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  • 2010
  • Article

Geography, Poverty and Conflict in Nepal

By: Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer
This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This within-country analysis complements existing cross-country studies on the same subject. Using a... View Details
Keywords: Ethnicity; War; Poverty; Geography; Conflict and Resolution; Government and Politics; Economics; Nepal
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    How to Really Motivate Salespeople

    Much of what we believe about the best ways to compensate and motivate the sales force is based on theory and lab experiments. But in the past decade, researchers have been moving out of the lab and into the field, analyzing companies' sales and pay data, and... View Details
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    Mission-Driven Governance

    By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

    The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation
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      Carliss Y. Baldwin

      Carliss Y. Baldwin is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She studies the process of design and its impact of design architecture on firm strategy, platforms, and business ecosystems. With Kim Clark, she authored... View Details

      Keywords: computer; electronics; software
      • 09 Oct 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

      In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, the authors combine the latest thinking from the biological and social sciences to lay out a new theory on human nature. The idea: We are all influenced and guided by four drives: acquiring,... View Details
      Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
      • 23 Feb 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: Feb. 23

      Authors:Kathleen L. McGinn and Katherine L Milkman Abstract We develop an integrated theory of the social identity mechanisms linking workgroup sex and race composition across levels with individual turnover. Building on social identity... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • Web

      Skydeck - Alumni

      Kiteboarding Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill Tai (MBA 1987) on his accidental ascent to kiteboarding entrepreneur The Burning Man Project Real estate developer and author Jennifer Raiser (MBA 1990) goes behind the scenes of the annual Burning Man gathering A... View Details
      • 05 Aug 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

      There's an old fable in which a scorpion asks a frog for a piggyback ride across a river. The frog fears getting stung along the way, but the scorpion argues that stinging the frog would be fatally stupid; the frog would die and sink and so, too, would the scorpion. So... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • 21 Feb 2012
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      First Look: Feb. 21

      corporate archives to explore the fine details of how firms actually operated. It also includes work by those who have been influenced by evolutionary, transaction cost, and resource-based theories of the firm. The book will be an... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 13 May 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      How to Spot a Liar

      Want to know if someone's lying to you? Telltale signs may include running of the mouth, an excessive use of third-person pronouns, and an increase in profanity. These are among the findings of a recent study that delves into the language of deception, detailed in the... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • 09 Feb 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

      School of Management at Northwestern University.) "From an academic perspective, we thought we could advance the theory of networks by looking at the psychological consequences of networking." Previous psychology research has shown that... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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      Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

      What should the Federal Reserve have done in October 1929 following the market crash? Evaluation: Which theory of the causes of the Great Depression is most compelling to you and why? Diagnosis: Why did the Great Depression become a... View Details
      • 29 Oct 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

      Few people see a relationship between tipping and bribing. But consider this: In places where people tip heavily, bribes are more likely to exchange hands as well. Research shows that there's actually a fine line between the socially acceptable act of tipping and the... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • 20 Dec 2011
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      First Look: December 20

      Thought Theory (UTT); namely, that unconscious thought is a bottom-up process, whereas conscious thought is a top-down process. In two experiments on impression formation, participants read behavioral information about a fictitious person... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 27 Jun 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

      practices require a certain level of competency and numeracy in the workforce.” The need for a skilled workforce to implement these management practices provides one explanation for why management differences aren’t so easily smoothed over through market competition,... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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      Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

      related hypotheses across six experiments: (1) Given people's lay theories about the capacities for cognition and emotion for robots and humans, workers will express more discomfort with botsourcing when they consider losing jobs that... View Details
      • 03 Jun 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business

      All over the world, people in pain turn to rituals in the face of loss—no matter if it's the death of a loved one (dressing in black, for example), the end of a relationship (burning old love letters), or the crushing defeat in a Little League baseball game (graciously... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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      Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

      faculty provide education and expertise rooted in real-world experience, linking theory and practice to shape business practice and train business leaders. Nonprofit Strategy & Governance Expanding its early focus on helping nonprofits... View Details
      • 22 Feb 2024
      • Blog Post

      It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You!

      something tangible. Second, I cannot emphasize the power of the community enough! The first-year curriculum ensures you have some academic experiences unique to the MS/MBA cohort: starting classes a month early for Design Theory and... View Details
      • 2015
      • Discussion Paper

      The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change

      By: Claudia Steinwender
      A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access to export markets,... View Details
      Keywords: Performance Productivity; Trade
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