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- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be important in the context of BRIC, but we also outline how other factors such as factor endowments, colonialism, serfdom, and, especially,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
context of resource stress: there is already not enough clean water, clean air, healthy food, or available land and there is already too much traffic and not enough space to put the garbage. The first phenomenon—urbanization—only makes... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
controllers relied on the cultural authority of financial economics and the "full fair value" logic. Second, top management's interactive use of a particular control system sends a signal to external stakeholders about the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
the culture of the organization." Waldrup puts it more strongly: "Providing more information without creating an atmosphere that allows people to use their judgement will only cause failure." Still others pointed out that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-099.pdf Mobilizing Culture for Public Action: Community Participation and Child Rights in Rural Uttar Pradesh By: Mangla, Akshay Abstract—Community-based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
senior management, or even bosses all the way down. In contrast, context refers to organizational factors, outside the individual, that provide cues about how voice is likely to be received. Leader behavior is one such contextual cue.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
Business unit buy in was a concern of Asit Goel. "Sponsorship from the top is critical to make innovation part of the culture but resource commitment from the BUs (business units) is critical if an idea is to ever take off."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
across the globe while also linking the classroom and workplace. Held offshore, the program's introductory module directly immerses participants in the challenges that foreign markets and cultural environments present. The subsequent... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
very tough intellectual problem, because for every story of success, there is one of failure," she says. "In some ways, it's the users who win—the phenomenon makes us all richer in terms of the innovation capacity of our society." Roy Chua: Bridging The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
in contexts where gender diversity is viewed as “normatively” accepted. By normative acceptance, they mean a widespread cultural belief that gender diversity is important. In other words, beliefs about... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent—but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind? The traditional culture of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?
I’m not just a professor and business consultant; I’m also a parent to two kids. As I’ve often mused, the challenges leaders face at home and at work aren’t necessarily all that different. In particular, both contexts leave leaders... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
be achieved if the Argentine society underwent a cultural transformation, setting solidarity as a core shared value. Its association with the prestigious newspaper La Nación served as a valuable tool in attaining such an objective; it was... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
roles. Courage in the C-Suite Authors:Rosabeth M. Kanter Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 12 (December 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the atricle: http://hbr.org/2011/12/courage-in-the-c-suite/ar/1 Values, Purpose, Meaning, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
where people spend both their social and their professional lives by themselves, at home on their computers or mobile devices. We’re losing aspects of our culture as a consequence of not being together. To use the analogy of a DJ concert:... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
Moreover, we show that this effect occurs not only in the case of IGOs that focus on economic issues, but also on those with social and cultural mandates. This demonstrates that relational governance is important and feasible in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
and Julie Battilana Abstract—This paper examines the critical role of gender in the commercialization of social ventures. We argue that cultural beliefs about what is perceived to be appropriate work for each gender influence how founders... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
included some mention of peddlers and drummers in his 1977 book, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. He discussed them, though only briefly, within the larger context of the rise of mass distribution and mass... View Details
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
Khurana Publication:Harvard Magazine, May-June 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/the-pay-problem Working PapersMen as Cultural Ideals: How View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
cultural values (perceived social mobility) and differences among cultures (North America vs. Europe) to demonstrate moderators and boundary conditions of the positive associations derived from signals of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne