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Matriarch: A Python Library for Materials Architecture

By: Tristan Giesa, Ravi Jagadeesan, David I. Spivak and Markus J. Buehler
Biological materials, such as proteins, often have a hierarchical structure ranging from basic building blocks at the nanoscale (e.g., amino acids) to assembled structures at the macroscale (e.g., fibers). Current software for materials engineering allows the user to... View Details
Keywords: Building Block; Category Theory; Hierarchical Protein Materials; Molecular Design; Open-Source Software; Structure Creation
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  • March 2020 (Revised June 2020)
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Social Salary Setting at Spiber

By: Ashley Whillans and John Beshears
Can a “set your own salary” system boost employee happiness and motivation? Spiber made synthetic silk built from proteins mimicking the proteins found in spider silk, the world’s toughest known material by weight. Kazuhide Sekiyama and Junichi Sugahara established... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Happiness; Negotiation Tactics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Biotechnology Industry; Japan; United States
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  • November–December 2023
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Network Centralization and Collective Adaptability to a Shifting Environment

By: Ethan S. Bernstein, Jesse C. Shore and Alice J. Jang
We study the connection between communication network structure and an organization’s collective adaptability to a shifting environment. Research has shown that network centralization—the degree to which communication flows disproportionately through one or more... View Details
Keywords: Network Centralization; Collective Intelligence; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Communication; Decision Making; Networks; Adaptation
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  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

connect with each other and share good practices peer-to-peer, rather than relying on traditional hierarchical lines of communication or IT repositories. From 2004 to 2007, Mougin and his team had found that 5,000 Danone managers around... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

roles, products, processes (assembly, equipment maintenance and repair, materials logistics, training, system redesign, administration, etc.), and hierarchical levels (from shop floor to plant manager and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

as concerns and policy interventions. Download working paper: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/pricecoherence-markets-2015-03-12.pdf Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality By: Khan, Mozaffar, George Serafeim, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 9

dissonance triggered by unmet expectations drives our effects. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2486576   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 314-071 A Note on Seeking, Receiving, and Giving Advice... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2014
  • HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

Great chefs, like great artists, go far beyond their materials (in this case, food) to provoke an experience that fulfills their creative vision. Unlike artists, however, they are running a business that requires putting diners in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

as the degree to which an organization is hierarchical or egalitarian, or has explicit mechanisms for inviting upward input (e.g., suggestion boxes, regularly-scheduled meetings, surveys). Our research adds the finding that specific... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

consumers in their homes and workplaces. Using a novel web-based face tracking system, we continuously measure consumers' smile responses as well as their viewing interest and purchase intent. A simultaneous Bayesian hierarchical model is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

model the technology of step processes with bottlenecks and show how this technology rewards vertical integration, a hierarchical organization, and the use of direct authority. These properties in turn became the organizational hallmarks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

evidence to challenge a common misperception about internalization theory. The theory has often been criticized for maintaining that it assumes a hierarchically organized MNE based on knowledge flowing from the home country. This is not... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

differentially spur employees of varying hierarchical levels to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

advantage. We propose several frameworks to help firms develop and exploit this new ability. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-079.pdf Cases & Course Materials Royal DSM N.V.: Information Technology Enabling... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

Abstract Financial statements are the basis for a wide range of business analysis. Managers, securities analysts, bankers, and consultants all use them to make business decisions. There is strong demand among business students for course View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

imperfect legal system, and social norms of fairness. We illustrate our arguments with examples from practice. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-046.pdf   Cases & Course Materials Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

customer-to-customer communications promote different types of usage? We study these questions using two data sets and by developing a multivariate hierarchical Poisson hidden Markov model (HMM), which fits the data significantly better... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

controlled, hierarchical organization, which would mirror the buildings' design structure, the Manchester City Council created a "commons organization," and chose to share decision-rights with local claimants. Each school's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

plantations relied on hierarchical reporting and long-lived assets-quite literally human capital. Although innovations in plantation accounting did not necessarily cause the rise of quantitative management in the North, these discourses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

  Publications September 2014 Organization Science Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin Abstract—We examine how unfavorable social comparisons differentially spur employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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