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- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
infringement and support small inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations without View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
(BMVSS) is an Indian not-for-profit organization engaged in assisting differently-abled persons by providing them with the legendary low-cost prosthesis, the Jaipur Foot, and other mobility-assisting devices, free of cost. Known for its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
challenging first year as the IT director of IVK Corporation, handling (and fumbling) situations that, although fictional, are based on true events. You can read this engaging narrative from beginning to end, like a regular book, or treat... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
better informed politically and had more political discussions with their neighbors during the electoral campaign, making them more civically engaged overall. Increasing the immigrant vote In the second study Pons performed, particularly... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
request that the company conduct anonymous surveys about employee engagement and the company culture, and then ask that the data be shared in raw form, "not the chewed and digested and spun form." He also suggests urging board... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
encouraging hospital staff to speak up when they encounter operational problems and, when speaking up, to propose solutions to hospital management. The researchers find that both mechanisms can lead employees to report problems and propose solutions, and that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
years—an enthusiasm for investing abroad. Historically there have been huge differences in national propensities to engage in foreign direct investment. Britain held almost one-half of total world FDI before 1914. The United States... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
In contrast, power is obtained by engaging in exchanges with numerous alternative exchange partners, whose exchange opportunities are limited. These distinctions yield powerful insights into dynamics and consequences of power and status.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
relentless engagement in vexing disputes-whether in South Africa, at Camp David, on the Peruvian-Ecuadorian border, or elsewhere-Fisher gained a firsthand sense of the issues as negotiators actually experienced them. This enabled him to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
competition for executive level visibility, further their solutions for organizational control problems and engage in 'credentializing' (Power, 1992) to support their claims. At MultiBank, accountants drew on the institutional logic of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
than 10 months of cash on hand, Tom Leung, the founder and CEO of Yabbly, must decide where to focus his resources. His startup, a question-and-answer application for shopping decisions, had benefited from a strong showing at the SXSW Accelerator competition and had a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
(forthcoming) Abstract Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
likely to allow members to engage in independent licensing and (b) that the requirement that firms license patents to the pool (grantbacks) should be associated with pools that consist of complements and allow independent licensing. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
site, where only their stuff appears. But we also propagate Dell's listings through to MSN auctions, so people can bid on them from within MSN. Sahlman: My sense is that many of the people who are engaged in e-commerce ventures are not... View Details
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
for Leaders: Protect and Pivot Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and... View Details
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, where they engaged with 10 global partners on a dozen different design projects. A renowned scholar of colonial-era African history, she isn’t the most obvious candidate for teaching modern business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
chains have engaged in private political strategies prompting transnational corporations (TNCs) to adopt codes of conduct and monitor their suppliers for compliance, but it is not clear whether organizational structures established by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
quasi-liberal) democracies, we typically can support both objectives simultaneously. Accordingly, the guiding principle for our engagement in the Middle East and North Africa should be to support movement toward liberal democracy. This... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
most rigorous extant methodologies for detecting "tunneling," or efforts by firms' controlling owner managers to take money for themselves at the expense of minority shareholders. We find that, in contrast to prior views, Indian business groups are not, on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace