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  • 22 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

engagement practices. Finally, I explore the limits and anticompetitive concerns to the theory of change presented here. Harvard Business School Case 917-019 Buffer.com Social media company Buffer wanted to establish clear company values... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2011
  • Article

Restaurant Organizational Forms and Community in the U.S. in 2005

By: Glenn R. Carroll and Magnus Thor Torfason
Recent sociological theory and research highlights food, drink, and restaurants as culturally meaningful and related to social identity. An implication of this view holds that the prevalence of corporate chain restaurants affects the sociological character of... View Details
Keywords: Demographics; Age; Supply Chain Management; Culture; Balance and Stability; Income Characteristics; Research; Civil Society or Community; Identity; Theory; Society; Service Industry; United States
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Class Profile - Doctoral

Undergraduate Majors* Accounting Applied Mathematics Biology Business Computer Science Decision Sciences Economics Engineering Finance Government History Information Systems Law Mathematics Operations Philosophy Physics Psychology... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2022
  • HBS Seminar

John Paul MacDuffie, Wharton

    V.G. Narayanan

    Professor Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. His research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; banking; service industry; telecommunications; health care
    • January 2023
    • Article

    Inequality Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa from Precolonial Times to the Present

    By: Ewout Frankema, Michiel de Haas and Marlous van Waijenburg
    While current levels of economic inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa receive ample attention from academics and policymakers, we know little about the long-run evolution of inequality in the region. Even the new and influential ‘global inequality literature’ that is... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Inequalty; Equality and Inequality; History; Africa
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    • March 2008
    • Article

    Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice, and Open Questions

    By: Alvin E. Roth
    The deferred acceptance algorithm proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962) has had a profound influence on market design, both directly, by being adapted into practical matching mechanisms, and, indirectly, by raising new theoretical questions. Deferred acceptance... View Details
    Keywords: History; Market Design; Labor; System; Practice; Performance; Theory; Boston; New York (city, NY)
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    • 09 May 2017
    • What Do You Think?

    Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

    But the ascendancy of agency theory—the idea that shareholders are owners of the corporation and managers their agents in a quest to maximize shareholder value—need not be one of them. Agency theory will not be a problem if we bend it to... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 17 Dec 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Teaming in the Twenty-First Century

    is the engine of organizational learning," says Edmondson. From Theory To Practice In the book, Edmondson makes the case for managers to shift from holding a static view of teamwork to this dynamic one. Real-world examples drawn from her... View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
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    THEME #2: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH VARIATION

    Prior work has yet to establish definitively the role that variation (e.g. in individuals' activities or organizational processes) plays in the development of capabilities.  Variation is usually either not considered (e.g., the learning curve examines... View Details

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    Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

    co-chair and podcast co-host, Joe Fuller, lead author of the project’s latest report, Hidden Workers: The Case for Caregivers. Worker welfare: From theory to tangible good 09 OCT 2024 | Managing the Future of Work Good Business Lab... View Details
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    A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    patterns of organizations as systems and human beings with sentiments and connections? As Fritz Roethlisberger later revealed in his autobiography, his aim, as well as that of Elton Mayo and others working in the organizations group at... View Details
    • 07 Apr 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

    Historically, the idea was that multinational firms were looking at after-tax rates of return around the world and choosing to invest their capital eitherat home or abroad up to the point that those returns were equalized. If you believe that, economic View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2010
    • Article

    How Firms Respond to Being Rated

    By: Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
    While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we investigate how these ratings also influence the companies being rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms... View Details
    Keywords: System; Information; Decisions; Cost; Opportunities; Performance; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Economics; Theory; System Shocks; Rank and Position
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    • Aug 2017
    • Conference Presentation

    To Highlight or Downplay Differences? A Threat-Matching Model for Crafting Diversity Approaches

    By: J. Lees and E. Apfelbaum
    We integrate organizational and psychological scholarship to devise the threat matching model, a contingency theory that illustrates when, how, and which diversity approaches—frameworks leaders provide employees to understand and respond to diversity—promote... View Details
    Keywords: Race And Ethnicity; Inclusion; Diversity; Gender; Race; Ethnicity; Equality and Inequality; Leadership
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    • 17 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 17, 2006

      Working PapersInstitutional Pressures and Environmental Strategies Authors: Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel Abstract This paper suggests how institutional theory can explain enduring differences in organizational strategies. We... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    at Princeton University. He then earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard’s Department of Economics. His research approach—applying economic theory and competition thinking to complex... View Details
    • 25 Jul 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

    fact that despite careful attention to the importance of neighborhood priority, Boston’s implementation of its 50-50 reserve–open seat split was nearly identical to the outcome of a counterfactual system without any reserves. Transparency... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • Research Event

    Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

    limbic system of your brain. And then you deliver that information into your prefrontal cortex and you decide how to act on it. And once you understand how that process works, which is what we're writing about in this book. Look, this... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Staff
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    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    sentiment in the US stock market More Info Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Malcolm P. Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler AUG 2020 Baker, Hoeyer, and Wurgler propose a simple tradeoff theory to explain the well-known weak empirical relationship... View Details