Social Ties - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Aug 2013
First Look

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the Organizational Adoption of More or Less Customized Practices By: Raffaelli, Ryan, and Mary Ann Glynn Abstract—We examine how the organizational adoption of new practices is influenced by relational pluralism, i.e., an organization's multiple View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2024
News

In My Humble Opinion: Career Change

way it did in other countries. That’s largely due to the predominant culture of lifetime employment, which ties workers to a single company and values years of service more than the development of skills. “Nobody really wanted to put a... View Details

Keywords: Michelle Cassidy; recruitment; demographics; Japan

13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

protection. Our results support theoretical arguments that IPR protection strengthens firms’ incentives to innovate and that private sector firms are more sensitive to IPR protection than SOEs. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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HBS - The year in Review

student leadership ( Student Sustainability Associates Program ), employee engagement ( Green Office Program and HBS Green Team volunteer staff), and Executive Education outreach , the entire community is engaged in this effort, all of which View Details

13 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

loan officers were more judicious about issuing loans when their bonus incentives were tied to whether the loans performed well. More surprisingly, they found that incentives actually have the power to distort loan officers' perceptions... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

August 2021
Case

Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (A)

By: Anita Elberse, Briana Richardson and Cydni Williams

In May 2020, Chris Lyons, a partner at leading venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz receives the news that his company has reached a verbal agreement with one of Silicon Valley’s hottest social-media startups to lead its ‘Series A’ funding round, in a deal that... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment; Talent Management; General Management; Inclusion; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Nonprofit Organizations

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Finance - Faculty & Research

balances, mobility, and social networks as well as borrowers’ self-reported income and employment. We further show that this positive impact is more pronounced when borrowers have limited access to credit, take loans for business... View Details

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

humans who are perceived as more versus less robotic. These results have theoretical implications for understanding social cognition about both humans and nonhumans and practical implications for the increasingly botsourced and outsourced... View Details

16 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

airline that would develop the next generation of pilots. He also began widening Delta’s ties with Atlanta’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In 2019 Delta added a new Talent Connections network, and Bastian put $1... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

necessities of social distancing attenuate or alter the traditional organizational levers. Several CEOs observed: “Keeping spirits high in a sales environment. At the moment our sales force has to work twice as hard for a quarter of the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

29 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

choose to spend time with—work colleagues or family—based on how their pay is structured, in particular whether they get bonuses for a job well done or earn fixed salaries regardless of performance. In fact, employees who received performance incentives spent 2 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

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Events - Business History

Authoritarian Asia" Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discussed her forthcoming book, Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia . Precarious Ties analyzes "the... View Details

28 Nov 2023
Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

understanding people before you judge them and taking their pasts and experiences seriously. Silverthorne: Can you explain the relationship between capitalists and autocrats? Rithmire: Precarious Ties answers a series of theoretical... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 1998
News

Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

making a generous gift to the School to facilitate the construction of a new MBA campus center, scheduled for completion by the summer of 2000. The gift extends long-standing, close ties between the Spangler family and HBS. Both Dick... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

living more balanced lives, with stronger social ties and support systems. And researchers are looking into other ways of easing work-generated stress, Nicholas says. Additional research is needed to... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

01 Jan 2012
News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

The company has acquired Buy.com in the United States, Ikeda in Brazil, Play.com in the United Kingdom, and Kobo in Canada, and it recently made international headlines for spearheading a $100 million investment in Pinterest, the social... View Details

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance

through those ties and may take pride in a reputation for a higher standard of performance when observed by a valued peer, the researchers note. In some ways, analogous effects may be observed in customer service in other professions and... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

17 Jun 2011
HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

restaurant company in mainland China. The case describes how Yum! China succeeded and expanded by staying local on many levels. It keeps close ties to the Chinese government, hires local management, sources food from within the country,... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage

Research Summary

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

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