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- 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007
are relevant to strategic choice, as well as how our model complements both other theories of choice that view the role of experience as central and recent work in population ecology that emphasizes cognitive processes. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2022
- Case
Business Roundtable 2019 Statement: A New Paradigm or Business as Usual?
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Amram Migdal
This note focuses on the antecedents of, reactions to, and clarifications about The Business Roundtable’s August 19, 2019, “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation.” The note includes background information on corporate governance as practiced in the United States in... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Business History; Mission and Purpose; Agency Theory; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States
Wang, Charles C.Y., and Amram Migdal. "Business Roundtable 2019 Statement: A New Paradigm or Business as Usual?" Harvard Business School Case 122-023, February 2022.
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
selection and impact is important to both researchers and practitioners. This paper introduces Leader Filtration Theory (LFT)-a theory from political science-to managerial audiences, applies it to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29
influential financial expert. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=11-068.pdf Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Abstract— The IBM PC was the first digital computer platform that was open by as a matter of strategy, not necessity. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the IBM PC as a technical system and set of organization choices in light of the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
Eric Lin, and George Serafeim Abstract—We explore how an organization’s financial misconduct may affect pay for former employees not implicated in wrongdoing. Drawing on stigma theory we hypothesize that although such alumni did not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
medium-to-strong community structures. Convention networks, which feature high network connectedness and weak community structures, were not evident among the empirical networks we examined. Taken together, our findings advance an environmental contingency View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
identity, search, and intellectual property. We suggest that much of the received wisdom in these areas of organization theory requires revisiting. We then discuss the implications for an organization's management of innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
geographically or encounter changing tasks. Our findings offer insight for theory and practice into how organizational knowledge resources can improve knowledge workers' productivity and help build organizational capability. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
research on complex organizations. Yet, the behaviors of top executives are frequently featured as an important determinant in historical treatments of strategic change inside large firms. Theories of organizational ecology,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
Authors:Leigh Plunkett Tost, Francesca Gino, and Richard P. Larrick Abstract We examine the impact of subjective power on leadership behavior and demonstrate that the psychological effect of power on leaders spills over to impact team effectiveness. Specifically,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008
Building on previous theories of how social activists inspire field-level change, we hypothesize that shareholder actions and regulatory threats are likely to prime firms to cooperate with shareholder requests for information disclosure.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Status: When and Why It Matters
evidence that buyers are willing to place a premium on status, holding constant quality and the reputation for quality." What sounds easy in theory may be difficult in practice, however: "Look around and you may be hard-pressed... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
this impact: the broad, shallow, positive impact on product prices versus the narrow, deep, negative impact on individuals." These quotes help sum up the nature of the thought-provoking debate stirred by this month's column. On the one hand, arguments based on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11
Publications November 2014 Harvard Business Review Cooks Make Tastier Food When They Can See Their Customers By: Buell, Ryan W., Tami Kim, and Chia-Jung Tsay Abstract—While existing theory suggests that increased contact between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
primarily occurred for firms covered by financial analysts. Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Periodical:Industrial and Corporate Change 17 (February 2008): 155-195 Abstract This article... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
driven To Lead: Good, Bad, And Misguided Leadership By Paul R. Lawrence To deal with the much-discussed but still poorly understood complex of economic affairs known as globalization, we must examine its several forms from a Renewed Darwinian View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
Legitimacy Narratives By: Clair, Judith A., Kathleen L. McGinn, Beth K. Humberd, Rachel D. Arnett, and Katherine Chen Abstract—While prior research recognizes that women struggle to maintain legitimacy for their successes and that self-narratives play a key role in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
theory about, and the practice of, technologically mediated communication, power, and interpretation in organizations. Zwischen Familienerbe und globalem Markt. Eigentum und Management von gro en westdeutschen Familienunternehmen im... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13
organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We test our theory in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne