in the world. Kareem Stanley, Class of 2024 In my experience, FGLI is equivalent to thoughtfulness. I... View Details
    • 11 Jul 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

    task selection effect and show that it occurs due to the positive feelings individuals get from task completion. These findings provide an alternative mechanism for the workload-speedup effect from the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • May 23, 2011
    • Article

    Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

    By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
    To determine the extent to which corporate and investor behavior is changing to contribute to a more sustainable society, researchers Robert Eccles and George Serafeim analyzed data involving over 2,000 companies in 23 countries. One result: a ranking of countries... View Details
    Keywords: Change; Society; Corporate Disclosure; Natural Environment; Rank and Position; Social Issues; Financial Statements; Behavior
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    • 22 Aug 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

    significant increase in the number of initiatives seeking to mobilize investor voice toward positive social impact. In this paper, I provide a framework outlining the role of investors as stewards of the commons. While companies are... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Going to Extremes: Crucibles, Multiple Sensitive Periods, and Career Progression

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sunasir Dutta, Hise O. Gibson and Eric Lin
    We study the effects of crucible experiences along multiple sensitive periods on career progression. While prior literature has hinted that individuals can be imprinted during multiple sensitive periods, not just during the early career, there has been scant attention... View Details
    Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Personal Development and Career; Management Skills; Human Capital
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    • 12 Feb 2016
    • Op-Ed

    The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills

    of jobs over the past few decades. And while trade deals undoubtedly play a role in the global topography of jobs, today many American jobs may hang in the balance based upon a completely different factor: the availability of skilled... View Details
    Keywords: by Joe Fuller and Matt Sigelman; Manufacturing; Electronics
    • 22 Feb 2021
    • Blog Post

    I Found My Future at HBS and You Can Too

    some of the warmest and most supportive people who I have ever met. We look out for each other in the same way friends in my hometown did. Every student with whom I have spoken, regardless of their background, has battled doubts View Details
    • 2010
    • Other Unpublished Work

    God, Government and Outsiders: The Influence of Religious Beliefs on Depositor Behavior in an Emerging Market.

    By: Ayesha K. Khan and Tarun Khanna
    This paper provides evidence that religious beliefs can have a significant impact on individual financial choices. Using proprietary panel data on the distribution of bank deposits across all commercial banks in Pakistan over a 33-month period, I find that Islamic... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Commercial Banking; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Consumer Behavior; Emerging Markets; Religion; Banking Industry; Pakistan
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    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation

    By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis
    We propose a scalable, data-driven method for designing national policies for the allocation of deceased donor kidneys to patients on a waiting list, in a fair and efficient way. We focus on policies that have the same form as the one currently used in the U.S. In... View Details
    Keywords: Fairness; Policy; Health Disorders; Marketplace Matching; Performance Effectiveness; Rank and Position; Health Industry; United States
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    • 24 Mar 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

    with Liang and Luc Renneboog of Tilburg University, and Sunny Li Sun of the University of Missouri—Kansas City to study whether the same held true in business. Would a company's use of language, particularly... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 14 Apr 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

    which she interviewed women at several law firms, noting both positive and negative interactions among peers and supervisors. In terms of View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 2003
    • Book

    When You Say Yes But Mean No: How Silencing Conflict Wrecks Relationships and Companies

    By: Leslie Perlow
    “Saying yes when you really mean no” is a problem that haunts organizations from start-ups to multi-nationals. It exists across industries, levels, and functions. And it’s exacerbated by a down economy, when the fear of losing one’s job is on everybody’s mind and the... View Details
    Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Relationships; Business Ventures
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