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  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

mediate the family's influence on the firm so that neither the financial and employment needs of the family nor family conflicts endanger the long-run viability of the company; and provide helpful mentoring and feedback for family... View Details
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By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

  • 2022
  • Article

Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO

By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details
Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • 30 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

value to the creative process? Or is it more productive to explore ways of providing incentives to the innovators of the world, largely outside large organizations, possibly by facilitating the market that mediates resources between... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 04 Nov 2009
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?

is purpose: What do we need governments for? as mediators between the different actors of society . What do we need economy for? value creation For those reasons we need laws and a government to enforce them." Edward Hare joined in,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 12 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

respective roles and how they have been contributing to team goals. Team members should be candid about how the work-from-home format has affected their productivity. Some may need assistance getting familiar with mediating tools. Some... View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
  • 16 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

is at the heart of the shopping experience. Tranthi adds that she approves the hire of every sales associate at each of Thomas Pink's ten U.S. stores. "It is the most critical position in the company," she says. "They View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products
  • 13 Jan 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

added experience, strong identification, and distinct understanding of the organization to the team to support the young players on the pitch. Two experienced homegrown players became the cornerstones of his team: Thomas Müller and David Alaba. Flick relied on his... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports
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Institutions and Corporate Lobbying

“Institutions and Make-or-Buy Decision of Lobbying: The Role of Sociopolitical Legitimacy on Foreign MNEs’ Lobbying Internalization”

In this study, I examine how legitimacy comes into play in foreign MNEs’ make-or-buy decisions... View Details

Keywords: Institutions; Make V. Buy; Lobbying; Legitimacy; Corruption; Culture; Multinational Enterprise; United States
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

PublicationsMediators in Position Auctions Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Dov Monderer, and Moshe Tennenholtz Publication:Games and Economic Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract A mediator is a reliable entity, which can play on behalf of agents in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

cover 90 percent of patients, jointly negotiate drug prices with manufacturers. In America's more fragmented and secretive system, pharmacy benefit managers act as mediators during many price negotiations. German consumers and physicians... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 21 Jan 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

buyout happen. Third parties often get involved in buyouts to mediate the process and keep emotions from sabotaging the buyout. A good board will recognize the importance of settling shareholder issues and help regulate differences. And,... View Details
Keywords: Retail
  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

non-core users when they are perceived as brand tourists. The brand tourism effect is mediated by core users' pride and moderated by brand patriotism and selectiveness of the brand. August 2013 Harvard Business Review The Limits of Scale:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

which she interviewed women at several law firms, noting both positive and negative interactions among peers and supervisors. In terms of positivity versus negativity, the consistent mediating factor was whether the women considered their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

to submit their snipes early, which is a lot more convenient way to snipe. Of course, if eSnipe ever started to mediate a lot of eBay's auctions in this way, eBay could take all their business by offering a sealed bid option to bidders.... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

find evidence of lessened gender penalties for female-led ventures that are presented using a social impact frame. In a second study, we experimentally validate this effect and show that it is mediated by the effect of social impact... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

benefits associated with IFRS adoption. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-032.pdf The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard Abstract The central role of "platform" products and services... View Details
  • 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19

League, to serving as that country's foreign minister, and to his many years at the United Nations, with special emphasis on his actions as a mediator in Lebanese and Afghan conflicts. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

enthusiastic). As predicted, those who prepared for the job interview with high- (vs. low-) power poses performed better and were more likely to be chosen for hire; this relation was mediated by nonverbal presence, but not by verbal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

Consistent with Temporal Construal Theory, we find that future-implemented choices are construed at a higher level than immediately-implemented choice, and that this construal difference mediates the increased support for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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