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- 2008
- Working Paper
Media versus Special Interests
By: Alexander Dyck, David A. Moss and Luigi Zingales
We argue that profit-maximizing media helps overcome the problem of "rational ignorance" highlighted by Downs (1957) and in so doing makes elected representatives more sensitive to the interests of general voters. By collecting news and combining it with entertainment,...
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Dyck, Alexander, David A. Moss, and Luigi Zingales. "Media versus Special Interests." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14360, September 2008.
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
focused on a single industry or country and has not accounted for possible variation across social contexts. This paper advances an institutional framework and predicts that gender diversity’s effect on performance is determined by both...
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Dina Gerdeman
- November 2007
- Supplement
Differences at Work: Allie (B)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
In Differences at Work: Allie (B) HBS Case No. 9-408-055 Allie and her colleague initially refuse to go but when her boss makes a scene they reluctantly agree to accompany him to the beach despite his inappropriate behavior. Later back at company headquarters they tell...
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Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Allie (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 408-055, November 2007.
- November 1996 (Revised May 1998)
- Case
Margaret Thatcher
Portrays Margaret Thatcher's rise to the leadership of Great Britain's Conservative Party. Thatcher's political career began with her election to Parliament's House of Commons in 1959. Sixteen years later she was elected the leader of her party, and then in 1979, she...
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Leadership;
Personal Development and Career;
Gender Characteristics;
Government and Politics;
Power and Influence;
Public Administration Industry;
Great Britain
Ibarra, Herminia M., and Jennifer Suesse. "Margaret Thatcher." Harvard Business School Case 497-018, November 1996. (Revised May 1998.)
- March 1983 (Revised January 1984)
- Case
Merloni Group
The general manager of the recently-established French subsidiary of an Italian appliance company is in conflict with headquarters about unexpectedly poor financial performance. Headquarters management believes it should be able to exert more control over the...
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Business Subsidiaries;
Trade;
Organizational Structure;
Performance Evaluation;
Power and Influence;
France;
Italy
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Merloni Group." Harvard Business School Case 383-152, March 1983. (Revised January 1984.)
- March 2019
- Technical Note
Control or Flexibility? Structured Empowerment Offers Both—Lessons from Retail & Service Chains (Abridged)
By: Tatiana Sandino
This note explains how several retail and service organizations use a practice described here as “structured empowerment” to balance control and flexibility as they grow. I define structured empowerment as a practice that grants employees both (a) the power to make...
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Service Operations;
Standards;
Employees;
Service Delivery;
Decision Making;
Power and Influence;
Retail Industry;
Service Industry
Sandino, Tatiana. "Control or Flexibility? Structured Empowerment Offers Both—Lessons from Retail & Service Chains (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 119-088, March 2019.
- August 2003 (Revised May 2006)
- Case
Elizabeth Parker (A)
By: Tiziana E. Casciaro, Wickham Skinner and David Krackhardt
A new political appointee with years of volunteer experience takes over a highly responsible job in the state government and is met with bureaucratic inertia. Describes a successful strategy to overcome organizational resistance to change.
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Public Sector;
Leading Change;
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Conflict and Resolution;
Power and Influence
Casciaro, Tiziana E., Wickham Skinner, and David Krackhardt. "Elizabeth Parker (A)." Harvard Business School Case 404-043, August 2003. (Revised May 2006.)
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
idea of being a passive investor, along for the ride, no longer appealed to me,” Aiyer says. Shareholders were owners, she realized, and they had a say in how a company ran as well as the ability to influence everything from labor...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
Image by John Ritter Companies can spend millions curating their social media presence—with sometimes famously funny results, like the Twitter accounts for Wendy’s and Denny’s—but how relevant is that to revenues? Here, Associate...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- Web
MOC Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network MOC Network The MOC Affiliate...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
provide housing and practical education for orphaned and at-risk boys. Outward Bound’s influence on the island began with when it launched its first adventure learning and character development programming in the mid-1970s. The island...
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- June 2010
- Article
Change for Change's Sake
By: Freek Vermeulen, Phanish Puranam and Ranjay Gulati
No one disputes that firms have to make organizational changes when the business environment demands them. But the idea that a firm might want change for its own sake often provokes skepticism. Why inflict all that pain if you don't have to? That is a dangerous...
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Interpersonal Communication;
Innovation and Invention;
Leading Change;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Creativity;
Power and Influence;
Adaptation
Vermeulen, Freek, Phanish Puranam, and Ranjay Gulati. "Change for Change's Sake." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 6 (June 2010).
- 2009
- Working Paper
Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines
By: Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin
Female "empowerment" has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other development goals. Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a...
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Saving;
Microfinance;
Personal Finance;
Decision Making;
Microeconomics;
Gender;
Power and Influence;
Philippines
Ashraf, Nava, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin. "Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-100, March 2009.
- Article
Creating Value Together
By: Maxim Sytch and Ranjay Gulati
Conventional wisdom suggests that companies should avoid growing dependent on their business partners. If one company, the thinking goes, grows too dependent on a counterpart by getting the entire input for a particular activity from it and is not able to switch...
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Supply Chain Management;
Performance Improvement;
Partners and Partnerships;
Power and Influence;
Value Creation
Sytch, Maxim, and Ranjay Gulati. "Creating Value Together." Business Intelligence. MIT Sloan Management Review 50, no. 1 (Fall 2008): 12–13.
- April 2017
- Teaching Plan
An Intern's Dilemma (A) and (B)
By: Sandra J. Sucher
Teaching Plan for HBS Nos. 316-128 and 316-129.
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- January – February 2011
- Article
Are You a Good Boss-Or a Great One?
By: Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback
Private moments of doubt and fear come even to managers who have spent years on the job. Any number of events can trigger them: an initiative is going poorly; you get a lukewarm performance review; your new assignment is daunting. HBS professor Linda Hill and executive...
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Leadership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Personal Development and Career;
Groups and Teams;
Power and Influence;
Social and Collaborative Networks
Hill, Linda A., and Kent Lineback. "Are You a Good Boss-Or a Great One?" Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 1-2 (January–February 2011).
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
'I want to increase relationships' or 'I want to create ways in which people have open communication,' then it's very much promotion-focused—a concern with advancement and growth." Studying The Exception To The Norm The researchers...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
themselves with social causes or wish to bring about positive change in the world. Beyond the income these artists are receiving, the confidence and hope it instills within them touches every part of their lives. A lot of these artists...
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- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
that an individual casts may deviate substantially from that under pure, rational QV equilibrium play. Because turnout itself is driven by other factors, the same determinants may influence how voters who do turn out choose the quantity...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
described her as a middle-aged woman. Middle age is a much different proposition these days. And far more mathematically accurate — there are probably as many years left as lived. Looking back, thanks to social change, the baby boomer...
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