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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
organizations. The organizational leader needs to balance D3 and D4. The goal is to encourage prudent risk taking, not reckless exploration, and to encourage boundaries between groups that are permeable rather than impregnable. Certainly... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 16 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advice on Advice
clearly lay out how he or she got to the recommended options from where the advice-seeker started. Mistakes Of Advice-givers Those who give advice often make several mistakes of their own, such as overstepping invisible boundaries with... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
2013 European Business Review Changes in Work, Changes in Self? Managing Our Work and Non-Work Identities in an Integrated World By: Ramarajan, Lakshmi, and Erin M. Reid Abstract—Diverse workplaces are challenging the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
the social apparatus may not work well because of discrimination." “The government and the bureaucracy and the social apparatus may not work well because of discrimination,” he says. “The state might be in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 04 Nov 2009
- What Do You Think?
What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?
doing so, they left us with interesting questions. Fidel Arcenas described one such challenge: "A bureaucratic apparatus that's way off the pace of the market forces is useless." Do you agree? Jacoline Loewen commented, "Government is about setting the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
them. She worked with government agencies because that was a mechanism to bring greater resources to serving her community without having to bring resources into her organizational boundaries [i.e., through... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
had worked an average of 12 to 15 years in a variety of industries. “Consumers vote with their pocketbooks, and they’re saying they want this product. It makes the consumer feel beautiful. Who is the government or an activist organization... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
Working PapersDo Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States Authors:David H. Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
In the News - Creating Emerging Markets
transcended the boundaries of her industry in terms of her social impact” by using – and in doing so risking – her status as an actress in order to fight for change. Working Knowledge A Dedication to... View Details
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
capitalism is "an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- Web
Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Andy Wu : Winner of the 2018 Best Conference Paper Award from the Behavioral Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society with Sourobh Ghosh for "Iterative Coordination and Innovation" (HBS Working Paper, No. 20-121,... View Details
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
Working PapersInitiating Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors' Social Position Author:Julie Battilana Abstract This study addresses the paradox of embedded human agency, or the contradiction between actors'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
It's a common problem: A work team tackles a high-pressure project for a client, but along the way something goes wrong with team dynamics and the client ends up feeling shortchanged. Even though team members initially recognize and value... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- Research Summary
Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 13 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
A View from the Horizon
experiences and identities shape the possibilities we imagine for ourselves, and how Dr. Cash and Harvard Business School helped me become the person I am today. My father was a military man who continued working at Fort Devens even after... View Details
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
by seeing the world as it really is, rather than in idealized terms." Ghemawat explained more via e-mail with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: The subtitle of your book is "Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
Working PapersThe Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions Authors:Lyra Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract The mirroring hypothesis asserts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g., communication... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
possible—indeed, Friedman went further to say that any attempt to curb the free market was harmful to the good of society. This is the view Ramanna grapples with in a new working paper, Managers and Market Capitalism, cowritten with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding