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  • September 2021
  • Article

Oh's 8-Universality Criterion Is Unique

By: Scott Duke Kominers
Using the methods developed for the proof that the 2-universality criterion is unique, we partially characterize criteria for the n-universality of positive-definite integer-matrix quadratic forms. We then obtain the uniqueness of Oh’s 8-universality criterion as an... View Details
Keywords: N-universal Lattice; 8-universal Lattice; Universality Criteria; Quadratic Forms; Additively Indecomposable; Mathematical Methods
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  • 25 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

universities. In this excerpt, they discuss the idea of a university's DNA. In the absence of a disruptive new technology, the combination of prestige and loyal support from donors and legislators has allowed traditional universities to... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
  • January 2007 (Revised October 2007)
  • Case

The Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund: Striving to Reshape the Social Enterprise Capital Markets

By: Michael Chu and Jean Hazell
Seeking to impact global poverty and philanthropy, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar donates $100 million to Tufts University for a trust restricted to investment in microfinance. Explores the origins of the initiative, the perspectives and objectives of the various parties... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Microfinance; Investment Funds; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Emerging Markets; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry
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  • August 2023
  • Article

Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia

By: Gaurav Khanna, Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo and Nicolas Torres
Safety net programs, common in settings with high informality like Latin America, often use a means test to establish eligibility. We ask: in settings in which organised crime provides lucrative opportunities in the informal market, will discouraging formal employment... View Details
Keywords: Gangs; Informality; Crime and Corruption; Job Search; Recruitment; Colombia
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  • March 2009 (Revised August 2010)
  • Case

The Posse Foundation: Implementing a Growth Strategy

The Posse Foundation selected high-potential, non-traditional students to attend selective colleges as part of a group of 10 from the same city. The organization had developed an ambitious growth plan, but because it focused on the most selective colleges, the pool of... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Higher Education; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Personal Development and Career; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Education Industry
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  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

http://hbr.org/2011/04/why-leaders-dont-learn-from-success/ar/1 Too Guilty to Deceive: How Feeling Burdened Can Reduce Deception in Negotiation Authors:F. Gino and C. Shea Publication:In ,em>Handbook of Conflict Resolution, edited by R. Croson and G. Bolton. Oxford... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 3

Lerner and Scott Stern, 483-502. University of Chicago Press, 2012 Abstract Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

allowing me to better understand the process by which business education emerged and how it has evolved over the last hundred years. Q: In a podcast for Princeton University Press, you said business leaders are among the least trusted... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 01 Nov 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?

University (completed before the outset of the pandemic) concluded that a strong corporate culture fosters better execution, reduction in agency cost, and therefore, higher productivity and creativity. Of the many executives surveyed, 92... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

Legacy of Enron's Collapse (Harvard University Press), the devastation of Enron was total—yet there is much that business today can gain from a postmortem of the once-triumphant company. Salter had access to an extensive library of public... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

objective criteria such as price or venue. But what happens when emotion fuels the process? Could it increase efficiency and engagement? Edward McFowland III, assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and his coauthors examine this... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 27 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

apply for jobs even when they don’t fit most of the criteria in a job ad, whereas women are quicker to dismiss themselves and shy away from applying at all. “We can all become too focused on the things we think we can’t do or the things... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

CalPERS' external fund managers, Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA), and a service provider to DFA and CalPERS, KLD Research & Analytics. One question facing CalPERS with this new approach is whether to invest in PetroChina, which had been off-limits previously due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

$455, above which companies must pay extra for more than 40 hours of work. Cohen conducted the research with Umit Gurun and N. Bugra Ozel, a professor and associate professor of accounting, respectively, at the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 06 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

professor of organizational behavior at Brandeis University International Business School, have described their work in two papers: "The Emotional Tightrope of Downsizing: Hidden Challenges for Leaders and their Organizations,"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 31 Aug 2021
  • Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

the new book Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business. Battilana co-wrote the book with Tiziana Casciaro, a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. “Cultivating humility and... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 02 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 2, 2009

selective invite-only criteria for new members, would MCBRE be able to continue to grow? Should growth even be a goal? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309105 Note: Restructuring Distressed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

behavioral biases. When competition is high. Competitive negotiations can act as gender triggers, consistent with societal expectations that men are more likely than women to be competitive and to succeed in competitive environments. Researchers Uri Gneezy of the View Details
Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

offers fit his selection criteria perfectly. Second, despite growing reforms, Vietnam is still ranked poorly on indices of corruption. Third, Trinh's father (who fled Vietnam following the war) frowns upon doing anything that could... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

executives is to imply that business management itself is a profession—but is it? Sociologists who study the professions have employed a wide range of perspectives and criteria for determining what makes an occupation a profession. For... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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